Warframe, Team Fortress 2 (albeit it's in its twighlight years), Dota 2. There are also lots of games which can be picked up for really cheap on sale and have hundreds of hours of content in them,...
Warframe, Team Fortress 2 (albeit it's in its twighlight years), Dota 2. There are also lots of games which can be picked up for really cheap on sale and have hundreds of hours of content in them, like Civilizations V, Rainbow 6 Siege, et cetera.
To confirm: they've flat out stated the game will never go on sale. From their FAQ two years ago: And in case anyone is wondering what their FAQ says about it these days: https://www.factorio.com/faq
To confirm: they've flat out stated the game will never go on sale.
From their FAQ two years ago:
No Factorio sale
We state it on our steam page, but people are still asking about it so I want to state it officially. We don't plan any Factorio sale. I'm aware, that the sale can make a lot of money in a short period of time, but I believe that it is not worth it in the long run, and since we are not in financial pressure we can afford to think in the long run. We don't like sales for the same reason we don't like the 9.99 prices. We want to be honest with our customers. When it costs 20, we don't want to make it feel like 10 and something. The same is with the sale, as you are basically saying, that someone who doesn't want to waste his time by searching for sales or special offers has to pay more.
And in case anyone is wondering what their FAQ says about it these days:
Are you planning to participate in Steam sales or Bundles?
No. The price we ask is what we consider a fair price for the game.
It's been purchasable for two years but under development the entire time. It's still in early access. Here's the blog post about the price increase:...
I can also highly recommend this, this is one of my favourite games. IMO the most important thing is: don’t look up anything about the game! You have to go in blind, or there’s no point in...
I can also highly recommend this, this is one of my favourite games.
IMO the most important thing is: don’t look up anything about the game! You have to go in blind, or there’s no point in playing. If you want to play it, go to the official website (ddlc.moe), download it, and stick with it (the first 20-30 minutes aren’t the most exciting - just keep playing).
Not gonna lie, I love fortnight. Epic has been really good to the community and I love what they are doing with the game. I am definitely not in the age group or demographic its targeted to, but...
Not gonna lie, I love fortnight. Epic has been really good to the community and I love what they are doing with the game. I am definitely not in the age group or demographic its targeted to, but still enjoy it and it is worth playing (if you have not).
Starcraft 2 is free now, so if you have never tried it out now is a good time.
Also, for a not so free game, I just recently picked up Subnautica and its wonderful. I know it's already pretty well known, but I am just trying it out for the first time and can not recommend the game enough!
Both BattlEye (Fortnite’s main anti-cheat) and Easy Anti-Cheat (another one they’re testing) work on Linux. Epic Games’ CEO just thinks that he’s somehow fighting for Windows users’ freedom by not...
Both BattlEye (Fortnite’s main anti-cheat) and Easy Anti-Cheat (another one they’re testing) work on Linux. Epic Games’ CEO just thinks that he’s somehow fighting for Windows users’ freedom by not porting to Linux. To quote him:
Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends.
Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today.
What he doesn’t realize is that he’s changing nothing by staying on Windows, while porting to Linux might break Windows’ monopoly and force it to actually improve itself to keep its users. To quote some of my favorite replies:
Microsoft is not a country. Supporting another OS doesn't mean uprooting yourself, it means maybe voting for another, better political party, if you want to further the political analogy.
As long as MS has such a monopoly on the desktop platform (and especially for gaming), we can complain all we want, but that won't sway anything.
If we start voting with our wallet instead, and support real competition in the OS market, then we can improve Windows a lot.
Windows is a product. It isn't your home. It's not your religion. A product. If a product gets updated in a way that hurts you... Use a different product.
Buying a Mac is like moving to Canada, installing Linux is just voting 3rd party. You're still using the same hardware, it's just run by something you agree with.
What a weird belief to hold, such a shame that linux users who want to play fortnite are missing out because of it when there are no technical barriers.
What a weird belief to hold, such a shame that linux users who want to play fortnite are missing out because of it when there are no technical barriers.
Well, from what I’ve heard, Fortnite with Easy Anti-Cheat works well through WINE (BattlEye doesn’t work on it at all). They keep adding and removing it, so you can’t really rely on it right now,...
such a shame that linux users who want to play fortnite are missing out
Well, from what I’ve heard, Fortnite with Easy Anti-Cheat works well through WINE (BattlEye doesn’t work on it at all). They keep adding and removing it, so you can’t really rely on it right now, but hopefully they’ll decide on it one day and Linux users will be able to play it. Another option is playing it in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough, but then you’d still have to put up with Windows, even if just for a game or two.
