Quoting: salamanderrakeUntil Sega decides to remove them from your Steam Library.

I looked if that happens with Steam and it seems to be rare. Most probably what happens is that people who have the collection can keep it and if the emulator no longer works, the ROM:s probably work with some other emulator. If you're worried, just copy the ROM:s somewhere safe.

If you don't have the collection and don't get it on time, you need to wait and see what happens. There's slight chance that games appear in some form again.

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Looks like the official program ended yesterday. I checked quickly the todays stream and it was a rerun.

Youtube has streams from both days, if you want to watch something you missed. There's no chapters, though if you're lucky somebody might have the correct timestamp in a comment.

I watched most of the content and it's bit all over the place. Some of were mini documents how the songs (and sometimes sound effects) have been made. Some were small concerts all the way to a live metal concert.

Too many bit and pieces to mention, but as familiar artists were mentioned, I was bit surprised that Alexander Vinter has been making sound track for indie game. I stumbled upon his music quite many years ago and he's a moderately successful EDM artist. I usually don't keep up with EDM, usually chiptune is more interesting.

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Quoting: eldakingWell it is not

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: AnzaUnless you have habit of activating everything right away, then it doesn't matter.

Is there a habbit of not doing it right away? Feels unsafe for me to not just redeem it right away and be done with it.

Well people that give away leftover keys often wait and do a whole lot at once, and for subscription people might just be getting them automatically and not necessarily they will take action on a particular month.

I do it because I try get my list of unplayed games short. Have gotten it to under one hundred. Activating few at a time makes it more likely that I get further than the start menu in more games.

Also want to make sure that games count as Linux purchases, though I don't know if it still works like it used to.

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Darktide and Hexarchy have redemption deadline December 2025. Easy to miss unless you check the games more closely. Unless you have habit of activating everything right away, then it doesn't matter.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: scaineI'm blown away by how few of these games I've played! Eight! Just 8 games in that whole list!!

Five here, and that's if you count demos.

Four. Fourteen if demos are counted. And few of the demos I have installed, but haven't played yet, so the count could be even higher. Not that I remember much of the soundtracks. Anger Foot is exception as the music is mostly so simple and repetitive.

Well, I remember one of the main tracks on Pacific Drive since it's by an artist I already like, Old Man Luedecke. Although it's a huge departure from his usual stuff.

Memorable is pretty high bar for me. I can remember some old classics for sure like Cannon Fodder theme, but for majority of games I don't really remember any details. Sometimes I can just remember that music was good.

But artist connection is good point. Jet's Guns soundtrack I remember because it's by Machinae Supremacy and I listen to the soundtrack now and then. Not they are included in any of the soundtracks this time around as far as I know.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: scaineI'm blown away by how few of these games I've played! Eight! Just 8 games in that whole list!!

Five here, and that's if you count demos.

Four. Fourteen if demos are counted. And few of the demos I have installed, but haven't played yet, so the count could be even higher. Not that I remember much of the soundtracks. Anger Foot is exception as the music is mostly so simple and repetitive.

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Just in case if somebody wants plaintext version of the schedule. Haven't used ChatGPT that much, but as far as I can see, it did the job just fine. Free OCR solutions have been bit hit and miss when I tried them long time ago.

Monday, November 4

10AM (PST) / 7PM (CET)

Worship
Little Kitty, Big City
Wildfrost
Cairn
PAPERHEAD
Figment 2: Creed Valley
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

11AM (PST) / 8PM (CET)

Knights in Tight Spaces
Tiny Glade
Peglin
Henry Halfhead
GLUM
Celestial Return
Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga

12PM (PST) / 9PM (CET)

Rightfully, Beary Arms
Mix Universe
Escape from Ever After
Starstruck: Hands of Time
Fruitbus
Tiny Bookshop
shapez 2
Cabernet
ANGEL

1PM (PST) / 10PM (CET)

Into The Grid
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Dice Gambit
Morgan: Metal Detective
Fish Game
Tavern Talk

2PM (PST) / 11PM (CET)

Cult of the Lamb
Star Birds
Necesse
Pathologic 3
Quasimorph
Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber
Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action

3PM (PST) / 12AM (CET)

Europa
Great God Grove
Ultros
Bean Beasts
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Rift of the NecroDancer
Boyfriend Dungeon
Caves of Qud

Tuesday, November 5

10AM (PST) / 7PM (CET)

Incolatus
Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson
Tears of Metal
Sandara: City of a Thousand Eclipses
Camper Van: Make it Home
Arctic Awakening

11AM (PST) / 8PM (CET)

Death of the Reprobate
Eternal Strands
A Guidebook of Babel
Nocturne
The Operator
Inkuliniati
Post Trauma
Solarpunk

12PM (PST) / 9PM (CET)

Caravan Sandwich
Thank Goodness You’re Here!
Anger Foot
Castle of Alchemists
RUNGORE
Kill The Music

1PM (PST) / 10PM (CET)

Dwarf Fortress
American Arcadia
Jusant
Symphonia
Bits & Bops
Tavern Keeper

2PM (PST) / 11PM (CET)

Metal: Hellsinger
Crown Gambit
Wingspan
We Harvest Shadows
Dorfromantik
Munch

3PM (PST) / 12AM (CET)

Rhythm Doctor
A Short Hike
The Thaumaturge
Buckshot Roulette
Golden Lap
REVEIL
Pacific Drive
Once Upon a Jester
Sorry We’re Closed
Koira
Lost in Art: A Miniature Realm

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Quoting: ChrisznixAh, No Mans Sky. I really like what the devs did here, the game looks absolutely awesome, and there is tons of content. But no matter how often i retry it, after a few hours i feel the grind, and my motivation is lacking somehow.
Elite, its biggest competition (in my opinion), is way less dense in content and grindy as hell, but for me, it feels a bit more rewarding and... real. I wonder what Hello Games had to do in order to get me hooked for longer.

I mainly these days just play the expeditions. Though I don't have that much meaningful grinding left. Freighter upgrades would have still something to do, but I have some much resources that I mostly have lost interest. I could grind better relations to the two hidden factions, but don't feel like that I need to hurry with that either.

Should maybe some day try out Elite. I have vague memory that I have a key somewhere.

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After spending short time with the expedition, it does feel refreshingly different. There's one new layer of game mechanics at least. There's even one more thing that I haven't touched yet that might change the game mechanics somewhat too.

Maybe Factorio Space Age DLC has to wait in the shop still for a moment.

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Quoting: sobkasAdding screenshots next to game name would be nice. I would prefer to see how game looks before I check its Steam page.

Tried it out. Have to just find even smaller resolution (tried first with 800x600). But they do give somewhat representative idea of the game. Store page screenshots try sometimes look too good, but didn't feel like taking screenshots while playing.

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