I have played ARK for 352 hours. So I do have a a good idea how it works, and where the problems are.

Grindy-ness is one of these, and I think one of the reasons it's still early access. They haven't been able to find reasonable default duration and resource usage for the recipes. And yes, you can change these settings for your single player game or your server.

Other problems include too long startup times, and graphical glitches on linux.

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It's less than an hour, but I still like it and think it was worth the $1.5.

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Hm, it wants a newer OpenSceneGraph than Debian provides... I'll guess I'll wait a bit.

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Yes, but does it run Fallout 4? ;)

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Quoting: scaineI realise it's not a completely fair comparison because GoG were late to the party, but you go where the action is and I don't think GoG are providing much to shout out about.

I had maybe 300 DOS-games on GOG.com, and I kept pestering them about Linux-support (and delivering DOS-games without the Win32-exe of Dosemu, just the zip, please) when they started releasing newer indie-games that actually HAD Linux-ports (or the opposite, were developed on Linux and had Windows-ports), but the Linux-versions were not available on GOG. That was way before Steam had Linux support.

But what made them finally do it was Steam, because obviously Linux-users aren't going to buy the games from GOG when they only get the Linux-version when they buy from Steam (or Humble Bundle or something).

So if GOG was late to the party, then it's because they did not listen to their users.

I do own a lot of linux-games on GOG.com now, and I still buy at GOG.com, but only old games, nothing that is available on Steam.

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Tried it, basically you have to repeat the pattern that's displayed, which might be rotated. All the while a clock counts down, so the faster you are, the more patterns you can click together. I personally didn't like it because of the timer. However, for 1 Dollar, that's ok.

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Quoting: TemplateRBefore Square Enix is thinking about a SteamOS-/Linux-Version of "DeusEx Mankind Dvided" , they should port the predecessor "Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut" first.

I think they should release this one first, officially, because it already runs, albeit badly:

"Deus Ex The Fall", uses Unity 4.3.4f1, needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH for libsteam.api.so; Wwise sound engine wrong version, playable

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Quoting: MikePrior to the Steam client on Linux I was dualbooting with Windows. Since 2013, I use only Linux to work and play. Even if barely 25% of my Steam library is available on Tux's OS, those 56 games are enough to keep me entertained.

I've been using the Windows steam-client with wine on Linux. Initially about a third of my collection on steam ran on Linux (mostly steam-keys from humble bundle and such), but now two thirds run natively. And of the rest, around 80% runs with wine.

Anyway, thank you Valve!

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Who ever gets into bed with Microsoft either ends up bought or dead.

So I'm not really feeling compassionate for Epic, as it isn't even trying to get out of Microsofts bed, as evidenced by their lacklustre Linux-support.

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I have it, and played a few levels, and they're far from directionless. Yes, you can do what you want, but ultimately you want to find the exit, and this means to solve puzzles.

I like it. Had it not been for Shadows of Kurgansk (Of which I now played the whole first setting through), I would have played this more.

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