If I understand his comments correctly, it seems he's not even sure if the Linux version will stay on Steam either due to the port's performance, furthermore it seems the Windows version performs better with Wine/Proton/DXVK than the native one does.

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The situation with Wine has always been 2 sided, it is both beneficial and damaging to Linux, which in many cases has been the former. While Steam Play/Wine helps users switch to Linux without sacrificing their favorite games, meanwhile from the devs end, they get to piggyback and profit from a platform they don't support.

In all fairness, I can sympathize with small companies where they lack the resources or the experience for Linux and Wine becomes the better than nothing solution. The large companies on the other hand, they have the funds but don't want to invest in Linux and id Software is a prime example of this.

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What a great review and a great guy, his story about Ubuntu 6.04 and the whole non pirated Windows part is a bit similar to why I always loved Linux, mine started a bit before Ubuntu and back then I always thought of the day I could use an open source OS where you don't have to activate anything, where viruses and security aren't present at every corner, where you are in control. It was a long journey, but that dream came true.

"Limits breed creativity" - Such a true statement, I often play on a very low end laptop at work as such I don't have the luxury of my gaming rig during lunch breaks, that didn't stop me from trying a few new things, things that otherwise I wouldn't do while at home.

As for this game, I hope it comes to GOG as I would love to buy it.

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Delving deep in Legend of Grimrock 2, I love the exploration and the puzzles.

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Canonical should know better than to drop 32bit entirely. Ubuntu and derivatives such as Mint are home to many Linux gamers and at some point most (if not all) these users play a 32bit game.

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Quoting: scaineI really need to update to 18.04 so I can play this. LOVE this developer. And this looks just awesome.

Not necessarily, I've been able to launch it on Debian 9 which has dinosaur software versions. Basically the game requires GLIBC 2.27 minimum. Try this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qSDPZzWxl0QaPZTwK0xfR4Rvsz84ugR4 [External Link] (it's a collection of GLIBC 2.29 libraries built on Debian 9 but should be usable on older systems too).

Installation is simple, extract it in the game's folder where the "Quest" exe is and run play.sh. The package is portable and designed to work only with the game, won't interfere with the system.

Let me know if you get stuck, will do my best to help :)

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Bought as well, these devs always supported Linux well :)

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Another fine release, less overhead is always welcome no matter how small. Thanks to DXVK I'm able to play a few more games on my low end laptop.

@YoRHa-2B - Thank you for your work Philip.

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It has a hud and that makes it an instabuy for me, I suck at space shooters but I'm also a sucker for these games so I buy them anyway. :)

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which someone helpfully uploaded here (thanks)

That someone would be me :)

I'm surprised to see that is still an issue after all these months. Regardless of that though, it seems the game has gotten a lot of love since release. To be honest I pre-ordered this game and later asked for a refund out of frustration with how they treated GOG users initially, but I think it deserves another chance.

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