AAA game with a promising Linux release schedule. Great!

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Darkest Dungeon is a fantastic game, well put together, fun to play... but it is just too hard and brutal for me. When I play, it just is too painful to go forward. I'd say you have to be masochistic to really get on with it. This game kicks you when you're down, and you start off your next mission worse than you were in the last one. If this wasn't the case, I'd probably have played lots and lots of it.

However, there are two similar games (semi turn-based, rogue-like, perma-death, RNG) which I adore:

FTL: Faster Than Light
Slay The Spire

Both of these fill the void that I was hoping Darkest Dungeon would have filled for me. Oh well :(

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Just letting you know.. Strafe: Millennium Edition is on chrono.gg right now (23 hours left) at 53% discount. Thinking it highly likely that I'll grab Strafe before the end of the day.

It's a shame that Apocryph is looking somewhat disappointing at the moment.

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Quoting: Al3sBought Vaporum: classic dungeon crawler and steampunk. There is no way I don't enjoy it.

Very tempted with that one, myself. But then, I've got plenty to keep me occupied at the moment. Just started 'Rise of the Tomb Raider'. Loving 'Slay the Spire', and I keep on dipping into 'Rust', 'FTL', and numerous others.

I wouldn't mind grabbing 'Tower of Time' when that goes on sale. Also, the soon-to-be-released 'Arakion' game is appealing to me.

Oh, and today we have the Humble Monthly Subscription Hidden Games get revealed in just over 2 hours' time. So, holding off from purchasing until after that.

Plus, there's not much that I'm really keen on, on sale at the moment.

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Quoting: g000hI've suspected inaccuracies in the Steam counts, for a long time. One other Windows versus other OS thing that I've noticed is the fact that Steam auto-starts on Windows when you log on to Windows. With my Linux desktops, Steam only logs on, when I launch the client myself.

Steam works the exact same way in Windows as Linux, you decide whether you want it to start with the OS or not, mine starts when I say it starts not when Windows starts, never let anything auto-start with the OS, especially Windows as that's a surefire way to get your system infected.

ps. we've been telling Valve for years their survey was screwed, it's not tinfoil hats cutting off oxygen to our brains.

Here is my experience on the matter:

First of all Steam on Linux and Steam on Windows are completely different things. They are built specifically for each platform. When you do a default Steam install on Windows (7,8,10) it adds the Steam client to the auto-start applications, which you can modify using the MSConfig tool. I have personally installed Steam client on more than 10 Windows machines (7,8,10) and this is the behaviour I have observed.

Then, I have also installed Steam on multiple versions of Linux - Debian 7,8,9,10 + Ubuntu 16,17 + Mint - mostly using Gnome3 desktop, but also XFCE desktop and others. Approx 10 separate Steam client installs, and in each case the Steam client does not auto-start based on Default settings. I am not sure the case with KDE desktop and every other version of Linux out there.

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Don't tell me that Developers have finally cottoned on to the fact that a lot of Linux gamers want to play Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age-type games and there aren't that many available ;)

Yes, it does look promising and the sort of game I'd want to play. But, it looks like it could do with a bit more polish. The environments are lush, but animations and interactions don't quite get me fired up.

Will keep an eye on this one. Added to Wishlist =P Not long now... 15th May.

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I've suspected inaccuracies in the Steam counts, for a long time. One other Windows versus other OS thing that I've noticed is the fact that Steam auto-starts on Windows when you log on to Windows. With my Linux desktops, Steam only logs on, when I launch the client myself.

For a while, I've been looking at the statistics of Humble Bundle purchasers, where you can check total number of Bundle purchases and the percentage of purchases by platform. You can take into account multiple Bundle statistics and even combine all the results for a given month, to give an overall view of purchases by platform. Doing these stats, the Linux share is more rosy than the Linux share on Steam. (Of course, different Bundles have different percentage of Linux games in them, so you need to take that into account too.)

Although not exclusively measuring Linux gamers, NetMarketShare is showing close to 2% Linux market share (and 88% Windows, 9% Mac). Not much change in those stats over the past year.

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Well that's good news. But it still gets me hot 'n' bothered when people refer to "Windows" as PC.

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Noting that Debian 10 (Buster / Testing) has version 1.12 and Debian 8 (Jessie) has version 1.10, so getting the version on Steam gives you a really up to date version.

I did play it myself, long ago, as one of the few good (and free) Linux games available. Interesting to see how much it has changed, and hopefully improved.

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Already on my wish-list. Good that it's on Linux and has now left Early Access. Guess I'll check out some game play videos, based on this very positive review.

I put quite a few games on my wish-list which aren't on Linux (yet) and when they are on Linux, then I'll buy.

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