Any plan to update this version? And preferably to make the full game available here too?
Valve has known that Steam is causing harm to some users (it's a potential trigger for several medical conditions) since 2019, and in spite of 4 years of knowledge that it's harmful, has repeatedly refused to take any steps to fix it, and behaved abusively toward affected users on numerous occasions.
At this point, even if they fix it (which I'm fairly sure they won't), it's too late to win some of us back. There are people with various other reasons to want to avoid supporting Valve as well. Making sure the game is available elsewhere is a good idea.
I'm talking about exactly what I said I was talking about. Valve has known about serious health risks being caused by the Steam client for over 4 years now, and has actively made the problem worse since it began.
There's a good number of other reasons people are moving to avoid Steam so making sure a game which already has been made available elsewhere is maintained outside of that platform (which is far from dying but is slowly losing the functional monopoly it's used to having) makes sense.
There have been at least half a dozen clearly-identified issues which started showing up in the Steam client after the "new library" update in 2019. Valve's response to complaints addressing the problems has included fixing exactly none of them, removing tools for skin creation which allowed some of them to be resolved or partly compensated for, disabled access to several existing safe workarounds without providing any alternatives, and worse.
Sorry, wasn't my intent. I've discussed this a lot (it's been 4 years) so I sometimes forget what I have or haven't mentioned in a given conversation. Migraines and epilepsy are the most prominent issues, since both can result in hospitalisation in bad cases, but a few less severe problems like vertigo and several headache-related conditions as well. As far as I'm aware, the triggers appear to be photosensitive. Not "visual impairment" per se, but visual triggers, though some of the causes are less obvious on normal viewing of the app.
I personally get severe migraines, and have been in hospital for them a few times, including once when this issue first started, before I found out the Steam client was a potential problem in this regard. Steam isn't just "a" trigger for me, but the most consistent and fastest-acting trigger I've found. Having the Steam client installed is a serious enough risk for me not to be safe to do so, and Valve's conduct in response to being advised of the problem has at best made the issues more severe and harder to work around.
I do all of those things regularly. But I am also a gamer.
And surprisingly, given the question I'm asking, I DON'T use Steam. Because it's a literal health risk and I don't want to put myself in hospital with another migraine because of it.
Or did you not consider that asking for the game to be made available somewhere other than Steam was a part of my "not using it" process? Because yeah, asking devs to make sure their games are available elsewhere is a really useful way to still get to play games while not using Steam.
Kinda thought that would be obvious?