Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming! Sorted from lowest to highest to make sure you don't miss the smaller news stories. There's just so much news now that things like this are needed for people not to get swallowed up in a sea of Linux games. Think of it like reading a handy Linux gaming magazine of the last weeks news all in one handy place! We don't include todays stories as that only requires you to look down a little on the home page. Also if you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS.
New Release: Noir Syndrome Murder-Mystery Game - Views: 462
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir. Visit locations, interrogate suspects, search for clues, and eventually solve the case before the killer escapes - or you wind up dead yourself.
Groove City, A Mini-Sequel For Electronic Super Joy A Musical Platformer - Views: 473
A Mini-Sequel for Electronic Super Joy! A brand new World, ending in an Epic Boss Fight!
Jump, dodge & dance among insane hazards, missiles, lasers & monsters!
Heileen 1: Sail Away Visual Novel Now On Steam For Linux - Views: 524
Embark with Heileen in a unforgettable voyage to the New World! Met with old friends, and make new ones. Find romance, avoid dangers and life your life to the fullest! This continues Winter Wolves Steam library push.
GOL Cast: Being Part of the Bug Community in Hive - Views: 554
Working on these GOL Casts has allowed me to take a look at various games with different genres. Today we can add a new type of a game to the list as we check out this strategy game, which is originally based on a board game, called Hive.
Blockstorm FPS Game Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 554
Blockstorm has all the basics needs to be a fun game apart from one minor detail. It has a big lack of players for an online game.
Legions Of Ashworld Released For Linux - Views: 595
Legions of Ashworld is a turn-based war-game, which brings a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of an open world environment.
GhostControl Inc. Launches Onto Steam For Linux With Big Update - Views: 653
GhostControl Inc. A game we have showed off before is now amongst the many on Steam. You manage a crack team of ghosthunters trying to keep London happy.
Kill Fun Yeah Is Insane, Here's A Video & My Thoughts On This Linux Game - Views: 677
Kill Fun Yeah has recently been released on Steam and after spending some time with it I have done a Linux game-play video and given you some thoughts on it.
Dungeon Colony Now Available On Itch, A 2D Fantasy RTS For Linux - Views: 696
Dungeon Colony, a 2D fantasy RTS in which you control a Dungeon Lord and his loyal minions is now available to buy on Itch.io, it's a good little game a previewed before.
Quest of Dungeons Now Officially Out For Linux - Views: 699
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
1001 Spikes Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 723
1001 Spikes is a new retro-looking platformer that has co-op and versus play. We have rather a lot of retro platformers now, so what's different about 1001 Spikes?
GOL Cast: Less Than Tactical Combat in Interstellar Marines - Views: 768
There are many twitch shooters and arena shooters on Linux but we haven't had too many tactical first-person shooters. Today I will take a look at the just released tactical team-based FPS, Interstellar Marines
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood Adventure Game Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 802
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood is a critically-acclaimed, beautifully crafted casual adventure game rich with horror, plot twists and shadowy intrigue. It has been on Linux for a while, but it's not very well known.
Earth 2140 Gold Edition Now Supports High Resolutions - Views: 811
Probably my biggest gripe with the Earth 2140 Linux release was the terribly low resolution making everything look a bit crap. Thankfully that has now been sorted with the latest version.
Paranautical Activity FPS Big New Release, Comes With Issues - Views: 843
Paranautical Activity have been through their fair share of issues, but they have still managed to push out a new major content release for their FPS game that has native Linux support. It isn't without issues though.
Age Of Wonders III Developers Give Another Hint At Linux Support Soon - Views: 860
Age of Wonders III looks like it really will come to Linux! Age of Wonders III is a fantasy turn-based strategy game that is highly rated and would be fantastic on Linux.
SteamLUG June Linux Gaming Events - Views: 908
The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for June is up, featuring Awesomenauts, Planetary Annihilation, Hammerwatch, BattleBlock Theatre and more!
Braveland Turn Based Strategy Gains A Survival Mode To Add To Replayablity - Views: 927
Braveland is a beautifully drawn strategy game that has fully Linux support and a big new content update.
The Funding Crowd 33 (May 13th - June 1st) - Views: 966
Greetings, fans of The Funding Crowd! We are back after our anniversary celebrations, with the usual load of crowdfunding news enough to quench your pledging desires.
Project Of The Month July 2014 - Views: 989
Voting for the Project of the Month July 2014 is now open! 10 open source Linux games are nominated: Widelands, FlighGear, StepMania, CrossFire, KeeperRL, Unvanquished, PokerTH, HyperRogue and GLPortal.
Jagged Alliance Flashback Strategy Game Now On Linux - Views: 1,001
Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.
Victory At Sea, A Naval Strategy Game Coming Soon To Linux - Views: 1,010
This is what I like to see! Victory At Sea is a great looking naval combat game that is coming to Linux in August. It has a full campaign mode too.
Icculus Gives Hope On The Goat Simulator Linux Port - Views: 1,016
Some more Icculus related info for you today as Icculus has been replying to tweets about Goat Simulator's Linux version. It's still coming folks don't panic!
Running With Rifles Top Down Action Game Releases Beta 0.96 For Linux - Views: 1,054
Running With Rifles is a really fun top down army action game that promises to keep you entertained for a long time. It mixes army vs army combat with vehicles and a customizable load-out as you play the game.
Check out page 2 for even more hot articles!
