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Overall, 3% might not seem like much to some, but again - that trend is very clear and equates to millions of people. The last time Valve officially gave a proper monthly active user count was in 2022, and we know Steam has grown a lot since then, but even going by that original number would put monthly active Linux users at well over 4 million. Sadly, Valve have not given out a more recent monthly active user number but it’s likely a few million higher, especially with the Steam Deck selling millions.
If you like the old-school top-down GTA feel
You also HAVE to check out the quick multiplayer match topdown GTA-like Skillshot City. The gameplay feels super tight.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/Skillshot_City/
Maniac is a singleplayer police escape arcade mayhem game with locked in topdown GTA-like gameplay.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482380/Maniac/
In a different genre but still worth mentioning for having cool topdown arcade multiplayer & singleplayer combat is Running With Rifles
https://store.steampowered.com/app/270150/RUNNING_WITH_RIFLES
Motor Town is a behemoth, I have driven so many urgent taxi jobs I put myself on the taxi leaderboard for a hot minute without intending too… with pretty much all the driving manual not autopilot which I am not sure many of the other drivers higher taxi level than me do… lol
Yeah, Motor Town is GOOD.
What GTA-like games do you enjoy by indie devs?
The closest I can provide is Wobbly Life which is unironically an awesome physics heavy GTA-like themed around being a destructive kid.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1211020/Wobbly_Life/
For driving jobs, hanging out in a living multiplayer city and driving feel that hits just right check out the rabidly loved Motor Town: Behind The Wheel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
Contractville looks interesting but I haven’t tried it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2698780/ContractVille/
Schedule 1 seems popular
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164500/Schedule_I/
Inzoi seems like it is similar in the open world roleplaying sense
Funnily enough the one exception to this rule that I probably would have made was BF6 but they forced me to sit this one out by barring Linux users 🤷♂️ So I’m playing Outer Worlds 2 instead rn.
For some good battlefield alternatives that run great on Linux check out ->
Easy Red 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Operation Harsh Doorstop
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
and Angels Fall First
https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/
Yeah check out Inzoi, I haven’t tried it since I don’t really get into Sims type games… but even if Inzoi isn’t a replacement this is a space RIPE for indie game companies since gameplay is mainly about roleplaying, story, mechanics and meaningful interaction rather than cinematic gameplay or insane graphics and physics engines.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2456740/inZOI/
I for one look forward to an explosion of Indie Sims-likes because even though I am not that interested in the genre I can appreciate how massively popular it is for not really being taken seriously by most of the game development world and I think that hurts the artistry and inclusiveness of game development as a whole because it sends the message to Sims fans that they aren’t actually serious video game fans when they are… and there is likely a MUCHHH bigger market than even the Sims can reach here given the genre is so underserved and innovation is slow at the moment (also nobody markets to Sims fans like they are video game fans in general, there is this sense of “casualness” to Sims that I think is silly, casual games are video games and “casual gamers” are gamers, period end of story).
Another game that gives me Sims vibes but isn’t really in the same category is Let’s School, I haven’t tried it but it gets really good reviews as a thoroughly fleshed out school management game where you build a school and try to grow it while having to manage students, teachers and the campus grounds. I think it might scratch a similar itch for people.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937500/Lets_School/
I also haven’t tried Clanfolk but from the reviews I have read it seems like a chiller Rimworld with a bit more people/family management mechanics. It gets very highly reviewed, don’t pass over it because it looks like anotheerrrrr Rimworld-like. It seems like the house building and people management part of the game potentially might intrigue Sims fans even though it is a survival game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700870/Clanfolk/
If you would like a Sims like game but focused instead on “dogs” that also makes you feel like you are on a dose of psychedelics than check out Wobbledogs.
Well at least we got Motor Town Behind The Wheel, I am not sure review bombing that game would be possible. The love is too strong and too pure.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
What? Just sort reviews by most helpful and set it to a timeframe that is relevant for you.
I make sure to rate helpful reviews or leave them myself, so there are definitely people out there trying to help make the actually relevant, non-loweffort-meme reviews that contain illuminating information rise to the top.
I have noticed it in a targetted fashion against certain games, especially when they are threats to large game franchises that make a lot of money.
For example one of my favorite games Operation Harsh Doorstop is quite regularly review bombed, ultimately I don’t see how people would be so consistently motivated to review bomb the game, attack the developer and attempt to spread drama on the discussion forum unless they are paid. I am not exaggerating, this is an entirely free moddable game (hence why it can be review bombed easier I guess) and it really makes no sense how vile some people are in the reviews. Sure the game is in early access, it has lots of rough edges but the core game is just fun… the way people talk about it in the reviews is truly mindboggling and I have played A LOT of games so I am not just being biased here because I like the game.