Yeah, this needs to be changed, but the cycle needs to be broken somehow (something that would kill Windows would be computer coming preinstalled with some linux distro, preinstallation is the...
we're just too much of a minority for most game studios to care about us
Yeah, this needs to be changed, but the cycle needs to be broken somehow (something that would kill Windows would be computer coming preinstalled with some linux distro, preinstallation is the only thing that keeps windows being a thing)
IIRC that was years ago and the girl made no effort to understand what she was doing, sure that if laptops start shipping with a linux distro preinstalled the awareness of people to libreoffice...
IIRC that was years ago and the girl made no effort to understand what she was doing, sure that if laptops start shipping with a linux distro preinstalled the awareness of people to libreoffice and so on would change, either M$ ported their Office to linux or it would simply be forgotten
Absolutely correct, the problem is Linux isn't like windows. If you start shipping your computers with Linux most won't understand how to install through terminal, most will have lots of programs...
Absolutely correct, the problem is Linux isn't like windows. If you start shipping your computers with Linux most won't understand how to install through terminal, most will have lots of programs that just won't work with linux, etc etc. I love linux but it just isn't for most people, like those who aren't very tech-savvy in the first place.
again, windows was not easy to use when it an application (running on DOS), but programs started appearing simplifing the use of windows, the same is happening with linux right now, with lutris...
again, windows was not easy to use when it an application (running on DOS), but programs started appearing simplifing the use of windows, the same is happening with linux right now, with lutris (for gaming) and synaptic (for gui package management) for example, it is a lot easier to use. If you go on the route of a newbies linux distro like linux mint you would certainly find everything you need without ever opening the console.
For me the console is something i can't ditch, because i love it, you can do EVERYTHING (well... not run graphical applications :D) on it, on windows i never got using the console because it was not as intuitive as in linux (or maybe i never got into learning it).
That's true, yeah. And I hope we do get to see Linux becoming more and more user friendly, and it start gaining lots of home use. I don't have high hopes right now though, maybe I'm just a pessimist.
That's true, yeah. And I hope we do get to see Linux becoming more and more user friendly, and it start gaining lots of home use. I don't have high hopes right now though, maybe I'm just a pessimist.
Some time last year I wanted to get Starcraft but saw it cost money, and was already enjoying a few different games at the time, so I didn't bother. I just checked and it's been free for about 9...
Some time last year I wanted to get Starcraft but saw it cost money, and was already enjoying a few different games at the time, so I didn't bother.
I just checked and it's been free for about 9 months now! Like, damn. I'm gonna play this game and see if I like it
Not recent even for me who was late to the party but I recommended Life is Strange the other day and I stand by the fact that it's a masterpiece. Well only the first episode is actually free, does...
Not recent even for me who was late to the party but I recommended Life is Strange the other day and I stand by the fact that it's a masterpiece. Well only the first episode is actually free, does that even count? https://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/Life_is_Strange__Episode_1/
Quake Champions has been/is now/will probably become free to play. Very good, old school arena FPS in our modern times. Really feels like the UT/Quake era all over again, and not quite as much of...
Quake Champions has been/is now/will probably become free to play. Very good, old school arena FPS in our modern times. Really feels like the UT/Quake era all over again, and not quite as much of a weird F2P grind as that last Quake title was.
Just to clarify, I believe it gives you 1 character for free as default (Ranger?), has a weekly rotation of 1 character, and you can buy more with in-game currency that can be bought or grinded...
Just to clarify, I believe it gives you 1 character for free as default (Ranger?), has a weekly rotation of 1 character, and you can buy more with in-game currency that can be bought or grinded for by playing matches.
I have played an unhealthy amount of Kittens Game over the past few months. It's best described as "The Dark Souls of incremental gaming." You'll just have to trust me that its systems are...
I have played an unhealthy amount of Kittens Game over the past few months.
It's best described as "The Dark Souls of incremental gaming." You'll just have to trust me that its systems are interesting, far beyond most incremental games.
I started playing this game, and it seems very slow out there for an incremental game. Usually games with this kind of setup should have a lot of people in the village, but it takes a very long...
I started playing this game, and it seems very slow out there for an incremental game. Usually games with this kind of setup should have a lot of people in the village, but it takes a very long time to support more than 10 kittens reliably. Or perhaps I am just playing too conservatively.
