The classic Lucas Arts adventures. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango.

I’ve been gaming since C64 days. We had the problem of too many games already back then. Hundreds of pirated games on disks and most of them weren’t even good.

The other day I felt the urge to play a new game from the “dead” point & click adventure genre. Filtered my Steam games and even found a relatively recent one with full Steam Deck support that was given away for free.

And I think I can do that with basically any genre.

Great indy titles get released all the time. Emulation gives me the ability to play almost everything from the entire history of gaming. Or just play one of my favourites. I just have to reach out and play. 2023 was an amazing year for gaming. 2025 wasn’t bad either.

Sure, bad games get made as well. But when I feel down I can just stop playing those and play Diarrhea 4 instead.

Picked up The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav. So far it seems to be a nice little German point & click adventures.

Not exactly a manual but I got stuck in Day of the Tentacle. Finally I caved and ordered the official hint book. Back then that meant sending them a letter. No idea how payment worked. My parents probably helped me with that.

It took an eternity to arrive. A few weeks at least. In the meantime I tried to progress the game. The day before the book arrived I managed to do it (use physics book with horse). And once I was past that I managed to beat the rest of the game.

But it wasn’t in vain. The book contained the story of the game written like an essay by Bernard (basically the game’s main character). It was pretty funny. So I didn’t regret ordering it.

Home Alone for the Game Boy. It was just a generic jump and run. It was just super boring.

Maybe the Gabecube will launch with a “console price” after all.

Yeah, but at the same time they stopped making new games except for one. Thousand people (yes, many of them probably wouldn’t have been game devs) could have made at least ten new games. It probably wouldn’t have been bad for their engine either to have multiple internal teams trying to make multiple kinds of games.

Who could have foreseen that putting all your eggs into one basket was risky? Not this Epic leadership.

Funny how Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to do the same thing without any additional payment.

Depends on the game now, doesn’t it? I did 100 % of all content on Spider-Man. For some reason I didn’t finish Spider-Man: Miles Morales and I didn’t even start Spider-Man 2.

Hmm, maybe I should at least try Spider-Man 2. But I’d have to finish Miles Morales first to get the full story. Spider-Man 1 was so good, maybe I’ll play that again. Spider-Man

What were we talking about?

There’s a free benchmark version of the game available on Steam. So you can test yourself whether it will run smoothly enough.

Technically DLSS 5 only modified lighting. The light emitted by your monitor.

Such a brave thing to say!

I still don’t know why they sell one Uncharted game on Steam under the name “Uncharted Collection”. It’s just one game and some DLC.

A corporate indie event somehow sounds wrong. Hope they didn’t have to pay much to be included.

Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.

Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.

Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that’s worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.

And I’m still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.

Oh my, haven’t played Fallout Shelter in ages. I think I played until I hit the “pay or take ages” stage. I guess they removed that by now?

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.

At least for me the email did come eventually. It was just 30 or 60 minutes late.

Hell yeah, I remember playing the demo of the first one dozens of times because of the great graphics. I never managed to get anything done.

Baldur’s Gate 3

I’m so glad he still does those even though they aren’t as popular as his usual stuff. Can’t wait for the cradle episode.

Weren’t they forced by the EU to allow non-Webkit browsers?

Although by now it’s probably to late. Making a app on another engine is basically a totally new project.

What I loved about Duke Nukem, especially in contrast to Doom, was the interactivity and that all the places actually looked like places. Doom’s levels just looked like video game levels. In Duke Nukem 3D you were in real cities with real shops. And the cinema worked, the billiard table worked, he’d comment when you tried to use the arcade machines, the toilets worked, electrical outlets gave you a shock, etc.

Isn’t Cachy a more general distribution?

But luckily everything they do is in the open and can be utilised by everyone.

They can’t stop winning.

There are 2-3 major roadblocks. Like others mentioned we simply lack drivers. But in my opinion the biggest issue is the lack of a BIOS equivalent for ARM systems.

Most PCs use x86 processors while most phones use ARM processors. And most x86 systems come with a BIOS (nowadays UEFI). That is a very simple operating system that runs when the computer starts and it gives a standard way for other operating systems like Windows and Linux to start up. That way the same x86 operating system can start on just about every x86 computer.

ARM lacks this standardisation. Although there do exist some projects to fix this they are not in use on most phones. So you actually have to make a custom way to just start up for each and every phone.

On top of that and the general lack of drivers many manufacturers lock their phones down so that only their own operating system may start.

I hope the Steam Frame controllers will be sold separately. They have replaceable batteries and you’re not forced to hold your hands in one position.

Somehow Price has returned.

My Nokia N900 with its paltry 128 MB RAM had better multitasking than a modern Android. It’s a farce.

As long as it’s not Thief 4.

Won’t they have to adjust the price hourly to account for RAM?

Edit: Apparently they will at least look at it: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-plan-to-look-a-bit-closer-at-linux-through-2026/

As long as they don’t remove the coconut picture…

Strange, I distinctly remember it being a big deal that the Wii outsold the PS2 at some point.

I expedited 33 obscur clairs (damn, the new area is awesome), rescued some Yoshi eggs in Super Mario World and am now triggering all chronos I can find.

Don’t do that to me. Don’t make the OLED model so cheap that I will actually have to decide if I want to upgrade.