Game of the Week

infinitymdm

What games have you been enjoying on Solus this week?

I'll start: this week I've been playing a game called Rain World. Best explained through the trailer:

As a slugcat, your goal is to survive each cycle and discover new things about the world. This is one of those games that I keep coming back to because of how much depth there is to it. Highly recommended.

Brucehankins

Unfortunately, my game isn't Linux friendly. I've been grinding for the Queensguard seal on Destiny 2.
Need a fire team for some raids if anyone is interested.

brent

never gets old

zmaint

Been hitting Fallout 76 again along with the timeless classics Champions Online and City of Heroes.

tuxlover4

My favorite Linux game is 0ad. I am a history buff and I enjoy the setting and the adventure . I just hope that the game in the Solus repo gets updated. it is version 0.23 and the latest version via flatpak is 0.26 I believe,

mbevks

Anyone have any good terminal-only games to recommend?

infinitymdm

mbevks My friends and I have enjoyed Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead quite a bit. It's a bit complex, but if you enjoy the post-apocalyptic RPG genre it's a lot of fun.

presianbg

Staudey

I haven't really done any gaming this week because we've been busy with Solus stuff, but I can talk about what I played recently instead.

When I play with my two buddies, and both are available, then it often happens to be a Windows game. However, when one of the two is gone, the other one and I have played a lot of "Core Keeper". It's a nice little RPG with a cute art style, pretty rapid development for a small-ish indie studio, and great in-game music. There is crafting, farming, cooking, and you can even have some automated machinery (think Minecraft redstone, but less capable atm); plus fights with huge boss monsters on the combat side.

infinitymdm

New week, new post! Over the past week (mostly over the weekend) my friends and I played quite a bit of Spiderheck. It's a great couch brawler that asks (and answers) the question "what if spiders had lightsabers?"

ReillyBrogan

I was playing Resident Evil 4 Remake when I was briefly on Fedora 38. Unfortunately the Solus mesa is too old currently for me to get back to it (needs Mesa 23.0 to resolve some black artifacting on AMD GPUs). Game is amazing, probably my GOTY.

Besides that I recently started Ys: Memories of Celceta (I've been working my way through the franchise) and I really like that as well.

infinitymdm

Another week, another game! This time it's Valheim, an up-and-coming indie survival game with with a Viking theme. We've just started playing it, but so far it's been a lot of fun.

The combat in this game feels slow and methodical, a lot like Dark Souls. You're rewarded for learning enemy attack patterns, timing your attacks and parries well, and dodging through large attacks. It's pretty satisfying, and works really well with groups of 4+ players taking on huge enemies. It seems like there's a ton of stuff to discover, too.

Fanmion

I highly recommend this game, especially for us linux user who are constantly looking for solutions of several problems! Be warned, hours feel like minutes during play!

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Fanmion

I highly recommend this game, especially for us linux user who are constantly looking for solutions of several problems

I have Linux for that

infinitymdm

I was pretty busy last week wrapping up projects for school, but I did make a bit of time to play games with friends. The star of this week is Ultimate Chicken Horse, a party platformer where you and friends build the stage together. You place traps, platforms, and obstacles in an attempt to make the stage difficult enough that no one else can make it through, but not so difficult that you can't complete the stage yourself. It's a great casual game for up to 4 players. Excellent for unwinding after a long day of working on challenging projects.

synth-ruiner

infinitymdm I played this one with some friends once, very fun 🙂

infinitymdm

This week I've been playing a lot of Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed. If you've been around the forum for a while, you may have seen me posting about the Xenoblade series before; they're some of my favorite games. Future Redeemed is a DLC for XC3, but Xenoblade DLCs are full RPGs in their own right. (Case in point: howlongtobeat reports that the main story of Future Redeemed is about 18 hours long if you rush through it). The series digs deep into philosophical themes, with XC3 in particular focusing on the purpose of life in a world that is fueled by conflict.

This game is much more niche than what I've posted in the past few weeks. The trailer is packed with interesting stuff if you've played some of the previous games, but I have no reference frame for what it must look like for someone not into the series. Either way, here's the launch trailer:

As far as how I run this game on Solus, I'm using the Yuzu emulator. There are mods out there that let you upscale Switch games to higher resolutions and/or higher framerates. I'm using a few of those to get a much better experience than running it on the original Switch hardware.

kaktuspalme

infinitymdm
I played Xenoblade Chronicles 1 back then when it was not remastered in Dolphin. It's a very good game. I tried XC2 on the Switch, but somehow it didn't catch me. Maybe I should have given it more time.
Have you played XC2? For XC3 I only heard positive things so far, so will probably sooner or later also try it. Though I have a Switch I think I will also play it in Yuzu.

Staudey

My two gaming buddies and I have started playing State of Decay 2 again. We played for a bit some years ago, but then dropped it for unknown reasons. I can't remember if we got bored or there was just some new cool game that diverted our attention. Our first new session yesterday was very enjoyable in any case.
Basically: kill zombies, collect loot, improve your base and take care of your survivors.

It works without any issues on Linux using Steam Proton, including the multiplayer.

infinitymdm

This weekend some friends and I played quite a bit of Crawl. It's a competitive roguelite dungeon crawler where one player is the hero and the other players are ghosts summoning monsters to kill the hero. As the hero, your goal is to level up and get better gear so that you can challenge the boss and escape the dungeon. But as the hero becomes more powerful, the monsters also become much stronger. And if one of the monsters manage to land a killing blow on the hero, the player controlling that monster becomes the hero instead!

Warning: pixel-art blood, mild occult themes

infinitymdm

It's Monday, you know what that means!

Over the past week I started playing The Messenger, a 2D platformer very reminiscent of old-school ninja games. You play as The Messenger on a mission to deliver a scroll to the top of the mountain in order to prevent an army of demons from destroying humanity. I won't spoil what happens next, but this game has some awesome twists that I wasn't expecting out of a game in this genre. There's great platforming, fun boss fights, and excellent writing. Really enjoying it so far.