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Now you too can lose all your time in Lost For Swords with the demo

By Liam Dawe, Mar 27

Back in July 2023 I wrote about Lost For Swords, a roguelike deck-builder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. It was properly good fun and now it has a Native Linux demo too!

No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul

By Liam Dawe, Mar 27

God damn this sounds great. No Man's Sky just got another free huge upgrade in update 4.6 "Orbital" that comes with a bunch of big new features.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

The team behind the post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG have launched a demo and crowdfunding campaign for Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a fantasy cRPG inspired by Infinity Engine titles like Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale and other classics.

Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

Hyperspace Deck Command is the next game in the Hyperspace Anthology from Sleeper Games that includes their two previous games Swirl W@tch and ---Red---Tether-->.

GOG begin funding indie devs with Loco Motive releasing this Summer

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

GOG have announced that they're getting into game funding, with the first partnership being a boost for developers from Robust Games and publisher Chucklefish for their upcoming title Loco Motive.

Draw 7 and hope you get a good hand in the Steam Deckbuilders Fest

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Running through until April 1st at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, the Steam Deckbuilders Fest is live filled with games with cards of all sorts.

Trackline Express is a bit like Unrailed! with even more chaos

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Trackline Express is a train and track building game from Bubblebird Studio that's planned to release on April 18th, and it sure does look like some wonderful chaos. From the same developer that created the chilled Haven Park.

Check out tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat in Slice & Dice

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Slice & Dice from developer Tann has recently arrived on Steam giving players a fresh tactical dice-rolling roguelike, along with Native Linux support.

Cinematic narrative adventure Until Then releases May 23rd

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Polychroma Games and Maximum Entertainment have announced the cinematic narrative adventure Until Then is going to release on May 23rd.

Mini Airways is like Mini Metro / Mini Motorways but for aircraft

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

After a interesting take on the strategy management sim? Taking a heavy dose of inspiration and naming from the very popular Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, a completely different developer is doing their take with Mini Airways.

Nature-expanding tile-stacking puzzler 'Preserve' has a demo up on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Preserve looks very sweet. A tile-based puzzle game all about nature that features both horizontal and vertical building and there's a Native Linux demo now available to try out.

Steam Deck and Desktop Steam Beta fixes a Steam Play bug with Windows versions

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta Client update on March 22nd, and with it a bunch of bug fixes for both Steam Deck and Desktop Steam.

Proton 9.0 (Beta16) brings more regression fixes, updated Steamworks SDK

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23

Valve have released another Beta version of Proton 9.0, what will become the next main stable version of Proton on the path to getting as many games running as possible on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 announced and coming soon

By Liam Dawe, Mar 22

Bitwave Games are doing it again, giving us a healthy dose of nostalgia with the Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 that's due to release soon. Plus a teaser of something else to come.

Backpack Battles has sold 500,000 copies in two weeks on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Mar 22

Backpack Battles, one of my current — uh, fixations shall we say, has managed to blow away expectations on Steam selling over 500,000 copies in only two weeks of Early Access.

In my future I foresee a whole lot of hours in Dungeon Clawler

By Liam Dawe, Mar 22

Dungeon Clawler from Stray Fawn Studio (The Wandering Village) was just announced with Native Linux support and a demo available, and this blending of a rogue-like deckbuilder with a claw machine is going to absolutely annihilate my free time.

2D soulslike adventure-RPG 'Tails of Iron 2' launches later this year

By Liam Dawe, Mar 22

Odd Bug Studio are back with a fun announcement, as a sequel to their 2021 hit Tails of Iron is coming later this year with Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition out now on Steam - works on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has officially arrived on Steam, and thankfully it does work on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

Red Dead Redemption 2 gets AMD FSR 2.2 and HDR10+

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

A rare update for Red Dead Redemption 2 has landed, and for those who want a little more performance, you might like this one especially if you're on Steam Deck.