I guess I'll abstain from voting since I've only played maybe 2 games that came out in 2017...

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I have no idea what VAC or catbot means.

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Exciting news at face value, but they do need to give it more thought. Hopefully they'll look at the feedback and come up with something that makes more sense for all use cases.

Although I could imagine that they don't care to count people who already own the games from other platforms, since those won't need to repurchase the game and won't help make ports profitable.

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Looks very similar to Owlboy visually, so that got my attention. I don't play a lot of platformers, but that one was great, so I'll keep an eye open.

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Quoting: sarmadThat's still not good, considering that China is the future biggest market. This chart means Linux is completely ignoring the Chinese market.

That seems like an odd way to look at it (unless you mean that more game devs that port to Linux should also localize to Chinese). There's virtually no one that would profit from championing Linux adoption in the Chinese market (or any other market) from a commercial standpoint, unless you're a company that lives exclusively off of Linux--and how would a single company make Linux popular in the mainstream? The whole ecosystem is community-driven, so it's not so much a matter of targeting or ignoring markets, but of volunteers in those regions hearing about Linux, becoming passionate about it, contributing to it and spreading the word/software.

I think the contrast between English-only and All but Chinese speaks volumes in that regard, compared to the very slight difference between All languages and All but Chinese. It means that adoption in China is slightly less than the world average, while adoption in English-speaking countries is twice as high as that same average. Considering Linux originated in the West and is primarily developed in English, that comes as little surprise. And it means that Steam growing in any regions where English isn't the main language will lead to lower Linux market shares (barring any other countries where Linux is comparatively strong, if there are any).

I just don't see anyone investing money into growing Linux use in the Asian market anytime soon, so any progress we make there would have to be organic. There needs to be enough devs and translators to fully support a locale for potential users in that region to have a chance to bite and stay hooked. Usable Linux software shrinks significantly if you take English out of the equation (as well as community support), and for a vast number of people, that's a deal breaker.

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To be quite honest, I don't see the point of rehashing this article every month just to reiterate that the numbers don't mean jack and that the Chinese are taking over Steam. Might as well not talk about the surveys at all if they're meaningless and we're meant to disregard them.

Just my opinion, no offense.

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Now this looks different. Really liking the set design and the resulting camera work. Bookmarking the KS for now, might throw a few bucks their way but it's more expensive than I usually pay for video games and I already have a backlog, so we'll see if they need extra encouragement.

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My suggestion of CUPID still holds if you want more horror and less dating. I believe there was also one called Disturbed, but I never got around to trying it (I'm not really into horror in general). Both are on Steam for Linux. If you do want relationship mechanics, I don't think Disturbed has that, and CUPID has this unusual thing where your choices define the relationship between a narrator of sorts (you) and the protagonist (not quite you), but I don't remember to what extent you can influence her relationship with others.

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Quoting: slapinBut where is Linux version?

Bundled with the Windows copy. It runs on Ren'Py so it uses the same file, just run the .sh instead of the .exe.

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Man, this game... Thanks for the tip, vermillion. Not the kind of horror game that makes you jump in your seat, but it sure got creepy and tense in places and the content warning is justified. Will probably try a couple more playthroughs as well.

Quoting: GuestAlso my first "Visual Novel" - I doubt any others could compare. Maybe I am wrong. If anyone else is reading this who finished the game, are there any others?

I only did one playthrough of CUPID (which is also free), but that's the one visual novel I could relate to this. From what I recall it gets a good deal more disturbing and graphic than DDLC, and it's more consistently gloomy. It doesn't have a dating sim veneer, so it's still rather different, and the choices you make aren't about whom you become romantically involved with. It does have nudity, though.

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