I can only conclude that there is a lot of money in multiplayer FPS games and the owners of IP like Battlefield, Arma, Squad and live-service trash games like Enlisted REALLY don’t want there to be a fun, free moddable alternative to their shit offerings.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Inzoi
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2456740/inZOI/
Clanfolk
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700870/Clanfolk/
Amazing Cultivator Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/955900/Amazing_Cultivation_Simulator/
Correct, to put things into precise terms, the corporate too-big-to-fail gaming industry is unable to make a profit in the gaming industry if there is any functional competition at all, even competition from indie game companies with much smaller budgets.
Just because large corporations with no desire to just let artists make art cannot make a sufficient profit unless boosted with the artificial advantage of having the rest of the industry destroyed… doesn’t mean that there are too many video games out there to make money from making another one it means large corporations suck at making good video games and are unable to keep systems of upper management from undermining everything redeeming about them.
Except this line of reasoning is empty and it will only ever be wielded by games journalism and large gaming companies to convince you to adopt the streaming model of gaming where you don’t ever buy any games. They will make you feel like you are being so much less wasteful, because oooooooh think of the horrorable backlog of unplayed games you would have owned otherwise!?!?!!
The thing is, who cares if you never play all the video games you buy? Video games are art for fucks sake, it is ok to buy them because you love artists even if it doesn’t materially change your life, you can still be happy about having collected the work of art, ESPECIALLY when it is in digital form.
I am so tired of this “my backlog is too big crap”, nobody cares, great you have a big backlog stop going along with the narrative that we need to “spotify” gaming to solve this “problem”.
Nah, BAR is WAYYYY better than that, BAR represents the idea of Total Annihilation passed around, tweaked and refined for the better part of two decades. Total Annihilation itself is a high water mark of RTS games and Beyond All Reason is the latest in a series of Spring Engine/Recoil Engine projects that elevate the idea to a veryyyy niche e-sport, this family of games just hit on all cylinders consistently in a way that makes most other RTS games except Supcom FAF look flat and boring in my opinion.
The ease of queing up unit actions and such makes it almost impossible to tolerate how barebones the controls are on other RTS games. The depth and variety of units in the game is awesome too. Tanks drive like tanks, airplanes fly like airplanes, ships move like ships should, this isn’t another game with fiddly units that are meant to be micro’d back and forth identically no matter what kind of unit they are (i.e. games where flying units move identically to ground units, they just have different abilities like they can fly over impassable terrain).
When a unit fires at another unit, there is a projectile modeled that launches with some degree of accuracy and it may or may not hit, the battle is actually being simulated in the game in a way that is joyously chaotic and most other RTS games don’t even come close to the pure fun of it. So many other RTS games have units attack each other like a player fighting a mob in an MMORPG, it is just a matter of DPS, health and which abilities are triggered, the visuals of the attack are just there to inform the player that things are happening… No… in BAR when your huge tank shoots a massive tank shell at an enemy base you sit there wondering whether it is going to hit or not and then you get to watch the chaos as nearby units are blown sideways by the impact, none of it is aesthetic visuals or lame rockpaperscissors contrived relations between units, what happens is what happens as a massive battle unfolds with every bit of weaponry modeled going back and forth.
:)
Been having a blast playing Beyond All Reason against AI.
I would recommend syncthing and plain text files organized in a simple clear folder structure.
I would alternatively recommend Logseq, Obsidian or Joplin but the issue is file syncing/file share.
Actually Cryptpad!
I recommend using a general tool in a simple way rather than look for a specific niche tool in this case but that is just me.
The issue isn’t so much that they’re banning pornographic content
I agree with your point but also what the hell, why is this considered a normal well adjusted thing to say…
(second quote from different person)
I’m all in for banning pornographic content
Why? What is the flimsy, unscientific, puritan christian conservative reason and why is it ok for people to force it on everybody else?
Agreed, I guess I meant it potentially had a great interface, I have memories (I SWEAR they are real -I scream into the void) that the xbox 360 had a really slick interface at one point with very clear effective panels/tabs that was progressively enshittified… but if it hadn’t… it would have been nice.
That was a different timeline, if such a one where microsoft didn’t enshittify xbox exists.
Come join the community I made recently specifically for battlefield like games made by indie developers such as the superb ww2 battlefield-like Easy Red 2 !
Fuck EA
In my opinion within the steam store finding good steam curators and going through their recent reviews is the best way to discover quality new games that are actually worth a second look.
Go into your steam library and go to the store page for some of your favorite games (preferably less well known games) and check out the steam curators who reviewed the game and start exploring!
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