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Yet another game where native linux support is steam exclusive.

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I'm also stuck in "unpacking game resources..."

I got it working now.
If you or anyone still has this issue, it's because of the long installation folder path like using a secondary drive or perhaps the SD card on the SteamDeck. I only tried it on PC.
I had it installed on my secondary SSD and I just moved it to the default OS drive steam folder and it started working without any issue. Proton checkbox is unchecked in settings, it's using whatever proton version steam chose by itself.

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There are several games that are on my "Buy Upon Release" List. At the top of this list is Moonsigil Atlas. I was accepted for the play test and have found the game play very enjoyable. The game mechanics are unique and clever. The features that have been added since the demo was released in May are very impressive. I would highly recommend downloading the demo to anyone.

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Thank you, @cybolic for liking my comment, today (Thur 10th July), reminding me that this is out tomorrow!! Woohoo! Happy Friday when it comes around, all!

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Some crackers on that list @R Daneel Olivaw, but quite a few are "Coming Soon", not necessarily this year, sadly!!

Also... that's your wishlist? I'm far looser with my Wishlist, which now has coming up on 100 entries! I have to do a quarterly clear down, cos I add so many games that don't appear to move at all!

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Might restart my playthrough soon, didn't get far anyway, just turned in amulet then got distracted.

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Well, it's about time. Steam has had issues rendering on HiDPI monitors for a while now, and launching it with a scaling override variable has been the only fix for years. Glad to see there's finally a GUI option for it.

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I never played Oblivion, but I recently found this animated cartoon comedy series by Matthew McCleskey that I enjoy a lot ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=-D9iQ68k2d4 )

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“Purple Library Guy has died of dysentery.”

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Interesting that so few people have issues with the installer. Maybe it's just the gnome version suffering issues, but I get thrown in there, and it flickers / turns off and on screens all through the installation process (on a nvidia 3070Ti and a amd ryzen mini-pc which I use for game streaming).

Otherwise it's a really cool distribution and actually made me like atomic distributions. Except the download size of 1gb every day.

Though, I really switched to the cosmic main image to make sure I am not running the risk of actually having a too stable system. Didn't work, it's still stable and does not give me many problems.

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If the older titles are available to purchase for sure, but I haven't found BF2 for sale as I believe they shut the older games down on the master servers.

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I do appreciate the efforts they're making here. While, I dream of a day when we're not forced to use other people's crappy launchers, this is a good band-aid to the problem on Steam Deck.

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OK, it's the "Roguelite" part I'm wondering about. How many times are we expecting to die in the process of setting up a farm?

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The difficulty settings should help a ton with people getting too bored about halfway through. That's where you start to steamroll combat in anything but the highest setting, but the highest setting just becomes a slog. So hopefully these new changes can help with that.

Just whatever you do, stay away from the weapon enchanting table ... it breaks the game and renders all combat nonexistant, like it doesn't even exist. So if you do start enchanting weapons, the game just turns into a walking sim / questing / narrative game.

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oh man, are you going to force me to go through and trim/cull/reorder my wishlist? Yes I think that's a great idea!

okay, after quite a bit of time, I'm back. Removed a bunch of stuff that either no longer looked interesting or hasn't had any updates in forever (like years time). Here's my wishlist (in no order) (I wish there were an easier way to list/link to this?):

• KUU - interface looks crazy cool, and just something fresh and different - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3442050/KUU/ - Atmospheric, Sci-fi, Story Rich, RPG, Narrative


• DERELIKT (what's with all caps sheesh) - just like you posted, looks awesome! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810510/DERELIKT/ - Adventure, Action, Retro, Action-Adventure


• The Expanse Osiris Reborn - OMG YES gives me those Mass Effect vibes. Plus Owlcat is awesome - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3727390/The_Expanse_Osiris_Reborn/ - Action. RPG, Action RPG, Choices Matter


• Quartet - my next obsession on the Deck - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307960/Quartet/ - RPG, JRPG, Pixel Graphics, 2D, Retro, Indie


• Solasta II - absolutely fantastic party / turn based crpg, can't wait - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2975950/Solasta_II/ - Adventure, RPG, Strategy, Party-Based RPG


• REPLACED - super cool looking retropunk pixely scifi goodness - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1663850/REPLACED/ - Pixel Graphics, Action, 2D Platformer, 2.5D


• Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy - it's w40k, it's owlcat, it's crpg, just get into my veins - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3710600/Warhammer_40000_Dark_Heresy/ - Warhammer 40K, Adventure, CRPG, Action


• Chained Echoes Ashes of Elrant - DLC to one of my all time fav Deck games - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350260/Chained_Echoes_Ashes_of_Elrant/ - RPG, Indie, Pixel Graphics, Turn-Based, JRPG


• DEFICIT - looks like a super cool fps immersive sim, we shall see - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/DEFICIT/ - Action, Immersive Sim, Shooter, Atmospheric


• Outer Worlds 2 - it's just more world class goodness from Obsidian - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449110/The_Outer_Worlds_2/ - RPG, Action RPG, Exploration, Open World


