Mayhem in Single Valley sounds like quite a unique adventure, coming to Linux this year

Mayhem in Single Valley from developer Fluxscopic seems like an adventure not to be missed and it's releasing later this year, sometime in the "Fall", with Linux support.

It's a stylish top-down action adventure, mixing in combat and puzzles with a focus on "family and everyday struggles". It's quite an exaggerated tale, one where the craziest things you might read about happen a lot more frequently. You play as Jack, a local "troublemaker" who makes a series of major discoveries before he's supposed to leave home.

Check out the trailer, I think it looks great:

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The bit with the squirrel really got me. Looks like it will have some really great humour in it.

Since it's listing Linux support on Steam and I thought it looked quite fun, I reached out to the developer on Twitter where they confirmed it.

The feature list is quite a surprise too, take a look:

• An in-depth story with weird and wonderful fleshed-out characters.
• Lots of level-up items, Easter eggs, and mini games.
• Combine different food types, antidotes, and poisons to escape and/or manipulate crazed wildlife and bosses.
• Pull, push, drag, and generally fling items about your environment to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.
• Throw in any direction as you run for your life.
• Portable cassette player based soundtrack. You decide what music you'd like to accompany your battles.
• The river has a current, anything that falls in will float down stream.
• Your bag is your inventory, drop it if you want to swim across the river.
• Crazed animals will chase you between levels. Shake them off if you want to survive.
• Everything is modular, use NPCs like items, discard your cassette player/soundtrack, throw a fish enemy to distract a hungry bear.
• Dynamic lighting and shadows... are those poisoned rats' eyes I see glowing in the dark.
• Enemies and characters have multiple desires and fears. Squirrels are afraid of bears. Wake a bear, get him to chase you, to clear an escape route of nutty critters.

You can wishlist and follow it on Steam.