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  • Online scores, optional: with a score server for your group of friends
    (geow2-scores, free to
    run on Cloudflare), your high scores, unlocked modes and achievements
    follow you between your devices, the leaderboards show the group's
    boards (the original's Friends and My score views, X to switch), and
    your name is the one you chose. Help and options, Online scores: enter
    the server's address and pair the device by scanning a QR code with
    your phone. --online-pair and --online-sync do the same from a
    terminal.
  • Every finished game is kept in scores.log, so progress from two
    devices can be combined: geow2 --merge-profile <the other device's profile folder> adds its games, unlocks and achievements.
  • The main menu's last item reads "Quit" (the game's own word for it, in
    every language) in place of "Return to arcade".
  • After a game, the mode select menu keeps the mode just played selected,
    as the original does, rather than going back to Deadline.
  • Setup inside the game: when there is no data folder, geow2 asks for
    your copy of the game (the package file or an extracted folder) and
    makes the data folder itself, with a progress bar. It works with a
    gamepad, so it can be done on a Steam Deck. geow2-extract still
    works as before.
  • On Windows the game finds ffmpeg.exe next to itself, and on a Mac
    Homebrew's FFmpeg even when started from the Finder.
  • Linux: an optional bin/ and share/ install layout (GEOW2_UNIX_LAYOUT)
    with a desktop entry, AppStream metainfo and icons under the app ID
    com.geow2.geow2, which the window now reports.

You need your own copy of the Xbox Live Arcade game: the first start asks for it and makes the data folder (see "Getting started" in the README).

  • Windows: x64, code-signed. Unzip and run geow2.exe.
  • macOS: universal (Apple silicon and Intel), macOS 11 or later, signed and notarized. Unzip and open geow2.app.
  • Linux: x86-64, needs a Vulkan driver. Unpack and run geow2.

Verify a download: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or gh attestation verify <file> -R techknight/geow2.