The game and its developers support Linux. Gog does NOT provide the game for all the OSes it supports but Steam DOES. That is an advantage of Steam over GOG. The GOG version of this game is inferior.

"When GOG eventually announced Linux support, Linux versions will be uploaded to games that have them."

Sure that conditional is probably true. But GOG will never provide Linux support so it will stay a conditional forever.

Looks promising but think just now i have enough to play with what with wiz 8 making me fall in love with party based rpg games again.

I loved the difficulty on this - it's just like a 'good old game' kind of vibe, with new graphics. I like that I have to really think each time I enter a battle, and even the most straightforward ones can turn sour real quick if you're not paying attention.

I completely agree with Cluey on the UI indications for cover, though. So far, I'm loving it. It's also very well written - in fact, I think it's as well written as any of the big RPGs.

Well, same was said about mac support and here we are. I don't see why GOG wouldn't support Linux eventually but until then you won't find Linux installers here. Bear in mind GOG provides support for its games while other DD services provide support for problems related to the service and point to devs for other problems. This is why GOG does not provice unsupported files/installers.

Operating systems the developer supports is irrelevant. Unless GOG supports the the operating system, there wont be installers for that platform. Same was for Steam before it announced Linux support. Before that point there were NO Linux games on Steam. Yes, GOG is behind in platform support but bear in mind they just announced MAC support only few monsts back and are still working on building MAC catalog so I doupt they have time or resources work on Linux. Maybe in a year, year-and-half, maybe more, maybe less. I doubt even GOG staff know for sure.

Hmm, GOG might provide Linux support after they think it will be both profitable and supportable for them. They already lost a good deal of my potential sales on new titles with Linux versions to the Humble Store and some to Desura when I still put up with their unstable downloader and the login screeen that did not want to remember my logins. I haven't tried the client for almost a year now so, the client *might* be a bit better now, I don't know..
I will certainly have a party when GOG will finally support my OS of choice as well.
Oh well...the GOG version of NOX runs almost perfectly in Wine through PlayLinux. It all depends on the engine used and it's requirements. Anything based on DotNet > 2 is almost impossible to play on my system.

Anyway aside from people going on about Linux,
Hows people finding the actual game listed on the thread?

I'm really liking it so far, got my behind kicked in the second combat I ran into though (post tutorial), and that's probably only because the first ones I ran into were scripted to run off and I had to stop them (failed that too xD)

So far, it's really good, there is plenty of meaningful exploration, many choices in quests that actually seem to matter, and even on normal the world is realistically hostile (meaning you won't survive several turns of bad luck unless you prepared well). Most encounters are also quite hard until you do some side quests so you can equip your fighters better and level them up a bit.

It's a bit more linear than I expected for a game based around an expedition but I haven't finished the first map yet, and apparently the second one is much more open-ended (the first map is more of an really long tutorial I guess).

Liking it for most part, especially the setting, choises and consequences and exploration parts though I hope to find more interesting locations later. The combat is, as Pheace above pointed above, brutal. While I faired better than he, I did get all my soldiers and scouts injured early on because I was ambushed by two separte groups. At normal, at least early on, one or two characters get incapacitated in every battle.

There are minor annoyances:
Camera in particular as you can't pan it to see what is farher around you and you can't zoom out enough. Zoom is probably intentional as exploration is major part of the game but I really would like to see what's in the direction I'm going.

Equipment does not seem to have much effect either. As far as I can see going "next level" of equipment doesn't give any special bonuses, only the +1 damage (weapons) /damage reduction (armor) per point you invest.

Foilage tends to make it hard to tell where you can walk to in combat.

In general, the whole concept of managing the expedition is bit of a pain to handle. It's not hard per se, there's just not that much to do in it and you have to go thru same thing every gameday. The camp automation could be bit more intelligent so that it would assign people to preserving, herbalism and medical threatment when relevant.

It's not perfect but I'm enjoying it.
Main quest might be linear (at least in starting isle, can't say for sure until I replay the game and try different approach) but you are free to explore as far as I can see. You'll just get your ass handed to you if you go unprepared.

Yes, you are free to explore the island, but unless you're on a quest that takes place there, there isn't much to do at each unique location. All the sidequests I did were given in the main town so far, and the only interactions you can have at tribal villages involves convincing the chief to trade, or attacking outright (which will get you killed in a hurry early on).

So you can basically go around the map collecting resources, negotiating with natives, getting into fights or finding landmarks, but there aren't any meaningful discoveries on the island that I found, which is kind of logical since it's fairly settled and there isn't much left to discover there, unlike the mainland which you get to later.

Well, there are the explore coast, explore mountains etc. quests and I did find bunch of robbers hiding treasure among few other encounters (explored around 1/3 of the island) but as I said earlier, I'm hoping to find more interesting locations later.

As for main quest do different choises make you do different stuff or are they just fight, avoid a fight or get advantage in combat and does how you handle natives have great effect in game and on ending? (I'm playing my usual goody two shoes)

The second map is definitely a lot less linear, as it's more focused around faction interaction and who you choose to help out. It's also waaaaay bigger.

Why's there people saying this is a mobile port? I'd actually like this game on an Android tablet.

Explanation.

Well, that is not completely true. There have been unsupported Linux-Binaries in the game folders on Steam, before Valve announced to support Linux.