One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s, [The Dark Eye], is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century

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I used to think ancient games were hard to play, trying to build a retro box, failing, trying to run a Win 98 VM, failing, trying to install patches on Win 10, failing, etc. Then I tried installing them on Linux with Lutris, and everything worked.

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This was my exact experience too, with Bottles.

For instance “Sims 1 is SO DIFFICULT to get running on modern Windows! (Complicated hacky guide)”

…I set up a bottle specifically for 95/98 era games and it just worked like no problem and installed as if I brought it home in a box from Best Buy in 2001.

Sometimes a minor setting tweak or something helped, but otherwise it’s CRAZY what stubborn games will run well on Linux now!

And this is using Nvidia, too. Truly awesome times.

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Really loved that game back then, got me into reading Poe a bit. Insta buy if the port is good and the price fair.

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Oh fuck yes. I love this game. The atmosphere this game creates is so unique, I’ve never found anything that came even close. I’ll buy this instantly.

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