Here's one from late last year that I missed, 1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings gained a Native Linux version. The new support was announced for Linux and macOS back in November 2022 where the developer mentioned they "worked day and night to polish and release versions of Unusual Findings for macOS and Linux".
The game launched in October, so that's a pretty good turnaround time to get a Linux version out.
More about it: "It’s the 80s and the Christmas is coming, Vinny, Nick and Tony are young and their new cable signal descrambler just arrived. That same night while trying to decrypt a pay per view adult channel, they pick up the distress signal of an alien spaceship crash-landing in the woods near their town… Things only get weirder as they realize that the towering alien is killing very specific members of their community!"
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Feature Highlight:
- Follow the Sci-Fi coming-of-age story. Three friends fighting together against the unknown… things (maybe against some known things too).
- See, Grab and Talk action tokens, an inventory to use and combine items and your wits it’s all you need to play.
- Stylized Pixel Art. All the charm of pixel art of the past with more colors and the new effects of the future. Some pixels look so real they can almost jump out of the screen*
- Go back to a simpler time where mix tapes were a thing, Commodore 64 was a king, kids could play outside late at night and the only thing to worry about was THE GIANT KILLER ALIEN TRYING TO GET YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS.
- The decisions you make affect the relations between characters and thus the puzzles, the game progression and the story.
- The most radical music a synthesizer can play. Cool popular Synthwave Music alongside catchy tunes made exclusively for the game to power up the 80s vibes.
Available to buy on Steam. It has no Steam Deck rating yet from Valve.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
StalePopcorn Feb 21, 2023
Ha! Our family got our first microwave mid 80's too!...and you could finally make fresh popcorn!
It has no Steam Deck rating yet from Valve.
For what it's worth, I'm currently playing it on Steam Deck. As someone else mentioned before, the touch screen lends itself well to these types of games.
It's pretty much a gamble. Chances are everything works just right. Or in the middle of testing, there is weird misbehavior in code that you didn't write and have a really hard time debugging. You might then try to find your own mistake, if you made any, make a bug report on unity and hope they solve it or try to circumvent it by altering your code or data. This can be really really time consuming, especially if you never did it before. 3 months on full time though? Probably not, yet you need to add waiting periods and (re-)testing ^^they "worked day and night to polish and release versions of Unusual Findings for macOS and Linux".
Wow, Unity must really suck if it takes 3 months of full-time work to export this relatively simple 2D game to a supported platform!
Gladly, Unity on Linux has become much more stable and having the native tooling is helping a lot. I remember trying to solve some issues before they started to port the editor to Linux and it was a real nightmare.
Last edited by const on 22 February 2023 at 10:15 am UTC
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