It is slower paced than other incremental games and also generally tends to require more active playing. I would say that you should focus on science/workshop upgrades early on. You will get tech...
It is slower paced than other incremental games and also generally tends to require more active playing.
I would say that you should focus on science/workshop upgrades early on. You will get tech that helps you over hurdles that you're running into early on. Simply building more of the buildings you have now will only help you marginally.
This isn't exactly one I've found recently since it's from 2008 (though in writing this I've literally just discovered a 2017 update, so maybe it counts as newly recent), but Iji is one of my...
This isn't exactly one I've found recently since it's from 2008 (though in writing this I've literally just discovered a 2017 update, so maybe it counts as newly recent), but Iji is one of my favorite freeware games.
It's an indie metroidvania/platformer with some RPG elements. You explore a research base in the middle of an alien invasion, talk to some interesting characters, read audio logs, upgrade yourself, and scavenge/upgrade/combine weaponry to better survive.
There's a quote on the wiki page which describes it as being "system shock in 2D", which actually seems pretty apt, as it does tick a lot of the boxes for an "immersive sim" game, with multiple ways to approach a problem, environmental storytelling, audio(/text) logs with side/back stories, and a pretty good overarching story.
Iji was one of the first really good indie/freeware games I encountered as a kid, and I think it still influences my taste in games. It's also got some pretty good soundtrack music IMO.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this game. It’s really one of the games that showed me how much you can accomplish in a deceptively simple presentation. I love that it has so much more depth...
Thank you so much for reminding me of this game. It’s really one of the games that showed me how much you can accomplish in a deceptively simple presentation. I love that it has so much more depth than you expect and I spent so much time looking around for the different secrets you could discover.
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop I played it recently for a few missions and it's actually a very well made game that supports co-op (which was my main interest). My biggest gripe with it is that each...
I played it recently for a few missions and it's actually a very well made game that supports co-op (which was my main interest). My biggest gripe with it is that each mission you usually need a specific character like a Tech to complete the objective.
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an homage to the classic Quest for Glory adventure games. It has a few rough edges but is a pretty neat 12 hour game for free. You Have to Win the Game...
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an homage to the classic Quest for Glory adventure games. It has a few rough edges but is a pretty neat 12 hour game for free.
You Have to Win the Game is a retro-style platformer. Pretty decent for a free game. 2 hours long.
Not recent, but after three years, I still find myself coming back to World of Warships. It has a better pace than World of Tanks, and a more humane grind. It can be punishing at times, but also...
Not recent, but after three years, I still find myself coming back to World of Warships. It has a better pace than World of Tanks, and a more humane grind. It can be punishing at times, but also very rewarding when things go right. Premium ships are not necessarily pay to win, and the game can be quite enjoyable without spending a dime.
What's the community like? I have to admit, I was a WoT player since 2011 but sold my account about a year ago since it seemed like every game had everyone on the team being complete asshats to...
What's the community like? I have to admit, I was a WoT player since 2011 but sold my account about a year ago since it seemed like every game had everyone on the team being complete asshats to each other. I had assumed Warships was the same, but if it's a little better that might be pretty cool.
The community is... well, I guess the standard video game community. A lot of complainers, sometimes some toxicity in-game, a LOT of backseat gaming from dead teammates spectating you. Luckily,...
The community is... well, I guess the standard video game community. A lot of complainers, sometimes some toxicity in-game, a LOT of backseat gaming from dead teammates spectating you. Luckily, there is a mute system, which makes the game much nicer in bad circumstances. But on average, I only run into serious toxicity (meaning beyond a dead teammate calling the team bad b/c he died early) once a night, and I usually play for a couple of hours.
Heroes of the Storm is pretty good, it's a MOBA without the micro. Well the micromanagement anyway, if you don't join when they're offering a promotional pack, it can be time consuming to get a...
Heroes of the Storm is pretty good, it's a MOBA without the micro. Well the micromanagement anyway, if you don't join when they're offering a promotional pack, it can be time consuming to get a decent roster of owned heroes without paying real money.
Warframe, Team Fortress 2 (albeit it's in its twighlight years), Dota 2. There are also lots of games which can be picked up for really cheap on sale and have hundreds of hours of content in them, like Civilizations V, Rainbow 6 Siege, et cetera.
Factorio, or as it's sometimes called, Crack-torio
You won't get Factorio cheap on sale though, its devs seem to be quite hard-line about not doing sales (which I respect).
To confirm: they've flat out stated the game will never go on sale.
