Indie horror adventure Penumbra: Overture available on Linux, coming to Mac

Due to finicky to downright incompatible binary drivers from both nVidia and ATI/AMD, getting good 3D hardware acceleration out of Linux is still quite difficult. Note that this is not the fault of Linux as an OS, but of the graphics companies refusal to submit driver sources to the kernel due to concerns about one stealing the others tech. AMD said they are going to work on it, and that's good, but meanwhile 3D gaming in Linux is still an adventure that most gamers are going to be very skeptical of. It's good that they released this on Linux, but its rarely worth it to most companies when the underlying system is so hostile to 3D acceleration.

@Syco
That's not completely true anymore. Distributions like Ubuntu make it about as easy to install the nvidia drivers as on Windows. AMD/ATI still have a ways to go, but I've heard they aren't much harder to simply install.

Will Frictional make the game less of a piece of crap on Linux? I tried the PC demo - it couldn't even get a resolution change done properly, let alone an adventure game. What a waste of time and bandwidth that was.

This game is actually pretty cool, so is the 2006 tech demo. Episode 1 gets a bit repetitive though, and didn't run all that smoothly on my old PC, which ran stuff like BF2 just fine.

nice this is first linux/ubuntu game lol

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Woo! Good to see more exposure for this one.. I remember playing through a bit back about a year ago. Good stuff! (And ya can't beat free.)

That game is pretty creepy to say the least. I've played the demo and it has very good atmosphere and the gfx are very nice for a Linux game (compared to some of the other crap out there). It's only 19,99$ (so 15€ for me) and I'm going to give it a try.

Linux users: Buy this! Only when someone can be successful with their sales in Linux games we will see a flourishing game market for Linux in the future.

just bought this its good fun