Super! With "Riskers" just released and "Observer" in a few days and then (hopefully) "Battlechasers" and "Ruiner" soon thereafter, this is shaping up to be a great month.

Still, "Observer" is probably the linux-title that I have the highest hope this autumn, until "Rise of TR" shows up.

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1GB download for a bunch of free weapons, in a game that already has a gazillion of weapons...

Hmm, I love "Dying Light" but I certainly hope that the rest of these downloads has something more worthwhile, like new story content or some kind of random mission generator or something similar to really sink your teeth into.

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Bought it but I still haven´t done more than give it a quick "trial-run", to check out character creation and the basics of combat. I´ll probably hold off on playing until the game at least starts to approach a full release but like you say anything that seem like a bit of "Jagged Alliance mixed with some XCOM" is worth being optimistic about.

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Currently I´ve started playing the two expansions for Tyranny, that is called: "Tales from the Tiers" and "Bastard´s Wound". I´m also playing Broken Sword - Director´s Cut and doing occasional runs on Everspace (really eager for the expansion).

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Poorly handled, very poorly.

Still, I feel at least a tiny bit of optimism remains, for the following reasons:

1. It sounds as if there actually is a linux work-in-progress going on, that´s far better than a lot of developers that promise "linux a bit later" and then the port in question is never heard from again.

2. They are at the very least communicating with the linux community. I´m starting to feel that the standard procedure among developers is more like: "make promise->change mind about promise->stop communicating".

Of course, the fact that they used the phrasing "we´ll think about it later", does sound a bit ominous.

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Sweet! Buying it tonight!

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Great news! Still, a pity about the whole "under the radar" bit, since I wouldn´t hesitate to buy this even with whatever issues may remain. Obviously, I want it to count as a linux sale though, so I guess I´ll just have to wait for a while longer.

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Well, considering the criteria of an "interested developer" and the fact that it might be nice with a game that would not require a huge time-consuming effort to port. Bethesda & Rockstar can probably be considered "out of the picture". So, a few titles that I´m thinking about:

"Endless Legend & Endless Space". Both games are supposed to be good and the developers initially planned linux versions before they felt they had to re-prioritize.

"Grim Dawn". Diablo/Viktor Vran-like game that is sopposed to be great. As far as I recall the developer said that a linux version was possible at some future date.

"The Age of Decadence". Indie rpg with good reviews. A linux version has been on the table but the developer claims linux-support in the game engine has not been completed.

"Underrail". Another small rpg with good reviews, that should have the needed XNA to FNA support for a linux port but the developer does not seem too interested.

"The Technomancer" Another spiders game "Bound by Flame" has already been ported to linux so there might be some support there.

"Outcast 1.1" This was promised to be ported to linux but then...nothing happened.

"Kathy Rain" and "Technobablylon". Two adventure games with good reviews both were supposed to be ported to linux but for differing reasons the porting seems to have stalled indefinitely.

Well, these are a few suggestions of titles that *might* be portable without too much trouble of a technical nature or in negotiating with the developers.

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OK, never heard of "Ken Follet" or this before but it sounds great so I´ll be sure to pick this one up.

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Amazing, I was starting to think this would never show up for linux. "Worlds of Magic" was the original game that seemed like a somewhat promising MoM-clone but it had such an amazing number of technical issues that playing it quickly became tiresome.

Planar Conquest is supposed to be something like a fixed & enhanced version of that game, so I have long been curious how that would work out.

Keeping my fingers crossed...

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