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Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II are all now available on Steam for Linux. Overlord II is also a brand new port today!

Note: You may have issues if you previously purchased them from bundles and other random stores. VP has reached out to Codemasters to add Linux to them. If you're only buying it now, you will be fine.

You can see my previous thoughts on Overlord and Overlord: Raising Hell in my previous article here.

I think Overlord + Overlord: Raising Hell are well worth the money and Virtual Programming did a cracking good job on them.

As for Overlord II, it's a brand new port! I had even shorter notice than last time being told only on the day it's released. So you will have to wait until later tonight for any thoughts on it. In future I'm sure I will get more time to cover VP's ports properly. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Naib 26 Jul 2016
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Im missing the executable as well.
in fact most of the game :)

/media/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Overlord $ ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 jrb jrb 4096 Jul 26 19:57 Language
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jrb jrb 9 Jul 26 19:54 Language.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jrb jrb 8393 Jul 26 19:56 readme.txt
libgradev 26 Jul 2016
All of you complaining it doesn't download correctly, is this new purchases today?

If not, I already noted why you can't play it right now.

Yes, boss!
Liam Dawe 26 Jul 2016
All of you complaining it doesn't download correctly, is this new purchases today?

If not, I already noted why you can't play it right now.

Yes, boss!
Okay, it certainly shouldn't happen for new purchases! Will poke VP on it.
libgradev 27 Jul 2016
OK downloaded here now - 2.3GB sounded a lot better than 135MB ;) I had to delete local content as verify did nothing btw.

Ran the config tool the first time then did a Save and Run, which resulted in a black screen.

Killed ('-s 9' - if this makes no sense to you just reboot) the process than ran it directly from Steam and it loaded fine :)

Thanks for the interject Liam!
WorMzy 27 Jul 2016
All of you complaining it doesn't download correctly, is this new purchases today?

If not, I already noted why you can't play it right now.

Yes, boss!
Okay, it certainly shouldn't happen for new purchases! Will poke VP on it.
Dunno where you poked them, but it seems to have been fixed -- I just got a 1.6GB, 2.0GB and 611MB update for Overlord, Overlord II and Overlord: Raising Hell respectively. :D

EDIT: But Overlord still refuses to start, missing libgtk-3.so.0... :(

I'm not installing gtk3 on my system, so it may be time for a refund.


Last edited by WorMzy on 27 Jul 2016 at 12:28 am UTC
m2mg2 27 Jul 2016
It runs the first time but if I quit then launch again I just get a black screen. Even after kill -9 and exiting steam it just comes up with a black screen, until I reboot.


Last edited by m2mg2 on 27 Jul 2016 at 1:29 am UTC
hero900 27 Jul 2016
i have issues with mouse on both games it is super sensitive and rotate so fast to the point that it is unplayable for me for now
m2mg2 27 Jul 2016
i have issues with mouse on both games it is super sensitive and rotate so fast to the point that it is unplayable for me for now

I had that issue also, but you can turn the mouse sensitivity down in the settings and it should be playable.
STiAT 27 Jul 2016
I bought it back when they were released. Though, for me the downloads seem to work properly today. Yey, sounds now I certainly hope weather will be bad this weekend.
darkszluf 27 Jul 2016
I have graphics issues on Radeon Open Source driver with MESA 12.1

for me it actually stalls the driver right after using radeonsi, you're using r600 right does it stall?

you should totally report the issue on their tracker since you've managed to actually take some screens.


Last edited by darkszluf on 27 Jul 2016 at 8:27 am UTC
Pangachat 27 Jul 2016
Played around 3-4 hours, and it's running fine on the lower end, no bugs or glitches (r7 250X) SteamOS 2.86 beta :)
lucifertdark 27 Jul 2016
Did my previous comments about the missing files sound like a complaint? It's amazing how bad things can sound when they're written down when you can't actually hear how the person is saying it.
FredO 27 Jul 2016
I got these games in a Codemasters Humble Bundle a couple of years ago, and they are currently not downloading. Need to wait for Codemasters to activate them I guess.
Nanobang 27 Jul 2016
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Me (Running in circles waving hands over head:): Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy.
gurv 27 Jul 2016
All of you complaining it doesn't download correctly, is this new purchases today?

If not, I already noted why you can't play it right now.

Yes, boss!
Okay, it certainly shouldn't happen for new purchases! Will poke VP on it.

Thanks, it's been fixed!
Didn't have anything to do, the game had an update ready to download.
m2mg2 27 Jul 2016
Posted black screen issue on the github tracker. They responded that the issue was fixed. Steam downloaded a patch a couple of hours ago and the issue is indeed fixed.
Guest 27 Jul 2016
No executable, (Seattle Washington)
manero666 27 Jul 2016
I tried them all and they launch and run fine.
Unfortunately there is a huge mouse issue, it seems to be very delayed, this makes them unplayable to me..

If you move it slowly for 20cm and then back for 20cm to the other side, you can see that the camera movement is absolutely NOT synchronized!

If you have mesa you can try Wine Gallium Nine, i tried the first one some months ago and it ran great :)
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