PC Gamer is giving it a 60/100:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/warhammer-40-000-space-marine-2-review/

I’m weirdly on board with this and I think my kids will love it.

I’m not the developer, but I can pass it on if you’d like. :-D The dev reads the Steam Forums and has a Discord as well. I think it should work with Steamdeck and the touch pads, but I’m guessing the menus are going to be SUPER small and probably quite difficult to see, though I haven’t tested on my Steamdeck.

Absolutely! I bounced off Songs of Syx personally, but I’ve played DF, Rimworld, Oni, etc. I love the look of Odd Realm personally and I had quite a few hours in it, but then the entire UI was reworked, and it seems a bit daunting to get into. There isn’t a tutorial atm, but the dev and myself have put up some video tutorials to get started. I think it’s unique in the colony sim genre due to the graphics, music, but also the flexibility of the UI. It’s not DF deep, but the UI allows you to REALLY dig in deep to automating things if you want, or just manually queue up stuff. I think it still has some rough edges, but for $15 at the moment it’s got a lot to offer.

I’m planning on streaming some more Odd Realm 1.0 to my Owncast as well if you’re interested. :-)

Have fun and best of luck!

I also created some very quick and dirty tutorials for Odd Realm if anyone just wants to take a quick look at it:

Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Tutorial - Just to help folks get started - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/6crH1bx8t7USve3p4XfXU7

Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Production Tutorial - Basics of Production - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5FGjgEN1wb6G9zWLdVbUMu

You CAN use OBS! I’ve started an Owncast community at [email protected] if you’d like to check it out. If you’re used to streaming to YT or Twitch or anything else, OBS is 100% the same, you just pointed it to your Owncast server. Obviously setting up the server is more work, but GabeK has made installation and configuration as easy as possible. It’s pretty awesome imo.