Pump-Action Captain Is A Game To Avoid On Linux

It's not often I tell you to outright avoid a game, but Pump-Action Captain is a game you really need to just walk away from.

I really don't like to put a downer on anything, but this is something that I feel needs highlighting.

I decided on a whim to pick up Pump-Action Captain with my own personal money to test it out, and to see if it's worthy of covering at all. What I found was pretty shocking, and something that needed to be mentioned here. This is the first Leadwerks game that I've tried, and so far it's not leaving a good impression.

The game doesn't really work, at all. The executable is named incorrectly, so it won't even load up. This is a simple case sensitivity issue, which could be forgiven. When I re-named the executable it worked, so that was okay. It wouldn't be so bad if that was the only issue, but that alone tells you enough—it wasn't even tested, not once.

The game loads to a small corner of my screen, locks all input and has to be killed by opening a terminal session (CTRL+ALT+F1).

I queried this with the developer, and the response was this:

QuoteHonestly, what I can tell you is this, the game isn't really optimized for linux, obviously, but we're trying to figure out the issue, since none of these things happen in the windows version.

And even worse is this:

QuoteAs Firebal said before, PAC wasn't built for Linux, and the fact that none of us have Linux (that I know of) made things all the much more harder. If you feel PAC didn't meet your expectations, then a refund is most suggested, I hope as more updates and patches come out with PAC, we can win your favor, and get you to play PAC, one more time. :)

I am really surprised that anyone is still doing things like this, especially with Steam now offering refunds extremely easily. I honestly don't get why anyone would do this, I mean, they have to realise they will get refund requests due to it.

I know Early Access comes with its own set of problems, but even in Early Access the game still needs to be playable to be sold. Otherwise, what's the point? An unfinished game looking to get feedback and work with the community is very different to a game that is completely broken.

If people like getting warnings like this, we can do them more often, as I personally feel it's important for people to know. I don't like to see people waste their money. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.