I picked it up back around Christmas and have been having a blast with it. I can see how rushing through the game to write a review on it would sour the experience though; I typically play 1—3 levels per play session as it's a great game for picking up for some short gaming sessions. I definitely think the "The Heat Is On" expansion improved the campaign quite a bit by giving you a bunch of money to start with, allowing you to play with the fun toys a lot sooner (I'm still only two-thirds through it at this point). I <3 moles, I love those furry digging probes! ^_^

The basic gameplay is relatively simple (and the default campaign at least does a pretty good job of allowing you time to slowly unlock all the various components rather than throwing you in at the deep end), but there's a ton of depth to maximizing your profits, especially with the introduction of gas allowing you to boost prices. There's actually some decently complicated calculus and differential equations that go into figuring out the optimum amount of wagons to buy, oil to store, holes to drill, and the exact best time to sell all your oil while the price is high (not too soon, not too late) in order to maximize your profits. It's basically a game all about optimization when you drill down to it (pun totally intended), which is probably why I'm so hooked on it. :D

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Finally something to tell my friend who keeps asking when it's going to be coming out. :D

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Picked it up back around Christmas but hadn't gotten around to playing it yet due to all the other games I picked up concurrently. Runs fine for me on Debian testing (if a bit low frame-rate on my GTX 750 Ti, but that's not their problem), and I left them a note to that effect. :) I don't play a lot of RPGs, but this one seemed a bit different and intriguing, and has some great voiceover work for the videos.

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On the off chance it's relevant or helpful, I just checked and I'm still running version 375.82 of the Nvidia drivers. And now you guys have me afraid to update. :P

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Steam got an official version of the patch…a week or two ago? I hadn't tried it until just now, but it seems to be working fine for me. :S:

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Quoting: rea987Remaster for a 2012 title, is that really necessary? How about much much older titles?

Does Klei have many older titles to remaster? According to Steam it looks like their oldest game is from 2010.

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Oh man, those little spheres with hearts on them…it's a bunch of Companion Edgeless Safety Cubes! :D Definitely gonna give that demo a try.

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Just picked it up, and had an idea for an "Only British Boats Allowed!" campaign: first, take over the British isles, then conquer every bit of land that touches an ocean in the world! Only we may have boats! :D

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QuoteSchrödinger's text

Ha! Love it. :D

I mean, I'm glad it's fixed, I just love the name. ^_^

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Ohhh, yeah, I see it now. Thanks!

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