Frostrail from the devs of Barotrauma 'eager' to support Linux with a 'tentative yes'

By Liam Dawe - 24 Apr 2025 at 2:01 pm UTC

Barotrauma devs FakeFish recently revealed Frostrail during the Triple-I Initiative event, and they're giving a "tentative yes" for Linux support. Swapping out a submarine and cold ocean for a train and frozen wasteland, Frostrail is a ruthless open world survival FPS where you have to carefully manage your train to keep pushing forward.

Speaking in a Steam announcement the developer said this about Linux support:

Will Frostrail be MacOs/Linux compatible?

One of our developers is primarily working on Linux, and we are eager to open Frostrail to the Linux gaming community. So that’s a tentative yes at this point at least for Linux. Our number one priority is making the PC version smooth and stable for Early Access release, and Linux/Mac support is also kept in mind every step of the way. However, we can only fully confirm support for these OS upon release.

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The publisher, Shiro Games, recently revealed that it amassed over 100,000 wishlists on Steam only 4 days after the reveal. Clearly there's a lot of interest in this one!

It will enter Early Access in 2026.

Frostrail

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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, FPS, Indie Game, Online Co-op, Steam, Survival, Upcoming | Apps: Frostrail

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CatKiller 7 hours ago

Supporter Plus

I really dislike the PC = Windows mistake.

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YulianKuncheff 5 hours ago

New User

I am curious if they will keep using Monogame and/or Haxe, or if they will use a different engine (maybe I just didn't see it if it was mentioned)

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R Daneel Olivaw 4 hours ago

Supporter

hot damn that looks amazing. It's like snowpiercer and stranger things had a freaky baby and I am HERE FOR IT.

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Xpander 1 hour ago

That looks pretty interesting. Snowepiercer indeed. Also has Co-op which is nice for games like these.
Added to wishlist!

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