After a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2015, Dead Mage went onto launch their story-driven action RPG to a lot of positive reviews last year but so far Linux has been missing.
It was a confirmed platform for release on their Kickstarter but since release, things have been a little quiet. The publisher, 11 bit studios didn't reply to our messages and the developer has been practically silent about it on their Steam page.
Thankfully, Dead Mage themselves did email me early this morning to say "We are working on the Linux version and we are doing this because we love what Linux is all about :).". A short, sweet and to the point message. Not much to go on since the last reply in October 19 but good that it's happening.
Want to see what it's all about? The trailer is below:
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Especially since we know that scenario two invariably ends with "it's too hard to replace the Windows-only middleware, so we give up on Linux support".
Interesting thing is that apparently someone did a Linux port "for fun", I found it on Steam forums and downloaded it, just in case. I didn't test it until now but I might try soon...
If it works, It would be interesting to compare the "fun" port and the official one.
hardpenguin Feb 27, 2020
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