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Quest Master is basically Zelda-maker and it's now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Giving classic Zelda vibes meets Mario Maker styled creation, Quest Master gives you plenty of tools to make dungeons, for you to go alone or in local co-op.

Historical 4x strategy game Old World - Behind the Throne DLC brings plenty new

By Liam Dawe,
Old World is a quality historical 4x strategy game that you should not pass up, especially if you love you Civilization styled games and this latest DLC adds in plenty of new content.

Puppygames bring massive-scale asynchronous PvP battle simulator Battledroid to Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Puppygames are launching a new game with Battledroid, a massively multiplayer online asynchronous PvP battle simulator that has a rather big scale to it.

Bella Wants Blood is a bite-sized "roguelike terror defense" game

By Liam Dawe,
After releasing the roguelike tower defense Core Defense in 2020, and then the rogue-lite survival base builder Landnama in 2023 developer Sonderland is back with something weird with Bella Wants Blood.

Inspired by the Philippines, cinematic story-adventure Until Then now releasing June 25

By Liam Dawe,
After having a bit of a delay, Polychroma Games have announced their their cinematic adventure game inspired by the Philippines, Until Then is now going to release on June 25th.

Steam Beta adds Bluetooth device battery info for Steam Deck, various desktop PC updates

By Liam Dawe,
Another round of Steam Client Beta updates are here with Steam Deck and Desktop PC seeing lots of improvements and bug fixes, and it's especially nice for people using Bluetooth on Steam Deck.

NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters blends an inventory PvP auto-battler with a monster-fusing twist

By Liam Dawe,
Inventory management games are becoming another popular thing at the moment. We've had all those survivor-like bullet-heaven games and now another genre is springing to life. NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters looks like a sweet spin on the idea.

Zelda 64: Recompiled, the Majora's Mask PC port v1.1 brings various upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Zelda 64: Recompiled was pretty interesting news recently, a PC port of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask using the new N64: Recompiled tool and now a fresh update is out to improve it further.

VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) v0.87 released moving away from Minecraft

By Liam Dawe,
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2), a free and open source sandbox game, has a brand new release available as they begin more movement to end the Minecraft clone wars.

Terraria: The Board Game live on Kickstarter - goal met almost instantly

By Liam Dawe,
Terraria the smash-hit indie game is being turned into a tabletop experience with Terraria: The Board Game. It's crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and obviously it was going to do well.

Inspired by immersive RPGs from the 90s Sonar Shock looks great

By Liam Dawe,
Sonar Shock looks a bit System Shock-like and that's a great thing, as it was inspired by various immersive RPGs from the 90s.

MangoHud performance monitor v0.7.2 out now

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud, the performance monitor you can put on top of games on Linux has a brand new release available with new features and fixes. This is the tech that powers the performance overlay on Steam Deck!

Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
ChronoDojo blends together two genres that I didn't think would work. Putting together tower defense and a beat 'em up sounds a bit odd, but I've seen a lot stranger.

Physics-based roguelite bullet-hell Cosmo Rider improves Steam Deck controls

By Liam Dawe,
Cosmo Rider is a physics based roguelite bullet-hell-and-heaven horde-survivor action game. Upgrade your spaceship and traverse procedurally generated galaxies in this space survivors game.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.1.0 released

By fheroes2,
Dear fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and fheroes2 project supporters! The team is excited to present to you the release of version 1.1.0 - the second major release of the fheroes2 engine! This release features a significant update that we are thrilled to share with you.

No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve

By Liam Dawe,
Doing the rounds right now is a post from Valve's Steam support, when a user asked about what would happen to their Steam account when they died and it's not great news for anyone hoping to pass on your Steam account.

Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest is live now

By Liam Dawe,
The Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest is live now showing off demos, discounts, upcoming games and much more in another event that will swallow up your time.

2 Ship 2 Harkinian, another unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask is out now

By Liam Dawe,
While we only recently had the Zelda 64: Recompiled release, we've now also got another PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask thanks to the Harbour Masters team with 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.

The Rogue Prince of Persia arrives on Steam, devs will "constantly" improve it on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The Rogue Prince of Persia is now in Early Access on Steam, and the good news is that it should already work well on Steam Deck but the developer plans to keep improving it. So that's good news for desktop Linux players too.

The Cozy Space Survivors post-release update has some simple lessons for indie devs

By Liam Dawe,
Released on May 3rd, Cozy Space Survivors is a cute survival roguelite in space, one for those of you who don't have a lot of free time. It's a little gem and the developer has posted up some post-release thoughts.