Category: Platformer

Megabyte Punch is a fighting/beat ‘em up game in which you build your own fighter! As you travel through different environments, you battle other creatures to get their parts. Parts have their own powers and bonuses, like gun arms for a shoot ability or powerful hips for a devastating pelvic thrust attack.

CaveExpress is a classic 2D platformer with physics-based gameplay and dozens of levels. Master your pedal-powered flying machine to pick up packages from your cave-dwelling clients and drop them off at the collection point. But beware! Mighty mastodons, terrifying pterodactyls and others would rather see you extinct.

So, we are on a quest to get enough money to buy a candle to explore the nearby caves and to do that, we must fight through an army of skeletons, goo balls and bats? This will obviously be a great journey!

Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is a puzzle game where players help mice in their relentless quest for cheese by stacking the world's most famous blocks: Tetrominos.

King Arthur's Gold is a multiplayer game played with up to 32 players. Build castles and wage war on the enemy team as a knight, archer or builder in a fully destructible medieval world. It blends the best cooperative aspects of Lost Vikings, mashes them with Worms, with the visual style of Metal Slug, made by the creators of Soldat.

The European cultural TV channel Arte innovates and launches its first video game! Play as 2 dots and travel through the ages of typographic styles and techniques.

It has finally happened, Team Meat have enabled the Linux version of Super Meat Boy onto Steam! Hooray!

Two new platformers are now on Steam for you lovely lovely people to enjoy, both rated well and should be worth a look!

Rating: 8.5/10 The original Trine (2009) first became notable to me after I had discovered that its developer Frozenbyte had given full permission to redistribute certain screenshots of the game under a Creative Commons license as long as an attribution back to them was preserved...

We've seen a huge influx of platformers, some in 2.5D and some with pixelated 8-bit style, so it's obvious that some of us have already gotten tired of them and actively prefer other genres over platformers, me included. But Glare was something that I actually like for multiple reasons.

The Dream King is a unique blend of multiple genres into one Side Scrolling Action Role Playing Game! It is intended to capture the magic of the childhood classics of the early 80's and 90's gaming era!

While included in the recent Humble Bundle, Worms Reloaded was not actually downloable and playable on Steam, well it now is!

Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...

Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you.

Immerse yourself in a unique and challenging underground adventure! Knytt Underground is the latest iteration in the critically acclaimed Knytt series. It takes place in the same universe as Knytt Stories, the renowned indie game from Nicklas Nygren, a.k.a. 'Nifflas'.

Glare a visually beautiful platformer that we showed you a few times has now been officially released on Steam!

So catching up on all the news while I didn't actually have stable internet, it seems Steam has a bunch of new Linux games for you to sink your teeth into!

KAG is a 2D cooperative war game played with up to 32 players. Play as Knight, Archer or Builder in a large medieval world with physics allowing the construction (and destruction!) of medieval fortresses. They plan to release on Steam shortly!

An interesting looking platformer from the developers of Nuclear Dawn (which is also coming to Linux) will come to Linux via Steam soon. It will hit Steam mid-october so not long to wait for this one.

So Hot Tin Roof has been funded on Kickstarter and is in need of a big push on greenlight to get onto Steam.