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If it wasn't enough that Feral Interactive are porting Life is Strange 2, Total War: WARHAMMER II and Total War: THREE KINGDOMS to Linux they're also teasing another new Linux port. They also only asked a few days ago to send port requests to them so they're really quite busy for us lately.

Popping up on their port teaser radar today was this "CRYPTIC OBSCURITY":

It's currently sat in the "Quite Soon" part of their radar, not that it really means all that much as it's very ambiguous but it is always a good bit of fun. I've said before how I hoped they would start announcing things sooner, looks like they're going to do so since they've announced multiple titles only in the last few months and now we're here again.

I honestly can't imagine what Linux gaming would be like without the titles Feral has ported, hope to see this continue for many years to come.

So grab your thinking caps, brew up something tasty and start your guessing.

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Brisse Nov 15, 2018
Lol, "CRYPTIC OBSCURITY" is such an ironic clue.

But yea, it's SotTR.
Ehvis Nov 15, 2018
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Sounds like either Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Cyberpunk 2077

don't know anything about the clue though, except ther's a book with this name

Sounds good! And with "Quite soon" it should be a release before Windows/consoles. :D
pete910 Nov 15, 2018
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If it is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, they better reveal it soon because they are losing sales in droves to Steam Play.

This is why Wine/Steam play is a double edged sword.

Wine has it's place for older unsupported software but I get the feeling that devs will make their game work in steamplay and claim Linux support. Which in turn will hit devs like Ferral as they will be deemed unneeded.

I still wont by a game even if it does work in wine/steam play well, the old saying "No tux NO bucks!"
gojul Nov 15, 2018
The shortest gap between the release of the Windows version and the release of the Linux version I've seen in Feral Interactive games is about 3 months. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released in September 2018 so we can expect it in December 2018 or January 2019.

Nope. Xcom2 was same day.
pb Nov 15, 2018
I'm waiting for Feral before buying SotTR and Hitman 2 so it better be one of these.

I think the former is more probable, given the hint and the publisher...


Last edited by pb on 15 November 2018 at 4:55 pm UTC
Para-Gliding Nov 15, 2018
Got it...it's TotalWar Something ... what did I win?
Elvanex Nov 15, 2018
I took a screenshot of a zoomed in version of the picture and am now pretty certain that I have no idea what it is.
There are palm trees and there are strange ancient glyphs/art chiselled in to stone. I suppose it could somehow be Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Palm trees and glyphs in stone makes me think of GTA5... lol. Fat chance of that happening though.
kon14 Nov 15, 2018
I really hope it's something other than Tomb Raider. The first one was alright, if a bit generic, and the second one was the same game just not as good.

I love the TR games, though that's pretty much how I feel regarding most of their TW and racing port announcements.
walther von stolzing Nov 15, 2018
I was too lazy to crop the image before running a reverse image search, so this is the result I got:



Still, it's a pretty solid clue. I say, it's the new mobile Diablo. (I mean it says 'mobile phone case', so...)
massatt212 Nov 15, 2018
sure its some Turn-based strategy, Real-time tactics
game that i dont intend on playing unless its Warcraft 3 Remastered which will prob work out of box on Lutris
GIve us some Racers (Not Simulation Garbage) and Fighters
The Crew 2
some NFS
even Crew 1
Dragonball fighterz
Tekken 7
tired of seeing total war
or maybe Darksiders 3
Power-Metal-Games Nov 15, 2018
Shadow of the Total War
x_wing Nov 15, 2018
I think that they live it easy for us:

https://www.feralinteractive.com/images/upcoming/Cryptic+Obscurity+.jpg

Which seems to be a Peruvian glyph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusharo

And you know, Shadow of the Tomb Raider story is located in Peru (or with an Inca like civilization).
Cestus Nov 15, 2018
alan wake
Dunc Nov 15, 2018
“Cryptic obscurity”? Is it a new version of the teaser radar?
gustavoyaraujo Nov 15, 2018
Looks like porting games to Linux is actually a good job. I wonder why isn't so many like Feral out there.


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pb Nov 15, 2018
So I went to look at the radar... and I see LEGO The Incredibles coming very soon... only for Mac. FUUUUUUU
Kimyrielle Nov 15, 2018
If it is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, they better reveal it soon because they are losing sales in droves to Steam Play.

This is why Wine/Steam play is a double edged sword.

Wine has it's place for older unsupported software but I get the feeling that devs will make their game work in steamplay and claim Linux support. Which in turn will hit devs like Ferral as they will be deemed unneeded.

I still wont by a game even if it does work in wine/steam play well, the old saying "No tux NO bucks!"

In a world where 100% of all Windows games would run in Proton in a way that's 100% indistinguishable from running it in Windows...why would it still matter if the port is native?

Because that's what Valve wants to do.
mububu Nov 15, 2018
I think also it will be Tombraider
but would also like to see the next part of Hitman ... ;-)
Keyrock Nov 15, 2018
It's probably Total War: War of Totality: Part 87
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