Bought the game, wouldn't start. Launched Steam from the terminal, tried again. Oh, it needs root, I'll just enter my password... wait, what!?

Turns out the launch script is bad.

It checks for two packages, libsdl2-mixer-dev and libsdl2-dev, if not found, it tries to install them using "sudo apt install". What's wrong here, let me count the ways:

• These are both -dev packages and are not needed to play the game, the .so libs lives elsewhere. The right libraries will be installed, but only as a dependency of the -dev packages and together with a whole slew of other -dev packages.
• I don't see how this script can work on non-Debian systems without dpkg-query and apt?
• sudo on my system does not launch a GUI. Unless launching Steam from a terminal you will never have any idea what is wrong.
• The game does actually ship both SDL and SDL mixer libs (32- 64bit, and Windows dlls for good measure). It simply doesn't use them.

Edit: I'll file a bug report with the developer. But I would be interested to hear if anyone else had similar problems. Especially on non Debian/dpkg based systems.

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Hella weird. In a good way.

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Big congrats to GamingOnLinux and a big thanks to Liam!

I'm amazed by all the articles and insightful reviews you have written over the years. Touching on everything from AAA titles, to indies to open source projects, hardware and everything in between. Never sacrificing on quality yet still keeping an overwhelmingly high output rate!

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The Linux port is a 0 byte download here, and shows all the same symptoms as this. No "Store or CD Key" for the Linux version.

Devs have been informed, but I'm guessing they're American and Independence Day got in the way?

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Quoting: CatKillerIt happens in people, too.

Can make a personal confirmation to that. Double DNA club. Does sadly not make me able to breathe fire.

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Quoting: EhvisForget about June. It's July! Where the hell did the first half of the year go?

Forget about July! Where did my youth go? Also, whatever happened to soy bomb?

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I didn't know Sweden had a second bible belt up north. Technically I think this should be bible suspenders.

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Quoting: crabelThe full game Backbone is mostly the prologue. The story afterwards is a) short and b) linear. And incomplete.

Aw (raccoon) poo! I was so looking forward to that one.

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To help cut through the noise a little too, I've gone through and begun adding titles to a public list I call the "Best Linux Games"

𝅘𝅥𝅮🎵 He's making a list, and checking it twice... 𝅘𝅥𝅮🎵

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I backed this one too.

It adds up to a grand total of seven backed adventure games still in development. Let's hope they don't release all at once...

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