Instead of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer
Backseat Champions has a pretty clever idea, bringing the worlds of auto-battlers and roguelites to racing games with you managing an AI driver.
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MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate
The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up.
Final Sentence is a unique horror battle royale where you're all on typewriters
Type accurately and fast, as your life depends on it in Final Sentence. It's a unique blend of battle royale and horror with typing game mechanics.
The classic Unreal Tournament gets a big upgrade with the v469e patch from OldUnreal
The team from OldUnreal have put up a rather big patch for the classic Unreal Tournament, bringing lots of improvements and fixes to the classic Epic shooter.
Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux
Sentry is a toolkit for game devs to monitor errors, performance and more and now it should work a lot better on Linux / SteamOS with Wine / Proton.
Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
Hello GamingOnLinux readers! It's time again to open up the floor as they say so jump into the comments and give your latest recommendations.
Crimson Freedom could be one to watch for single-player RTS fans
Do you like single-player RTS games with a proper narrative to go with it? You may want to keep a close eye on the upcoming Crimson Freedom.
The EasySMX X05 Pro wireless controller is cheap, feature-filled and comfortable with a big flaw
The EasySMX X05 Pro was sent over for review and after spending weeks with it, this little device nearly turned into a favourite.
D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK
We've have DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for various versions of Direct3D on Linux, but now it seems we're also getting Direct3D 7 as well.
THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER
I'm not entirely sure what I thought of THRASHER but it's certainly a unique experience and it's officially out now with Linux / Steam Deck support.
Halls of Torment is still probably the best survivor-like with The Boglands DLC and free update out now
Possibly still the absolute best action-roguelike survivor-like ever made, Halls of Torment has expanded with The Boglands DLC and a big free update.
Get The Sinking City Remastered and a lot of Sherlock Holmes in this Humble Bundle
Need some more adventures? How about The Sinking City Remastered and a bunch of Sherlock Holmes? Check out the Lovecraft and Sherlock classics collection.
Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu
A new blog post is out from the Linux Mint team going over some recent work, with the newer Cinnamon Menu coming along nicely and a new System Information tool.
The popular Easy Effects app swaps from GTK over to Qt, QML and Kirigami with a big new release
Originally known as PulseEffects, Easy Effects is an audio manipulation tool for Linux that provides many different useful effects and filters.
GZDoom successor project UZDoom gets a first preview release
After the GZDoom implosion, the rest of the developers split off to form UZDoom and the first preview release has rolled out with some essential improvements.
The Godot Engine 2025 showreel is out
Showing off a bunch of what's capable with the free and open source game engine Godot, the 2025 showreel has been released.
Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play
Previously known as Fantasy Grounds Unity, the developers at SmiteWorks have now made Fantasy Grounds VTT free to play.
Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games
Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers.
Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way
For a while now Valve have been tweaking Steam store pages, including making them a fair bit wider which is now actually live everywhere for all users.
OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support
Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.