Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir. Visit locations, interrogate suspects, search for clues, and eventually solve the case before the killer escapes - or you wind up dead yourself.
1001 Spikes is a new retro-looking platformer that has co-op and versus play. We have rather a lot of retro platformers now, so what's different about 1001 Spikes?
Have you been missing the original Trine on Steam? Well, the wait will be over soon as Trine is getting a major update with a new Linux client in the coming months!
Working on these GOL Casts has allowed me to take a look at various games with different genres. Today we can add a new type of a game to the list as we check out this strategy game, which is originally based on a board game, called Hive.
A hilarious, addictive arcade game with tons of liquid physics based puzzles. Hurl colourful Splatters across cleverly designed stages to the cheering of the spectating crowd! It looks like a great time waster.
The Fall is a unique blend of traditional adventure game puzzles and action, mixed together nicely and set in a world rich with atmosphere. Our editor Cheese took a look at it recently too!
A truly unique puzzle experience that embraces simplicity, elegance, and challenge. Strata paints a simple yet challenging puzzle game onto a sophisticated canvas of color and sound.
Track the Bad Guys, be brutal and smart in your planning, and eliminate them one by one. But bear this in mind: each criminal’s death has to look like an accident. In each level, you’ll have the chance to splatter and destroy the Bad Guy using various weapons and traps.
Labyrinthine Dreams is a short puzzle game about Beth, a young woman who is standing at Death’s Door. The developer let us know that a Linux version is likely this summer!
Monsters and Medicine is a puzzle game where adaptation is key; players try to build and expand their own hospital while injured monsters are knocking at the door, wanting treatment.
CaveExpress is a fun looking 2D physics-based platformer that is now open source under the GPL3, the media is also free under a different license.
The Bridge is a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to re-evaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. Sounds like it might hurt your brain a bit.
Escape Goat 2 just got more awesome with its 1.1 update, time to goat down to business (that was terrible right?).
Double Fine have unleashed their puzzle/action hacking game upon the world in beta form via Steam Early Access!
You all love puzzle platformers with cute characters right? Full Bore has that and more, it's really well put together and the graphics are quite fancy.
MouseCraft is a quirky mix of Lemmings and Tetris where players help a group of mice in their relentless quest for cheese, guiding them to their goal by stacking different types of Tetrominoes along their path.
Full Bore is a game I completely fell in-love with when I played a bit of part 1 when it was released for Linux. Thankfully part 2 is due to release in few days!
We already let you know last month that Battleblock Theatre would have a Linux version, the best news is the date is now set for the release and it will be simultaneous on Linux & Windows.
You may remember that I spoke to the developer of the awesome goat simulator (joking) puzzle platformer Escape Goat 2 after the first week about their Linux sales. The good news is after a month sales for Linux are still good.
In the latest instalment of GOL Cast a member of the community 'Half-Shot' takes a look at The Swapper the atmospheric puzzle platformer.
