Did anybody else get the native build working. For me all I get is the title screen without any kind of menu.

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I didn't expect to have native Linux build back when I played the demo, but this could be second surprise from the games that I added to my wishlist in Next fests. Other one has been Wandering Village.

As for the Terra Nil, based on the demo, procedural generation can be its downfall if it's not tuned right. Basically at least in the demo, waterways were very important of transferring all the equipment away. Unfavorable terrain generation could make or break the game. But have to either try out the full game or wait for the reviews.

Otherwise pretty fun game about maximizing points.

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Quoting: LanzThis is because Valve is a Teal organization, rather than a typical Orange-tier organization (basically corporate communism with layers of bureaucracy) like all of its competitors. To understand how these management paradigms work, I recommend reading Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux. The Valve new employee handbook is also a great resource to understand how Valve implements the Teal management paradigm: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

Valves employee handbook sure is fun to read.

I stumbled also on this article that Frederic Laloux wrote back in 2015: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344

Article is bit lengthy, but it goes through all the organizational modes and dives bit deeper in one teal organization.

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Bit of shame that I have too many other things to do than play demos right now. Maybe I could still try to play few.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat looks like a lot of fun. I would probably be absolutely awful at it though.

That's feeling I got from the demo. Biggest problem for me was that I barely had any idea where to go, but things might have been improved and the freeroam mode might help with getting more familiar with the city. Hopefully there are distinct landmarks though, otherwise that will be hopeless.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt seems a whole lot like "Surviving Mars" only on a simple-graphics little square grid. I hope it has some gameplay that sets it apart.

It does. At least in the prologue tile placement plays a important role. Tiles come in all sort of combinations, so getting everything to be perfectly optimal is not that easy. There's no really guarantee that you'll like Farlanders if you liked Surviving Mars.

Terraformers might be bit closer, though it plays more like a boardgame and is maybe bit more closer to Terraforming Mars than Surviving Mars. Especially as vanilla Surviving Mars doesn't have terraforming.

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I have tried it as singleplayer. First free period it crashed on loading level, so I never tried the gameplay. Next time it worked, but I didn't learn to use the bot properly, so I basically just learned what my character can do alone and got tired after that as I didn't get proper support. I had to figure some things on my own too, luckily the waves didn't start right away.

I guess it can be fun, especially if group has few who can play it already.

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I used to play Joe Danger 2 (looks like about 6 hours in total), this one seems bit different as it's clearly a mobile port. Still good fun for a while and it wasn't asking for money.

Remember to use full screen mode in browse, it's easy to accidentally click some other tab.

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Quoting: whizseAfter all these years, still Counter-Strike?

CS:GO is 10+ years old, the original 20+. Time to try something new?

And lose your rank, no way

Dota 2 also has been there for ages. Multiplayer in general seems to be something that keeps people invested in the game for longer time.

I don't play enough multiplayer games to know for sure what makes CS: GO and Dota 2 to stay on top (competitive games just don't cause any real addiction in me). E-sports could be part of it, but I'm not sure if it explains everything.

PS: it dawned on me that some of the big ones have large presence also outside Steam, so Steam player counts don't give the full picture. So it makes sense that Valve games are on top as they're not available anywhere else.

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I think I played Catacomb 3-D after playing Wolfenstein 3D. Don't remember getting far though. Both games have bit of problem in maze maps and everything looking the same.

I played Doom much more, but that had lot of impressive features and more varied maps.

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