To say that I began playing Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power with low expectations would be an understatement. Immediately put off by the 3D viewpoint, the game acquired such a poor reputation that Frozenbyte went as far as to publicly apologize to quell a significant fan backlash. Four years on though, how does Trine 3 fare as a game?
Lacklustre Linux sales and internal restructuring appear to have taken Frozenbyte out of the Linux market for good, and with even their old games struggling to run well on the Mesa graphics stack, it marks a sad end to a series that once provided so much colour to our platform.
Platformers are out, Clothformers are in. Well, that's what the developer of LAZR wants you to believe with an impressive tech demo release of their in-development title.
After a delay to both, Yacht Club Games have now announced that both Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown will release with Linux support on December 10.
The upcoming run and gun game Bite the Bullet from Mega Cat Studios is looking really good in the latest feature trailer.
Bit Kid have just recently put up their successfully crowdfunded action-adventure game Chasm on itch.io.
The brilliant rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer Dead Cells has another awesome content update available now.
Headcannon might not be a name too familiar to a Linux gaming focused audience but they're quite well-known for helping with Sonic Mania development and they're now making their own game with Vertebreaker.
Released back in October 2017, In The Shadows is an incredibly pretty puzzle platformer with a very sweet idea and it's very much worth a look.
Lab Zero Games and publisher 505 Games today officially release Indivisible, a very curious blend of action platforming with RPG elements.
A thoroughly odd experience this. Drawn Down Abyss from developer DaFluffyPotato looks like an ordinary pixel-art action-platform except it's also thoroughly different due to the card-based abilities.
You've played a lot of action platformers before but not many come close to the breathtaking design work going into MegaSphere and it just got a lot bigger in the Anomaly update out now.
Roll around as a ball with a loose tongue you use as a swing in Crumble, now with a much updated demo available to try.
OSK from the single-person studio Diax Game is officially out and it has a really beautiful style to it.
Platformers are probably the most common type of game available on any platform and yet, some developers are still able to make them seem a little unique.
Just recently Klei Entertainment (Don't Starve, Oxygen Not Included) released their amusing parkour game Hot Lava and it's not only planned for Linux they're actually working on it.
CHOP, a brutal local co-op platform brawler recently left Early Access on Steam. If you like fast-paced fighters with a great style and chaotic gameplay this is for you.
After successfully crowdfunding on Kickstarter back in 2017, Blasphemous is now out but sadly the Linux version is currently delayed.
Growing Pains, a platformer where you're growing constantly as you rush to finish each level before getting stuck is now available on Linux.
Bringing in plenty of new free content as a last gift, Celeste Chapter 9: Farewell is now officially out.