• Garbage Country - for whatever reason reminds me of one of my all time fav games Interstate 76 - but more chill? - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/GARBAGE_COUNTRY/ - Atmospheric, Exploration, Driving, Adventure


• Warhammer 40k Mechanicus II - it's w40k, it's a turn based rpg, just gonna mainline it - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2532480/Warhammer_40000_Mechanicus_II/ - Strategy, Action, RPG, Turn-Based Strategy


• Greedfall II - love the change they made to turn based combat for this one - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1997660/GreedFall_II_The_Dying_World/ - RPG, Story Rich, Adventure, Fantasy, Action


• Swordhaven Iron Conspiracy - just looks / feels like a world class CRPG - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2108180/Swordhaven_Iron_Conspiracy/ - CRPG, Adventure, Isometric


• Archaelund - this is the one with the super cool concept of exploration in fps like skyrim, but then battles in isometric party turn based like bg3, love that concept. Let's see if they can pull it off - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082970/Archaelund/ - RPG, Adventure ,Party-Based RPG

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They've not filled in the minimum requirements for their Linux build, which implies lack of testing. They could easily have just forgotten to fill in the box on Steamworks. Either way, the upshot is that they haven't said on the store page "we've tested it on this machine and it worked great."

The game isn't my bag, but I wish them luck.

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This looks like an almost 1-to-1 copy of Dicefolk, which I thought was a pretty decent game. It is more puzzle than deck/dice builder IMHO.

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Weird but ok. How do you sign a deal where the publisher gets most of the fruits of your work? It's even worse than a 9-5 job.

Unless maybe the publisher is entitled to a bigger share up to a certain threshold (to quickly recoup their costs) and the threshold still hasn't been met? Would be nice to know the full story, but it will probably never happen.

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Wow, it might actually be playable someday!

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I don't know if that's a good idea, because some new players might click Chronological Mode and experience a lot of weird moments where stuff is treated like a grand reveal when it actually got told to you a while ago (e.g.

Spoiler, click me

Ellie finding about Joel's massacre on the Fireflies

).

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Retro games made with AGS is one thing, but actual DOS games with CGA graphics? Why? Nostalgia for existing games is one thing, but does anyone really want that for new games?

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Once upon a time there was this thing called peer-to-peer and peer-to-server and people could host a game server on their own machine no problems. Crazy ha!

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that is cool and all but i prefer just using the installers.

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I'll add few more: Universe Horizon. Store page says that target is to travel across the whole universe.

It's an incremental idle game. It does few things right. There's several minitargets you can accomplish once you unlock them, which gives bit of a sense of purpose in addition of just watching numbers go up. Unlocks are varied, so they change the game a bit. Game progresses also while it's closed

Could use better UI design though, but otherwise solid.

Another simple one is Suika Shapes. Basically you combine smaller items into bigger items while trying to not to have an overflow. Like Tetris, what you get is randomized, so have to make compromises now and then. Usually what you want to combine with is buried underneath of something else, so you need to play smart.

Craze for these kind of games was apparently many years ago, but I missed it. This variant has all kinds of shapes and modifiers. Different shapes stack bit differently. There's even multiplayer, but I haven't tried it.

If you have a Netflix subscription, they have Underwatermelon Fruit Merge, but Suika Shapes as native desktop game feels more responsive, though the Netflix game has nice ideas.

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honestly as someone on a 55inch 4k tv next to their bed the scaling for steam has never been exactly as i'd prefer so thing seems like a nice option being added

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Nice. This is the kind of stuff I expect of indies, to risk something new or different to stand out in the crowd, instead of doing everything by the book because you want to avoid risk on your boring 100 million game project.

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Children of Morta is exceptional. And Brotato!

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We’re getting so swamped with good games I forgot all about Streets of Rogue 2. Haven’t heard anything on it for a while either.

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You already covered it, but I'm pretty hyped by Xenopurge (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983410/Xenopurge/).

And I quite simply cannot believe that you haven't put Streets of Rogue 2 on this list!

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@Thibug ... That is a fair point. I didn't fully realize that when I made my statement.

That said, I still feel it's a decent example of keeping the game going longer than if the servers were kept completely in-house. As it stands, if/when the game looses over-all popularity and the official servers close, there is a greater likelihood that 3rd party providers will be allowed to keep offering private servers for existing (and potential future) players. Additionally, given that a large chunk of the underlying server code is already in the hands of third parties, it also means there's a greater likelihood that, upon shutdown, the remaining server portions (the cities and, likely, auction houses... not sure, never got that far) could also be released (giving a pathway similar to what the SKG initiative is asking for).

Is the Dune Awakening service model perfect? No. It would have been better if users were allowed to setup a private server on their own without needing to subscribe to a third party (that is to say, more in line with games like Valheim, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, etc, etc), but, again, it's leagues better than watching another potentially fun, yet multiplayer-focused, game die because the game itself lives totally on the publishers servers.

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