Category: Sandbox

Project Zomboid, the zombie survival sandbox game has two new big features in their beta right now. A Factions system to bring survivors together and VOIP chat for survivors near each other.

Minecraft 1.11 is now available which is the 'Exploration Update' aimed at making the world more interesting. They also showed off the new Minecraft launcher running on Linux recently.

'BossConstructor' is an indie spaceship building and combat simulator that was in Early Access for some time, but now it's released in full!

Planet Explorers has been in development for quite a while, with a Kickstarter in 2013 and Early Access in 2014 it has finally seen a full release.

Bohemia Interactive have now formally announced 'Ylands', a cheerful sandbox game that will come to Linux in future.

In an announcement posted on the Steam store page of CHKN the day before yesterday, the developers of this strange but interesting sandbox game are celebrating a contest for Halloween. Basically, you need to create a monster and submit it before October 31st. There will be three winners.

Streets of Rogue is already an extremely cool game, but now it's about to get even cooler. The developer mentioned to a GOL follower than he is planning online co-op support!

Project Zomboid is the rather good sandbox Zombie survival game from The Indie Stone, and it has come a long way!

Don't Starve Together, the multiplayer expansion of action-adventure video game Don't Starve has been updated with 'A New Reign: Part 1'. It's a big update that adds interesting new features!

I'm always impressed by the level of effort put into 'Maia' and I think once it's finished it will be great. It has problems for sure, but this latest small patch aims to start sorting them out.

If you remember, I recently wrote about Stellar Overload and did a small preview. The good news is that the game is now available on Steam with Linux support.

Signs of Life, an indie Early Access sci-fi survival sandbox platformer that looks pretty good has switched from XNA to MonoGame, and the developer has put up a Linux version for people to test.

Paradox Development Studio’s popular empire-building grand strategy game has gotten its latest expansion. Rights of Man and the plethora of free features in the accompanying patch do much to change the game.

Stardew Valley 1.1 the big content update is now live on Steam & GOG, you can divorce people now, choose a different map and more.

Stardew Valley 1.1 beta is now available with Linux support. It has a bunch of new maps and plenty of new content.

The Minecraft developers have announced The Exploration Update and they have already released a development release for it.

The Long Dark is the rather beautiful survival game currently in development that will eventually get a story mode. The game has just had a rather beefy update.

Convicted Galaxy, a procedurally generated space exploration game that's currently on the indie store itch is also trying to get on Steam. The developers sent me a copy to check out too.

Starbound, the massive sandbox game has recently been updated and one of the hot new features is the ability to go fishing.

Quite some time ago I wrote about Planets³ (now called Stellar Overload) and how they didn't hit the Linux goal, but didn't want to leave Linux out. Looks like they are delivering on that.