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Palworld is Steam Deck Playable and runs on Desktop Linux with Proton (first big hit of 2024) (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That pal in the thumbnail looks like someone on the Palworld team took a fan edit of an Egyptian themed lucario and specifically designed that pal to look just like it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would say almost all of them fall under the 'legally distinct but totally is' category.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The server I set up for my friends is named "Portable Creatures: Exhalation of the Wilderness" for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read in steam reviews that the Dev is actually suspected to use genAi on Pokémon images to create their pal designs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Would not surprise me either way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is like a merge of Satisfactory and Ark Survival?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thinks it’s Craftopia with Pokémon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Same devs so it absolutely is.

[–] Tzig 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With Pokemon yeah basically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

...ok i give it a try on release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's released on steam atm, early access.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...no, actual release.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Craftopia, the company's previous game, has been in early access for four years. I don't think this game is getting a release either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Can confirm, ran fine on my desktop machine without needing to tinker (caveat: I changed the "compatibility layer" to use proton-ge before attempting to launch it of my own initiative).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I realize this is the linux gaming sub, but it's worth mentioning that this is on Gamepass too (I still use Gamepass on Xbox even though I don't game on Windows anymore).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really wish I could run the Windows Xbox app on Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I kinda do too. It's nice having the option to play Gamepass games on PC or console. Some games are just more comfy on one than the other.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Xbox cloud requires a controller, which kinda defeats the purpose of playing on PC imho.

That said, it DOES work well if you're into that kinda thing. I tested it out with MS Edge installed via flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

are there any games not running easily in linux these days?

i mean apart from games with anticheat blocking it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, plenty. Look up on ProtonDB for games work Silver or lower total rating. A lot of the "borked" ones are due to anti-cheat, but there are still plenty that just don't run well. I keep a collection on Steam of games with technical issues, so I could list a few that didn't work well for me.

But there are way more that work well on Linux. It's pretty rare for a game to not just work, even if it is marked "unsupported" on Steam. But there are enough that it's an issue people will run into.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I really don't know how to feel about this game

[+] DevoidWisdom -6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's even the point in these kinds of comments? The game doesn't rely on the player community being large so why even bring it up?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would assume their point was that a lot of games seem to be driven by self propelling hype I'm not saying it's not necessarily a bad game, I just think that he means everyone will have forgotten about it by then and everyone will jump on the next hype train

I guess there's nothing really being added to the conversation but I do see it in my friend groups where people hype up a game, buy it for a week then it's never mentioned again, the last one being lethal company

[–] DevoidWisdom 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You nailed it. To the other commenters, my point is not that there wont be people playing it at all in a month. More that in a short amount of time the perceived "greatness" of this game will no longer be the consensus. Games that get this kind of hype excel on that hype alone, most times it's fueled by streamers who are filling a gap while they wait for a more anticipated game to launch. Once players get a couple weeks in the honeymoon phase subsides and we are left with another early access title that was never really that great in the first place. It has been out 2 days. I'll be happy to come back and say I was wrong. Time will tell. I'll go back the patientgamers now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Fortunately, since it's playable offline, it doesn't seem to matter how many people will be playing in a month.