As always if you wish to support us you can Support Us Here and become a GOL Supporter, by doing so you can remove the adverts for an entire year and support what we do! Any donations are also welcome, time is money and we spend a lot of time doing what we do for you! If you have any ideas to improve these weekly overviews then let us know right away!
New Release: Noir Syndrome Murder-Mystery Game - Views: 462
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir. Visit locations, interrogate suspects, search for clues, and eventually solve the case before the killer escapes - or you wind up dead yourself.
Groove City, A Mini-Sequel For Electronic Super Joy A Musical Platformer - Views: 473
A Mini-Sequel for Electronic Super Joy! A brand new World, ending in an Epic Boss Fight!
Jump, dodge & dance among insane hazards, missiles, lasers & monsters!
Heileen 1: Sail Away Visual Novel Now On Steam For Linux - Views: 524
Embark with Heileen in a unforgettable voyage to the New World! Met with old friends, and make new ones. Find romance, avoid dangers and life your life to the fullest! This continues Winter Wolves Steam library push.
GOL Cast: Being Part of the Bug Community in Hive - Views: 554
Working on these GOL Casts has allowed me to take a look at various games with different genres. Today we can add a new type of a game to the list as we check out this strategy game, which is originally based on a board game, called Hive.
Blockstorm FPS Game Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 554
Blockstorm has all the basics needs to be a fun game apart from one minor detail. It has a big lack of players for an online game.
Legions Of Ashworld Released For Linux - Views: 595
Legions of Ashworld is a turn-based war-game, which brings a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of an open world environment.
GhostControl Inc. Launches Onto Steam For Linux With Big Update - Views: 653
GhostControl Inc. A game we have showed off before is now amongst the many on Steam. You manage a crack team of ghosthunters trying to keep London happy.
Kill Fun Yeah Is Insane, Here's A Video & My Thoughts On This Linux Game - Views: 677
Kill Fun Yeah has recently been released on Steam and after spending some time with it I have done a Linux game-play video and given you some thoughts on it.
Dungeon Colony Now Available On Itch, A 2D Fantasy RTS For Linux - Views: 696
Dungeon Colony, a 2D fantasy RTS in which you control a Dungeon Lord and his loyal minions is now available to buy on Itch.io, it's a good little game a previewed before.
Quest of Dungeons Now Officially Out For Linux - Views: 699
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
1001 Spikes Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 723
1001 Spikes is a new retro-looking platformer that has co-op and versus play. We have rather a lot of retro platformers now, so what's different about 1001 Spikes?
GOL Cast: Less Than Tactical Combat in Interstellar Marines - Views: 768
There are many twitch shooters and arena shooters on Linux but we haven't had too many tactical first-person shooters. Today I will take a look at the just released tactical team-based FPS, Interstellar Marines
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood Adventure Game Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 802
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood is a critically-acclaimed, beautifully crafted casual adventure game rich with horror, plot twists and shadowy intrigue. It has been on Linux for a while, but it's not very well known.
Earth 2140 Gold Edition Now Supports High Resolutions - Views: 811
Probably my biggest gripe with the Earth 2140 Linux release was the terribly low resolution making everything look a bit crap. Thankfully that has now been sorted with the latest version.
Paranautical Activity FPS Big New Release, Comes With Issues - Views: 843
Paranautical Activity have been through their fair share of issues, but they have still managed to push out a new major content release for their FPS game that has native Linux support. It isn't without issues though.
Age Of Wonders III Developers Give Another Hint At Linux Support Soon - Views: 860
Age of Wonders III looks like it really will come to Linux! Age of Wonders III is a fantasy turn-based strategy game that is highly rated and would be fantastic on Linux.
SteamLUG June Linux Gaming Events - Views: 908
The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for June is up, featuring Awesomenauts, Planetary Annihilation, Hammerwatch, BattleBlock Theatre and more!
Braveland Turn Based Strategy Gains A Survival Mode To Add To Replayablity - Views: 927
Braveland is a beautifully drawn strategy game that has fully Linux support and a big new content update.
The Funding Crowd 33 (May 13th - June 1st) - Views: 966
Greetings, fans of The Funding Crowd! We are back after our anniversary celebrations, with the usual load of crowdfunding news enough to quench your pledging desires.
Project Of The Month July 2014 - Views: 989
Voting for the Project of the Month July 2014 is now open! 10 open source Linux games are nominated: Widelands, FlighGear, StepMania, CrossFire, KeeperRL, Unvanquished, PokerTH, HyperRogue and GLPortal.
Jagged Alliance Flashback Strategy Game Now On Linux - Views: 1,001
Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.
Victory At Sea, A Naval Strategy Game Coming Soon To Linux - Views: 1,010
This is what I like to see! Victory At Sea is a great looking naval combat game that is coming to Linux in August. It has a full campaign mode too.
Icculus Gives Hope On The Goat Simulator Linux Port - Views: 1,016
Some more Icculus related info for you today as Icculus has been replying to tweets about Goat Simulator's Linux version. It's still coming folks don't panic!
Running With Rifles Top Down Action Game Releases Beta 0.96 For Linux - Views: 1,054
Running With Rifles is a really fun top down army action game that promises to keep you entertained for a long time. It mixes army vs army combat with vehicles and a customizable load-out as you play the game.
Check out page 2 for even more hot articles!
As always if you wish to support us you can Support Us Here and become a GOL Supporter, by doing so you can remove the adverts for an entire year and support what we do! Any donations are also welcome, time is money and we spend a lot of time doing what we do for you! If you have any ideas to improve these weekly overviews then let us know right away!
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