Category: DRM-Free

Immortal Redneck, the FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements now has a release on GOG. It took them a few months to get it up, but it's nice they continue to add more Linux games.

Set in Mesoamerica at the birth of the Aztec Empire, Aztez pits players against the many enemies of this nascent state. It blends together beat ‘em up action with a strategic layer. I played the game and have a few thoughts to share about the experience.

Here's a pretty fun classic! GOG have released Alien Rampage from 1996 and it comes with a Linux version thanks to DOSBox.

The remastered version of the classic adventure game, Full Throttle, was released on Linux last week. I’ve had some time to play through the fuel-injected experience and have a few thoughts on the game.

You’ll be able to play the relaxing farming simulator with a friend before too long. The developer is planning to trial an official multiplayer mode before the end of the year, with a planned general release in 2018.

Another bit of lovely DRM free GOG news for you! GOG just added the Linux version of the rather splendid and destruction-heavy Brigador: Up-Armored Edition.

Dust: An Elysian Tail released for Linux a few years ago and now GOG finally have the Linux version available too.

After spending quite some time in Early Access, the vertically-focused neighborhood builder is now officially out.

Moving things around to their proper position is generally the most basic of puzzle mechanics. Codroids embraces that simplicity and offers an assortment of interesting and challenging puzzles for players to solve. I gave the game a play and have some thoughts to share.

Classic first-person shooters are without question my favourite video game genre, and it would be nice to be able to sit down and play more Indie games that can satisfy both my classic FPS craving while at the same time pushing the genre forward. Ziggurat attempts to do both, and it wins my respect for that.

Linux gamers can now easily play the classic fighting game 'Pray for Death', as GOG have packaged it up with DOSBox.

The fun and charming platform inspired by 8-bit era visuals has gotten a shiny new campaign. This isn’t the only major addition and there’s plenty other new content available to enjoy.

Beat Cop, a retro styled adventure game taking inspiration from old cop shows has arrived on Linux, but is it as good as it looks?

Hard West is a hard game to recommend to anyone unwilling to subject themselves to a trial by fire. If it were a horse I would say that it tried to buck me at every possible opportunity. It almost succeeded too.

Strife: Quest for the Sigil was both a critical and commercial disappointment for Rogue Entertainment in 1996, and the source code to the game was mislaid by its developers. Years later work begin on reverse engineering Strife using the released Doom code. Night Dive Studios would later use this community project to craft The Original Strife: Veteran Edition.

GOG have revived two more classic games for Linux, as Castles 1 & 2 now have Linux versions bundled with DOSBox.

This action-adventure platformer Gunmetal Arcadia, with smooth retro-styled art, was released earlier in the week.

The classic strategy game 'Constructor' is now on GOG with Linux support thanks to DOSBox and it's free until tomorrow too.

Obsidian has announced a sequel to their original RPG, Pillars of Eternity. This direct sequel will have plenty of technical improvements and will take in a whole new region of the world of Eora.

Shadowrun was not only the first CRPG series I found compelling enough to play through all the way to the end, but one that I also found myself invested in enough to purchase additional instalments soon after playing the first.