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Hella yeah! Originally developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and published by Square Enix on Windows and console, Feral Interactive have now officially released Life is Strange 2 for Linux.

This means we now have Life is Strange, Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Life is Strange 2 all ported and supported on Linux thanks to the work from Feral which is awesome. Sadly, the free Captain Spirit, which is also set in the Life is Strange universe will not make it to Linux as Feral have no plans for that.

Check out the trailer below:

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If you've never played a Life is Strange game, they're all heavily story-driven adventures where you make choices as you progress. Your choices end up affecting the story in a few ways with Life is Strange 2 having seven different endings. You don't need to have played the previous games to enjoy this, while it's in the same universe it follows a new story.

After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's newly manifested powers of telekinesis – the ability to move objects with his mind – the boys decide to travel to their father's hometown of Puerto Lobos in Mexico for safety. Suddenly, sixteen year-old Sean is responsible for nine year-old Daniel’s safety, and teaching him right from wrong. As Daniel's power grows, it’s up to Sean to decide the rules by which they live.

Linux system requirements:

Minimum Recommended
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit

Processor: 3.4GHz Intel Core i3-4130

Processor: 3.2GHz Intel Core i5-6500
Memory: 4 GB RAM Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 380 4GB Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB
Storage: 42 GB available space Storage: 42 GB available space

This is another Vulkan port, so you will need to ensure your drivers are up to date. Feral recommend NVIDIA 430.14 or newer and for AMD Mesa 19.1.2 or newer. Intel GPUs are not supported for Life is Strange 2 on Linux currently. While Feral usually only support Ubuntu, their games generally work fantastic across a wide range of distributions. I never have issues with their games on Manjaro, for example.

If you wish to ensure you get good performance, Feral are still recommending putting your CPU into Performance Mode. You can see more in their FAQ here.

As usual, the artist wizards at Feral have styled their useful game launcher appropriately for the game and it once again looks absolutely brilliant:

Their launcher will offer to send diagnostics and crash reports automatically, this way if you encounter issues Feral should hopefully get all the info they need to track it down and fix it. I personally always turn this on, just to be sure I'm doing my part to help improve it if anything happens.

As for the gameplay, so far everything seems great. Super smooth performance on the highest settings, not a graphical glitch or stutter in sight. Looks like Feral Interactive have done another fantastic job.

We will be doing our usual livestream play-through, with Sin taking the helm on our Twitch Channel. So be sure you're following us to join in on the experience.

The next title after this that we know Feral are porting to Linux is Total War Saga: TROY, with a possibility of more to come next year. Hopefully Life is Strange 2 does well enough for Feral to continue porting and supporting great games on Linux.

You can pick it up on Humble Store, Feral Store and Steam.

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Liam Dawe Dec 19, 2019
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo42GB!!!???
20GB of that is just teenage angst 🤪


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 19 December 2019 at 11:49 am UTC
TheSHEEEP Dec 19, 2019
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Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo42GB!!!???
20GB of that is just teenage angst 🤪
Compressed or raw?
Liam Dawe Dec 19, 2019
Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo42GB!!!???
20GB of that is just teenage angst 🤪
Compressed or raw?
Now that's a good one 😂
Eike Dec 19, 2019
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Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo42GB!!!???
20GB of that is just teenage angst 🤪
Compressed or raw?

Angst always is raw.


Last edited by Eike on 19 December 2019 at 12:25 pm UTC
ageres Dec 19, 2019
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo42GB!!!???
At least it will have been downloaded eventually. I've been trying to download Detroid via Epic Game Launcher (53 GB) for last three days. I had to pause downloading sometimes or even close the launcher because it's so shitty so it hurts performance of my CPU (it did that on my old AMD FX, but now I've got Ryzen 7, and EGS still gets it busy more than any videogame). When it was almost over and only a couple of gigs left or even less that that, EGS started glitching again, so I relaunched it. And what do I see now? That crap has erased everything and started all over again! The worst software I've ever seen. Damn you Sweeney.
Usual Dec 19, 2019
Any news on Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit?
Liam Dawe Dec 19, 2019
Quoting: UsualAny news on Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit?
It's mentioned in the article, Feral have no plans to port it. Probably because it's free and they would get nothing from it.
gojul Dec 19, 2019
I wait until tonight to buy it as it turns out we will have the winter sale on Steam (and not a lot of money these days :-( )
Raaben Dec 19, 2019
Glad to hear it's a quality port, though Feral don't seem to disappoint there. The hard thing is having to wait for the weekend when I can binge it!


Last edited by Raaben on 19 December 2019 at 2:13 pm UTC
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