Category: Upcoming

It's been a while in the making but Shadowrun Returns is set to go into beta for Linux soon thanks to the developers for letting us know.

The awesome looking turn based strategy game Battle Worlds: Kronos has recently done a new alpha video to show it off. It has also just entered closed beta, it's coming soon folks!

The idea is simple: stay in the arena. Variety is added with mutators and game modes to change the rules of play, bots and shoulder-to-shoulder multiplayer.

Halfway is a turn-based strategy game taking place a few hundred years in the future. You take control of a small group of people who are witnesses to a violent overtake of their spaceship by an unknown species.

Valve sent a message to the Nuclear Dawn team to let them know they will work with them to enable them to support Linux, good guy Valve.

We announced Glare to you previously with some excellent looking screenshots and now the developers have sent in a video of the game in action, and it's looking good.

So it seems that the guy porting Painkiller: Hell and Damnation has left Farm51 but he has stated on twitter that the Linux port has not been cancelled.

Last Genesis is a survival game with a cooperative and multiplayer aspect. You play as Adam/Eve, a survivor from the destroyed earth and is transported to a mysterious wild. You will have to scavenge for supplies, build shelter, cooperate with other people to survive this hostile environment.

Incognita is a turn-based tactical espionage game, and is currently in development and will be available for Linux, from the makers of Don't Starve which is an excellent game itself.

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine.

Life Goes On is a comically morbid puzzle platformer game, where you send a series of dauntless medieval knights through a trap-ridden gauntlet, sacrificing them one by one to make progress. Impale a knight on a spike to provide the safe platform needed to cross a pit. Catch another knight on a saw blade so their body falls on a button to solve a puzzle.

Thankfully we have learnt that Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition is still going to happen for Linux, but sadly they still don't have a timeline for it.

The critically acclaimed PSN hit PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate makes its way to Steam Linux for the definitive Monsters experience! Currently looking for testers too.

A first look at the alpha demo of the upcoming free, class based multiplayer shooter 'Alien Arena: Tactical'. We list the available player roles, explain the gameplay, mechanics and goals, as well as point out a flaw or two. All this to give you a general idea before the public demo, but also to prepare for feedback gathering.

Crystal Picnic a 16-bit style action RPG in development by Nooskewl the creators of Monster RPG 2 now has an alpha available if you pre-order.

As more time goes by more Wasteland 2 screenshots have filtered in and now we have 18 minutes worth of gameplay and some info on the Linux release.

So thanks to one of the guys at Paradox we have learnt that not only will Cities in Motion come to Linux but it's sequel will too!

Eador. Masters of the Broken World is a sore spot for Linux gamers, a title that had Linux support stated on its greenlight page and even a blog post that stated it's now high priority and that they have a team of people dedicated to the port, delay after delay and we are still sadly waiting.

Tower of Tiestru is a unique 3D tower defense and strategy game. The world is dominated by the darkness. As a sorcerer you must save the world by bringing the Crystal of Light to the tower of Tiestru.

Metro: Last Light is heading to Linux, you all know this by now and we even spoke to the developers to get it confirmed, now the publisher has written an official statement in support of a Linux version of their AAA shooter!