Feral Interactive
is a London-Based (UK) team of around 100 employees started in 1996, and are ostensibly a Porting House catered towards larger companies for hire, so that Feral can port clients' games to other platforms. The studio originally stuck to only porting games to Apple Macs in the late '90s to the early 2000s.
This changed when Valve released its attempt at making a Debian-based Linux Distribution, called SteamOS in 2012, which prompted Feral Interactive to start publishing games for the Linux Market too, while still publishing ports to macOS, often in simultaneous releases, though there have been a few exceptions. Keeping with the mobile theme, the publishing house sometimes makes iPad and Android ports too.
Their portfolio consists of wide palette of games such as XCOM 2, almost the entirety of the LEGO Adaptation Game franchise, and have an interesting collaborative relationship with Square Enix, with Feral releasing ports of pretty much every game they've made from 2011 onwards.
In 2017, the porting house started to move away from making OpenGL ports, and instead focused their efforts on using Vulkan instead for ports, especially on Linux, which made porting games easier and for them to run faster, going so far as to make games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and F1 2017 require support.
While the company still ports games to Mac and Linux on occasion (most notably games in the Total War: Warhammer series), they started entering the Nintendo Switch market too, with ports of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light being confirmed to be releasing, as well as ports of full-fat console games to mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.
There is also an "upcoming games" page, dubbed the Feral Radar, which often gives cryptic clues about what games they're working on...
Games published by Feral Interactive for Linux:
- XCOM 2 (Day 1 Mac + Linux Release)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Hitman (2016) (Included support for Elusive Targets).
- Alien: Isolation
- Company of Heroes 2
- Empire: Total War Collection
- DiRT Rally
- F1 2015
- F1 2017
- Life Is Strange
- Life Is Strange 2
- Mad Max (2015) (Of note, is that Feral released a Vulkan Beta, exclusive to the Linux Port)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Tomb Raider (2013)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Games published by Feral Interactive for Mac:
- XCOM 2 (Day 1 Release)
- Hitman (2016)
- Tomb Raider (2013)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Alien: Isolation
- Company of Heroes 2
- Empire: Total War Collection
- DiRT Rally
- F1 2012
- F1 2013
- F1 2015
- F1 2017
- Life Is Strange
- Mad Max (2015)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
