Quoting: demencia89Hi! What is the game on the thumbnail?
Thank you!

It's bit dark, but it looks like Valheim.

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Quoting: GuestMy favourite new game this year was Clunky Hero.

(And in the wake of that, went through Alwas Legacy... )

I played the Clunky Hero demo and wasn't totally impressed. People seem to be liking it though so maybe it's just me as I don't get easily impressed by metroidvanias as one that I have ever finished is Dust: Elysian Tail. Hollow Knight was getting bit too frustrating, so I didn't finish it, but still played good chunk of it.

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Quoting: udekmp69I still can't believe Valheim is under 1GB, yet you look at new games that don't even have nearly as much content that are now over 80+ GB of space. Valheim is a great game and stands out in a bloated genre of open world craft-a-thons.

Well correction: it might be a little over 1GB at most. But I think I still have a point.

There are few reasons why it's so small, biggest might be the procedural generation. On top of that models don't use lot of polygons and textures are not high resolution either.

Procedural generation can generate as big world as you need. The thing is though that if you don't have big enough pool of different things to add into the world, it will feel bit empty. On top of that, you have to make the model itself robust, so the map is actually fun to play.

At least in theory, by having static world that uses lot more disk space, it's possible to have something unique and interesting around every corner. Accomplishing something like that needs huge team and indie developers can't afford that.

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Quoting: GuestAward of bug fest of the year... and the winner is: Cyberpunk 2077.
Valheim bugless gameplay and clean mechanics laughs at you. And it's still in Early Access lol.

Valheim is not without bugs, but some of them get exploited in fun ways. Viking space program wouldn't exist without a bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdUJ3inZmoE (not sure if this was patched at some point)

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Quoting: undeadbydawn

Quoting: scaineZiggurat 2

Holy wow. A legit Linux-native non-pixel art full 3D FPS? How the hell did I not know this game exists?

It's mostly flying under the radar. It's in bit of a niche genre, but within rogue-lite shooters it's pretty good one.

Otherwise if you look for Linux natives, you have to appreciate what indie industry is able to produce. Those teams can be pretty small, so if they want to actually release a game, they have to cut corners somewhere.

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Here's my list:

Valheim

One of the few survival games that I have actually played bit more than just a bit. It can be as harsh though as if you're not careful and don't have proper contingency plan, you can lose your stuff in a place that's hard to reach without proper gear. Also because of procedural generation, few remaining content packs might need regenerating the world.

PS: screenshot in the article looks like a boat accident is about to happen

Ziggurat 2

In short, it's a rogue-lite arena shooter. Plenty of guns, amulets and perks to collect and it does have permanent progression system. As there's so much stuff, everything is not totally unique, but there are few things here and there that change the gameplay in some way. One thing that Ziggurat games are doing right is difficulty levels, which make them lot more accessible than most rogue-lites. Ziggurat 2 has gone way past the other roguelite shooters that I have played.

Rain On Your Parade

Is it a bird? Is it a aeroplane? No, it's a cloud that will ruin you day. Game is pure mayhem with lot of references to other things mixed in. Hasn't gotten as much playtime as the others as there's levels are relatively smalḷ. Once you have beaten the game, you can replay the levels with more difficult objectives and now there's even DLC with more content.

Luck be a Landlord

Luck be a Landlord is what you get when you combine rogue-lite with slot machine. What makes the game interesting that it has equivalent of card collection mechanic that adds layer of strategy. Interplay between "cards" is turned almost up to 11 and it's up to you spot the potential synergies and switch your strategy based on what you get. I have completed the game two or so times already. There should be content pack coming up though, hopefully soon.

I give honorary mentions to Loop Hero and Griftlands. I haven't spent as much time with either of them as they deserve. On top of that last time I checked, Loop Hero was broken for me and I haven't debugged what's going on.

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I went past the carousels quite quickly. They do contain something interesting, but I noticed something far more interesting below them.

I think this was part of the previous experiment, but glad they have included in the latest one. The filters are far more useful than before for browsing bit more niche categories as you can also filter by subgenres.

I tried with some niche genres like point and click adventure, CRPG and rogue-lite FPS. Hits were mostly spot on, so it should be also possible now to find games from bit more niche genres. With this combining two genres by manipulating categories in URL is no longer needed.

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Quoting: kaimanThat must be the second big update out after I thought the game to be abandoned. Sometimes I cannot really fathom how those indie devs manage to survive. Unless they do it besides their day job (which would also account for the long time between updates).

Looks like at least it started that way. What I can quickly see that they have grown only slightly and added one person since. That's pretty much all I got from the news update where they talk about the progress over the years: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/569480/view/3103539804169980543

I have had this in my wishlist for quite a while, but based on the reviews it hasn't been ready enough. It looks like that progress is clearly going right direction and latest update will even add more playtime.

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Quoting: fabertaweI was already using mods to silence those pesky wolves... I have two (pets) in my castle and 20 guarding the entrance! Also using a mod for tamed animals and fire as I like to see my piggies in the dark. Good to see these two things implemented as I'd rather not use mods.

Right, time to put up the Xmas decorations

Funny thing about the fire was that it didn't matter if it was behind a wall or not. I had move my pig pen a bit because of that without accidentally letting the pigs out. There were workarounds for the lights as there are few things that shine in the dark. Yellow mushrooms being easiest to acquire as long as you dare to go to the black forest.

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Quoting: gbudnyI don't understand it.

I need some explanation.

Linux is going to be more competitive than Windows - it sounds unrealistic.

Linux has been losing with Apple for the last 16 years. Linux can't even win with one Unix vendor. Really?

Apple has loyal users that aren't magically disappearing. They pay incredible money for the software and games for Mac.

You want to fight about first place on the podium, then first you should know how to win second place. That is the Apple position, and it's not going to be easy to win with them. It's about our wallets.

Speaking of UNIX, what's actually funny that Linux actually beat pretty much all the UNIX vendors, only one left with bit more significant presence is Apple. I think we are discussing about desktop though, server side is totally different market. Desktop users are not going to buy several computers without operating system and install then identical operating system in all of them.

Come think of it, desktop is one of the last markets where Linux isn't dominant.

The thing is though that Linux isn't Apple. It's ultimately up to vendors like Google with their Chromebooks and Valve with Steam Decks to make something that also non techies want to buy. Linux itself is not the problem as people buy quite lot of Android phones for example (Windows phones are not really a thing at the moment).

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