Penumbra: Black Plague Linux version released

[B0rsuk]

For anyone who likes survival horrors, thrillers and/or puzzle games, this game is well worth it. Very good graphics, physics that are part of gameplay, amazing sound and athmosphere....
For mature audience only.

http://www.penumbrablackplague.com/site/


Penumbra: Black Plague is a first person horror adventure focussing on story, immersion and puzzle solving. Unlike Penumbra: Overture, violence and combat are not even an option - the player has to use his/her wits to guide Philip through his final test, and this makes the game unique in offering a truly dangerous and terrifying experience.

I just bought it and I don't regret it. It has metacritic rating of 77/100 (critics) and 92/100 (users)

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/penumbrablackplague

[Artificial Intelligence]

I'm going through the first of Penumbra first, but diffently going to get the second part.

[el mariachi]

I've never liked horror shooters - I always wet my pants xD
downloaded the demo anyway and it seems very well conceived (yes, I played it with the lights off)
still going through the demo, dunno If i'll buy it.

[Swarms]

Gonna speedrun the first tonight, almost played it all before. And then continue with the next, long live online purchase and download!

[B0rsuk]

I've never liked horror shooters - I always wet my pants xD
downloaded the demo anyway

What do you mean ? There's not a single gun in Penumbra: Black Plague. There are no melee weapons either. In most cases you just can't kill the enemies.

[el mariachi]

you're right, my bad. It's a horror adventure game :D

[Swarms]

You can kill every critter in the game, except some single ones, but you can also do the game without touching any of them. :)

Finished the first game btw., continueing with the second one tonight.

[el mariachi]

It's way to scary for me lol

[Artificial Intelligence]

I think we should force every Ubuntu users to play it, Muwhahahahahaha!!!1:twisted:

[el mariachi]

oh that's a relief, I'm only running Arch now :p
I've been playing it though (demo) and yeah it's scary as hell. The music and sfx and actually very good and well positioned.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Oh wait...lets spread it to Arch as well. I know one of the developers over there, and I'm sure he agree :twisted::twisted::twisted:

[el mariachi]

hehe it would be fun xD
and then they could also make an adventure make as deep, but not with a scary mood :D

[Swarms]

:)

I have purchased it and downloading it now, will give my thoughts about it later. :)

[B0rsuk]

You can kill every critter in the game, except some single ones, but you can also do the game without touching any of them. :)

Not anymore. Sorry, I meant Black Plague. I edited my previous post.


Finished the first game btw., continueing with the second one tonight.

You're in for a surprise. I'm pretty far in Penumbra: Black Plague and I only managed to kill 1 creature.

[Swarms]

I screened a walkthrough fast (didn't read anything beyond what I had reached), I figured I am about 1/3 through it. Had to take a break since I got too frightened ;).
And hell its good! I must agree with the critics and say that this far its even better than Overture.
Like B0rsuk said, I haven't even been able to deal damage by weapons, like a pickaxe or a hammer as it was possible in the previous edition, and its incredible how it adds to the horror effect!
This far, I can only recommend it.

[B0rsuk]

Can you get far in Penumbra:Overture without killing anything ? I heard the developers didn't really mean you to kill everything. I know you can sometimes set traps and use explosives, but is the game solvable without melee combat (hammer, heavy boxes etc)

[Swarms]

Can you get far in Penumbra:Overture without killing anything ? I heard the developers didn't really mean you to kill everything. I know you can sometimes set traps and use explosives, but is the game solvable without melee combat (hammer, heavy boxes etc)

Just look at the speedruns, as far as the video I saw, he didn't touch any of them, he just ran pass, so if that is possible then it also will be in normal mode.

[Posterus]

can someone help me out on installing the demo? i got the .sh file and idk how to install it

[Monicker]

can someone help me out on installing the demo? i got the .sh file and idk how to install it

I just used

sh PenumbraBlackPlagueDemo-2567.sh

...from a terminal, and chose the option to install it to my home directory. It created a menu item under Games as part of the install.

[Yfrwlf]

can someone help me out on installing the demo? i got the .sh file and idk how to install it

The GUI way is to right click on the file and select properties, go to permissions, and check the box to make it executable. Then, single or double, depending on your options, left click on the file to run it. It should pop up with a box asking if you want to run it, run it in a terminal, cancel, etc. You can just click "run". I installed my demo to my own user directory/home/myusername/games/PenumbraYou will need root access to install it to secure locations, so I'd recommend putting it someplace like that or some other place that you have user access to.