Steam

Just bought it and have some questions about legacy characters

If I keep leveling them up, will they eventually die of old age?

Can I reuse legacy characters if the next chapter is hundreds of years in the future?

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/33835364

Inside this spoiler: boring yapping that gives more context ↓

I've been playing demos from the Steam Next Fest religiously since it started (back then it was just called Steam Games Festival I think, it was around 2021).

(seen on the picture attached) I have one sheet of A5 paper per edition, around 60 to 90 demos played every time, and notes written on the back, I keep notes of the demos I play, and highlight those that are interesting enough, those that I wishlisted, those that aren't worth my time, etc. forgive the dirty mousepad lol

I never shared those, except to friends by just copy pasting links, but I thought it would be interesting to share a "top" 5 in multiple made up categories that I pay attention to, there's no specific ranking within this top 5, so it's more like the 5 best X I noticed in no particular order

I'm not done playing my list so this post may be incomplete, and I will update it throughout the weekend

5 Takeaways:

• This is the best edition yet, with a lot of diversity in genres and gameplay ideas (the worst two editions were in 2025 I believe, which had an overwhelming amount of survival crafting / farming games)
• AI and asset flips games are still rising, per https://nextfeststats.com/ when it launched, half of the ~3500 submitted games had disclosed generative AI usage, they later updated that number (it's down to 700 now)
• The most successful demos were those that saw marketing efforts being put in motion 1 to 2 months before the festival, and have their release planned within the next 3 months. The bigger games aren't necessarily the most interesting, I only base this on my pattern recognition, but more often than not, 20+ Gigs games were not that interesting, while "lighter" games had more creativity. I'm extremely biased because I favour indie games rather than AA+ productions.
• Prevalent genres : still a lot of balatro-likes and survivor-likes. The extraction shooter genre is on the rise too.
• More and more games are trying to be optimized for the Steam Deck, I saw two or three demos with a dedicated "Steam Deck" graphic options!

My 5 favourite demos:

• Whisk is incredible, so many movement options contained within the few mechanics available, great speedrun potential, great art
• The Magus Circle is Vampire Surivors but you draw your spells on the screen like Arx Fatalis, it's super creative in how it completely changes the gameplay, I'm not the audience for this genre, but I will play this one because of how unique it is
• Denshattack! is completely crazy and feels super good to play, I liked it more than Deadline Delivery in which driving felt off for me
• Enter The Chronosphere superb twist on Superhot-but-topdown, love the artstyle, love the introduction to the game mechanics, for me this is textbook perfect demo to present an upcoming game
• ...

5 Disappointments

• SpaceCraft was released too early imo, the build is incomplete, unstable, the demos doesn't properly show its gameplay appeal, I expected a better marketing cycle from Shiro Games, but I remember Wartales had the same problems
• People of Note I don't know how to explain it but it fails to be an interesting rhythm game, it works alright as a music themed turn by turn combat game but why not fully lean into the genre?
• Truckful A demo build existed prior to this festival (without participating in the October '25 edition), but the one available this time is much worse in terms of gameplay available (lots of back and forth), and doesn't introduce the game properly
• ...
• ...

Best Steam Capsules (irrelevant of game qualities, you'll notice I'm a sucker for high contrast and great typography):

• 1848 Ex Voto
• Bylina
• Deified
• How Many Dudes?
• Shanty Town

Best Art Direction:

• Cicadamata People might fight me on this but I absolutely love the underlying themes and user interface look
• Esoteric Ebb Really excited about a Disco Elysium-like, sidenote, I'm not sure the DnD system is a good fit for this kind of game, still, the dev handles it creatively
• Boost Vector EX Beautiful and fluid UI that lifts the rather generic artstyle
• ...
• ...

This weekend I'm going to go through games that had little to no visibility to try and find the "underperforming" demos (that people should pay attention to)!

I've tried to play three separate games today. One crashed, the other two would just load infinitely. This happened every time I tried. Has anyone else had issued with this?

Edit: Trying again to load another game crashed so hard it reset my entire computer. Yeah.

So all i did was update my Steam on Linux and after rebooting apparently it now looks like this? XD
Is this normal or did i somehow bork Steams Themeing during the Update of my ARch Linux Machine? :P

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As an Anti DRM Gamer who really does not buy Games featuring Boot/RootKit i wonder if itd be possible to consider somehow a Ban against Denuvo, VM Protect and all these other Bullshit DRMs that go into your System and arent just tied to some kind of Online Service like the Steam Store for Example >.>
Would that even be feasable in the EU considering that we got osme Stricter Laws than lets say the US regarding Multi Media Content :P

Honestly, if steam has to cut the 30% fee, its just more money for the Devs. Cross Plattform dlcs? Hell yeah.

I honestly dont See the problem with the lawsuit. Sure, its a loaoboll'ks mayt`, but why the fuck not? After all, why shouldn't steam get even better than it already is?

@steam is actually a big piece of #SHIT: after another system update, ALL GAMES but Godot ones start crashing. I payed for them, but I can’t play.

I payed, but those purchases are not mine, just like PSN, XBox, Nintendo, and other shit big game companies.

Are you trying for force us to buy Steam Deck? It would be minimally honest if you allow us customers to run the games we’ve bought for without the need of running them from inside your buggy software.

Since a few weeks my Unity games are not working anymore on Steam (not flatpak) on Linux Mint.

I have tried Stick It to the Stickman, Olija and Dystopika. They all behave the same, with the audio starting playing fine, but still on a black screen. After that, nothing happens and even trying to switch window doesn't work or is extremely slow, requiring a few minutes to have anything happening.

Adding the same games to another launcher (Heroic), makes them work a bit, but eventually they stop at some loading screen and remain there forever.

I am on the latest OS version, I have the latest proprietary drivers from Nvidia, I have tried switching Proton versions and my GOG Unity games all work fine on Heroic.

I don't know if there are any logs I can submit, but I am all ears for any suggestions.

UPDATE: Solved! The problem was with the fractional scaling feature in Cinnamon. Once disabled, everything went back to work perfectly.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Steam/comments/1pn3jm0/the_antitrust_case_against_valve_is_collapsing/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754.552.0.pdf

Warn you if there’s a way you could get a product for cheaper before you purchase it.

ShiraNamiNani discovered this feature while purchasing Unrailed 2: Back on Track. At press time, this game was 30% off, for a total of $13.99. However, the Unrailed Collection Bundle, which includes both Unrailed 2: Back on Track and its predecessor, had a bigger discounted rate of 58%, meaning it only cost $13.58 – 41 cents cheaper than buying just the second game on its own. This is likely what triggered this alert, as it allowed them to not only save money but also get an extra game in the process.

"they will not be recommended to purchase the larger version if the total cost is still higher."

More Link: https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/steam/steam-store-addition-saves-you-money-194091-20251213

At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opposes Steam's "Made with AI" label for games, arguing AI involvement is inevitable in future development and such tags are unnecessary outside art and licensing contexts. He emphasizes that mandatory AI disclosures for games are impractical and not meaningful for consumers.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109096/epic-games-ceo-says-steam-and-other-digital-marketplaces-should-remove-the-made-with-ai-label/index.html

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