60+: Haha, I can’t imagine it’s worth it.

20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.

10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.

1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.

0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist. :) OpenTTD and good ol’ Nethack are my faves

Don’t ask for advanced advice for your business from forums hire a consultant jesus christ

The awards are fun when I compare my vote list with my friends’ vote list, but the actual awards are just annoyingly pointless.

The winner of each category is predictable immediately. It will only ever be the game with the highest number of players and the category doesn’t matter.

If GTA6 comes out in 2026 and posts “we are hoping to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award”, it’s going to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award.

Hades 2

The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive no response.

The game being banned for a misunderstood piece of placeholder concept art in a Steam approval preview build, which was both removed, and explained. Then Valve refusing to reconsider it and rejecting all attempts to clarify their objections.

Looks like it has triggered someone’s “we can’t be seen backing down!” reflex at Valve

Yes.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of offline games and no obvious reason to list a few unless they were special for some reason.

Doom, Maniac Mansion, Satisfactory, Nethack, Space War, Castles II, Lemmings, Red Faction, Red Alert 2, Max Payne, Pong, Super Mario 3D World, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Dance Dance Revolution, Duck Hunt

Are you listing games of a specific type or for a specific system?

Well, it’s primarily my coding laptop, so I prioritize the OS that has the best tooling for my needs there. Gaming is just a happy secondary option on the machine. :)

Take your aggressively rude snobbish attitude elsewhere.

I run Windows normally.

How long does your Window box function without updates? How long does it remain safe? Historically, a few months at best until they bundle telemetry in a new way. Then you need to find another rando dude’s github for workarounds.

Anyway what you are describing is literally a hassle that for me is just not worth it. I can do all that and set up and update group policies for updates over and over oooooor I can literally spend less mental energy figuring out how to configure my drivers on Linux.

What you do works for you and you feel it is convenient. That is fine.

I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.

It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.

I am not joking.

The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.

It’s not about consistency. It’s about “I want therefore it is my divine right and other people aren’t valid”

Nethack

Tetris

OpenTTD

If you first hack off the fun, then sure. Buying the fun back in tiny pieces is technically adding fun?

Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.

Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?

The Steam trailers don’t make it look good. High-fidelity models with low-fidelity movement kida graphics that feels off-putting and disconnected. Like the HoMM HD remake or the hi-res Minecraft graphics mods.

Muh business model :'(

Oh this game is FUCKED

Thanks! I am starting to think a steamdeck is going to be my solution. SteamOS on my tiny nongaming Linux laptop works perfectly for 2D or light 3D games, so I expext it to be fine.

How’s the deck for mouse-heavy strategy games like Stellaris, Civ, etc?

Thanks. Does it work well with controllers, or do people mostly play with the on-screen joysticks?

Was considering a new switch, but may hold off now.

Which tablets do you have in mind? I could not find any suitable for anything but phone games via touch screen and unimpressive battery, but I don’t really know this market

Lack of official support for a lot of devices does not make it “not released”.

I can get it right now and install it on an AMD 'puter. I expect to manually install some drivers at least to get it fully working, but since the base OS is Arch, that’s pretty explored territory.

Remember that we are not players in Web3 games. We are mobs to be farmed.

“Web3 Gaming” is gaming played by speculators and investors.

The products they create are disposable tools used to manipulate and farm regular gamers for cash.

What sort of game genre do you have experience making? Finding something within what you are able to do is important.

In order:

• Overscoped
• Wrong people in charge on all levels
• Unfocused
• This turned out ok?

Omg! Thank you!

Turns out it was this one: https://www.lemon64.com/game/microdeal-shuttle

Been gaming since 1984 or some such.

By number of hours played: Factorio

By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio

By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom

Xenon 2?

I can criticize a broken product. The jobs deserve thing is creative reading on your part.

https://godotengine.org/

There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.

Nintendo makes handhelds?!?

Guysfall

mi mlatu cimle

I loved this game. Puzzles that I felt I needed to understand the plot and culture to solve, made the world so much more alive.

SuperHot

The DOOMs

Rimworld! For me it is right after Factorio in playtime list if I filter out idle or semi-idle games.

Factorio for me. Steam has 3000 hours logged, but I played it for ages before getting Steam version so really no idea. Estimating 4000 hours total.