Also, big shout out for Defender's Quest 2. Sadly, the demo is Windows only, but the developer did do native for the first, so I have high hopes.

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Great news. This is probably amongst the best Horde Survival games out there, but it's very grindy on the skills tree front, and the individual gems needed for some o fthe upgrades is a bit baffling.

Hopefully this opens things up a bit.

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Quoting: whatever

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualcan you fix it yourself?

My guess is no.
They can test all they want, but unless they're willing (and capable) to contribute to WINE/Proton I don't see how this can work.
The game is now officially unsupported in Linux. That's why they removed the native version.

I think Valves take on this is that it's actually supported, but by Valve, not overkill.

I'd like some clarity from Valve on that though. Devs can say they "commit to get it working on Proton", but as pleasereadthemanual asks above, what does that really mean? Who's on the line if you buy that game, play it for 10 hours, then the dev screws it up and it stops working?

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Quoting: CybolicAh, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

I used to get this all the time on Gnome, but now that you mention it, Ive not had it at all since jumping over to KDE, so maybe it a compositor bug.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: NezchanThe categorization in the GOG Pride selection is so messed up. Like Night In the Woods is a game that allows you to choose your character's gender and pronouns? No it isn't!

There also aren't trans characters in Stardew Valley or Fallout: New Vegas. I have no idea why those are in the category at all, someone was definitely asleep at the wheel.

This feels like a pretty weird response... are you suggesting that only games that do all the things you mention would qualify under a celebration of Pride?

Because Pride is a celebration of the entire range of LGBT+ communities. The point is that its inclusive, not exclusive.

Anyway... Night in the Woods features multiple LGBT+ characters. The entire Fall Out series was reasonably famous for being amongst the first games to allow same-sex marriage in-game and features various LGBT+ characters throughout. Similarly, Stardew Valley supports gay marriage and includes various other LGBT+ features.

Hope that helps.

Did you look at the actual page? It has separate categories for "Masculine romance representation", "Female romance representation", "Choose your gender", and "Featuring transgender characters". Stardew is rightfully in the first three, but not the fourth, and I think if someone bought that, or Fallout: New Vegas, based on GOG saying they have trans characters they'd be disappointed.

It isn't inclusive to say something has trans characters when it doesn't, or has the ability to choose your gender and pronouns when it doesn't. That's got nothing to do with diversity. Rather, it makes whoever assembled the categories look like they don't care about what representation is in a given game, and just shoved them into the categories with little thought.

Hope that helps.

It does, thanks. Yep, I don't have too many issues with the first three categories, but now that you point it out, I don't see any mention of trans characters in a few of the fourth-category games. Even the first three, they're being very... liberal with the classification, aren't they?

I doubt it's malicious (even with GOG's history of being shit in this regard), but it's definitely misleading!

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Quoting: NezchanThe categorization in the GOG Pride selection is so messed up. Like Night In the Woods is a game that allows you to choose your character's gender and pronouns? No it isn't!

There also aren't trans characters in Stardew Valley or Fallout: New Vegas. I have no idea why those are in the category at all, someone was definitely asleep at the wheel.

This feels like a pretty weird response... are you suggesting that only games that do all the things you mention would qualify under a celebration of Pride?

Because Pride is a celebration of the entire range of LGBT+ communities. The point is that its inclusive, not exclusive.

Anyway... Night in the Woods features multiple LGBT+ characters. The entire Fall Out series was reasonably famous for being amongst the first games to allow same-sex marriage in-game and features various LGBT+ characters throughout. Similarly, Stardew Valley supports gay marriage and includes various other LGBT+ features.

Hope that helps.

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Quoting: 14

Quoting: scaineI finished it twice and agree that there is some enjoyment in how differently the characters play. But I didn't feel like doing a third run, and I can't away from the fact that my 30 hours of playthrough for £50 just isn't great value, especially when I stack it next to something like Gunfire Reborn, Deep Rock Galactic, or Noita.

Wait, your combined playthroughs only amounted to 30 hours? Mine were 30 hours each! Did you have automatic world level-up turned on?

Yep! Well, not for the first couple of levels, then I realised you pretty much need it to keep the challenge up. Now you mention though, I don't think I finished the Worldslayer content on my second playthrough. There were also plenty of side missions I hadn't done - my style with these games is to stay-on-target with the main storyline as much as I can, unless the challenge is too much, then I go back and do side-missions until I'm sufficiently powerful to continue. I wouldn't describe as a boss rush, but I do tend to stay pretty focused. And of course, second time around I knew exactly what I was doing.

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Quoting: 14Also, why would you scare people away by saying it's 50 GBP on sale?

Haha - that wasn't my intention! I loved the game, and there's decent end-game content if you invest yourself in the game. But at the end of the day, if you want the whole experience, nothing I said was a lie. Sure, you can pick up the base game on sale for £13 (or $16 as you note), but if you want the full game, it's never gone below 25% (as it is right now) and that's £50. It's just not great value for money, unless you intend to really, really dedicate yourself to it.

I finished it twice and agree that there is some enjoyment in how differently the characters play. But I didn't feel like doing a third run, and I can't away from the fact that my 30 hours of playthrough for £50 just isn't great value, especially when I stack it next to something like Gunfire Reborn, Deep Rock Galactic, or Noita.

Great fun though, excellent gun play, and some interesting skills and customisation!

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Quoting: itscalledreality> The best thing that Back for Blood accomplished was making people realize how good Left 4 Dead really was

I think this is an entirely unfair thing to say and a label that society placed on Back 4 Blood. Turtle Rock Studios never made claims that the game would be Left 4 Dead 3, even though they created Left 4 Dead. It is society’s own damn fault if you can’t get over that connection. They are similar but very different games. This stigma is just juvenile. It still sells at $50 because it still sells at $50.

TRS might not have claimed to be making L4D3, but the media certainly did, right alongside implying that TRS were the "creators of L4D", which they obviously lapped up. Remember that TRS, back then, was only 6 members of the 200 or so Valve staff that created or contributed to L4D. They wanted ALL the associations so that people would buy into their game.

As for selling for $50 because it sells at $50? Well, it doesn't, which is why it's almost permanently on sale for around $15 at other stores and frequently discounted on Steam to around the same price.

Stats like this don't lie.


I love that you love this game, but you're definitely a minority. Which is fine - I have a heap of games I love that aren't mainstream. I'm not sure why you're being, well, slightly aggressively defensive about it.

It's just not one that I'll ever try, thanks to Denuvo.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ripper81358I use Dolphin myself. Having it available on steam is not critical to me. I have Dolphin installed as a flatpak on my end. So any steamdeck user can easily install it that way too.

That's just not how most people will use such a device IMHO.

Usually, I'd agree, but I think any crowd comfortable with tinkering with emulation will be absolutely fine booting into desktop mode to install a flatpak. I'm not much a tinkerer, but Liam's article on adding Decky Loader support is so easy to follow and complete that it's absolutely trivial. I doubt many emulation fans will even care that Dolphin is off Steam.

I would have figured that the main difference of having it available on Steam with no muss and no fuss would be precisely that a whole lot of people who are not "comfortable with tinkering with emulation" would be comfortable just downloading something from Steam.

Sure, but that's not the experience. You download Dolphin... now what? Now you need to rip games off your cartridges, or more likely, source them from dubious sources. My point being that if you're committed to emulation, running a flatpak on your SteamDeck is no big deal.

However, I wasn't aware that this somehow magically enabled cloud-saves, as Arale-senpai pointed out, so that's definitely a loss.

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