Mere weeks before Civilization made the jump, CD Projekt RED's blockbuster
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings launched on SteamOS and Linux. The Witcher 2 is one of the deepest, most mature role-playing games of all time, featuring a gritty and dark world to explore, superb swordplay, and one of the best stories in recent video game memory. (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is due to release early next year and is
already looking great.)
Alas, the game runs on a virtualization "wrapper" dubbed eON, which
an eON developer calls "a middle ground idea between what WINE does, and a native port." Hardcore Linux lovers
aren't pleased, but the Witcher 2 is nonetheless sterling, and it's encouraging to see such a top-shelf game run on Linux
without having to coax it into working with WINE.
