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Dead cells is a must play game. It is a triumph of game design. It is smooth ride from beginning to the end and beyond. I would not go into discussion what Dead Cells is, Metroidvania, "Roguevania" or something else, it's very fun to play and that is what matters in the end.

In Dead Cells you are fighting your way through the biomes (levels) that are part of the island. You will start your journey in Prisoners’ Quarters with a basic weapons / shield and empty jars hanging from the ceiling. You will fill those jars with items which blueprints you will find along the way. At the beginning it seems that your journey will be a linear one but unlocking runes will enable you to travel the island in different ways. If your game feels a little grindy focus on unlocking one of the runes and you will get access to unreachable parts of the levels, new play styles and new connection points between biomes. The best thing in Dead Cells is how you move across the level, it is so smooth and natural that just running through the level will bring you joy (check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtBNffzWhf4 to find what tricks developers implemented to achieve this). Combat is also great, fast, with a level of strategy that you need to apply. Your play style will change depending on weapons, skills, amulets you find during the run. Every run will feel a little different and you must adapt to the situation and make the best out of the gear you have. Game has a lot of different mechanics (seeing Hunter's Grenade for the first time was a wow moment) which fit the game world really well and they are a joy to figure out on your own.

Along the way you will find hints on what actually happened on the island. Those snippets of text tell a story that fit the game nicely.

When you beat the game for the first time it will not feel like the end, instead it will feel like new beginning. Dead Cells will bring many more hours of fun after you beat it.

I put unhealthy number of hours in Dead Cells and I enjoyed every minute of it. Game works great on Linux, it supports Logitech gamepad and I did not hit a single bug.

Highly recommended!

Everspace, game that was totally different from what I expected, but still managed to impress me. Experience of playing Everspace is very distilled, with every jump player is put in a restricted part of space with number of points of interest. You have limited time to explore that part of space, fight enemy factions, gather resources, craft weapons/modules/etc., trade, pirate corporate ships, before Okkar (one of the Everspace factions) armada arrives.

Game loop consists of iterative runs through 7 sectors with permadeath as one of the integral elements of gameplay. When you die all gathered resources during the run are lost, but blueprints stay available for future runs and money can/should be spent on pilot skills and ship upgrades. This makes money most valuable resource in the game. Beside upgrades there are two more ships to purchase, each costing 10.000 credits. Reaching certain sector (4 and 7 if I remember correctly) will unlock improved initial load setup of the ship used in the run. It's part of game experience to try and experiment with different load setups to find one that best suites your gaming style. Your ship's sensors have limited range which means that you will have to be close to the resource for sensors to detect it and display its location on the HUD. Game favours efficiency in every way so be focused on finding and gathering resources.

Permadeath element is part of a game's story which is presented in a comic style sequence shown when user reaches certain milestone. Overall, story serves as a way to explain game mechanics and to motivate player to push forward.

My main concern was that game would become boring after certain number of runs, but it did not. Every run is unique, you will find new blueprint or have very lucrative run which will enable you to buy new ship, maybe you will reach sector which unlocks ships load setup or meet the ancients. On one of my runs I encountered an Okkar Corvette and as usual I tried to stay out of its way and hide in nearby asteroid field. Accidentally in one of the asteroids I found pack of heavy missiles. Checked its stats and decided to engage the corvette. After a five minute fight I destroyed it, picked up the loot and made more than 10.000 credits for the first time, bought Gunship with that money. Game is full with moments like this.

In the end lets touch things that bothered me. Main issue for me was lack of 3D radar (similar to the one Elite had in 1984.). Lack of any kind of radar makes exploration and resource gathering tedious. I really hope that devs will address this issue in future updates. Second minor annoyance is that pace of progressing is slow. Every upgrade has number of steps so you will need to invest a lot of money to actually feel the difference.

Technically game runs really well. I played on Ubuntu 16.04 with Xeon X5460 @3.8GHz (which is now ancient processor), GTX 1060 3GB and 8GB of RAM. Game is not officially supported on Linux yet but I had 0 crashes/problems with it. As an input device I strongly recommend mouse with sensitivity set to minimum. Tried to play it with Logitech F710 but it was much more inaccurate compared to mouse.

So play it, enjoy it, Everspace is really good.

Played the game on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 with Logitech 710 gamepad (Xpad driver) and I can say that it plays without any problems. Since I got it on sale (3.99 €) it is very good value for money.

Bug Butcher is basically a Pang in a sci-fi environment with really nice cartoony graphics and tight controls on a controller. It is suitable for short daily bursts of play which is a major plus for me. The difficulty is also nicely balanced, it wasn't too easy with some levels taking more than 20 attempts to beat. Game has a local co-op so you can enjoy it with your family/friends.

This is just my kind of game: simple addictive mechanic, nice graphics, tight controls and can be played in short bursts.

Highly recommended.