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I bought a Steam Deck recently. It is a very well crafted device and that goes for both the hardware and the Linux distribution it runs. Within a few hours I

I bought a Steam Deck recently. It is a very well crafted device and that goes for both the hardware and the Linux distribution it runs. Within a few hours I had sampled the following puzzle games: - Portal 2: simple, physical world logic puzzles with excellent script and graphics. - Stephen’s Sausage Roll: incredibly hard physical world logic puzzles with awful graphics but it’s part of the style and I love it. - The Case of the Golden Idol: interactive mystery fiction logic puzzles with even worse graphics that, again, are part of the charm. - Python 3: text based open world logic puzzles with no graphics whatsoever and some of the most fun I’ve ever had on a computer. (Edit: for clarity this is a humorous anecdote in that the last “game” on my list is a fully fledged programming language, in line with the original article’s thesis that programming can be viewed as being an excellent computer game. I genuinely had my steam deck for all of a few hours before I was using it write primes.py ;)

shakna 3y ago
One small correction - most versions of Python 3 come bundled with the Tk DLC, which gives you graphics and a whole 'nother world of logic puzzles to solve.
- ReactiveJelly 3y ago
  Not to mention the dev-endorsed hack of sending HTML to a browser so that you can use text as "graphics"
pas 3y ago
Oh, if you like py3, I recommend the mypy DLC! it's fun to imagine the shape and color of your datastructures and how the abstract monsters of the voidspace munch on them! and mypy helps you find the right arcane incantations, so you can be pretty sure that what you imagined will actually rip through that messy real world just the way you envisioned it! well, of course it would be unfair of me if I wouldn't mention that there are serious hazards too, as gradual typing is a gateway drug to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. (you too might wake up drenched in sweat thinking about ... what if we all are just monoids in the category of endofunctors!?)
- kevindamm 3y ago
  pretty sure I'm actually a catamorphism
Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago
Exapunks and all the games from the developer
goles 3y ago
Perhaps a different type of problem solving, but you might like Ready or Not[1]. More or less the spiritual successor, or love letter, to SWAT 4. Played a significant amount of game myself in early access, and the developers have outdone themselves with mechanics, polish, and AI[2] on the 1.0 release a few days ago. Particularly in a genre where the trend is to off-load any meaningful cooperation in game to other human players (Tarkov, GTFO, etc). [1]https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/ [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nj6qWDNU0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nj6qWDNU0A
hiccuphippo 3y ago
You might like Human Resource Machine, an assembly puzzle game.
frameset 3y ago
Hey thanks for these suggestions. Your last one sounds particularly interesting, but I'm having trouble finding it because as you can imagine "python 3" isn't a particularly useful search term. Can you provide a link? I'd really like to learn more.
- birracerveza 3y ago
  Not op, but here you go https://www.python.org/downloads/ https://www.python.org/downloads/ Keep in mind that you don't have to play the first two games, you can dive into 3 right away! Even though some nostalgics still swear by the second one...
  - frameset 3y ago
    Oh I actually have played this one already. The tz level was very frustrating and the Arrow DLC really didn't help things. ; )
trevyn 3y ago
Bombe is something else. It has the Z3 solver built in…
CodeSgt 3y ago
Maybe a silly question, but how can I find this “Python 3” game? Googling just shows tutorials on making a game in Python 3. Searching “Python 3” on steam doesn’t turn up anything. Edit: Smh I genuinely thought there was a game named Python 3. I’m familiar with the language. Just sleepy.
- Darmody 3y ago
  He's talking about the programming language haha
- gorgoiler 3y ago
  Switch to desktop mode, open a “konsole” terminal, and run “python3”. External keyboard recommended — it is, after all, a programming language interpreter.
amoss 3y ago
py3 is ok, but py2 was the best game in that trilogy.
- ReactiveJelly 3y ago
  The fan base was really split when Py3 came out and didn't support any Py2 maps.

shakna 3y ago

One small correction - most versions of Python 3 come bundled with the Tk DLC, which gives you graphics and a whole 'nother world of logic puzzles to solve.

ReactiveJelly 3y ago
Not to mention the dev-endorsed hack of sending HTML to a browser so that you can use text as "graphics"

pas 3y ago

Oh, if you like py3, I recommend the mypy DLC! it's fun to imagine the shape and color of your datastructures and how the abstract monsters of the voidspace munch on them! and mypy helps you find the right arcane incantations, so you can be pretty sure that what you imagined will actually rip through that messy real world just the way you envisioned it! well, of course it would be unfair of me if I wouldn't mention that there are serious hazards too, as gradual typing is a gateway drug to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. (you too might wake up drenched in sweat thinking about ... what if we all are just monoids in the category of endofunctors!?)

kevindamm 3y ago
pretty sure I'm actually a catamorphism

Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago

Exapunks and all the games from the developer

goles 3y ago

Perhaps a different type of problem solving, but you might like Ready or Not[1]. More or less the spiritual successor, or love letter, to SWAT 4. Played a significant amount of game myself in early access, and the developers have outdone themselves with mechanics, polish, and AI[2] on the 1.0 release a few days ago. Particularly in a genre where the trend is to off-load any meaningful cooperation in game to other human players (Tarkov, GTFO, etc). [1]https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/ [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nj6qWDNU0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nj6qWDNU0A

hiccuphippo 3y ago

You might like Human Resource Machine, an assembly puzzle game.

frameset 3y ago

Hey thanks for these suggestions. Your last one sounds particularly interesting, but I'm having trouble finding it because as you can imagine "python 3" isn't a particularly useful search term. Can you provide a link? I'd really like to learn more.

birracerveza 3y ago
Not op, but here you go https://www.python.org/downloads/ https://www.python.org/downloads/ Keep in mind that you don't have to play the first two games, you can dive into 3 right away! Even though some nostalgics still swear by the second one...
- frameset 3y ago
  Oh I actually have played this one already. The tz level was very frustrating and the Arrow DLC really didn't help things. ; )

trevyn 3y ago

Bombe is something else. It has the Z3 solver built in…

CodeSgt 3y ago

Maybe a silly question, but how can I find this “Python 3” game? Googling just shows tutorials on making a game in Python 3. Searching “Python 3” on steam doesn’t turn up anything. Edit: Smh I genuinely thought there was a game named Python 3. I’m familiar with the language. Just sleepy.

Darmody 3y ago
He's talking about the programming language haha
gorgoiler 3y ago
Switch to desktop mode, open a “konsole” terminal, and run “python3”. External keyboard recommended — it is, after all, a programming language interpreter.

amoss 3y ago

py3 is ok, but py2 was the best game in that trilogy.

ReactiveJelly 3y ago
The fan base was really split when Py3 came out and didn't support any Py2 maps.