From their FAQ two years ago:
And in case anyone is wondering what their FAQ says about it these days:
https://www.factorio.com/faq
It's been purchasable for two years but under development the entire time. It's still in early access. Here's the blog post about the price increase: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change
I've lost entire days to Factorio, and I have yet to complete a game. I love Factorio, but also fuck Factorio a little bit.
Haven't played it yet, but I heard from friends about how addicting it is.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a little older now, but it was good in so many ways.
I can also highly recommend this, this is one of my favourite games.
IMO the most important thing is: don’t look up anything about the game! You have to go in blind, or there’s no point in playing. If you want to play it, go to the official website (ddlc.moe), download it, and stick with it (the first 20-30 minutes aren’t the most exciting - just keep playing).
Older? It came out less than a year ago!
Dude. I took your suggestion and man this game is rough and amazing. Thank you.
Not so much a rollercoaster of feels as a rocket sled into a wall of feels.
Not gonna lie, I love fortnight. Epic has been really good to the community and I love what they are doing with the game. I am definitely not in the age group or demographic its targeted to, but still enjoy it and it is worth playing (if you have not).
Starcraft 2 is free now, so if you have never tried it out now is a good time.
Also, for a not so free game, I just recently picked up Subnautica and its wonderful. I know it's already pretty well known, but I am just trying it out for the first time and can not recommend the game enough!
Unfortunately fortnite is not supported in linux :( I'm looking forward to see crazy justice be a thing :)
That surprises me, I wonder why they're unwilling to support Linux when UE4 can export to Linux just fine.
Concerns about anti-cheat maybe? Are there even any anti-cheat solutions on Linux?
Both BattlEye (Fortnite’s main anti-cheat) and Easy Anti-Cheat (another one they’re testing) work on Linux. Epic Games’ CEO just thinks that he’s somehow fighting for Windows users’ freedom by not porting to Linux. To quote him:
What he doesn’t realize is that he’s changing nothing by staying on Windows, while porting to Linux might break Windows’ monopoly and force it to actually improve itself to keep its users. To quote some of my favorite replies:
What a weird belief to hold, such a shame that linux users who want to play fortnite are missing out because of it when there are no technical barriers.
Well, from what I’ve heard, Fortnite with Easy Anti-Cheat works well through WINE (BattlEye doesn’t work on it at all). They keep adding and removing it, so you can’t really rely on it right now, but hopefully they’ll decide on it one day and Linux users will be able to play it. Another option is playing it in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough, but then you’d still have to put up with Windows, even if just for a game or two.
Ah that's a great point, I imagine there is but bypassing it on linux would be much easier than on something like windows.
Yeah, as a linux dual-booter we're just too much of a minority for most game studios to care about us unfortunately. It sucks, but I understand why.
Yeah, this needs to be changed, but the cycle needs to be broken somehow (something that would kill Windows would be computer coming preinstalled with some linux distro, preinstallation is the only thing that keeps windows being a thing)
Shipping a laptop with Linux seems to be a bad idea, unfortunately.
IIRC that was years ago and the girl made no effort to understand what she was doing, sure that if laptops start shipping with a linux distro preinstalled the awareness of people to libreoffice and so on would change, either M$ ported their Office to linux or it would simply be forgotten
Absolutely correct, the problem is Linux isn't like windows. If you start shipping your computers with Linux most won't understand how to install through terminal, most will have lots of programs that just won't work with linux, etc etc. I love linux but it just isn't for most people, like those who aren't very tech-savvy in the first place.
again, windows was not easy to use when it an application (running on DOS), but programs started appearing simplifing the use of windows, the same is happening with linux right now, with lutris (for gaming) and synaptic (for gui package management) for example, it is a lot easier to use. If you go on the route of a newbies linux distro like linux mint you would certainly find everything you need without ever opening the console.
For me the console is something i can't ditch, because i love it, you can do EVERYTHING (well... not run graphical applications :D) on it, on windows i never got using the console because it was not as intuitive as in linux (or maybe i never got into learning it).
That's true, yeah. And I hope we do get to see Linux becoming more and more user friendly, and it start gaining lots of home use. I don't have high hopes right now though, maybe I'm just a pessimist.
You should be able to get it running with Lutris though it does require some modifications.
EpicGames launched a patch a few days ago which broke it (disconnect after jumping the bus), not sure if it is working again or not
Some time last year I wanted to get Starcraft but saw it cost money, and was already enjoying a few different games at the time, so I didn't bother.
