I will admit, I am quite surprised. Supraland from Supra Games recently released on GOG and it was only for Windows. The developer said some odd things about it all and now it seems they changed their mind, thankfully.
Today, the Linux version of Supraland officially went live on GOG and GOG themselves sent over a copy for me to check out. I've already played through the demo on Steam and apart from some performance issues here and there, it's a delightful game.
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If you've not played it, the whole game is incredibly colourful with an sort-of open-world 3D setting in a literal sandbox. You're basically running around something designed by a child, complete with blocks that look like Lego. It's stylish, the puzzles and exploration are great and I love finding secrets.
No issues with the GOG version, runs as expected. Nice to be able to continue progress from the demo too!
Always nice when a story has a happy ending. So now you can pick up the Linux version of Supraland on either GOG or Steam and both stores have the demo too.
As a reminder Supra Games are also currently crowdfunding for Supraland 2 on Kickstarter, which is confirmed to be coming to Linux as well.
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How about we show some appreciation for DavidM this time, eh people? ^_^
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Yesterday the dev tried to upload it (didn't want to break the surprise :P):
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MekaDragon Jul 11, 2019
I wouldn't call the performance issues like "here and there" when it can barely achieve 50fps everything in the lowest setting on my GTX970 and i5 [email protected]...
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Arehandoro Jul 11, 2019
I don't need a new game right now. I don't want to buy another title.
Yet for the effort, and an act of good faith with the developer, I WILL BUY IT.
Yet for the effort, and an act of good faith with the developer, I WILL BUY IT.
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I wouldn't call the performance issues like "here and there" when it can barely achieve 50fps everything in the lowest setting on my GTX970 and i5 [email protected]...Use the vsync force...
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gradyvuckovic Jul 11, 2019
That's quite generous of them to be honest.
Real talk, GOG doesn't have a very large market of gamers relative to Steam, and neither does Linux obviously (I mean, I know it sucks to say that but.. well it's true). The developer could have phrased his earlier statements better but they were right about how niche that is. The number of Linux sales they'd likely get for an indie game on GOG is probably pretty low. They really didn't need to do this from a strictly profit driven perspective, so it's quite awesome of them to do this.
Windows and Linux support, no MTX or expensive DLC, a Demo, Steam and GOG releases and no exclusivity in sight, that's a very awesome way to release a game, really supporting consumers and choice of platform/store. Developers like this one really do deserve as much support as we can offer.
I know the Linux port still has some performance issues, but the fact that the developer bothered with a native port when their game was already Platinum for Proton is fantastic, and I'm sure they'll eventually figure out the performance issues.
Real talk, GOG doesn't have a very large market of gamers relative to Steam, and neither does Linux obviously (I mean, I know it sucks to say that but.. well it's true). The developer could have phrased his earlier statements better but they were right about how niche that is. The number of Linux sales they'd likely get for an indie game on GOG is probably pretty low. They really didn't need to do this from a strictly profit driven perspective, so it's quite awesome of them to do this.
Windows and Linux support, no MTX or expensive DLC, a Demo, Steam and GOG releases and no exclusivity in sight, that's a very awesome way to release a game, really supporting consumers and choice of platform/store. Developers like this one really do deserve as much support as we can offer.
I know the Linux port still has some performance issues, but the fact that the developer bothered with a native port when their game was already Platinum for Proton is fantastic, and I'm sure they'll eventually figure out the performance issues.
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I picked this one up on Steam about a week ago and I've sunk in about five hours. The performance for me has been solid and I haven't noticed many dips below 60fps with everything turned up at 1080p. This is on a 2700x and RX480 with Mesa 19.1. There was some shader compilation stutter but it's been an overall smooth and interesting experience. Thankfully there's a demo you can try out, the performance didn't really vary for me between that and the full build.
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I also picked this one up during the summer sale and it's been fun. Performance varies between 40-50fps maxed at 1440P which is fine for a game like this with freesync. I'll have to see if I have vsync forced. It's impressive to see an Unreal 4 game run so well natively.
+1 DavidM ^_^
+1 DavidM ^_^
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I'm gonna buy this thing now. On Steam, though :-D
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Thankfully this game did not go the Witcher 3 way. The collective reaction and the complaints about performance made me fear it would happen.
I'm afraid that complains won't stop. I leave the probable sequence:
_start:
- Bad performance
- Performance not equal to Windows performance
- Linux builds shipped later than Windows one's
- Switch to Unity
- jmp _start
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Oh, that was fast! Ok, I'll buy it then. 
Good news the demo is also available on Linux, I'll give it some try.
Though, I hope the future updates will come to GOG too, not like some games.
Good news the demo is also available on Linux, I'll give it some try.
Though, I hope the future updates will come to GOG too, not like some games.
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Huh. Well I gotta say, if I'd been setting fire to bridges as hard as that guy was, I would have had a really hard time getting myself to build them again, so kudos there. Interesting fellow.
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Unless I'm imagining things, the ones having lower than expected performance all seem to have Nvidia GPU's. Myself included. Isn't that an interesting possibility? 
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after the linux community biching around because of gog, i never had thought they would publish it on gog
i dont get it. steam is just a click for the download.
on gog you have to download the game... each and every part.
than you have to install it manually
and patches wont come automatically
as long as gog dont give a peep about linux, i wont buy a game there
i know they are DRM free, but they screwed linux with witcher 3 and they wont give us a linux client. so i dont give them my money
for me linux support is more important, than DRM free games
i dont get it. steam is just a click for the download.
on gog you have to download the game... each and every part.
than you have to install it manually
and patches wont come automatically
as long as gog dont give a peep about linux, i wont buy a game there
i know they are DRM free, but they screwed linux with witcher 3 and they wont give us a linux client. so i dont give them my money
for me linux support is more important, than DRM free games
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And releasing something new immediately after the Steam summer sale is rather anti-smart. :)
Edit: Oh well, the pic/post is fake?
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And releasing something new immediately after the Steam summer sale is rather anti-smart. :)
Edit: Oh well, the pic/post is fake?
Last edited by sub on 11 July 2019 at 6:21 pm UTC
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Avehicle7887 Jul 11, 2019
I noticed the addition of the Linux version earlier today at work. The dev may not have started with the right foot with GOG users, but what matters is that he changed his mind and released it, to a certain point it's more than some other devs do/did with their Linux releases.
TLDR - Bought the game, he deserves the support.
TLDR - Bought the game, he deserves the support.
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appetrosyan Jul 11, 2019
:D I like how we get into the polemics over some tweets, and it all turns out nicely.
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linuxjacques Jul 11, 2019
Unless I'm imagining things, the ones having lower than expected performance all seem to have Nvidia GPU's. Myself included. Isn't that an interesting possibility?
I have a GTX1080, and running at 3440x1440 I get a solid 20fps :|
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I have a GTX1080, and running at 3440x1440 I get a solid 20fps :|Try dropping the resolution scale a bit, I saw the most drastic performance improvements from that setting alone. You might not even see a difference at 80%. Hell, even 50% scale and all other settings maxed looked pretty good. Sort of 'soft focus' mode.
Did some testing with a 1080Ti, same resolution as you. Details in the Supraland Steam forums.
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