Category: Adventure

Mystik Belle is an attractive-looking metroidvania with an infusion of adventure game elements that caught my eye. After giving a go, I have a few thoughts to share.

Going as far back as the 14th of February of this year, users have been reporting that Legend of Grimrock won't even start on their Linux powered gaming machines sporting GPUs from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 900 series.

The beta for 2.5D physics puzzler Unmechanical was announced a couple of weeks ago, and is now available for all owners of the game on Steam.

Jenny LeClue was funded on Kickstarter last summer. A playable teaser has now been made available, along with a new teaser trailer.

The quest and resource based adventure RPGs were both officially released for Linux this week and the first one is currently available at a hefty discount.

Seven years after the unofficial fan sequel to the 80s classic Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders was released in German for Windows, a director's cut has been made available in English for Linux; free of charge.

Jotun is the game where you face off against Norse mythological creatures in epic boss battles. The game is slated for a Linux release this fall and an alpha trailer was published last month.

The game was funded on Kickstarter in 2013 and was pitched as an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game with the same feel as Quest for Glory, Space Quest and Monkey Island.

Black Closet is a game developed by Hanako Games, the creators of such games as "THE QUEEN IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN". Their newest game is based on the well known and widely loved Ren'Py engine.

Machineers is a construction puzzle game set in a world of robots. Previously only available on tablets, the two first of five planned episodes made their PC début last week.

The rather atmospheric game Dark Echo was released last week. With its minimalist graphics and simple gameplay, it stands out from other recent releases. After giving it a spin, I had a few thoughts to share on the game.

The lovely 2.5D Unreal Engine powered physics puzzler has been announced for Linux, and will soon be available in an open beta on Steam.

Technobabylon is being released for Windows later this month, but the Linux release has been pushed back indefinitely.

Developer Shiro Games have previously announced that Evoland 2 is coming to Linux, and have now released the official trailer for the upcoming game.

On May 11th, Koji Igarashi launched a Kickstarter for a new game. Called Bloodstain, it is much in the vein of the Castlevania games he's worked on in the past.

It's sad, but not entirely unexpected that we will be left waiting for Trine 3. We did have to wait for ports of Trine and Trine 2, but when our editor Cheeseness spoke to Frozenbyte it sounded like the Linux version would be out during Early Access.

Vertiginous Golf is an unlikely mix of minigolf and a narrative that has just come out of Early Access and is making its début on Linux.

Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle is a game that spices up the notorious sliding tile puzzle formula with a measure of puzzle adventure for a very palatable end result.

Cosmochoria is a game that both myself and Samsai liked quite a lot while it was in Early Access. If you have been waiting to pick it up, wait no more!

The developers of Terraria have recently commented on a reddit post, and they mentioned Linux is still planned for the game.