Need a free game? You're in luck as Hue from Fiddlesticks Games and Curve Games is currently free to keep on Steam until June 8th.
Currently available in Beta on Steam for you to test out, the Cooperative Update for Portal Reloaded sounds like a lot of fun.
If you enjoy first-person puzzlers like Portal and The Talos Principle then you'll likely feel right at home with Re:Touring.
Valve has put up Steam Puzzle Fest, a big sale on all different kinds of puzzle games along with demos and previews of upcoming games too.
Love your Picross? Check out Picma - Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It's also free to play, to a point.
Love puzzle games like Portal and The Talos Principle? Photon Engineer might be one for you to have a look at.
Hellgineers takes the idea of Bridge Constructor and gives it a devilish spin, available now with Native Linux support.
Railbound looks great, a relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections and travelling the world and now it's Steam Deck Verified.
Marble Blast was first released in 2002, before being updated to Marble Blast Gold in 2003. The demo can be obnoxious, with it showing a begging screen imploring you to buy the full game after completing each and every level. Considering the state of the registered version as it exists now, this can feel more than a bit galling.
The absolutely charming building-puzzle adventure game LEGO Bricktales is getting a free content update ready for Easter.
Busy weekend? No? How about some fresh games! Humble Bundle has put up a pretty darn good collection in the latest bundle.
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.