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Grow Home From Ubisoft Now On SteamOS & Linux

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Grow Home the wacky-looking, but intriguing game from Ubisoft's Reflections studio is now officially available for us Linux and SteamOS folk. It has a lot of good reviews, and I'm looking forward to trying it. Our editor flesk may be doing a review of it sometime, so look out for that.

The updated version now available isn't just limited to SteamOS and Linux support, it also adds in official Steam Controller support for it (woohoo!).

About the game (Official)
In Grow Home you play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. On his quest BUD will discover a beautiful world of floating islands that are home to some rather strange plants and animals.

Grow the giant plant and use your unique climbing abilities to reach ever higher ground, but be careful…one wrong move and it’s a long way down!

You can find Grow Home on Steam right now.
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Creak Nov 10, 2015
That is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)
shigutso Nov 10, 2015
Steam Machines showing their impact!

Next game: Assassin's Creed? Watch Dogs? Far Cry? We can dream! Maybe not too much... lol
Cmdr_Iras Nov 10, 2015
That is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)

They certainly moved quickly though it was only 5 days ago that we got the first signs of steamos movement on steamdb; hopefully this is a sign of what has been happening in the background to the steamos release...

at least we can hope.
Eike Nov 10, 2015
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That is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)

Could you port Watch Dogs, please? ;)
Pangachat Nov 10, 2015
Nice start :)
rustybroomhandle Nov 10, 2015
Steam Machines showing their impact!

Next game: Assassin's Creed? Watch Dogs? Far Cry? We can dream! Maybe not too much... lol

Haha, probably none of the above. Grow Home is a Unity game, so "porting" costs are negligible, and it has no uPlay requirement, which would put the kabosh on any of the others getting a Linux port.
hidekin Nov 10, 2015
good news !
Personally I would like to play South park stick of the truth on linux :-)
pete910 Nov 10, 2015
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That is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)

Your brave admitting that :P
oldrocker99 Nov 10, 2015
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[Curmudgeon mode: ON :><: ]
Gads, but I'm tired of developers and companies who say "available for PC" when they mean "available for Windows ." We're all, Windows, Mac and Linux users alike, using PCs. it doesn't stand for Windows, it stands for Personal Computer.

[Curmudgeon mode: OFF ]


Last edited by oldrocker99 on 10 November 2015 at 3:21 pm UTC
flesk Nov 10, 2015
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Yes! :D Have been looking forward to this one.

Our editor flesk may be doing a review of it sometime, so look out for that.

I'll try to have it out before Beamboom's ibb & obb review.
rustybroomhandle Nov 10, 2015
Ok, fine, let's fire up the speculatron and see if we can guess what games will be launching today along with the Steam Machines.

Looking at SteamDB:
- All the Saints Row entries have been quite active today
- Also, Minecraft: Story Mode has been quite busy today (although that's busy every day)
- Looks like Medieval: Total War might well be Feral's next one

Over to you, go!
Miqueye Nov 10, 2015
great! bought it this minute - can't wait to play it this evening.
love the design!

cheers,
Michael
M@GOid Nov 10, 2015
Well, it works reasonably with the radeonsi driver in my A8 APU. It starts with all in the maximum settings, lowering to 1080p and low settings give me about 25/30fps, so it is in the heavy side, considering the graphics. I can play Borderlands 2 at 1080p with better graphics and higher fps in this APU.

Only played for 5 min, and the joypad use advise in the start of the game came with a irony, since it did not recognize my controller, even using the trick to start the game via Big Picture mode. Some buttons work, but the analog sticks didn't. Oh Unity, you did it again...

In the end, just another "need fixes" Unity port. Let's rope that the developers are quick to at last fix the joypad problem.
walther von stolzing Nov 10, 2015
Haha, probably none of the above. Grow Home is a Unity game, so "porting" costs are negligible, and it has no uPlay requirement, which would put the kabosh on any of the others getting a Linux port.

Mac has a uplay client; I see no reason why Linux can't have one.

It's not like it's a functional piece of software anyway.
Zelox Nov 10, 2015
That was quick :O. I will wait to buy this, I wanna know if the port is any good first.
liberodark Nov 10, 2015
Is a great game
Orkultus Nov 10, 2015
Wasn't Rocket League supposed to be out today with the release of Steam OS?
Miqueye Nov 10, 2015
@Faugn: couldn't find an option in the GUI to change anything but Audio/Video.
it's WASD + Mouse by the way.

cheers,
Michael
BabaoWhisky Nov 10, 2015
That is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)

You are really an Ubisoft Developer ? :O
jochenh Nov 10, 2015
Sadly not working correctly with my Xbox 360 Gamepad just now... Waiting for a patch.
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