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Astroneer, the excellent looking space adventure game will come to Linux

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You may not remember Astroneer [Steam, Official Site], as I covered it late last year as a possible game coming to Linux. The developers have since been back in contact with me to confirm a Linux version is coming.

Quoted with permission when asking if they had made a final decision on Linux support:
QuoteHey Liam!

Yes, but not right away…

Unfortunately, we ran out of time and won’t be able to support Linux (or Mac) on our initial Early Access release. We expect to have it supported sometime early next year.

Best,

Riley Gravatt

And also:
QuoteHi Liam,

We are definitely targeting Linux support. It’s a significant priority because we want to achieve dedicated server support, which is a space where Linux is the dominant OS. So I hope you stay tuned for what comes next year.

brendan wilson


This is great news, as the game sounds like a lot of fun. Especially with the drop-in/drop-out multiplayer aspect of it.

I absolutely adore the style of the game and I think it's going to be a fantastic game to play with my son.

About the game
Explore and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is set during a 25th century gold rush where players must explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives and resources in harsh environments for the chance of striking it rich.

On this adventure, a player’s most useful tool is their ability to shape their world, altering the terrain and extracting valuable resources from planets, and moons. Resources can be traded or crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules to create everything from massive industrial bases to mobile rover bases.

- Reshape terrain as though it were made of Play-Doh.
- Explore procedurally generated planets that can be entirely deformed and traversed.
- Build a spaceship and travel to new planets and moons.
- Snap together components and objects to create custom vehicles and modules.
- 4 player online drop-in/drop-out co-op. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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freelikegnu Dec 13, 2016
Some nice ideas shown in the video are creation of modular vehicles in game and colony creations with power / resources linkages. Traveling between planets in game is also nice. A similar game is Planet Explorers, but while Astroneer does not have all the features (character customization, mobs, NPCs, weapons creation, flying vehicles, Linux support) of PE as yet, what they do have seems to be really well polished with a tight visual style. I hope they make good on the Linux promise and hopefully give some modability or at least customization ability.
JOndra91 Dec 13, 2016
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Quoting: JOndra91Looks promising, hopefuly it won't be another No Man's Sky.

I don't think so. This game hasn't been over-promising anything. They've had gameplay livestreams showing exactly what's in the game in its current state; everything they've shown off is in the game and seems to work as expected as best as I can tell.

That said.. I watched a livestream and I still haven't really figured out what the point of the game is. Seems very much like a sandbox with no real goal. You walk/drive around and collect resources to expand your outpost.. but beyond that there doesn't seem to be much else. No real threats other than dust storms. There's no free space flight.. they've said this is just a maybe.

I dunno.. I'll be holding off on this one until I see some reviews.

I didn't mean the hype thing and missing features. The main problem with No Man's Sky is that there isn't really much to do, so the game becomes boring after a while.
freelikegnu Dec 17, 2016
Quoting: JOndra91I didn't mean the hype thing and missing features. The main problem with No Man's Sky is that there isn't really much to do, so the game becomes boring after a while.

Games like this are for times when players want to create their own goals or even play/wander without goals. That said, it's nice to have more toys in the sandbox!
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I really don't buy every sandbox game that comes along, but something about this one makes me want it quite a bit. I started following it on Steam now that I know Linux is planned.
Gnurfos Jun 9, 2017
It was supposed to be supported "early this year".

But recently they published a roadmap, in which linux does not even appear, whereas there's a huge "backlog" list that seems even a notch down from "long term priority".
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