Pillars of Eternity

Pillars of Eternity was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released by Paradox Interactive. The game has been called a spiritual successor to the popular Infinity Engine games developed by Bioware, i.e. Baldur’s Gate Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment.

The game takes place in the fantasy world Eora, mostly in the nation of Dyrwood. At the start of the game, the player character will experience a rise of power due to a catastrophic supernatural event. Later, the player discovers that this is a watcher – a person who can see souls and past lives. The player must then travel to find out what caused his awakening.

It was made available for Linux immediately upon releas, on March 26, 2015, following a crowdfunding campaign that reached $4,163,208. This made it the highest-funded computer game on Kickstarter at that point. The game uses the Unity game engine.

Details and Linux System Requirements

The recommended Linux distributions for Pillars of Eternity is Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04. Binary is 64-bit only.

Minimum (recommended) hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i3-2100T @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3 B73 (Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T)
RAM: 4 GB (8 GB) AM
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 485 / NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (Radeon HD 7700 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570)
Storage: 14GB

AMD and Intel cards are not supported (may run, but with poor performance)

Pillars of Eternity is available on Steam and GOG.