Category: Demo

Few games make me excited beyond help, especially when they're on Kickstarter, but space drone building game Nimbatus is fully funded and coming to Linux. I tested it and I love it.

This fully-voice-acted point and click/visual novel hybrid is currently looking for crowdfunding to be completed. A short prologue demo is available to try it out.

Top-down spaceship simulator 'Shortest Trip to Earth' inspired by FTL and Firefly is now on IndieGoGo and it has a Linux demo. I've tested it and loved it.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a new turn-based tactical RPG from 6EyesStudio with hand-drawn environments and a mature story. They plan to fully support Linux and they even have a demo ready.

Necrocosmos sounds pretty good. A Metroidvania styled game with 8-bit aesthetics where you take DNA from your enemies and it's currently on Kickstarter, it even has a Linux demo.

God game 'The Universim' now has a demo available on Steam if you're wanting to get an early look of this in-development game.

Dead Exit is a tabletop inspired card game from the makers of The Living Dungeon. It was made available on Steam earlier this year on Windows and it now has a beta/demo available for Linux through itch for testing.

With it’s very unsubtle and unambiguous nods and stylistic references to both classic Castlevanias and metrodvanias, this game has tickled my fancy.

With not many hours to spare, Hellpoint, a dark future action RPG that will fully support Linux has been funded on Kickstarter.

Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, the first episode of the point and click adventure game, SnarfQuest Tales has gone gold and has been available for some time.

Hellpoint is a good looking dark sci fi action RPG that's currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, they have a Linux demo ready and they've now put this demo on Steam for easy access.

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.

This colorful game with tactical battles looks interesting. The developers have asked for feedback in the build up to the launch of their crowdfunding campaign.

Overload is another new six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Steam. It's currently in Early Access, but even so it's already very impressive.

After chatting privately with the developers of Hyper Sentinel to give them some advice, they have now put up their official Linux demo and they have also hit their funding goal on Kickstarter.

The developers of Caveman Warriors sent in a copy of their in-development 1-4 player action platformer and it's really quite good.

Munch VR, a casual VR gamed aimed at a wide audience now has an experimental version which supports Linux.

Honestly, I never heard about this title until Steam recommended it to me, and once I learned that it has a demo available, then it became a priority. Of course, I think it was a very good experience, and I'm looking forward to eventually acquire the full game.

A GOL follower sent word that Alienware are giving out limited keys to a Disgaea 2 demo test. The good news is I got one and it seems the demo already runs on Linux.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan which has gameplay similar to the Commandos series now has a demo for Linux, right near release.