Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me think . . . they make consoles to sell more games, they make games to sell more hardware. Does anyone ever make a thing just to sell that thing, any more?

IKEA? Or perhaps they have a stake in marriage counselling?

Bit offtopic, but isn't IKEA making furniture to be able to sell more meatballs? Or was it other way around? They might make more money from marriage counselling though...

If I would want to smooth jump back to the topic, rings are used to mark that people are married. Which would awkwardly lead me to Elden Ring...

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Few more from tonight

Grieve (Proton)
This one is third person shooter. Graphics look nice, but otherwise it's horrible. Right in the first mission controls are wonky, there's plenty of invisible walls and mission ends without any other feedback than the mission failed screen.

Based on the window title, games name is MyProject, which explains quite lot.

If Fusion Were That Easy
Retro adventure game. Odd humour easy and easy enough puzzles.

Not wishlist material, but will provide entertainment for a moment. Try Crowns and Pawns first as that is the best adventure game that I have played from this festivals selection.

Oaken
This one is turn based strategy game and card battler mashup. Tutorial doesn't feel much like card battler, but once you start the actual game, card mechanics come into play. In the tutorial there's not much difference between skills and cards.

If you have played Slay the Spire, some things might feel familiar. What makes Oaken different is that battles happen on hex grid and you can summon allies with the cards.

If these kind of games interest you, it's worth taking a look.

Garbage Crew
This co-operative garbage truck game, bit in style of Overcooked games. To be honest, they are bit confusing garbage trucks with firetrucks. At least in the demo garbage truck has hose attachment and you need to put out fires in addition of emptying garbage containers.

The twist is that garbage truck moves constantly forward and emptying the containers takes lot of time. So doing all the tasks need some co-operation. It seems though that targets might not be adjusted for single player. Or it might be that I need to get much better.


So all in all, this time quality varied quite lot, but at least the best one (Oaken) is close to getting into my wishlist.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: Guesthow to get to that page through steam client?

With the Steam client in Big Picture mode, go to Web and put https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/mygames

I found it also by going stores news section and selecting steam official from the side bar (by default it shows personalized news feed).

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I have recently played three demos now:

Core Keeper

This one is kind of mining, building and crafting game. You're mostly left on your own. For example in the first screen you need to figure out that you can remove roots blocking your way by left clicking.

After while you can find some more resources you can mine and eventually start crafting. I quite when I couldn't figure out farming. Let's see if I take another look. Possibly there could have something interesting around the corner.

TFC: The Fertile Crescent
This one is kind of village building RTS set in bronze age. Basically idea is to gather resources, build infrasture and defenses. And then get wiped out by the enemy. Oh, and you can research technologies too. Might take another look at some point.

John's Tombstone
This one is walking simulator with some light puzzles. And lot of jank. If you wan't to try it out, have some patience with the settings menu, it's bit buggy. Also it's possibly to get stuck. Good news is that you don't have to start all over again as game saves if you have solved puzzle or not. But bad news you have to walk all the way from the beginning to where you were.

Story is kind of heavy though at the same time game doesn't take itself seriously. Really weird one. If that's your thing, try it out.



As for the event itself, surprisingly I have gotten only one missing executable error. Though I have still quite small sample. Four out of 111 that claim to support Linux. And missing executable came actually for game that doesn't actually have Linux version yet (it tried to launch with Proton)

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I browsed through the list and I have played demos of Nine Noir Lives and Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit.

Last time I played the Nine Noir Lives demo, it had way too much dialogue. Some of it was funny, but still there's a limit. If I remember correctly, demo is relatively short.

Crowns and Pawns is also adventure game. Based on the demo it seemed to be pretty decent. For those with pixel allergy, graphics are high resolution. Not hand drawn, but high resolution and hand drawn is rarity.

Hopefully I have time to try at least few of the demos that I haven't played before. Based on previous years, large number of them are likely broken (most common reason being missing executable), but can't know before trying.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: undeadbydawnSuccess!
Turned Steam Overlay on and everything worked instantly.
I'm somewhat curious as to why I've never seen this mentioned anywhere else, ever

Probably because... why would anyone turn the steam overlay off, unless its known to cause problems (about 2 games in my 1000+ library)?

I guess it varies. I don't remember that turning on Steam overlay would have fixed anything, but I have had quite more than two games that would crash on startup if Steam overlay is enabled. That didn't use to be that case though when I had nVidia. The whole thing started when I switched to AMD.

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Quoting: thelimeydragon

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: rustybroomhandleAnd the selection still seems super random. But then I keep seeing people excited to play things on Deck that I have never even heard of. So maybe not so random.

They are still focusing on testing games owned by Deck reservation holders right? So I guess peoples Steam libraries are quite random?

If you look at the Jackbox games, for some reason 3 and 4 haven't been done for some reason. Even tho the others have. Just odd.

Maybe they're still testing them. Need to play just one more round of Trivia Murder Party to be absolutely sure that it works on Steam Deck...

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Quoting: mirkobrombin

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut if you don't update your Wine version, it'll be old Wine in new Bottles.

Ya, not. You can use wine from your system but Bottles will still install its (constantly updated) own and will always default to that.

Edit: Oh wait, maybe that was a joke :S

According to history books, oldest Wine is 28 years old. I wonder if you can put it into Bottles anymore...

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Quoting: pytrys

Quoting: Alm888Steam Deck Verified. Linux is not supported.

A nice example that "Steam Deck support" /= "Linux support".

Exactly what I have said long ago, glad I am not the only one.

There's no requirement for having native version of the game for Steam Deck. If game works nicely with Proton, there's no rush to do native port. Based on the amount of native games in general, Proton is good enough for large number of developers.

Of course native would be nice, but I wouldn't hold my breath

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Liam DaweI can confirm that with Proton 7 there are problems. After 20 minutes or so it stuttered to a crawl and then froze up tight. Could only hard reboot as whole system was unresponsive.

Sounds like out-of-RAM. You could monitor it with mangohud to confirm.

I was, it was not out of RAM.

There could be multiple different causes. One of the more common could be busyloop. These days it would have to be consuming all the cores in order to cause freeze. It would show up as high CPU usage.

Running out of memory causes lot of disk activity because of the swap usage. Processes that are moving back and forth between swap and memory can slow down to crawl. In case of actually running out of memory, OOM killer would do some cleanup and things would be fine again if it didn't have to kill anything important.

Heavy disk usage in general can cause things to slow down, but affects only processes trying to access the disk. In order to see these, memory, swap and disk usage would have to be monitored. For something to happen, process would have to be in busyloop that's constantly doing something with the disk. Doesn't seem that likely.

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