I spoke to the developer of We Happy Few on twitter to get an update on the Linux version, it seems it has been pushed back.
Originally they said that the Linux version would be available during Early Access, but now it will be later:
@gamingonlinux Shortly acter the final release of the game :)
— Compulsion Games (@CompulsionGames) September 10, 2016
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A real shame that it's coming out later than previously stated, but still great that it's coming. Looking forward to it, as it looks bonkers.
About the game
We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial in the city of Wellington Wells. Set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England, you’ll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who don’t take kindly to people who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.
Quoting: tuubiQuoting: TheGZeusAnother procedurally generated survival crafting game.That really is disappointing. I somehow expected a story-focused action adventure with an original style and premise.
It was mentioned somewhere that the story part of the game would not appear in the betas, only in the final game.
Quoting: EhvisThe gameplay does not seem interesting, so I'm not holding my breath. The game would need a damn good story to compensate.Quoting: tuubiQuoting: TheGZeusAnother procedurally generated survival crafting game.That really is disappointing. I somehow expected a story-focused action adventure with an original style and premise.
It was mentioned somewhere that the story part of the game would not appear in the betas, only in the final game.
Quoting: KuromiDont wanna to be a Downer here, bu i strongly doubt there will be Linux release at all. Not much of hints coming about it from developers, but you now, first they say it wuill be in alpha, then they say it will after shortly release, then they say "we encountered problems" you have to wait and in the end they say "You know, we moving on to new game/this one sold out/linux is too hard/not enough of users outside windows" and similar stuff.
This is an "untested" developer, so that may indeed be the case. This is also an Unreal Engine game, which has proven to be more difficult to port than Unity3D. We'll just have to see how it turns out.
Quoting: KuromiDont wanna to be a Downer here, bu i strongly doubt there will be Linux release at all.
They said it will be after the release. So far it's not released, so everything else is speculation. So we'll have to wait and see. I agree though, that it's a very bad approach to start testing Linux version post release only.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: KuromiDont wanna to be a Downer here, bu i strongly doubt there will be Linux release at all.
They said it will be after the release. So far it's not released, so everything else is speculation. So we'll have to wait and see. I agree though, that it's a very bad approach to start testing Linux version post release only.
Basically, maybe it will come out eventually but probably not.
Quoting: m2mg2Basically, maybe it will come out eventually but probably not.
I see no reason for them to cancel it so far.
Quoting: ShmerlCompulsion are only going to start working on Linux support soon. Hopefully some interesting update is coming.
Well, that's late. (I always fear such late ports will result in bad sale numbers and thus in a lower probability of later ports.) Thanks for sharing!
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