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Stealth puzzle-platformer Moonshot - The Great Espionage looks like it could be amusing

By Liam Dawe,
Moonshot - The Great Espionage from developer NimbleBeasts is looking good, and it's coming to Steam in June along with full Linux support built with Godot Engine.

2D and 3D switching puzzle-platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! has a new demo and release window

By Liam Dawe,
After a successful Kickstarter campaign and an Epic MegaGrant, Neko Ghost, Jump! which combines 2D and 3D platforming together is coming along nicely to release.

Finding joy in ruining everyone's day in Rain on Your Parade - out now

By Liam Dawe,
Available now with Linux support, Rain on Your Parade is a comedy puzzle-like game about being a cloud and raining all over everyone and not giving a hoot.

Shell Shuffle offers a different take on tile-matching from the dev of The Caribbean Sail

By Liam Dawe,
Victorian Clambake, developer of the clever The Caribbean Sail has recently released Shell Shuffle into Early Access. A tile-matching puzzle game that does things a little differently.

Portal Stories: Mel gets Vulkan support on Linux in a new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Portal Stories: Mel, an extremely popular and highly rated mod for Portal 2 just had a new Beta pushed out which adds in Vulkan support for Linux.

2D first-person point-and-click adventure The Wild Case is out now

By Liam Dawe,
2D and yet first-person? Imagine playing a hidden object game but it's a point and click adventure, that's sort of what you get with the new release of The Wild Case.

Save houses from the spreading fire in the puzzle game Wildfire Swap

By Liam Dawe,
Forest fires are everywhere, they're spreading and it's up to you to ensure people's houses are safe in Wildfire Swap.

Clever and challenging puzzle-fighter Aloof is out now, we have a few keys to give away

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired in parts by the likes of Puyo Puyo Tetris, Aloof is a wonderfully designed puzzle-fighter with enough differences and a wonderful atmosphere that make it worth picking up.

Nightfall Hacker goes free for Linux on the Snap store

By Liam Dawe,
Nightfall Hacker, a recently released brand new indie game release from James Harvey of Teradile has now become free for Linux users via the Snap store.

Mixing strategy, puzzles and cards 'Astral Towers' comes to Linux with the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Combining together a turn-based card game that needs strategy and a little puzzle solving, Astral Towers along with the open source game engine powering it comes to Linux.

Analgesic Productions (Anodyne) announce Sephonie, a story-driven 3D parkour platformer

By Liam Dawe,
Analgesic Productions developer of the Anodyne series and All Our Asias have announced Sephonie, a story-driven 3D platformer with plenty of parkour action and puzzles to solve.

Bonesweeper mixes Palaeontology with Minesweeper where you assemble fossils

By Liam Dawe,
Love a good mix-up of a classic? Minesweeper gets reinvented with Bonesweeper that blends in a little Palaeontology.

Lazy Chess a new open source game that gives you the best moves

By Liam Dawe,
I do always love to see new takes on classic games and Lazy Chess has a fun idea. It compresses Chess down into a game of only a few possible moves each turn.

Chilled-out first-person puzzler Faraway: Director's Cut is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Faraway: Director's Cut from developer Pine Studio is a first-person puzzle game that acts as a modern tribute to Myst.

The GoD Unit is a brain-tickling first-person physics puzzle game out now

By Liam Dawe,
With the recent updates to Portal 2 I got a needy feeling for more first-person puzzle goodness and thankfully The GoD Unit seems to deliver on that.

Puzzle game Mirrored Pawns challenges your spatial reasoning with opposite movements

By Liam Dawe,
In the new game Mirrored Pawns from Firebelley (Sword Slinger, Cryptographer) it challenges your spatial reasoning as you simultaneously control two characters that move in opposite directions.

Hack Grid is a clever brain-twisting DOS inspired puzzle game out now

By Liam Dawe,
Created as a love letter to the retro charm provided by the days of DOS, Hack Grid has you throw around coloured pieces on a board until only one is left and it might melt your brain.

Portal 2 gets more DXVK Vulkan improvements with another update

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's fantastic first-person puzzle game Portal 2 recently had a huge upgrade that pulled in DXVK giving it Vulkan support, with another update out now to further improve it.

Of Mice and Moggies is an absolutely adorable puzzle game of constant cat-and-mouse

By Liam Dawe,
Of Mice and Moggies is a game of cat and mouse, quite literally, as you step by step chase around mice and other animals in small but very clever puzzles. The adorable setting, as well as the excellent presentation and well designed puzzles are worth a look.

Super Plexis is a fresh competitive tile-matching battler with cross-platform PvP

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love tile-matching? How about games similar to Tetris Attack, Puzzle League and other competitive tile-matchers? You will enjoy Super Plexis then which is out in Early Access.
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