Quoting: einherjarWhat "underdog" are you talking about? The "underdog" with these billionaires at the top?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/12/14/cyberpunk2077-made-its-polish-cofounders-billionaires--but-the-game-failed-to-live-up-to-its-hype/?sh=2c7a9527380f

Apparently that's the result of their game development division and not the store front.

But yeah, GOG is perhaps too large to be called an "underdog". And while I failed to find a good comparison of digital PC game stores showing how much of the market each owns, my gut feeling is that GOG still pales in comparison to Steam. So I stand by my general sentiment, and will rather support the smaller of the behemoths ;-).

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As long as GOG remains the underdog, my support goes (mostly) to them. As much as I like Valve for their commitment to Linux gaming, I'm still not quite over them essentially single-handedly destroying physical distribution of PC games. Now get off my lawn!

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Would be playing Mutropolis, if it did run in fullscreen mode. Wonder what the issue is, since all the Daedalic adventures with a native Linux version worked fine, and those were also made with Visionaire.

So instead I'm playing Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood. I find the puzzles to be a bit on the hard side, but not necessarily because they're difficult per se, but rather because they are badly explained. And with that I mean not explained at all. Coupled with items that are easy to miss and enemies that chase you across the levels it's hardly a relaxing experience. But I think I'll see it through, provided I manage to find the ignition key.

I also had a look at TASOMACHI, via Wine, but that is even less relaxing. The platforming gets demanding pretty soon, while the controls feel strange and lack the precision required to reliably navigate the different obstacle courses. And while you can use collected coins to skip the platforming sections, that kind of defeats the purpose of playing the game. It doesn't look bad, but the gameplay could use more polish.

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Quoting: bekoWell. This one is still collecting dust on my Wishlist. I never purchased it because of the mess it was according to reviews. That's some bucks saved, I guess.

Same here. I might have bitten if the Linux version had made it to GOG, but that seems totally out of the question now.

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Finally bought and started playing Ara Fell (currently on sale at GOG). It has a native Linux version and runs really well. It's a bit casual on the default difficulty setting, but as I mostly enjoy the story and exploration aspects of RPGs and less so the combat, it suits me just fine.

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This look pretty neat. Though at that point, if I really had a need for something like that I'd probably go with ink.

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No exactly what I had been hoping for, as I had planned to begin my second game somewhere in the far east of the map. But I do like the extra flavor this might add. Having only played the Irish so far, it's hard to tell how big the differences between cultures already are, but extra nuance certainly won't hurt.

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QuoteInterestingly, they don't actually need the Kickstarter. They can fully fund it but they're doing it to see if it's something people actually want to see.

Given they're practically funded by now, I guess that's a resounding yes! :-).

Backed as well, no questions asked.

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This is pretty neat. Had no problem in picking up my Steam and GOG folder and the games installed within.

But it doesn't find save files for games installed in various Wine prefixes, even after manually adding those folders. And it's reporting nearly 3GB for Crusader Kings 3, as it's picking up heaps of cache files besides the actual saves. So there's clearly some room for improvement.

I'd also wish it'd pick up saves of games no longer installed. Sometimes it's not so much about preserving those, but to actually get rid of them :-).

Edit: at least support for custom Wine prefixes is in the works.

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Quoting: Liam DaweQuote direct from itch:

QuoteThis game is free but the developer accepts your support by letting you pay what you think is fair for the game.

Emphasis mine.

So technically it's free then, but itch.io does a very good job at gently steering you towards paying anyway, with a cunningly designed UI that reminds me a bit of those manipulative tracking consent popups. The proceed to download link is certainly subtle compared to the blatant $2 and brightly colored Pay! buttons.

Anyway, as said before, it was well worth the $2 (plus tip).

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