Another demo? Feels like I have been waiting forever for the developer to give me the bird!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere are a lot of games where the protagonist has amnesia, aren't there? I guess it's a good gimmick for games because it gives you a reason why you're involved and yet have no idea what's going on and have to find out.

Funny you should mention that. The last two games I've played have used it. Either outright amnesia or some sort of "recover memory" ploy. Tried and true?

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Ooh, Touch of Evil! This does look interesting!

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Quoting: BielFPsFinally Very Nice, now we just need the main distros Debian / Ubuntu lts / Fedora / Arch to default to Wayland sessions, and we are good to go :)

Actually, for Debian this happened with the Buster release [External Link], back in 2019.

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Quoting: GrifterIs there a painless way to play X2? I tried launching the old LGP demo of X2 but that only segfaulted, so I picked up X2 on steam when it was super cheap but steamplaying X2 resulted in missing audio

Depends on your definition of painless. Looks like Proton-6.10-GE-1 is reported to be working:
https://www.protondb.com/app/2800 [External Link]

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...and we're back for the 21st edition of the daily refresh of my GOG library.

That's F5 being pressed and the TCP packets are a go! We have SYN, we have SYN/ACK, final ACK! HTTP GETs are being made, POSTs are happening! HTML is getting ready to rumble! Here comes the JavaScript, it's running running running.... and CSS is rendering!

The results are in! We have a Windows version, no surprise there! We have a Mac port, getting close now, the audience is holding its breath... do we have a Linux port..? We do not! Repeat, we do not have a Linux port! The Linux port is nowhere close to the finish line!

Join us again tomorrow for another exciting round of what the hell is going wrong with Linux ports on GOG?

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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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