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GOL Plays: The Culling, a look at how this battle royale survival game runs on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2016

I finally managed to get The Culling to play nicely and recorded a video of me butchering someone, wondering around and making an awesome shot with the bow on Linux.

7 Days to Die alpha 14.6 released, finally fixes textures for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2016

The survival game 7 Days to Die finally works properly on Linux once again. It was broken back in March, so it's pleasing to finally see it sorted.

Murdering folks in The Culling, early Linux & SteamOS port report and some quick thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2016

Now that The Culling is available on Linux I have taken it for a spin, and here are some quick thoughts on it.

The Culling, the Unreal Engine 4 battle royale survival game is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2016

The Culling is the rather good looking battle royale survival game we mentioned only recently and it's now available on SteamOS & Linux.

Wayward, an Early Access turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike now available

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2016

I've watched Wayward change and grow for years now (first wrote about it in 2013!) and it finally has a Steam release.

The Other 99, a single-player action and survival game coming soon to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2016

The Other 99 looks like a pretty good entry to the single-player action & survival section, and it's releasing into Early Access with Linux support soon.

The Culling, a good looking Unreal Engine 4 battle royale game is heading to Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2016

I must admit I like the look of The Culling! While I like the idea of survival games, they often don't click for me, but a battle royale game I could definitely get into.

Don't Starve Together has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2016

It's time to get your survival gear ready, as Don't Starve Together is now officially released and it has a few improvements.

Duskers developers planning official Linux support, current beta works well

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2016

Duskers is the rather unique strategy and survival game in procedurally generated worlds. You pilot drones into spaceships and figure out what's going on.

Thoughts on Retro-Pixel Castles after some major updates, a godlike village simulator on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2016

I really liked Retro-Pixel Castles when I played it initially last year, and after trying it again now it has had some major updates I have some more thoughts on it.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2016

Prepare to fail at survival, as Don't Starve Together is officially being released this month on the 21st of April. Great game, do try it out.

Survival game Rust adds female player models, assigns gender to Steam accounts at random

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2016

The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest the free online survival arena is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2016

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest, the spin off from ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on Linux & SteamOS, it's free too.

The Wild Eight, survive after a plane crash now on Kickstarter, Linux aimed for day-1

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2016

I don't normally cover Kickstarters, but The Wild Eight not only looks like a decent survival game, the game is planned for Linux day-1 too.

SKYHILL, an interesting and rather simplistic survival game on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Apr 2016

Today I had a chance to look at SKYHILL, an interesting looking 2D survival game about escaping from the top floor of a hotel.

7 Days to Die still has broken graphics on Linux, developers seeking logs to help

By Liam Dawe, 7 Apr 2016

7 Days to Die recently released Alpha 14, and with it came broken graphics for Linux gamers. The developers are asking for logs to help them narrow down what's causing it. It sounds very familiar to me.

Starbound to exit early access soon with a colossal patch

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2016

I am really excited to give Starbound some proper playtime when it leaves Early Access. It's already fun, but I didn't want to have characters or worlds wiped during Early Access. They have put up what to expect in Starbound 1.0.

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion sails out of Early Access, Linux supported

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2016

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion is a pretty big expansion to the really great survival game Don't Starve. It is now fully available and features Linux support.