We are losing reinforcements !

Citizen.

I use MiniReview (https://minireview.io/) to have better sorting options for games on Google’s Play Store, you can specifically sort for screen orientation, monetisation (or lack of), genre, ads or not, etc

I’m a weird Deck gamer, in that I often start games and come back once in a while, which I never do on PC, where I try to finish one game at a time

• Death Crown
• Narita Boy
• Citizen Sleeper
• Dave the Diver
• Deep Rock Galactic Survivor
• 60 Parsecs!
• In Other Waters
• Race the Sun -Merchant of the Skies

Not necessarily, I think Steam only allows demos that have not previously been featured in Next Fest, but some have demos that were available before the event started.

Demos can totally be available outside, but some devs prefer to feature their demo during the event, it’s kind of a marketing step before release

For events/sales on Steam in general, it’s an opportunity for Publishers to showcase their games through events disguised as “sales”.

For the Steam Next Fest in particular, it’s an opportunity for Developers to show their upcoming games, and you get an absurd amount of demos available to play, for free!

For me, the Next Fest is a nice way to find interesting games, see what the indie scene has to offer, and have access to free games I can play in short sessions. Every edition, I download around 50 demos, and try to play them throughout the week (and the following week because some are still available after the event ends)

Sounds like buying a steam deck with extra steps for the person who wrote this article haha

I do love how bazzite makes other gamefronts easily available on SD, though

Firefox because of the addons, also because it syncs (weirdly, but still) with Firefox on my pc

Graphics wise mostly, it runs okay (30 to 40 FPS), but there’s some input lag because of it in some environment heavy parts

Yeah at this point they’re basically the same thing. The important difference you have to know is that Emudeck will install emulators independently, and show them as their own games in your Steam library, whereas Retrodeck will install ES-de and only show one executable in your Steam library, from which you will launch your emulated games. It’s a matter of preference.

…yet !

What worries me is : can a bad actor reproduce whatever bug was corrupting SteamOS, and publish games on the storefront with the sole intent to mess with people?

Ahhh that’s on me, sorry for being too impatient !

I’ll edit the title so it mentions the month

Disco Elysium is one of my favourite games I’ve ever played, I alternated between Steam Deck before going to bed and PC once I was hooked ; what an incredible story and depth of lore

I loved Rocket League, are you playing on Epic or do you have the Steam version ? I’m the latter but they kept asking me to create an Epic account which I’m too lazy to do so I just stopped playing lol

Yeah the backtracking in Wario Land 3 sometimes feels too punishing, like being caught by a random water bubble and going back up to the very top of the lake, or being bumped by one of those zombies and being mega slow until you walk back to some lightpost, I do think in general this is a clever way to not have a game over state, but some areas aren’t well designed for that

How does it run ?

Absolutely and it’s not just about platform availability, there are tons of features asked by users for years that have yet to be seen…

Get me Adobe CC on it and I’ll switch in an instant

Well I guess I’m also a bit lazy because I could already have dual booted it…

Oh that’s a good tip, thanks!