QuoteA little Opus Magnum and World of Goo combined perhaps.

I'd say Contraption Maker.

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I've been playing Sail Forth on the Deck. It's pretty sweet. I was enjoying it enough that I also got the DLC, although I've not done any of the DLC content yet.

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Quoting: dibzWhat do you mean by hostility?

The dev tools for Linux builds of games on GOG were significantly worse than those for builds for other platforms; better Linux support was massively the most-requested feature from their own community on their own wishlist feature for years, which they alternately ignored or silently deleted; and then they chose to use their Linux-using customers as the butt of a joke for edgy Cyberpunk marketing. These are not the actions of a company with a positive attitude towards Linux.

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Quoting: tpauGoG endorsed Heroic Launcher in their Reddit posts and they gave the Heroic Team an affiliate link, so this is rather close to an "official" client

That's less than Epic did; they gave Lutris a token amount of cash. And no one would consider Lutris to be anything like an official Epic client.

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GOG's Linux-hostility means that I last gave them money in... 2017, and I have no intention of giving them more in the future. It's good to have tools to stop people's GOG libraries keeping them locked into Windows, though.

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QuoteSpilled! is a short yet cozy game that you can finish in 1 hour, but you can use the level select to go back to any area if you just want to relax!

That's probably going to bite them. You're going to get people feeling short-changed by that amount of gameplay and refunding, and it's going to be quite difficult to price the game appropriately for that amount of gameplay. If you make it too expensive, you'll get more people refunding, or just not buying it for an hour of gameplay, but if you make it too cheap then it gets the "cheap game" stigma and you might not make any money from sales.

If they can push it up to something like 4-5 hours of gameplay that would settle into the right kind of cozy game experience, and should be comfortably in the £5-10 price range which ought to do well.

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Getting good Broken Sword vibes from that.

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Quoting: Zlopez540 Legends of Legends of Legends that's pretty impressive. I never even got one (and I'm not sure how you even get that, my best was Legend and I got around 100 of them) and I finished the main story yesterday.

If you pick the Premium Delivery option on Normal difficulty, getting an S-rank will get you a Legend once per unique order, which shows on your player profile. Doing that on Hard gets you a Legend of Legends. Doing that on Very Hard (which I think is only in the Director's Cut) gets you a Legend of Legends of Legends. 540 is the total number of standard orders in the game, some of which don't unlock till after the game is finished, and some of those which don't unlock until after other orders (for example, you need to deliver a huge beer shipment from the Timefall Farm to Lake Knot City, which then unlocks delivering a huge beer shipment from Port Knot City to Capital Knot City - presumably after it's been carried between the two by boat).

You don't unlock anything from it other than the satisfaction of having worked out how to do them (some of them are incredibly tough) and then executed well enough on your plan.

I haven't quite let go yet; retrieving other players' lost cargo from the Wind Farm and taking it where it needs to go is still quite fun.

Quoting: ZlopezSo it's time to move one and try Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

That is also an excellent experience. Much, much shorter than Death Stranding, though.

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Quoting: GuestI think a big problem with that is Valve's case, it's just not practical at all for quickly playing on the bus. When I was still commuting, I got a backpack that was designed for the Switch, but which also fits the Deck. Just sliding it in and out of the bag is so much more elegant than getting the official SD case out of your bag, unzipping it, putting it away, and then finally turning on the Deck, ugh.

FYI, there is an ecosystem of accessories for the Deck, much like there is for the Switch. dbrand, for example, have got a slim travel cover for it.

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Quoting: ToddLFrom looking at the breakdown of Linux distros, the only thing I can't figure out is why did SteamOS lose 4.17% in popularity.

All data are noisy.

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