Slitherine

My First Thoughts (Linux tester 64 bits)

Installation

You need to unzip it, there's no installer and no the typical tar.gz
The installer could be .bin like developers use in their ports for humble bundles.
B

Loading

Fast. No configuration problems appeared to me on Graphics Detection, but I have the Nvidia privative drivers that are the best on Linux.

New Game

Starting the game is easy. The background is great, but the name of the game maybe be a little bigger than now, because it's small in my 26" Full HD Screen.
Maybe you need to put any animation, but it's ok.

Playing the Game

I played at least 100 hours of Sid Meier Alpha centaury and this game is in the same style, but Pandora is better than Centaury.
The UI it's too minimalist. I discovered lower menus after 15 minutes playing. It's too grey.
I think that to go out of the city menu you need a button on the right not only the center.
The rename may be need to have a yellow pencil to see it clearly. I
The gameplay it's almost perfect. When I built my first city used the classic B key and worked.
To end turn I would prefer Ctrl+Enter
No problems in stability. It's the most stable beta that I ever played on Linux.


Overall

These is the best game in the genre that I played in years (far better than Civ V).
I think that if I need to give now a Metascore that will be at least 85.
Now it's the best turn strategy game on linux.

Update.
I tried on my laptop which has 1366x768 screen and I can't play on fullscreen.

Why not?

When you select 1280x720 and I try to get full screen it fails and goes back 1024x768.
Tried in in ubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE and Unity 3D.

In the log file doesn't appear but it's on the screen.

[swscaler @ 0x7f834097a550] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to rgb24.

This is the output of xrandr
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1366 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
1366x768 120.0*+ 110.0 100.0
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

About 2 hours played:

The enemies are too good persons. They don't attack you ever.
A litle slow gameplay. I need to see more events.

Well, you will need wmctrl command.
First you run Pandora.
In another xterminal run this:
$ wmctrl -r Pandora -b add,fullscreen
and you get the Window with Pandora game in fullscreen, but without stretching and no centering.
If you get the terminal where do you run Pandora in fullscreen, change to cd ~ and try again.

Year July 2126 AD
Actually very slow AI after you end your turn.
Too long ....
Look in the log.
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] Processing AI ...
StrategyAgent: Industrious: Industrious: 1
StrategyAgent: Industrious: Build: 0.120554
StrategyAgent: Industrious: ImproveFood: 1
StrategyAgent: Industrious: ImprovePopulationLimit: 0.239254
StrategyAgent: Industrious: Transport: 6.4
StrategyAgent: Industrious: Expand: 0.112281
StrategyAgent: Industrious: Fight: 0.0949914
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Economic: 9 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Militaristic: 14 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Scientific: 15 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Flyers: 33 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Bugs: 38 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Giants: 34 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Leviathan: 30 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:42:49] AI::process Ecologic: 85 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:43:09] AI::process Fanatic: 20105 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:46:01] AI::process Industrious: 191250 ms
[2013-Jun-10 22:46:01] AI processed.
[2013-Jun-10 22:46:25] Turn 320 processed.
[2013-Jun-10 22:46:40] Saving game ...
[2013-Jun-10 22:46:40] Game saved (184 kB).