Canadians Games Sale
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Browse the 300+ games made by Canadian Games Devs in this very first edition of the Canadian Games Sale!
  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • dudesss@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      3 days ago

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

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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 ;-)

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • dudesss@lemmy.caOPEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

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

              • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                Oh I’ve never used it to find games. I just go to the store pages directly. I didn’t even know it had such a feature!