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I've had this question looking at the Quake con sale, and Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is for sale on both platforms. I ended up buying it on GOG. What is your opinion?

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steam’s colour scheme makes it difficult to read and causes eye strain and headaches for people with astigmatism, like me.

The Steam Store is just a website where a user style such as https://uso.kkx.one/style/219929 can be applied like any other. Game prices are just black on white using that theme:

The Steam Client itself is largely or perhaps even fully controllable via command line (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_line_options#Steam) and you can set any color scheme to your terminal as you like:

The Steam Client also supports skins since forever: https://steamcustomizer.com/

Steam may not have color schemes for all kinds of visual impairments and that's a legitimate criticism but Steam has a bag full of aforementioned features for customization, so with a little bit of research (I was curious about that myself, so I spent like 5 to 10 minutes) I found quite easy workarounds. As someone who does not like to be blasted in the face with light themes, I look for similar workarounds all the time.

[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

That works for a browser but I would still need the client to install, uninstall, and manage game settings. Steam skins only work for a few areas of the client. Most of it will still be unreadable.