Begin warming up the hype machine, as it looks like Battle Royale game 'Darwin Project' [Steam] might be getting a Linux version.
I posted about this one recently, as the developer actually said one of their team would love to do a Linux version. This might actually be a bit closer to reality, as TuxDB (thanks for the tip NuSuey) has shown. Looking further into it on SteamDB, it seems there's both a "linux" and "devellinuxshipping" branch (versions) now present with hints starting from April 12th. Obviously nothing is confirmed until the developer says so, but it's a damn good sign to see all this.
About the game:
Darwin Project takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic landscape in the Northern Canadian Rockies. As preparation for an impending Ice Age, a new project, half science experiment half live-entertainment, is launched. It's called "Darwin Project" and it challenges 10 participants to survive the cold and fight to the death in a treacherous arena.
I actually opened a post on Steam back on March 1st, before it released in Early Access as I was following it—hoping. If you want this to be on Linux, be sure to post there to let them know.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Minecraft Hunger Games sure, I played that for a little while, but it's very basic and actually finding a server is also difficult.
Rust is a full-on survival game, that's not even remotely similar. There are some Battle Royale servers, which are all basically dead every time I look.
Again, we have no properly alive game that can really be compared with a properly supported Battle Royale game/mode.
Quoting: PatolaThere are also some mods for CS:GO that implements battle royale mode very competently. However, the servers for those are always empty.Not only that, but they're a big hack-job of an implementation. I don't mean that in a negative way to the people who made it, just that it's a tough job since it's server-side modding doing stuff it's not meant to do.
abelthorne Apr 21, 2018
Quoting: abelthorneDarwin Project just switched to free2play (source: Rock Paper Shotgun. Not sure if it's good news as this kind of move is usually the beginning of the end for games that are not economically viable. Any idea of the current status of the Linux port with this change?Yeah, that raises an eyebrow...
But it may turn out to be a good thing.
I've probably seen as many examples where it was good for the game as examples where it wasn't.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 21 April 2018 at 12:38 pm UTC
Quoting: abelthorneDarwin Project just switched to free2play (source: Rock Paper Shotgun. Not sure if it's good news as this kind of move is usually the beginning of the end for games that are not economically viable. Any idea of the current status of the Linux port with this change?Well, they gave the game for free to anyone who played the beta so I guess most people who were interested in the game already owned it so they probably didn't have many sales anyway.
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