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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • What a wonderful, original and well written post, a truly great read, thanks a lot for writing and sharing it.

    I use Lemuroid, it’s freaking great. I’ll try Mindustry, which seems to be also available for Linux on Flathub (very convenient).

    Which begs the question… would you consider writing a post about FOSS games on PC?

    Flathub is chock-full of great games that would greatly benefit from a little exposure, and it’s so vast and diverse that there’s a guaranteed varied selection for any genre.

    It could even span 2 posts: the most popular ones & hidden gems. If they do well, there’s also game tools & launchers for games that nobody knows that are playable on the Steam Deck / Steam Machine / Linux.

    With the imminent release of the Machine, I think these kind of posts would do well. After all, we’re talking about free games, 1 click away.












  • Absolutely, I would love to have them all on PC, I believe in preservation and everyone should play whatever they want wherever they please.

    But there’s a practical problem: none of them (except 1) met their sales target. On PC they were released late and overpriced, on a platform with an exponentially bigger catalogue. Their titles are all highly polished cinematic experiences that offer barely distinct gameplay loops & mechanics. On PS5, this visually attractive and low risk games are all good enough to meet the hype. On PC: late, overpriced, just “good” gameplay… just didn’t cut it, It’s just not enough. It’s a failure factory.

    They either fix their pipeline or they go back to what they know has worked in the past.

    They chose the latter, and I think it’s a mistake.