The arms race is on:

https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/712625598481375233 [External Link]

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It's actually possibly to buy the game DRM free directly from Application Systems Heidelberg [External Link] at the same 15% release discount they offer on Steam. I had missed that, but I'll update the article to include that.

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Quoting: ShmerlSounds like a good game, buy why is it Steam only? I'll contact developers about it.

They tried to get the game on GOG, but it wasn't accepted. I hope they explore other options though, like itch.io or Humble. Backers just got DRM free versions of the final build though, and will get access to future updates.

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Quoting: GuestI can confirm that changing the launch options to “LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" %command%” fixes the sound issue on Adventure Capitalist, and the crash at startup of Among the Sleep (running the game from the terminal also works)…

Thanks for the steam_appid.txt trick, I thought some games forced the launch through Steam for some sort of DRM measure.

I've seen similar issues reported on Steam, and I think the problem might be that the Steam runtime uses very old versions of OpenAL. What happens if you locate and rename/move libopenal.so.1 from the Steam runtime?

Yeah, it's a pleasantly weak form of DRM that some games use. A few Unity games try to work around it by removing that file though, but I can't remember any that do off the top of my head.

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I have the same issue with flickering on Nvidia graphics in else Heart.Break(), but I think that's a separate issue with the same symptoms, since it uses Unity 4 and works without issues for me on Intel and Mesa. I'm guessing Unity 4 doesn't know what to do with that option, since it's new on Linux, and was still undocumented last time I checked.

I think I've read about sound issues and crashes with Unity games on Gentoo before, but I don't remember where, and it might have been your posts. Do you have the same issues if you try to run the games from the command line? (Remember to create a steam_appid.txt file with the correct app Id in the game directory if it tries to launch through Steam.)

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Quoting: GuestI can confirm that many recent Unity games have issues on my system: crashes at startup or no working sound. Some also have no text (missing font?). And none of the devs I reported it to have fixed anything (whatever the reason is… but the result is I can’t play their games and had to have them refunded.)

OpenGL Core is broken in most versions of Unity 5. In my experience, running the games with -force-opengl, which forces OpenGL 2 (which Unity 4 uses on Linux), will usually enable you to run them. I haven't experienced crashes on Nvidia graphics, but I've experienced all sorts of other strange behaviors, like the screen being filled with mostly a single color or extreme flickering.

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Off the top of my head; Age of Empires II. Might go for something else once I've thought a bit about it though. Maybe Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, or A Hat in Time, though that one's not even released yet.

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: BlobI'm pretty sure it was made with Visionaire Adventure Game Engine.

Yeah you're right, my bad. Can't remember what game I was playing that used Wintermute.

Probably J.U.L.I.A or the Reversion games. Daedalic has used Visionarie for all of their own games, except the first Edna & Harvey game, which is a Java game.

I didn't like the first two Deponia games much for some of the reasons that have been mentioned here, but I thought the third one was OK. Not sure if I'll get this one yet. There are so many other games that I also want to play and not enough time. :/

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Pinstripe [External Link] is a "bizarre and beautiful 2D adventure about a minister in Hell" and looks amazing. I hadn't even heard about it, so I have no idea how they managed to get that much funding already. Maybe it's popular on Facebook or reddit or something.

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I'm not sure what to make of this either, but I'm very intrigued. Thanks for writing about it, ChloeWolfieGirl.

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