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THQ Nordic has a little present for us today, as Silver, an RPG from the Dreamcast days has released on Steam with Linux support.

The game originally released in 1999 and here we are nearly two decades later with a Linux version, good things come to those who wait I guess? It's not the first older title they've given to Linux, as they also put out an updated version of Imperium Galactica II which had Linux support added recently as well.

Features
  • Intuitive Swordplay: Silver's unique control method allows quick and intuitive handling of action, which is especially helpful in the heat of battle. In effect, the mouse becomes the player's "sword arm". Sweep the mouse to your left and your hero will slash to the left, sweep the mouse forward and your hero will lunge. Magical effects, throwing knives, arrow, and even catapults are also controlled through the mouse system.
  • Interact with more than 50 characters. Be wary, not all are friendly
  • Recruit allies, all with special abilities-Sekune is a master of archery, Cagen is a skilled martial artist, Jug's strength makes him a force to be reckoned with, and more
  • Travel through hundreds of beautiful locations, rich in detail…and packed with danger
  • Immerse yourself in battle with real-time combat
  • Marvel at vivid special effects, powerful magical spells, and mighty weaponry that you'll acquire on your journey
  • Use your mouse as your sword-vanquish your foes, including demons, dragons, and other insidious creatures


Find Silver on Steam. It's 20% off right now too and the price seems pretty reasonable anyway.

GOG has had it for a while, but they don't have the Linux version. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Tags: Action, RPG, Steam
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Suppen Jun 3, 2017
Ooooooooh yeeeeah! Richard Ridings has the voice of Fuge! Eargsasm!
Xzyl Jun 3, 2017
Snatched this one up, I miss the dream cast days, oh I would kill for my grandia 2 disks to work.
omer666 Jun 3, 2017
On Fedora, no problem getting it to work with libGLEW, but I've got the following error:
/home/omer666/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Silver/silver32: relocation error: /home/omer666/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Silver/silver32: symbol _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE10_M_replaceEjjPKcj, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference
Game removed: AppID 606680 "Silver", ProcID 8227 


Any idea?
cprn Jun 3, 2017
Quoting: omer666[...] GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference [...]

Any idea?

You probably solved but in case you didn't... Are you using some non-standard glibc libs? 3rd party maybe? Try installing the stable one from Fedora repositories. The libstdc++6 would be the right package for Ubuntu so maybe it's named something similar in your distribution. If you don't want to change your OS libraries just LD_PRELOAD it in app properties.
cprn Jun 3, 2017
It made me think about Die By The Sword. I think it's the first game that did this sword-mouse mechanics... I wish it was on Linux, used to be awesome - especially the multiplayer arena. Well, one can dream, I guess.
omer666 Jun 3, 2017
Quoting: cprn
Quoting: omer666[...] GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference [...]

Any idea?

You probably solved but in case you didn't... Are you using some non-standard glibc libs? 3rd party maybe? Try installing the stable one from Fedora repositories. The libstdc++6 would be the right package for Ubuntu so maybe it's named something similar in your distribution. If you don't want to change your OS libraries just LD_PRELOAD it in app properties.

Yes I sorted it out by completely disabling the Steam runtime, but the game has some big graphical bugs in combat, too bad...
m2mg2 Jun 4, 2017
Doesn't start on Fedora 25 for me. From the command line I get "restart failed" and exit.
Asu Jun 4, 2017
Noice!
hummer010 Jun 4, 2017
I wonder if the Linux version will make its way to GOG? I've already got Silver there.
SystemShock Jun 4, 2017
Found the original CD in a Box on my Attic.
I installed it with wine and it runs very well.
But i have to keep the cd in drive when i wanna play.

Hmm maybe i buy that perl again ... :-))
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