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Minit is a strange adventure game played out repeatedly over 60 seconds, it's just released with same-day Linux support.

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In Minit, a cursed sword has you repeating your day 60 seconds at a time. Even though each run is incredibly short, it has a purpose, as you are working towards a final goal. Each time you find a new item, you then have access to it for your next attempt. This made it quite a charming little adventure, one I was expecting to frustrate me, but it's actually kept my undivided attention as I constantly think about what I can do next, where I have to go and so on.

Thanks to the timer, you don't have a chance to stop and take anything in, so even a simple task like taking out a few crabs becomes a mad dash to complete before you die again. It's exciting too, sometimes there's multiple things you can do. I grabbed a key for lighthouse and wanted to explore, but what happens if I water my plant again? Crap—no time left!

I water my plant, I make a dash for my sword and head to the lighthouse. Oh, there's someone here, let's have a chat. Dammit man, talk quicker! I have to swim? Okay where? Hurry up—dead. The game continues on like this, with everything being both exciting and strangely intense for such a game. 

The only "issue" I've had, so to speak, is that it starts with a really tiny window. It can be resized and set to fullscreen fine and even works properly when reloaded with my two monitors, so it's actually great.

As it's a 32bit build, you may need these libs installed to play it on a 64bit distribution:

libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libcurl3:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libopenal1:i386 libglu1:i386 and dependencies

You can find it on: GOG, Steam.

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Tags: Adventure, GOG, Steam
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10 comments

nox Apr 3, 2018
This sounds interesting, thank you!
hardpenguin Apr 3, 2018
The developers are pretty Linux friendly knowing their previous work, so make sure to reward them with your wallets :D
nox Apr 3, 2018
Little warning: I could not get the game to run properly with the GOG installer. Refunded and bought through steam instead. Works perfectly :)
Shmerl Apr 3, 2018
Quoting: noxLittle warning: I could not get the game to run properly with the GOG installer.

What went wrong exactly?
Shmerl Apr 3, 2018
Quotelibgtk2.0-0:i386

Hm, why would they depend on obsolete GTK? Current day games should not do that.


Last edited by Shmerl on 3 April 2018 at 8:03 pm UTC
Liam Dawe Apr 3, 2018
Quoting: noxLittle warning: I could not get the game to run properly with the GOG installer. Refunded and bought through steam instead. Works perfectly :)
Hmm? What was your issue, did you have all the deps installed?
Anjune Apr 4, 2018
The GOG version works fine here on Kubuntu 17.10 without any fussing (but I already had all manner of 32-bit libraries installed)... except as noted in the article it doesn't seem to remember the fullscreen setting (F11 key works)
nox Apr 4, 2018
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: noxLittle warning: I could not get the game to run properly with the GOG installer. Refunded and bought through steam instead. Works perfectly :)
Did you lie about your distro or are they now offering no-questions-asked refunds like Valve?

No and no. I just talked to them for a bit and got a refund. I'll stay with steam from now on though.


Last edited by nox on 4 April 2018 at 1:21 pm UTC
linuxvangog Apr 4, 2018
Quoting: ShmerlHm, why would they depend on obsolete GTK? Current day games should not do that.
They don't, to be honest at some point we started referring to this package as a metapackage that will pull a lot of crucial 32 bit dependencies while installed... and it kinda stuck :P Wouldn't be a problem if GameMaker Studio 1 offered export to 64 bit Linux.

I've read that GMS2 already fixes this oversight, but not every dev uses it since:
  • it requires a separate paid license

  • it's majorily different compared to the previous version




Last edited by linuxvangog on 4 April 2018 at 2:40 pm UTC
Shmerl Apr 4, 2018
Quoting: linuxvangogThey don't, to be honest at some point we started referring to this package as a metapackage that will pull a lot of crucial 32 bit dependencies while installed... and it kinda stuck :P

I see. May be it makes more sense to focus only on critically needed packages, rather than obsolete ones. I find that installing Wine helps a lot in general, since it pulls lot's of commonly needed 32-bit dependencies.
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