I just checked and it's been free for about 9 months now! Like, damn. I'm gonna play this game and see if I like it
Not recent even for me who was late to the party but I recommended Life is Strange the other day and I stand by the fact that it's a masterpiece. Well only the first episode is actually free, does that even count? https://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/Life_is_Strange__Episode_1/
Ah, the coke dealer strategy.
Quake Champions has been/is now/will probably become free to play. Very good, old school arena FPS in our modern times. Really feels like the UT/Quake era all over again, and not quite as much of a weird F2P grind as that last Quake title was.
Just to clarify, I believe it gives you 1 character for free as default (Ranger?), has a weekly rotation of 1 character, and you can buy more with in-game currency that can be bought or grinded for by playing matches.
I believe it was free to play at first but now costs money.
They offered it for free around E3 and then again recently. It seems to be making its way over to being permanently free again.
It probably won't stay free forever, but I love Cosmoteer. It's a sort of top-down space ship construction/battle simulator thingy.
I have played an unhealthy amount of Kittens Game over the past few months.
It's best described as "The Dark Souls of incremental gaming." You'll just have to trust me that its systems are interesting, far beyond most incremental games.
When you describe everything as "the dark souls of ___" the term starts to lose its meaning.
Your comment is the Dark Souls of Tildes.
I started playing this game, and it seems very slow out there for an incremental game. Usually games with this kind of setup should have a lot of people in the village, but it takes a very long time to support more than 10 kittens reliably. Or perhaps I am just playing too conservatively.
It is slower paced than other incremental games and also generally tends to require more active playing.
I would say that you should focus on science/workshop upgrades early on. You will get tech that helps you over hurdles that you're running into early on. Simply building more of the buildings you have now will only help you marginally.
This isn't exactly one I've found recently since it's from 2008 (though in writing this I've literally just discovered a 2017 update, so maybe it counts as newly recent), but Iji is one of my favorite freeware games.
It's an indie metroidvania/platformer with some RPG elements. You explore a research base in the middle of an alien invasion, talk to some interesting characters, read audio logs, upgrade yourself, and scavenge/upgrade/combine weaponry to better survive.
There's a quote on the wiki page which describes it as being "system shock in 2D", which actually seems pretty apt, as it does tick a lot of the boxes for an "immersive sim" game, with multiple ways to approach a problem, environmental storytelling, audio(/text) logs with side/back stories, and a pretty good overarching story.
Iji was one of the first really good indie/freeware games I encountered as a kid, and I think it still influences my taste in games. It's also got some pretty good soundtrack music IMO.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this game. It’s really one of the games that showed me how much you can accomplish in a deceptively simple presentation. I love that it has so much more depth than you expect and I spent so much time looking around for the different secrets you could discover.
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
I played it recently for a few missions and it's actually a very well made game that supports co-op (which was my main interest). My biggest gripe with it is that each mission you usually need a specific character like a Tech to complete the objective.
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an homage to the classic Quest for Glory adventure games. It has a few rough edges but is a pretty neat 12 hour game for free.
You Have to Win the Game is a retro-style platformer. Pretty decent for a free game. 2 hours long.
Not recent, but after three years, I still find myself coming back to World of Warships. It has a better pace than World of Tanks, and a more humane grind. It can be punishing at times, but also very rewarding when things go right. Premium ships are not necessarily pay to win, and the game can be quite enjoyable without spending a dime.
What's the community like? I have to admit, I was a WoT player since 2011 but sold my account about a year ago since it seemed like every game had everyone on the team being complete asshats to each other. I had assumed Warships was the same, but if it's a little better that might be pretty cool.
The community is... well, I guess the standard video game community. A lot of complainers, sometimes some toxicity in-game, a LOT of backseat gaming from dead teammates spectating you. Luckily, there is a mute system, which makes the game much nicer in bad circumstances. But on average, I only run into serious toxicity (meaning beyond a dead teammate calling the team bad b/c he died early) once a night, and I usually play for a couple of hours.
Heroes of the Storm is pretty good, it's a MOBA without the micro. Well the micromanagement anyway, if you don't join when they're offering a promotional pack, it can be time consuming to get a decent roster of owned heroes without paying real money.
Not found recently, but became foss recently: star ruler 2. It is a IMO pretty good 4x.
I don't find it as FOSS - Star Ruler 2 seems to cost around $25 at most sites.
https://github.com/BlindMindStudios/StarRuler2-Source
There are some compiled exes out there too.
Thanks!
It's a good game, but not a free one (which this topic was specifically about).