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DOS_deck

DOS_deck brings DOS games to your browser with a Steam Deck interface

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
This is a fun idea for classic games. DOS_deck is a website where you can go and play some classic DOS games right in the browser with an interface much like the Steam Deck / Steam Big Picture Mode.
Steam Deck OLED

Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
Valve recently put up a fresh Steam Deck Client Beta, along with a new SteamOS Preview release and together they fix some important issues that appeared.
W4 Games - Godot Engine

W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
17
W4 Games, the company set up by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, along with veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato just received a rather large sum of funding.
Steam Deck OLED

Steam Deck OLED hits retail stores on December 12th in Asia

By Liam Squires-Hand,
22
KOMODO has announced their retail expansion with the Steam Deck OLED planned to be in stores across Asia starting December 12th.
Dig Dig Boom

Dig Dig Boom is a charming looking turn-based puzzle mining roguelike

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Turn-based puzzle mining in a highly dynamic destructible world, Dig Dig Boom looks like a charming game you should stick on your wishlist.
Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)

Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) announced - a game about being kind to real people

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Remember the game Kind Words? A tiny little thing that came out in 2019 that let you send letters to real people, along with listening to some chill beats. Well, it's getting an expanded sequel with Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop).
Beat 'N' Path

Beat 'N' Path has you combine creativity and logic to make musical machines

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Beat 'N' Path sounds like a fun game for the creative mind, that has you design and build various machines to produce music across a career mode and a sandbox to create whatever you want.
Mechabellum

You absolutely need to try Mechabellum during the Steam Free Weekend

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
Mechabellum has sucked away more of my time than I would care to admit right now, and you too can see what all the fuss is about during the Steam Free Weekend.
Powers in the Basement

Powers in the Basement is a free, short comedy point and click adventure

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Free game Thursday? Check out Powers in the Basement, a point and click adventure that won't take you forever to get through, with plenty of comedy inspired by the 80s / 90s with a specific sweet spot for LucasArts classics.
Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors - Adventures Update out now, plus Among Us collab DLC coming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
Well this is quite unexpected. Vampire Survivors is getting a new DLC later this month with an Among Us cross-over. Plus, a big update is also out now.
Feral GameMode

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking

By Liam Squires-Hand,
14
GameMode, the tool for Linux originally from Feral Interactive, has version 1.8 released with some new features to tweak your system performance for gaming.
Steam Deck OLED

100 Steam Deck OLEDs will be given away during The Game Awards 2023

By Liam Squires-Hand,
14
The Game Awards 2023 is approaching and just like last year, they will be hosting a giveaway so you can win! This time it's the Steam Deck OLED for 100 people!
dotAGE

dotAGE adds controller support - working towards Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
dotAGE is a challenging turn-based village builder, one that will suck away a lot of your time. It's a genuinely great game and it only keeps getting better! Now it has controller support, as the dev works towards being Steam Deck Verified.
Planetiles

Check out the demo for Planetiles, a chilled city-builder like Dorfromantik

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Enjoy games like Dorfromantik that have you build tiles and expand while mostly just chilling? Then you're going to want to look at Planetiles.
Juice Galaxy

The incredibly weird psychedelic physics game Juice Galaxy got a Steam release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
A game I checked out back in 2021, Juice Galaxy (formerly Juice World), is a thoroughly odd game that is terribly hard to actually describe.
Sea of Survivors

Check out some midweek Steam Deck Verified picks

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Keeping up with all the latest games going through verification for Steam Deck, here's another set of picks for you to take a look at.
Skyrim Special Edition

Skyrim Special Edition updated with Steam Deck support, ultrawide res, bug fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
23
I'm as surprised as you are but The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition just got a brand new update that includes Steam Deck support. And paid mods are back.
The Gunk

Humble Choice for December 2023 is a nice all-rounder of treats

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
The latest Humble Choice for December 2023 is now available with another set of games for subscribers, so here's your usual run over what's inside and the compatibility for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
Combined Arms

Combined Arms, the big free retro C&C and Red Alert combo 1.0 is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Combined Arms brings Command & Conquer and Red Alert action mashed together into a single OpenRA powered game and the 1.0 release is out now.
Minetest 5.8.0

Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
Minetest, the popular free and open source voxel game engine, one that can be used to play various different games (like a Minecraft clone) just released version 5.8.0.
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