Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue, a free introduction for the upcoming Unbound: Worlds Apart is now available on Linux letting you conjure magic portals to travel between different realities.
The developer, Alien Pixel Studios, mentioned that they went for a "cartoonish" style with a dark fairy tail story to give a fresh take on the genre. It's non-linear, with metroidvania elements and they said that your curiosity and exploration will be rewarded and have an impact on the overall atmosphere you get from it. They also have a sweet new animated trailer:
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Feature Highlight:
- Beautiful hand-drawn art
- Rich puzzle environment
- Nonlinear Story - Metroidvanian elements
- Play with portals
- Malevolent enemies that you have to outsmart
- Nonlinear Gameplay
I love the idea of it, making you pull up a portal to get around enemies and obstacles. Is it any good though? Well, it definitely looks the part. The visuals are simply wonderful. Have a look at some actual Linux gameplay footage in the below video:
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After playing it, I must admit my fondness for little Soli (the protagonist). They may be small but they're determined and wow—what an atmosphere! The gameplay does seem to be interesting, and it can be a little challenging to get your timing right on some of the platforming elements. Needing to switch quickly between portal and no portal I found a little tricky in parts. Wonderful audio too, mixed with an incredibly vibrant style that's quite a treat for the eyes. I'm actually now quite excited for the full game, this Prologue was worth a go for sure.
Try out the Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue free for yourself on Steam. You can also wishlist/follow the full game on Steam, which has no current release date mentioned.
Unbound: Worlds Apart was originally funded on Kickstarter, you can see it any many more on our dedicated crowdfunding page.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: stud68Looks interesting.Just add a scarf and remove the legs. :)
Soli looks very much like Orco from He-man.
Quoting: scaineAw man, I really wanted to try this - looks like an accessible Hollow Knight. But it doesn't detect my wired Xbox360. I'm gonna give xboxdrv a shot, see if that does the trick.Weird. My Logitech F310 worked out of the box, what I recorded with!
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineAw man, I really wanted to try this - looks like an accessible Hollow Knight. But it doesn't detect my wired Xbox360. I'm gonna give xboxdrv a shot, see if that does the trick.Weird. My Logitech F310 worked out of the box, what I recorded with!
Yeah, first game I've come across that can't detect a wired 360! It's not working with xboxdrv either. I also tried launching it form big picture - obviously the gamepad is fine in that, but then nothing when I launch the game. I'll check the Steam discussions and see if it's a general thing, a wired 360 thing, or a Linux Mint thing.
Quoting: scaineDo you have "steam-devices" installed?Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineAw man, I really wanted to try this - looks like an accessible Hollow Knight. But it doesn't detect my wired Xbox360. I'm gonna give xboxdrv a shot, see if that does the trick.Weird. My Logitech F310 worked out of the box, what I recorded with!
Yeah, first game I've come across that can't detect a wired 360! It's not working with xboxdrv either. I also tried launching it form big picture - obviously the gamepad is fine in that, but then nothing when I launch the game. I'll check the Steam discussions and see if it's a general thing, a wired 360 thing, or a Linux Mint thing.
Quoting: scaineMy F710 works out of the box on Mint, so I doubt it's a Linux Mint thing.Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineAw man, I really wanted to try this - looks like an accessible Hollow Knight. But it doesn't detect my wired Xbox360. I'm gonna give xboxdrv a shot, see if that does the trick.Weird. My Logitech F310 worked out of the box, what I recorded with!
Yeah, first game I've come across that can't detect a wired 360! It's not working with xboxdrv either. I also tried launching it form big picture - obviously the gamepad is fine in that, but then nothing when I launch the game. I'll check the Steam discussions and see if it's a general thing, a wired 360 thing, or a Linux Mint thing.
EDIT: The game/demo itself is a bit awkward. It's beautiful, and the idea is nice enough, but the gameplay is not very satisfying. The "jump and quickly smash the other button twice to move the portal" mechanic was annoying enough, but the bit in the dark with the light shrinking when you move grated on my nerves.
Last edited by tuubi on 13 April 2020 at 6:53 pm UTC
stadia incoming? or android? or switch?
Defo got this game wish-listed.
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineDo you have "steam-devices" installed?Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineAw man, I really wanted to try this - looks like an accessible Hollow Knight. But it doesn't detect my wired Xbox360. I'm gonna give xboxdrv a shot, see if that does the trick.Weird. My Logitech F310 worked out of the box, what I recorded with!
Yeah, first game I've come across that can't detect a wired 360! It's not working with xboxdrv either. I also tried launching it form big picture - obviously the gamepad is fine in that, but then nothing when I launch the game. I'll check the Steam discussions and see if it's a general thing, a wired 360 thing, or a Linux Mint thing.
Nope - good shout! But it was still the same. Until... there's a thread on the discussion forum which notes a few folk having issues. The dev notes that if you change the per-game controller setting to "Forced Off", this brings the gamepad to life!
I played for 20 minutes with the keyboard, which wasn't great. I'll give this a go tomorrow with the gamepad.
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