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Does not at all appear to be a game you run in the console. The first video on the Steam page does include a lot of stylized Hacknet-ish looking text.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/254320/Duskers/

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oh_my_goodness

2 hours ago

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There are graphics, it's real-time, but you type commands to control the drones.

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LoganDark

1 hour ago

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many actions are performed by typing commands.

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oidar

6 hours ago

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Damn windows only - not on mac. I really loved the first one. Hope they port it to mac eventually.

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LoganDark

57 minutes ago

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Unity is cross-platform so it's a few button clicks to build for Mac, but for some reason nobody does it anymore

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lantry

6 hours ago

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Duskers is a very cool game. It's very difficult and stressful, so it's easy to bounce off of; but the concept and execution are top notch.

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wafflemaker

6 hours ago

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What caused the end of the world then?

I guess I might try again with the game, but asking here I could get moderate spoilers without a complete spoiler.

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chaostheory

46 minutes ago

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AI, but not the ASI or AGI kind, which makes you worry about the present since you don’t need a “god in a box” AI to end the world

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derektank

17 minutes ago

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We’ve had the ability to destroy the world since roughly 1970, maybe 1975. Nothing but biological intelligence required.

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yoyohello13

5 hours ago

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Wow! I would not have expected to hear about this game again. The first game was a lot of fun, definitely room to flesh out the game play loop but had great ideas.

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crtasm

6 hours ago

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Actual title: Misfits Attic Announces Duskers 2.0 Funded By Stray Signal

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psawaya

5 hours ago

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Very excited for this one!

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syngrog66

1 hour ago

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The video for Duskers 2 in the linked article was of a very graphical, real-time engine style game with sound, music and animation

title is misleading if not abusive of our time

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azhenley

6 hours ago

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"command line"

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none_to_remain

2 hours ago

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There's a terminal window in the game which you use to control your robots

I even found some shell constructs to work beyond what the game documented/ explained to me

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syngrog66

1 hour ago

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Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game

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itishappy

1 hour ago

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Doom, Quake, and assumedly your games don't use their command line as primary input like this.

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chaostheory

31 minutes ago

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The primary way to play Duskers is via scripting in a CLI

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raffael_de

5 hours ago

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a cli game that only runs on windows ... very funny

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tibbon

5 hours ago

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I just installed Steam on Ubuntu yesterday, and I'm impressed at the progress so far. A HUGE number of titles run flawlessly.

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freehorse

2 hours ago

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Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton (and in macos through crossover) [0]. I hope the author puts effort in non-windows platforms for this one during development, because the first duskers was indeed a great game.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/app/1883920/discussions/0/6897422...

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simoncion

1 hour ago

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> Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton...

If this is something the dev can reasonably fix by changing their game, then it'd be good for them to do so. Looking at the discussion in the thread, it looks like the dev is actively working to fix this for everyone, and not just the subset of folks that he fixed it for.

However, if this doesn't happen on Windows, I'd argue that it's a bug that needs to be reported against and fixed in Wine/Proton/Crossover.