Canadian Games Sale (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

...sold through an American company.

Why patronise Valve when GOG is right there?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What do you recommend on GoG?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I've found that GOG generally has around 40% of the games I like on Steam, so I use lists like this to find interesting ones and then check GOG if it's there so I can avoid paying Americans anything.

    It doesn't always work. Steam's library is huge, but I'm doing my part for the whole #ElbowsUp thing, and for me, that means sending as little money their way as possible.

    ...and honestly, targeted sales like this make me think the boycott is properly hurting them.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nice! Valve has done a lot for gaming on Linux, its one of the main reasons I use Steam.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Me too! I've been using Steam on Linux for a while, but thanks to American fuckery, I've had to experiment with leveraging Proton in Heroic to play GOG games. It's pretty smooth though. I installed Disco Elysium this morning and it Just Worked™. I then went ahead and bought a bunch of indie games: Dorfromantik, Frostpunk, and Terraformers in GOG's own Sumner sale. Not Canadian games mind you, but also not American ;-)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How well does https://www.protondb.com/ hold up when checking Proton compatibility with GoG?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's pretty good, but my problem is that if a game doesn't run I assume it's because I screwed something up. For example, Synergy, has a platinum rating and it installs just fine, but once started is just do slow for even drawing the starting menu while my CPU goes crazy. Clearly there's a problem with it not using my GPU, but fucked if I know what package I didn't install/configure properly.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are you able to pull game categories or genres with Heroic or Lutris? For example, to search for local multiplayer games, puzzle games, etc..

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