Penny Arcade: Linux Screenshots
[ Tuesday, 27 May 2008, Bastion ]
Hothead Games together with Penny Arcade released a very interesting game called “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness”. It can be purchased at $20 in Greenhouse Internet store, which is a counterpart of more known Steam Games. Nothing peculiar, you say? And you’d be right if not for one small detail: the game is available also for GNU/Linux.
Start screen
Creating characters
The game is a mixture of arcade with cRPG and is based on a popular comic book: Penny Arcade. After creating own own character we are teleported to Arkadia, year 1922. The adventure begins innocently, when a huge robot destroys our previously calm and quiet town…
Huge and vicious robot arrives
Ruins of a house
As we have been very attached to our little house, we need to quickly hit the road to follow the iron monster. It won’t be easy, though, since on our way we need to defeat many opponents. Each victory is an occasion to get some cool equipment that will help us with our cruel revenge 
We may encounter random shields, mixtures and even oranges that influence the robots in an erotic way.
The play
Confiscated artifacts
On our way we meet two comic heroes: Gabe and Tycho, who kindly allow us to join them. The struggles are turn-based, which is a firm rule from now on. Each action taken by us requires adequate regeneration time, so that we cannot use the same trick twice in a row. However, what pays most is patience. If we wait longer, we’ll be able to use special actions like combos or group attacks.
Group fight
Encyclopedia
In game we can access the encyclopedia which tells us about any special skills of our friends and enemies.
Character info
Enemy info
Minimal system requirements for Linux
Seems interesting? Here are some specs so that you know the game will work on your machine.
- Intel Pentium® III or AMDAthlon™ 1.0 GHz processor,
- ATI Radeon™ 9500, NVIDIA GeForce™ FX 5200, Intel® GMA 950 video card with at least 64MB RAM,
- 512 MB RAM,
- 350 MB free disk space
Download a demo
YouTube trailer
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Best linux game ever. I tried ET:QW, but no one is ever online. Haven’t tried eve yet.
Frankly, though, this game beat the crap out of all the actual open source games, which is sad.
However, I am awaiting the next episode of this game with great anticipation.
It’s a bit short for $20, though. 10-15 would’ve been more fair.
Maybe nobody is playing the demo version since it’s more than 6 month since the 1st demo release. If you buy the DVD, you won’t be disappointed.