Category: Sandbox

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.

StarMade is an impressive game, it has a similar voxel-block style to Minecraft, but that's were the similarities end. The game now has a proper launcher that includes a bundled version of Java. This will make it easily run on Steam Machines.

Paradox Development Studio’s successful medieval grand strategy game, Crusader Kings II, has seen the release of its latest DLC. A cart-full-of-dead amount of new events and mechanics relating to sickness and health have been added on. It arrives with a considerable patch for all owners of the base game as well.

Good evening explorers, today I took a look at Planet Nomads a very early build of what could be a very interesting space survival game.

Along with trying my son out with Putt-Putt, another one I tried to great success is Slime Rancher and it's awesome.

Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters is another expansion for the hit city builder, prepare for mother nature to come calling.

Starbound is already pretty massive, but it's about get an essential feature for killing time: Fishing!

Slime Rancher is a damn cute game, it's high on my list to play hours of when it has some fleshed out content to it. It has hit over 300K sales so I caught up with the developer on the Linux side of it.

IndieDB is doing yet another game giveaway and this time the weird sandbox game CHKN is being thrown your way.

The first DLC for the space grand strategy title lets players put down roots, introducing the plant phenotype to the mix of playable species.

Oolite 1.84 has recently been released and brings with it a new camera mode which will help make some awesome screenshots and other stuff too.

For those still playing Minecraft, you may know that Mojang is working on a new launcher that doesn't use Java (hooray!), but it might not run on Linux (boo!).

The day I feel like I have been waiting on for an eternity is here. Starbound is now at the big 1.0 release and I've setup a small server.

Terraria 1.3.2 has been released and along with an assortment of bugfixes it includes some fun new items. Having a Terraria party became a bit more fun.

Parkitect is a very cool Early Access theme park building sim and the latest alpha is now available with Linux support.

Starbound, Terraria and Crea not enough for you? Planet Centauri is yet another sandbox 2D indie RPG with crafting and digging for you to sink your teeth into.

Factorio is an absolute gem of a sandbox game and I love it. It's another game I'm terrible scared to load up as I will lose days to it, this new update has me inching closer to the play button.

The Linux-friendly Swedish developers are celebrating a million copies of Europa Universalis IV sold with a collection of traditional music that they’re giving away. Be sure to claim it before July 4th!

The Long Dark is probably one of the nicest survival games available on Linux right now, it's cold, it's harsh, but it's beautiful.

I was pretty sad to see that the new game from Gaslamp (developer of Dredmor) Clockwork Empires didn't have a Linux version, but the developer has said again it will.