The game is on sale on Steam with a 10% discount

Dec 6, 2016 23:00 GMT  ·  By

More and more AAA games are coming to our beloved Linux platform, and nothing makes us happier than to see Daedalic Entertainment's Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun title launching today on Steam for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

If you're not familiar with Daedalic Entertainment's work, they are the creators of the superb and fun Deponia series, but Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is something different, a tactical stealth-strategy game in the style of the Commandos stealth-oriented real-time tactics video game series.

"Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage," reads today's Steam announcement.

The game works with AMD Radeon and Nvidia GPUs

Linux gamers will be happy to learn that the game works well on Nvidia and AMD Radeon graphics cards. Daedalic Entertainment recommends that you have a PC with the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, at least an Intel Core i3 or AMD Quad-Core CPU, 4GB RAM, and Nvidia GeForce GT 640 or AMD Radeon HD 7750.

SSD drives are recommended for improved loading times during gameplay, as well as the latest GPU drivers installed. However, to run the game on a 64-bit OS, you'll have to install the libc6:i386, libx11-6:i386, libxcursor1:i386, libxrandr2:i386, libstdc++6:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 32-bit packages.

As expected, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun features full controller support, Steam Achievements, Steam trading cards, and Steam Cloud support. There's a total of 44 achievements you can earn during the game, which you can buy right now from Steam, but please keep in mind that the special promotion ends on December 13, 2016.

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