Interplay Entertainment along with Square One Games and Black Isle Studios have confirmed that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is coming to Steam along with Native Linux support.
This follows along from Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance that had a Steam release last year that also had Native Linux support and it will work nicely on the Steam Deck too.
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From the Steam page:
Unspeakable evil has returned to the legendary city of Baldur's Gate in this dungeon-crawling, action RPG fantasy classic. A call for adventurers echoes through the embattled land. Cunning warriors and bold magic users are desperately needed to reclaim Baldur's Gate from a dark sorcery that threatens all in its path.
- Five new heroes with new class feats and abilities
- Hack your way or cast powerful spells through over 80 perilous levels
- Hidden areas, secret characters, and hundreds of items to discover, customize, and use
- Forge unique magical weapons and armor to maximize the damage you inflict in battle
- Conquer hordes of beasts and armies of Hobgoblins, Ghouls, Golems and dreaded Dragons
- Compelling single or two-player cooperative modes of play
Additionally, they previously teased a rough video of it running on a Steam Deck:
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You can wishlist / follow on Steam. Quick update: GOG confirmed too but no store page yet.
Great news! :)
So I start to hope a bit we can see this dev to port more games in the future on Linux/macOS. If they plan to doing that, the community have to support them.
Quoting: CyrilSo I start to hope a bit we can see this dev to port more games in the future on Linux/macOS.
Looks like it's the same group that remastered the original Wasteland game, and the Bard's Tale ARPG:
http://s1games.com/
Not sure why they only take credit for the console ports of Dark Alliance on their website, when Steam says it was them.
Quoting: PhlebiacMaybe because they didn't release Linux/macOS versions of those? 😀 granted they work fine in wine. I didn't even know Wasteland had a remastered version until a while ago, as there is an updated / fixed version that released with Wasteland 2: Director's cut as well.Quoting: CyrilSo I start to hope a bit we can see this dev to port more games in the future on Linux/macOS.
Looks like it's the same group that remastered the original Wasteland game, and the Bard's Tale ARPG:
http://s1games.com/
Not sure why they only take credit for the console ports of Dark Alliance on their website, when Steam says it was them.
How am I supposed to eject the floppy and cheat with these new versions though?
(There was a room toward the end where you could enter, kill all the things and loot them, then pop out the floppy disk so it couldn't write to disk that you killed them, and would load the previous room from RAM. Then you could push the disk back in, walk back into the room and it would load up the enemies again... rinse and repeat until you were no longer low on ammo, etc.)
https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldurs_gate_dark_alliance_ii
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