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The Universim god game gets early-game love, a new explainer trailer plus more

By Liam Dawe, Jul 3, 2020

A city builder that's also a sort-of god game sim and eventually it will also be a multi-planet strategy game? The Universim certainly has a grand plan and a new explainer trailer to help.

Rebuild the ecosystem in the latest Terra Nil update

By Liam Dawe, Jul 3, 2020

Terra Nil is a city-builder that's about rebuilding the ecosystem and getting everything green, rather than painting the map grey with towers full of people.

Colony building sim 'Maia' has a huge free update with more world simulation

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2020

With a very tough looking release behind them, developer Simon Roth release a huge free update for their colony building sim Maia.

Prison Architect - Island Bound expansion is out now plus free update

By Liam Dawe, Jun 23, 2020

Completely changing the way you think about and design your prison systems, the Prison Architect - Island Bound expansion is out now along with a free update for everyone.

Learning Factory is an automation sim where you learn what your cat wants

By Liam Dawe, Jun 22, 2020

Factorio but your goal is ultimately to learn what your cat really wants? Learning Factory takes the automation sim into a weird but amusing direction.

Transport Fever 2 gets much expanded modding and new features

By Liam Dawe, Jun 22, 2020

Transport Fever 2 from Urban Games and Good Shepherd Entertainment appears to be turning into the ultimate modern transport sim and that's awesome.

Become an AI, build a station and grow some humans in Starmancer

By Liam Dawe, Jun 19, 2020

Starmancer, a crowdfunded title in development by Ominux Games with a little publishing help from Chucklefish is another title with a demo in the Steam Game Festival.

Pharaoh-like isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar confirmed for GOG and Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16, 2020

You might not have heard of Nebuchadnezzar, an in-development isometric city-builder in the style of classics like Pharaoh and Zeus but it's coming.

Prison Architect - Island Bound now releasing June 23

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16, 2020

Paradox Interactive announced today that Prison Architect - Island Bound will now be launching on June 23 after they recently delayed the launch.

Physics-based building game 'Besiege' adds a powerful new tool

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16, 2020

Besiege is a fantastic build and destroy game all about making medieval siege engines and with the latest update it gained a very useful new tool.

Theme Hospital continues living on with a new CorsixTH release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16, 2020

CorsixTH is the wonderful free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, featuring plenty of improvements and modern system support.

Open source shape-factory building sim shapez.io is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2020

After discovering shapez.io on the game store itch.io recently, and finding out it was open source, I fell a little in love with the idea and now it's on Steam.

Have some physics fun with Poly Bridge 2, now released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 12, 2020

After a short delay, Poly Bridge 2 from Dry Cactus has now released for Linux so you can begin building bridges and playing with the fun physics system.

Theme park builder 'Parkitect' now uses the Vulkan API on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 12, 2020

Parkitect, one of the most magnificent games from 2018 had one of it's usual monthly updates but it turns out for Linux it was more than just some bug fixing.

FOSS transport building sim OpenTTD adds official Ubuntu 20.04 packages

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5, 2020

Want to jump into the latest version of OpenTTD and you're on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Good news, they now have some official packages setup for it.

shapez.io, an open source factory building sim about making shapes

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2020

Inspired by Factorio, we have another base-building factory sim with shapez.io and the beauty of it is that it's open source under the GPL.

Humble Cities: Skylines Bundle adds two more DLC

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2020

If you already picked up the Humble Cities: Skylines Bundle or were on the fence about it, Humble recently announced more additions for you.

Make a crazy vehicle with wacky contraptions to get across America in Making it Home

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2020

Making it Home, a game about building a great big vehicle full of crazy contraptions to get home sounds like a lot of fun. Oh, you're also a tiny ladybug.

Factorio to release early in August to avoid Cyberpunk 2077

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1, 2020

Factorio, that magnificent indie game about building sprawling conveyor belts and production chains is going to release sooner than originally expected.