Thanks to a user comment on one of our older articles, we've been informed that The Signal From Tölva [Official Site] is now on Linux on Steam. I've checked myself and it does download and launch. Going by SteamDB, it was added a day ago with no word from the developer.
This is the third game from Big Robot Ltd, the developer of Sir, You Are Being Hunted which is also available for Linux. They also developed AVSEQ which is not on Linux.
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About the game:
The Signal From Tölva is a journey into a wild, weird science fiction landscape, filled with danger and beauty: you must survive terrible hazards, navigate through impossible spaces, and fight an ongoing battle to control this haunted, blighted world. Explore, ponder strange texts, and find tranquillity between the battles. You will make use of a range of powerful tools to overcome your enemies and uncover secrets: hack robots to battle alongside you, equip powerful weapons, and detonate savage defence systems.
Fight, explore, and solve the mystery of The Signal From Tölva!
Performance on all maxed settings hovers between 45-60FPS. Not bad at all really! Sadly though, it took me all of 5 minutes messing around to get completely stuck. I jumped on top of some wrecked and then I just couldn't move. Thankfully, the game includes a system where you can hijack another robot using the map, so it was nothing more than a minor nuisance.
The loadout system seems pretty nice, with you being able to unlock and buy new primary and secondary weapons, new shields and more. I actually saw a complaint in a negative review about collecting resources being pointless—I guess they missed the entire loadout system then…
I will say it's not a game for people who want fast-paced action, a lot of it is slower and there is a fair amount of walking involved in discovering all the locations. Something about the game feels quite lonely too, there's not a lot going on, the lands look pretty barren too.
There's no official announcement yet, but it's very much available and working really quite well.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by Nanobang on 17 Nov 2017 at 3:20 pm UTC
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.
It's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?No, this is mentioned twice in the article.
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.
I'm fine with strolling aroung a lonely world - if I'm strolling for a reason...
No, this is mentioned twice in the article.I read the missing announcements as something like they didn't write a news post on the steam store page or so. And as with the new Firefox Quantum and Enhanced Steam having issues with the platform icons, I just wanted to be sure ;)
Does this game have a proper story and ending?I haven't played it myself, but I've seen mentions of the nice ending/final explanation the game supposedly has, so it sounds like there's at least a story end; don't know whether that's the end of the game though.
I'm fine with strolling aroung a lonely world - if I'm strolling for a reason...
Wishlisted. :)
Of course, wishlisted.
Expalphalog 17 Nov 2017
Does this game have a proper story and ending?For now I am taking over bases of bad robots, and doing things that is explaining what has happened.
I'm fine with strolling aroung a lonely world - if I'm strolling for a reason...
I am not that far in yet, I started at easy, and yet it did eat some time from tending to my Ark dino's. And that is saying something.
It's not super relaxed at easy, but it is relaxed. And while being relaxed it does make me think about what happened. I mean: you are injected into a robot's AI. Why are there bad robots?
So if you are looking for action, there isn't. If you are looking for a story: there probably is a nice one. But I am just scratching the surface...
It's like that other game where you crashland on a planet and you realise the planet has already been visited and abandoned by the russians. The actions you have to do holds you off to finish the story too soon so you can think about, long for the next piece of hint about what is/was going on.
This game seems to go that direction.
I have one downside though: on a steam controller the aiming part has a too low resolution.
rustybroomhandle 18 Nov 2017
Game looks like abandoned , 0 in-game.
It's single player so this does not matter. Also, the devs are working on an expansion/dlc for it.
Buzzleclair 19 Nov 2017
It's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?No, this is mentioned twice in the article.
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.
Something is wrong with this article: this game is actually not available on Linux officially on Steam. It's only on Windows and MacOS, that's it!
So do you mean that if we purchase the game, it will be available on Linux magically? Will it count as a Linux purchase?
Sorry, but this article is very misleading...
I'm saying that because I'd like to buy and play this game, but only on Linux, if not, I'll ignore it...
There is nothing misleading about it. Try reading it again, perhaps a bit slower.It's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?No, this is mentioned twice in the article.
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.
Something is wrong with this article: this game is actually not available on Linux officially on Steam. It's only on Windows and MacOS, that's it!
So do you mean that if we purchase the game, it will be available on Linux magically? Will it count as a Linux purchase?
Sorry, but this article is very misleading...
I'm saying that because I'd like to buy and play this game, but only on Linux, if not, I'll ignore it...
If you are struggling, let me quote a key part for you:
I've checked myself and it does download and launch.It is on Linux, just not officially advertised. Quite a few games do this, that doesn't make my article misleading, when I clearly mention it:
There's no official announcement yet, but it's very much available and working really quite well.
Something is wrong with this article: this game is actually not available on Linux officially on Steam. It's only on Windows and MacOS, that's it!
It's available, but not officially. That's it.
Will it count as a Linux purchase?
It has been reported that sells using Linux were even credited to Linux when there wasn't any Linux version (when not played on Windows in the next time, that is).
But you don't need to count on it, I guess they didn't make and upload a Linux version and are not going to make it official later on.
Armand Raynal 19 Nov 2017
kernel used:
linux-amd-staging-drm-next-git 4.14.708912.85d09ce5e503-1
Mesa:
mesa-git 17.4.0_devel.97885.ddcd4b05a3-1
clang-svn 6.0.0svn_r318558-1
llvm-svn 6.0.0svn_r318558-1
Last edited by Alexander on 19 Nov 2017 at 5:27 pm UTC
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