And the excitement I had has gone. Removed from wish list and added to ignore list.

Steam. Works on Linux.

I’m not 100% sure if this meets any of your requirements but I always enjoyed homeworld can’t remember if I’ve ever run it on Linux since switching tho.

As to the other requirements, I don’t think I found it that easy to get into as it took a while to get into the whole 3D map thing, and the graphics may have aged

I killed scratch.

Have you ever been in the position where you complete some quest before you’ve actually been given it, and when you go to the quest giver they give you the quest and you immediately click back and complete the quest… well so far I’ve saved the girl at the druids grove without speaking to the mother and when I did finally speak to the parents I wasn’t handed the quest, I was rewarded for something that I wasn’t asked to do…now that has impressed me. This game is above and beyond anything I expected it to be

So Chrome prematurely ejaculates?

noli me cogere ut responde quaestiones inanes

Google translate made this for me years ago and I copy and paste everywhere