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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm torn because I'd rather not support an American platform...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wish we had a Canadian option. In the meantime, I'll use Steam for reference, and buy on GOG.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I like GOG for its DRM-free policy, and I’d support GOG for their effort to keep old games running.

    We’d avoid perfectionism here. Buying a Canadian video game is great. Buying it on GOG is even better

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

    I'm glad to find that Crypt of the NecroDancer is Vancouver-based! It's time for me to buy DLCs for it. Besides, I'd like to buy their new product in 2025, Rift of the NecroDancer

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is also on a promotion on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/crypt_of_the_necrodancer Rift of the NecroDancer (2025) is not on GOG yet: https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/rift-of-the-necrodancer-2025

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Hmm, looks like this does include Dwarf Fortress. (KitFox is in Montreal, but Tarn Adams spent a couple decades working on it in Seattle)

    Does it make sense to buy it on sale, if paying for a thing that I've played a ton of already is the point?

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

    Anyone know of any games in which the story takes place in Canada? The last (only) one I've played is honestly Cross Country Canada when I was like 7.

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

    I know that Abomi Nation is Canadian-made and I believe it's on sale. Didn't scroll all the way through the list.

    It's a Monster Tamer inspired heavily by "Nuzlocke" challenges in Pokemon.

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

    This is a dup post, I’ll copy my reply to here:

    I'm glad to find that Crypt of the NecroDancer is Vancouver-based! It's time for me to buy DLCs for it. Besides, I'd like to buy their new product in 2025, Rift of the NecroDancer

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is also on a promotion on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/crypt_of_the_necrodancer Rift of the NecroDancer (2025) is not on GOG yet: https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/rift-of-the-necrodancer-2025

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