Confused on Steam Play and Proton? Be sure to check out our guide.

Valheim is absolutely smashing it with 10 million copies sold

By Liam Dawe,
Iron Gate has announced that their single-player and online co-op survival game Valheim has managed to hit a massive milestone of sales.

GE-Proton 7.15 is out, enables Fall Guys on Linux and Steam Deck easily

By Liam Dawe,
Do you want to play Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout on Linux or Steam Deck the easy way? Well, the community-built version of Proton named GE-Proton (formerly Proton-GE) has a new version out to do just that.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic and GOG on Linux and Steam Deck new Beta available

By Liam Dawe,
The Heroic Games Launcher is a very simple to use free and open source app to manage and download your Epic Games Store and GOG collections on Linux and Steam Deck.

Discord Overlay for Linux v0.5.1 out with notifications, other improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get an easy to use on-screen Discord Overlay for Linux and Steam Deck? Discover Overlay v0.5.1 is out now, here's what's new.

Turbo Overkill should see full Linux and Steam Deck support for the 1.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
Turbo Overkill, a brand new Blade Runner-meets-DOOM hellscape FPS from Trigger Happy Interactive and Apogee Entertainment is out in Early Access.

dbrand made a slick 'Teardown' skin for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the days where you could buy tech with clear casing? I loved my Game Boy Pocket that had it, and now you can sort-of get there thanks to dbrand with their Teardown skin for the Steam Deck.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a quick tip for you on the Steam Deck: how to find out where all that drive space is going with a sweet program called Filelight.

Terraformers, a relaxed game about turning the Red Planet green, out now

By Philadelphus,
Released into early access on April 21, Terraformers is a game about growing and developing a network of cities on Mars, with the eventual goal of (what else) terraforming it.

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.7.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a sprawling FOSS apocalypse roguelike

By anewson,
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, CDDA for short, is a free and open source apocalypse-themed roguelike that is incredibly deep and a ton of fun to play.

Lumencraft hits 20,000 copies in the first week, roadmap detailed

By Liam Dawe,
Lumencraft, a recent Early Access release from 2Dynamic Games that offers up Native Linux support powered by Godot Engine seems to have been a hit.

Underwater chaos expands with the Barotrauma 'Urban Expanses' update

By Liam Dawe,
Want to find out what it's like to travel in a submarine on another planet? Barotrauma gives you that option and it can be total chaos.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder adds gamepad support, works on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder is a rogue-like tactics army battler that I was absolutely in love with when it first entered Early Access and now on the Steam Deck I love it all over again.

Stellaris: Overlord expansion confirmed for release on May 12

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to become the overlord of others in Stellaris? You're going to get your chance when Stellaris: Overlord releases officially on May 12, 2022.

Lutris now has a Flatpak Beta available and updated for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While it's not quite ready just yet to be a one-click install, the game manager Lutris is at least now available with various improvements as a Flatpak Beta.

Rocket Bot Royale is like a Worms styled Battle Royale with jumping tanks

By Liam Dawe,
Rocket Bot Royale is a brand new release from developer Winterpixel Games that seems to be what you get if you took Worms, turned it into a Battle Royale and turned everyone into a tank.

Overgrowth from Wolfire Games goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
Just like they did with some earlier games, Wolfire Games have now open sourced the game code for Overgrowth.

The upcoming Steam Deck Dock got an upgrade, now called a 'Docking Station'

By Liam Dawe,
At some point, Valve quietly tweaked the specifications for the upcoming official Steam Deck Dock and it's actually better than what they said originally.

Proton 7.0-2 out now with many more games playable on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now officially released the latest version of Proton, the Steam Play compatibility tool that allows Windows games to run on the Steam Deck and Linux desktops.
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