Category: Puzzle

Getting some Beneath a Steel Sky vibes off of this one. With a demo available on Steam now (with Native Linux support), Full Void looks worth a look.

Anodyne from Analgesic Productions recently celebrated a 10th anniversary, and the community delivered in style with a full fan remake for modern platforms thanks to the previous source code release.

My mother's favourite game on Linux is without a doubt Frozen Bubble. It is a casual game in all of the best ways; one you can dive into and learn at your own pace thanks to its simple but repeatable formula. Consider this to be a snapshot in time back to 2002, from right before the game was to take the world by storm.

Easily one of the best puzzle games to release back in 2021 and frankly it's criminally overlooked, is set to get a whole lot bigger with the Lost Memories 3-part DLC.

Sometimes a good firm handshake is what's needed and someone decided to turn that idea into a free puzzle game with Handshakes.

Colossal Cave, originally released in 1977 from Will Crowther and Don Woods has been revived and reimagined for modern audiences.

Myst, the remake of the 1993 classic, has been updated and is now Steam Deck Verified so you can go and get as confused as I was by it.

LEGO Bricktales was already a lot of fun and now perhaps it's even better with some new options and improvements for their Native Linux version too.

Free for owners of the original, Portal with RTX has released on Steam from Lightspeed Studios / NVIDIA.

Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA have announced that the Portal with RTX free DLC will be release on December 8th.

TailQuest Defense looks like one to pop on your wishlist. After 5 years in development from a two-person team in Godot Engine, a demo is up now.

Probably one of the most popular games of its kind on Steam, the co-op escape room puzzler Escape Simulator recently had a nice update.

Harmony's Odyssey from developer MythicOwl is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic and now it is available for Linux and works well on Steam Deck.

Who doesn't love LEGO? ClockStone and Thunderful Publishing just recently released LEGO Bricktales and surprisingly, it came with full Native Linux support along with being Steam Deck Verified.

One Dreamer is a point and click programming adventure game about a burned-out indie developer making games. It's officially out with Native Linux support.

A mixture of strategy and puzzling elements together, Xenospore is a currently free game about defending humanity by prevent a strange alien organism from spreading too far.

They will be missed and this is technically now actually their last game, with the The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection officially out now with Linux support.

Love puzzle games? Check out the new Native Linux release of SiNKR 3. It's a wordless puzzle game that needs you to hook and pull various objects and it's quite a gem.

Okay so perhaps Last Call BBS being their actual final game was a sweet little lie from Zachtronics. Well, sort of, as The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is technically not exactly a new game.

SokoChess is certainly an intriguing game blending together two very different types of gameplay, to create something that's a little peculiar but quite fun.