Played Potionomics and I mostly agree. The demo is short, but I guess if it manages to whet your appetite for the full game, it has accomplished its goal. If that's true, it has applied close the deal early enough.

Have to see how it all comes together. Based on the mechanics, everything seems to be serving the haggling minigame. The relationships minigame is exception to that rule though as it benefits from money.
Demo has applied close the deal on us.

If it's not clear enough, I'm intrigued.

Rest that I played weren't as interesting.

Might be worth a look

Seasick is turn based tactics game with ecology as theme. With my skills it was bit too realistic. Everything just was filled with trash and my plants and sea life was utterly destroyed.

It certainly is doing something unique as instead of shooting enemies, you will be mostly pushing trash out of the map. In three layers that have different set of units.

Kaiju Catastrophe

This one has broken native build, but if you force Proton, it works. Basically it's game where you play as huge monster and try to do as much damage as possible. There will be increasingly difficult waves coming at you.

In overall good fun, but I worry bit about the bigger picture in the game. There's upgrades and maybe different levels, so there's hope.

Not worth it

Catsploration. Native build kind of almost works. Proton works, though game is quite janky.

Because of jankines, this one is hard to categorize. Some of the jankiness is harder to forgive though. Camera needs to be manually controlled all the time (e.g you have to hold down right mouse button all the time). Controls also feel bit like the cat would be ice skating.

Once you accept those janky things, game is somewhat fun for a while. There's plenty of things to explore. Fund stopped though once I was teleported to untextured area and died after falling. Couldn't figure out if there was way to resurrect the cat.

Mile High Taxi gets clearly inspiration from Fifth Element, but there's too much exposition and minimap is pretty confusing. Seems to need something radical to salvage it.

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Quoting: NezchanGames I just tried:

A Castle Full of Cats: Charming little hidden object game, but a bit on the easy side. Probably aimed at a younger age group than I'm in. Could use more interactive elements, and the style of character dialogue boxes clashes badly with the style of everything else.

A Building Full of Cats and this one are sure on the simplistic side. That's quite good for the casual players, for me they are nice snacks. Though if you are looking for hidden object games with bit more things to interact with, Enigmatis trilogy transforms almost to point and click adventure towards the end.

I had time for only one in addition to Castle Full of Cats today. I tried out Doodle God Universe. It's kind of sanbox like game about combining things together, with at least one minigame. Maybe bit too simplistic, could work better as a minigame to builder game or something.

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Have been too busy and missed the start of the event. At least there's still few days left.

Here's few that I have played during the previous events and are worth mentioning.

Zoria Age of Shattering. There's recent article about this one. Previous demo was fun and hopefully the new demo is even better.

Garden Path. Pretty chill exploration and gardening game. There has been multiple articles about it.

Slender Threads. Horror point & click with dark humor. Has been featured previously on GamingOnLinux.

Again most popular games are Windows only, so have to warm up Proton at some point. Usual games are doing things right when they are popular, especially as lot of the games in the event don't have huge marketing budget to skew things.

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

Yeah.. just tried it, it's still a thing

If you create a category that matches only tag "Survival", another that matches only tag "stealth", and finally one that only matches tag "RTS", you game list will look like this:

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That explains it better. I guess my solution has been to use the side panel only for searching.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusThat looks incredibly useful! Now, er, for those of us who've never set up a collection before, maybe a quick step-by-step would be nice?

There seems to be such guides already: https://www.thegamer.com/steam-how-to-sort-your-games-into-genres-and-tags/

Collections are great.

I use mix of static and dynamic collections. While dynamic collections have lot of options, they don't have everything. For example I have static collection for games I would like to finish.

I have few collections visible in library home page and sometimes I change sorting of the collection to keep things bit more fresh. Usually they're sorted by last played.

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Quoting: vipor29ended up grabbing the remaining games i didn't have. gave you a little kick back from the link.

I have problem that I haven't played ones I have and I have plenty

Or to be more exact, I have maybe played one or two hours of each.

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Quoting: sobkasDidn't Square Enix sold their rights to The Embrace Group?

The Embracer Group acquired several studios from Square Enix, yes. Though there might be two explanations for this that I can think of.

First is that sale might not be final yet, bit like Elon Musk "bought" Twitter. If you look at the press release, there's purchase date: https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-an-agreement-to-acquire-eidos-crystal-dynamics-and-square-enix-montreal-amongst-other-assets/

Other explanation that somebody is just not up to date with what has happened. I would assume the former though.

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I happened to finish Zodiacats just a moment ago. Not sure how it fits the thrill theme, but if you like cats and jigsaw puzzles (if you buy it because you like the jigsaw shape, you're going to be disappointed: they're squares), it's easily worth the 1,55€ it costs.

As for the bundle itself, if you don't like Stone Story RPG, it might not be worth it. The thing is that it costs more than the other games combined. Luckily there's a demo.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualHappy if this means more Japanese-language VNs on Steam.

What's a VN?

VN is short for visual novel.

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