After promising Linux support for Supraland with the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for a sequel, Supra Games have now delivered!
Supraland is a First-Person Metroidvania Puzzle game. The main sources of inspiration are Zelda, Metroid and Portal. Supraland assumes that you are intelligent and lets you play independently. The story is minimal, gives you an overarching goal to pursue, and then sets you free. Despite child friendly visuals, the game targets experienced players. Playtime: ~12-25h
It's popular too, with an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating on Steam from nearly two thousand ratings so the developer has certainly got a good idea here. It looks really sweet too, check out the trailer:
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It even has a demo available on Steam, which I gave a run. After crashing first during the intro scene, a second attempt seemed to be fine. Performance isn't great though, I did have to turn down a number of settings quite a bit to get it smooth but it's playable.
Seems like a really sweet game though, apart from the performance the demo gameplay was actually quite impressive so I'm not really surprised so many love it. Great colourful style to it too, with everything being set in a literal sandbox in a child's garden. Quite a lot of secrets to find too, even in the demo. You can pick up a copy on Humble Store and Steam.
You can also find the Kickstarter campaign for the sequel here which will also have Linux support. Currently the funding campaign has managed to get over 50% funding with 28 days left to go.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
rustybroomhandle Jul 3, 2019
Quoting: TheSHEEEPThis is the first time I have even heard Metroidvania applied to a puzzle/exploration FPS.
Slime Rancher also follows Metroidvania progression structure.
Supraland demo wasn't perfect - it's one of those game, I suspect where you can't "miss" a section and continue playing. The demo requires you to unlock all five hidden golden barrels to actually progress and it's honestly not amazingly straight forward in such a complex 3D environment. But it's beautiful to look at, slick movement and nice interaction. Looking forward to playing the full game.
Anyway, the game is completely playable!
I'm using a gpu under the specs (gtx 750 2Gb) and i can achieve about 30fps at 1920x1080 with "resolution quality" to minimum.
Plus, i've to set texture quality to minimum or it crashes every now and then.
The fun thing is that performances under proton are about the same, but i can keep the texture quality to maximum and it does not crash.
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it seems to perform BETTER with proton.
Last edited by kokoko3k on 8 July 2019 at 8:59 am UTC
I'm playing at 1080p on a GTX1080 and the performance is flawless, on max, no crashes suffered so far. I might have to turn off lens flare though, since it's constantly flaring in your face when you pick up a supraball with your upgraded gun. Pretty distracting.
Lovely game though, beautiful visuals and a really fun premise. It just needs some kind of quest/hint system to keep the player interested. I'll keep my eye on Supraland 2 for sure.
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