Free for owners of the original, Portal with RTX has released on Steam from Lightspeed Studios / NVIDIA.
Unciv is a popular open source remake inspired directly by Civilization V. It's been around for a while now and it's finally heading to Steam.
Games like Guitar Hero were once massively popular but developers seem to have moved on, thankfully there's Clone Hero which is a free game based on the idea.
MineClone2 is pretty much as close as you can get to Minecraft without playing Minecraft. It's free, open source and runs on the Minetest voxel game engine. A new release is now available with version 0.81.0.
Not only has Team Fortress 2 been updated but it seems like quite a huge one thanks to the addition of VScript, and you can now run Linux inside it. That's right, TF2 came to Linux back in 2013 and now TF2 itself can run Linux. What a time to be alive.
After many years of development and going through multiple different names like Subvein, Mutant Factions and Gene Shift — the online mode has gone free to play as Gene Shift Auto.
A big release of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe inspired game OpenTTD is upcoming, with a second Beta available now with some great new features like variable interface scaling.
GOG are giving away another free game. This time it's Narita Boy during the GOG Black Friday sale that's live now.
Valve has put out an update for Dota 2 and there's some major changes coming, along with another new hero set to enter the fold.
The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 has a new release out, bringing with it a new difficulty mode if you struggled through the campaign.
OpenTTD is a free and open source sim based on the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and the team have announced a new release is coming with a first Beta.
Love competitive games? How about when they're free to play? Dream Sloth Games are reviving Duelyst as Duelyst II, with approval from Counterplay Games.
The free and open source kart racing game, SuperTuxKart, has released a major new version with lots of fresh goodies to play with.
GOG are back with another game giveaway for you, this time it's the classic Jazz Jackrabbit 2 along with plenty in their ongoing Halloween Sale.
This is pretty great, and a nice way to pull more people into The International 2022. Valve are giving out a bunch of freebies for all Dota 2 players.
Love strategy games? Originally inspired by The Settlers II, the free and open source game Widelands has a big new release out now.
Here's a "fun" one for you. The developers behind the free and open source RTS named 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) have announced that someone (they don't know who) has put it up on Steam.
While you might struggle to get in due to ongoing server issues, Overwatch 2 is out now free to play and it can run quite nicely on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. Here's how to get Overwatch 2 installed and running.
What I can only describe as some form of microscopic fart-cannon, the free and open source evolution sim Thrive has added what they call a Mucilage Jet for your creatures in version 0.5.10.
0 A.D., an in-development free and open source real-time strategy game has a big new release out with Alpha 26.