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Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game arrives for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2022

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a story-driven historically-grounded homesteading game about finding your way after loss inspired by games like Don't Starve and Stardew Valley with a healthy sprinkle of fantasy elements too.

Nomad Survival is another great cheap Vampire Survivors styled game

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2022

Nomad Survival is an auto-attacking rogue-lite action game where you try to survive as long as you can, while you continue to buff up your character as you go.

Last Call BBS, the final game from Zachtronics is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2022

With Zachtronics moving on from game development, their last game is now out in Early Access with Last Call BBS although it's actually not just one game.

Feartress is a new incremental city-building RPG in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jul 2022

Feartress is a bit of a quirky one. Blending together elements of an idle RPG with some small city-building that sees you go through different dimensions.

Fech The Ferret is an upcoming vibrant parkour rhythm-platformer

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2022

Love your musical games and want to get into the rhythm? Fech The Ferret looks like a pretty clever blending of ideas.

Low-poly 3D rail shooter Ex-Zodiac hits Early Access on July 21st

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2022

A nice little early birthday present for me, Ex-Zodiac is a low-poly 3D rail shooter (think like Star Fox) that now has a release date.

Grim Horde is chaotic and there's a good game hiding in there

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2022

Grim Horde is a game that released into Early Access with Native Linux support and it's another fast-paced rogue-lite hell in a slightly similar way to the chaos found in Vampire Survivors only you control a horde of minions.

RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent gets a great looking roadmap

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2022

TFC: The Fertile Crescent is a pixel-art RTS that resembles some of the classics like Age of Empires. It's currently in Early Access with Native Linux support and their new roadmap looks great.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder to leave Early Access this 'Summer'

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2022

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder is a great little auto-battler with dungeon crawling that allows you to build up a truly ridiculous combination of characters and it's getting ready to leave Early Access.

Core Keeper's first major update The Sunken Sea is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2022

An absolute gem of a game this and now perhaps a good time to go back and spend some proper time with it, as the rather large The Sunken Sea update is out now.

The last ever game from Zachtronics releases July 5th

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2022

No doubt plenty of puzzle fans will be sad, as Zachtronics will be hanging up their development hat and moving on after the release of Last Call BBS.

Build cities on the back of a giant animal in The Wandering Village — coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2022

The Wandering Village, a city-builder set on the back of a giant animal is now confirmed to be having Native Linux support at the Early Access release.

Check out Striving for Light if you love endless character-building skill trees

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2022

Striving for Light is a new Native Linux release from Igniting Spark Games, one to check out for ARPG fans who love building up crazy characters.

20 Minutes Till Dawn is like Vampire Survivors with guns — goodbye free time

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2022

20 Minutes Till Dawn is what you get when you take the basic action-survival idea that Vampire Survivors made popular again, makes it really dark and puts a gun in your hand.

Golfie mixes together minigolf with a deck-builder

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2022

We've seen a few attempts to spice-up Golf like Golf with Your Friends which is great but how about blending it together with a deck-building card game? Golfie is the answer to that.

Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist is a fresh time-management visual-novel hybrid

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2022

A mixture of point & click, time-management and a visual-novel all blended together is what you get with Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist.

Fly Dangerous, the 'love letter' to Elite Dangerous racing is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2022

Love racing spaceships? Check out Fly Dangerous, originally created as a love letter to the Elite Dangerous racing community, it's now available on Steam and it's free.

V Rising now works on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton Experimental Beta

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2022

V Rising, the latest huge Steam hit can now run on Linux desktops and Steam Deck, thanks to updates to the Beta version of Proton Experimental.

Project Zomboid version 41.71 out with Steam Deck and controller upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2022

Project Zomboid, a survival game from The Indie Stone that's currently in Early Access just had a big new stable release, and it should now work better on the Steam Deck and with controllers overall.