Life is Strange: Before the Storm [Steam], the standalone story adventure set three years before the original is officially heading to Linux! Feral Interactive have today announced that it will arrive sometime this Spring.
Feral Interactive ported the original Life is Strange episodes to Linux, so I’m not surprised they’re teaming up again to bring Before the Storm to Linux. I think they did a very good job of the port before and I certainly enjoyed it a lot. Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Deluxe Edition for Linux will include all three episodes along with the bonus episode, "Farewell".
This standalone prequel isn’t actually made by the originally developer Dontnod, instead the the publisher picked Deck Nine.
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“With its tough yet vulnerable protagonist, Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a poignant evocation of teenage life,” said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive. “The atmospheric soundtrack, sharp writing and captivating story combine to create an engrossing and moving game, and we very are excited for macOS and Linux players to experience it.”
Feral said that pricing and system requirements will be confirmed closer to release. You can see the official news post over on the Feral Interactive site. They also now have a mini-site set up for it with a few more details.
This is the third confirmed port from Feral Interactive for Linux this year, so we will have: Total War: THRONES OF BRITANNIA, Rise of the Tomb Raider and now this as well!
Will you be grabbing a copy when it releases for Linux? Exciting times!
Will update the article later with any more information once the official press stuff has been sent out to us.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWill The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit be ported to Linux?
I was asking this myself as well. Being for free doesn't make it interesting for Feral to port it I guess ...
So I've been messing around a bit with it using Wine.
Back in the days when the final episode of the game was released, it would start in Wine but the characters where invisible due to lack of "stream output support". This has since been implemented in Wine's DX11 -> OpenGL layer which has led to a platinum rating over at WineHQ Application DB.
Today, I tried it using Wine + DXVK, and it turns out DXVK still doesn't support stream output and the issue is apparently not easy to solve using Vulkan, at least not in a straight forward and performant manner. The issue has been brought up with the Khronos Working Group and hopefully they will come up with a future revision of Vulkan that enables developers to implement this feature in their Vulkan wrappers.
Surely Feral will also want to use Vulkan for their port and thus they are probably running into the same issue as DXVK which means they also have to wait for Khronos to update Vulkan before they can continue their development of the game.
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