In the last few days I've been mainly playing Road Redemption, Cities: Skylines, and Grow Home.

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I think asking Microsoft Studios might not be the worst idea here. There are already some Microsoft Studios titles available for Linux, and if Ori would be easy to port (Unity...), it might actually pay off for them, financially.
Of course Microsoft are still trying to push their own platforms, but they recently also published software for other platforms as well - they actively developed Android Apps, and they released several programs for (desktop) Linux, the most notable being the Visual Studio code editor.

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As much as I like Double Fine and their games, I sadly have to agree regarding the sales numbers displayed in the Fig campaign. The only sales that really count are the retail sales before Psychonauts has been available for a few cents per copy.
While I don't expect them to really let Fig Publishing just go bankrupt and run with their investor's money, I'd still consider investing to be risky, simply because it's hard to impossible to estimate the number of sales of Psychonauts 2.

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Well, I'm still looking forward to the hopefully coming release, and will probably be one of those who are going to suffer the initial version, before the first bugfixes ;-)

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Quoting: Mountain ManI hope the Cities: Skylines developers are paying attention. We might finally get good performance in Linux.

What's wrong with its performance? For me (Radeon R9 270X with open source drivers) it's running very well. I'm not at maximum settings, as I had to decrease shadow quality to medium, but I'd say that's more than close enough.

Quoting: Segata SanshiroHow easy is it for developers to upgrade? That's my concern here.

That's a very good question. I think it depends on the version of Unity a project would be upgrading from.
I've been following the Devnotes of Squad (Kerbal Space Program), and they've been quite busy for the last 6 months or so with changing the Unity version they are using - yet in their case it's from 4.something to 5.2. They had to do some major rewrites in order to get their game to work the way it was before again. On the other hand they updated their engine several times between various 4.x versions, and that usually was a matter of a few days/weeks. If the Unity developers keep the same scheme, only to break the API with major release version changes, we might have some games switching to Unity 5.3.

Still, I wouldn't expect any bigger game company to change engine version during development. Typically developers choose an engine version, and if it doesn't have any really critical bugs, they stick to it.

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First: I finally managed to register here. Don't know why my Firefox didn't let me, but with Konqueror it worked.
So, hi, everyone.

Now, what have I been playing lately?

• The Deponia trilogy. These three adventures are amazing! Some of the riddles are even challenging, the setting is beautiful (in its own way), the characters are lovable (mostly), the voice-acting is great (at least the German audio - no idea about the English translation) and the end is one of the best I've seen in games up to now. Seriously: Play it.
  
• Years after buying it, I finally took the time to have a look at Civilization 5 (+Addons). Well, that was a horrible idea. In the end it wasn't I taking my time, it was Civ 5. Never been that tired at work, but "just ... one ... more ... turn ..." every night.
  
• Yesterday I started to play the Banner Saga. A great story, beautiful art, challenging strategical battle, but still too buggy for my taste.
  
• Armello is a nice game in case one has about an hour of time to waste.
  
• Of course I've also found some time to play my all time favorite games, which are Dwarf Fortress and
  
• Kerbal Space Program.
  

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