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We'll finally get to see what Death Trash is like with a demo for the Steam Next Fest

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2021

Six years in the making, with an incredibly detailed visual style that mixes high quality (and often gruesome) painting with pixel-art, Death Trash is getting a demo real soon.

Liquidation is a new tactical RTS that looks and feels a bit like classic Dawn of War

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2021

Dawn of War is that you? Not quite but LIQUIDATION signals the return of some gameplay found in the older titles and it's looking really great.

Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue gives you a taste of the excellent tactical game

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2021

Mainframe Defenders released back in February 2020 is a quality turn-based tactics game with a very retrofuturistic visual style like old terminals and now there's a free Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue to play.

Wizard school action-RPG 'StoryArcana' gets a re-reveal with a new trailer

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2021

After some time since the original reveal back in 2020, developer Cyomo has formally re-revealed StoryArcana with a fresh new trailer and some design changes.

Check out Nainai's Recipe, a sweet game about cooking and staying connected

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2021

2020 and lots of 2021 were weird for a lot of reasons, especially with the quarantines due to COVID-19. Nainai's Recipe is a game about learning to cook, with a little distanced help from your grandma.

Utopixel blog about porting their title Outer Wonders to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2021

While off-the-shelf game engines like Unity, Godot and Unreal often make it easy to bring games to Linux - what about developers who roll their own? Utopixel have blogged about bringing their new game Outer Wonders to Linux.

Dome Romantik is a unique roguelite miner about digging to the planet's core

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2021

Dig for riches but watch out for nasty creatures on these alien worlds in the unique and quite clever Dome Romantik.

Have you played Code 7? It's a thrilling episodic story-driven hacking adventure

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2021

Now and then I go back to the big long list of games that was inluded in the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality and come across a gem. This time it's Code 7, a really engrossing hacking adventure.

Chilled-out super sweet Bee keeping game APICO has a huge new demo out

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2021

For World Bee Day, TNgineers worked to produce a brand new demo for the casual and chilled-out APICO.

Farlanders: Prologue offers a fun taste of the upcoming Martian city-builder

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2021

Build the city you've always wanted to on Mars in Farlanders, with a free Prologue out now to go along with the new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. It's already very impressive.

Check out the demo for Increlution, a survival-idle game up on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2021

Increlution is quite unusual and somewhat engrossing, an idle-styled game about survival and seeing how long you can last while doing various tasks.

Check out the demo for arcade-puzzle runner MAZEMAN from the Monster Prom team

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2021

MAZEMAN is a slightly difficult game to pin down to a genre or explain it properly. You run through mazes, collecting gems and to find the key to unlock the exit. It seems like it's going to be pretty fun.

Try out the new teaser for Drova - Forsaken Kin, an upcoming 2D action RPG

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2021

After already being available on itch.io, the free teaser for Drova - Forsaken Kin is now available on Steam and it's been upgraded for the new release.

World Turtles is a chilled-out city builder on top of a huge space turtle

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2021

World Turtles is a wholesome city-builder that has you build on top of a massive turtle, to save it and perhaps meet more space turtles. Something like that anyway.

Sweet pixel-art survival game Little Martian got a huge demo upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2021

Love your exploration and survival games? Little Martian is back with another huge demo upgrade not long after the release of a Linux build.

Comedy point & click adventure Lucy Dreaming is up on Kickstarter, do try out the demo

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2021

Ready for another great pixel-art comedy point and click adventure? Lucy Dreaming, inspired by LucasArts classics is super promising and it's now up on Kickstarter.

Railroad dispatching management sim Rail Route to release on June 23, try out the new demo

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2021

You've built cities, factories with never-ending conveyor belts, rail lines connecting up everything and more - but have you been in charge of train dispatch before? Rail Route brings another fresh take.

Colourful and fun 2D action-adventure Unsung Warriors heads back to Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2021

After a failed first attempt, Unsung Warriors is back on Kickstarter with an updated demo Prologue available to play.

Voxelgram is a sweet 3D version of Picross and it's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2021

Putting Picross / Nonogram into 3D, Voxelgram is a pretty great puzzle game that sees you use your logical brain to work out what shapes are hidden inside blocks.