Well, time to buy then, to show support/demand for Linux gaming.
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I just bought like a month ago, but I bought on a Linux machine, so maybe it counted.
Unless it has been changed, I believe Valve described their algorithm along the lines of "7 days after your purchase it will count towards the OS you've used the most to play it. If you haven't played the game at that point it will counts towards the OS you used to buy it"
I often buy games in batches, so I usually don't play games for a week or two after purchase. I think I fired up DF on my Steam Deck though in that first week, so I'm probably good, but that's why I generally buy on my desktop so it gets credited even if I don't get around to playing it for a little while.
This game is a time machine. I open the game and find myself 3 hours in the future.
Play at your own risk.
I bought the Steam release day 1 and it has worked great with Proton. I played a couple forts and had my fill. Now that the Linux version is out I might have to run another fort on it and see how it works.
Bought it day one and went in blind. Had my fun with it but I'm excited to dive back in when adventure mode is out.
~~Well I hate to say it but so far I can't get any audio from the game when running the Linux build.~~ Of course as soon as I post it, I see a comment online saying that the sound properties were altered and need to be turned up much louder in the Options menu. I had to crank the game from 15% up to 100%, but it's there and working well so far!
Great, it was working without issues on Gentoo and Steam Deck respectively before, too.
Love this game and its history !
And the people behind it seem genuinely awesome.
Lol. So you mean the history of the game? Or the history the game generates? Or both?
The game history, and its always a pleasure to see news about it, this is a monument and the brothers deserves everything good that is happening to them.
Cool
I used it in Beta and it's amazingly stable. Love the game,too bad I don't have the time or patience to scratch all the cool features and am quite bad it it anyway.
Nobody's anything but 'quite bad at it'
Just looked it up, but it's quite expensive compared to the <£12 I usually spend on steam games (eg Terraria, Stardew Valley, Portal)
The game has been free for 16 years. This is the paid version to support the devs, literally because they're getting old and they have medical bills to pay.
DF is also free and there's fan made installers to run it on Linux, the Steam version just has an enhanced UI and other features.
While I typically love a good sale, some labors of love like this or factorio involve so much quality they warrant paying to support these wonderful developers
My personal benchmark is $1/hr; so my question is, will I get 38 ($CAD) hours of enjoyment out of it eventually? I think I almost certainly will, this kind of game is pretty on brand for me.
Fair enough, everyone has their own preferences.
Got it working on Linux Mint. I had to also install libsdl2-image-2.0-0 (with the recommended libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libopenal1 libsndfile1 libncursesw5)