Category: Simulation

Prison Architect is probably one of the best indie games around for strategy/sim fans. This new update introduces prisoner reputation, protective custody and much more.

Hearthlands is my latest little discovery and even though it's in the early stages it looks really promising. Hearthlands plays out much like the Majesty & Settlers strategy games that puts the focus on buildings, resources, heroes and other things a King needs to watch over, so you don't control your units directly.

Tropico 5 has finally been officially release for Linux, so it's time to become a dictator and see how it runs on Linux.

On the official Tropico Facebook page the developers sent word out that the Linux (and Mac) versions are still on time for release on Friday 19th September!

Train Fever has delivered the promised Linux support that was missing from their initial Steam release.

Universe Sandbox 2 is a physics based space simulator. We never got the original on Linux, but as teased the developers are delivering with Universe Sandbox 2.

Linux is about to get a pretty deep and serious city builder courtesy of Paradox and Colossal Order named Cities Skylines.

In Mini Metro you are tasked with designing your own subway system for a growing city. It looks simple, but once you get into it not only is it addictive, but it's generally awesome too.

It looks like Football Manager 2014 on Linux was success enough for the next game safely titled Football Manager 2015 to also be on Linux.

Clockwork Empires is the next game from the developers behind the hit Dungeons of Dredmor, and they are nearing a Linux release!

Towns has a bit of colourful history sadly, but that hasn't stopped a brand new update coming out which is excellent for anyone who picked it up after all that kerfuffle before.

Budget caps to blow, reputations to ruin and missions to fail have now come to career mode in the fantastic sandbox space simulator from Squad.

X-Plane 10 Global 64bit is now on Steam for Linux and promises a rather expensive flight simulator experience.

Skyward Collapse is a different take on the god game genre that mixes in some strategy and and base building elements to make one weird mix.

Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The kicker is that the graphics are all text, no actual graphics.

A game all about taking apart and learning about guns is the name of it in World of Guns: Gun Disassembly, and it's now on Linux.

Door Kickers is the excellent squad based strategy and tactics game from KillHouse Games we have shown you a few times here. They have released a big update to push the game into beta and it's a good one.

One of the funniest games around is now fully available and out of beta for Linux. Goat Simulator is pretty popular and for good reason, as it's just insanely stupid.

Prison Architect has release Alpha 22 where bug fixing has been the priority only in this release as they try to smooth up the experience.

While not yet officially announced Mount & Blade: Warband is out for Linux, downloadable and might even be playable for you.