Subscribe to Amazon Prime? Well you can get a free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition thanks to their partnership with GOG.
A good time to pick it up too considering Beamdog are many years later still upgrading the game. Just recently it had an update adding in a new cartoon shader and lots of optimizations. It's still going strong! It has a Native Linux version available, that Beamdog have supported well too.
How to claim it? Go to Prime Gaming, login with your Amazon account and you'll see it in the list. You'll also need a GOG account as well of course. You have until July 19th to claim it. Since you'll be getting a copy on GOG, you don't need to keep your Prime subscription active - it's yours to keep.
If you also want an easy way to install GOG games on Linux, check out Heroic or Lutris. Both work great on desktop Linux and Steam Deck and just make setting up games from GOG much simpler overall.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
hardpenguin Jun 18, 2023
Avehicle7887 Jun 18, 2023
Quoting: hardpenguinI played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅
Might be the nostalgic in me, but for me this game has a certain charm and keeps me going back to it from time to time.
Quoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?
It was one of the oldies for sure (and one of if not my first), but IIRC support really languished until Beamdog took over.
Quoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?
One of the first well-known games to have native Linux support would probably be Doom 1/2. The open source release is in fact based on Linux Doom's code, as DOS Doom featured proprietary DMX sound code that couldn't be open sourced. This means that source ports running on DOS (and then Windows) effectively went full circle and had to reimplement the platform layer :)
Last edited by Calinou on 18 June 2023 at 8:56 pm UTC
Quoting: hardpenguinI played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅Yeah, the same thing with my try. Controls, mechanics etc. Just terrible. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 for example aged much better. Seriously.
Quoting: CalinouQuoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?
One of the first well-known games to have native Linux support would probably be Doom 1/2. The open source release is in fact based on Linux Doom's code, as DOS Doom featured proprietary DMX sound code that couldn't be open sourced. This means that source ports running on DOS (and then Windows) effectively went full circle and had to reimplement the platform layer :)
i mean, one of those games that had support prior to steamOS being a thing...
and game engines start supporting it, and so on.
anyway you reminded me of mugem...
TheRiddick Jun 18, 2023
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