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Posted April 11, 2024
Experience the rush of a colorful, fast-paced chase in PathBlasters – now out with a -17% launch discount until April 18th, 5 PM UTC!

Experience a mix of puzzles and thrilling chases in a colorful world inspired by 90s arcade games. Our heroes Faren, Jenna and Tobi must blast everything in their path to escape the guardian of the artifact they've just stolen: the magic bomb.

Now on GOG!
Posted April 11, 2024
I wonder if the GOG build of this game will work on Win7. According to its Steam profile, it works on Win7 (or rather, it did until Steam client forced using Win 10).

I have already spotted some GOG installers that work on Win7 and Win8 but are wrongly labelled as Win10.

I think this is a mistake. The kind of people who worry about DRM-free and old software tend to have and mantain old computers and old software, some of which are totally offline from the Internet. I won't be buying a game unless I'm sure it's gonna work on all my machines.
Posted April 11, 2024
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Hollyhock: -snip-
Oh, piffle. It's this simple: AYOYO. Alright, you're on your own.

If you're going to be using a 15 year old operating system whose last gasp of mainstream support was in the last decade, and whose extended support ended four years ago, here's how it goes:

You're going to be figuring that out yourself.

It isn't up to an already beleaguered staff who have bigger and better fish to fry than to raise support for a system that may as well be AmigaOS.
Post edited April 11, 2024 by dnovraD
Posted April 11, 2024
Too much effort to elaborate what kind of multiplayer? (Master server/account/LAN/hot seat)

It's to much effort to search for it and buy.
Posted April 12, 2024
Win 7 and 8 might not get official support, but they still get third party support. You can still browse Internet with an updated browser on Win7.

Also, being the last Windows systems where you can turn off updates and tell the system to stop nagging without resorting to tricks, makes them the best OSs to keep an old offline computer around. The kind of machine where all your unintrusive drm-free old software keeps working fine. Including paid professional software that became abusive in newer versions.

If you disregard that so easily, why are you here and not on Steam? Half of what you just said could also be applied to oldschool and retro games.
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dnovraD: You're going to be figuring that out yourself.
I were to figure out that by myself, GOG wouldn't be getting a sale.
Posted April 12, 2024
Gog's goal has for a long while been to bring you old and new games, working on today's system.

While it would be nice if it would extend to New games working on old systems, that really would put a large burden on them to support.

If they sell a game labelled Windows 10/11, and it happens to work on Win7 too. Yes! Great! Awesome!

If they were to sell a game labelling it Vista/7/8/10/11 and it doesn't work on WIn7-32bit, suddenly it's horrible support from Gog's side, right? False Marketing!
They can't make the developer support an out-of-support system. And I kind of doubt they have the manpower to try to hack things to work on older systems either.
Small developers aren't likely to take on the burden of testing and supporting out-of-support systems either.

That said, I would love for there to be a "Users also found it works on" feature on Gog which would allow people to report successes. Even better if there is a version number attached, since a small update to a game, using a new version of an engine might break all compatibility without the developer even knowing.

As to the game itself. I'm intrigued.
Post edited April 12, 2024 by DrakeFox
Posted April 12, 2024
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DrakeFox: That said, I would love for there to be a "Users also found it works on" feature on Gog which would allow people to report successes. Even better if there is a version number attached, since a small update to a game, using a new version of an engine might break all compatibility without the developer even knowing.

As to the game itself. I'm intrigued.
That might not be so easy with moving targets like Wine/Linux, but certainly would be a feature.
Posted April 12, 2024
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dnovraD: That might not be so easy with moving targets like Wine/Linux, but certainly would be a feature.
On the other hand it's hard to call Windows 10 or 11 non-moving targets…
Posted April 12, 2024
Hard to get more attention grabbing than a cute anime cat :).

This reminds me a bit of One Way Herics (wishlist), which was in a Humble Bundle long ago. I wasn't a huge fan (maybe because I wasn't all that good at it :/) but still played it a number of times. However, that one is entirely turn based while this one looks like it might be a real time thing (can anyone confirm?). I can enjoy the rare escape climb level that is traditional in platformers but I'm not sure I could do much with a whole game like that. But I'll give it a try if the price comes down enough.
Posted April 12, 2024
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Hollyhock: I wonder if the GOG build of this game will work on Win7. According to its Steam profile, it works on Win7 (or rather, it did until Steam client forced using Win 10).

I have already spotted some GOG installers that work on Win7 and Win8 but are wrongly labelled as Win10.
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DrakeFox: That said, I would love for there to be a "Users also found it works on" feature on Gog which would allow people to report successes.
I think you both might be interested in this thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/does_it_run_on_win_7_thread Not too many people contributing sadly, but at least it is something.


Edit: But let's stop derailing this with off topic discussions, shall we?
Post edited April 12, 2024 by MasterofFiction
Posted April 14, 2024
Looks really frantic. I get what they mean by arcade style.
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