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City building god sim 'The Universim' will now let you launch rockets with satellites into orbit

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2019

The Universim is slowly turning into a city building god game truly worth playing, with the Sky High update now available expanding the game into planetary orbit. Plus some more thoughts on the experience of playing it for several hours.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2019

It's reader question time here on GamingOnLinux, something we do infrequently to generate a bit of discussion.

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Open-world action adventure 'Pine' where humans are not top of the food chain is now available

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2019

Pine certainly looks good, a proper open-world action adventure with a story depicting humans who never reached the top of the food chain. It just released with Linux support today.

Indivisible, the action RPG platformer from the creator of Skullgirls is out now

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

Lab Zero Games and publisher 505 Games today officially release Indivisible, a very curious blend of action platforming with RPG elements.

Oxygen Not Included should perform a lot better with the latest update

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

While Oxygen Not Included is one of my favourite games to come out in the last year, it did have a few performance issues here and there which the latest update should hopefully solve.

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct 2019

Sunday! It's here again already so let's go over some recent interesting news, some sales and whatever else we may have missed during the week that could be interesting.

The huge sounding EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games is now live on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 2 Oct 2019

The day is upon on us as the massive new space shooter with deep exploration, EVERSPACE 2, is now live on Kickstarter.

Taking elements from XCOM and FTL, Galaxy Squad arrives on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2019

Inspired by two games I absolutely adore, Galaxy Squad takes the node-based exploration and random events from FTL and adds in some turn-based XCOM-like combat.

What's that? Another Steam Client Beta update? With a Linux platform filter? Yes it is

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2019

Valve have released the fourth Beta update for the Steam Client since the new Library design dropped and it's a good one.

Astro Golf, a simple and relaxing game about shooting some balls in space

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2019

After spending tons of time with Factorio recently, I needed something that used a little less brainpower to relax with and Astro Golf is a game that fits perfectly.

GOG are giving away Freespace 2 in their Interstellar Sale with some good discounts on too

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

GOG have another interesting sale going on as well as Freespace 2 going free for the next 48 hours, don't miss out!

Looks like the grand strategy space game AI War 2 could release in October

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

AI War 2, the space grand strategy game currently in Early Access being developed by Arcen Games is looking close to a full release in October.

Space Grunts 2 combines a turn-based rogue-like with card-based battles, out now

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Orangepixel just released their latest game Space Grunts 2, keeping a similar approach to the original with the roguelike experience and turn-based battles only this time with cards.

The dev of Rings of Saturn thinks going cross-platform 'paid off'

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2019

Currently in Early Access on itch.io and Steam, the developer of the top-down hard sci-fi space sim ΔV: Rings of Saturn seems to think doing a Linux and Mac build was worth it.

Physics-based space shoot 'em up Hyper Ultra Astronautics allows up to 16 players for total madness

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2019

FRACTiLE Games just released Hyper Ultra Astronautics, a physics-based local multiplayer space shoot 'em with Linux support. It also includes an open source app to turn your phone into a stylish gamepad.

Video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2019

The team building the free and open source video capture and livestreaming software, OBS Studio, have announced the 24.0 release.

Backspace Bouken, the dungeon crawler that needs you to type out encounters has a fresh demo out

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2019

RNG Party Games recently put out a freshly baked demo version of the typing dungeon crawler Backspace Bouken.

The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2019

The day has finally arrived, Valve have now put out a Beta for the massive overhaul to the Steam Library so you can try it yourself.

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NARWHAR Project Hornwhale, a really wacky shoot 'em up that reminds me of the Amiga days

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2019

The developer of NARWHAR Project Hornwhale emailed in recently about their new arcade style shoot 'em up being released with Linux support. It's a bit wild.