When Slay the Spire launched, back in January 2019, it represented the pinnacle in what became a well recognised genre - Deck Builders. Let’s delve into that genre and see lies beneath the surface.

Love your Picross? Check out Picma - Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It's also free to play, to a point.

Inspired might be pushing it a bit eh? MineClone2 as the name suggests really is a clone of early Minecraft, although this is free and open source powered by the Minetest game engine. A big new release is out now following the recent Minetest upgrade.

Fires continue to be put out by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy as they fix up The Last of Us, with a new patch landing with lots of fixes.

This is interesting, it seems Valve have lit a small fire under Microsoft once again, as they've been experimenting with a handheld mode for Windows 11 to help devices like the Steam Deck. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Love puzzle games like Portal and The Talos Principle? Photon Engineer might be one for you to have a look at.

If you enjoy strategy games, you don't want to miss the free giveaway of Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.

Have some spare cash and in the market for a pricey and powerful Linux laptop? TUXEDO would like a word with you for their Stellaris 16 (Gen5).

Fanatical and JSAUX have done a little teaming up between a Steam Deck bundle of games and and some Docking Stations.

More companies are beginning to see there is a market for a PC gaming handheld, with Asus planning to release the ROG Ally.

Have a PC hooked up to your TV or need a Linux distribution that might work better on a handheld PC? A new release of ChimeraOS is here, and it's a necessary upgrade. Think of it a bit like SteamOS with fancy extras.

Ah yes, launchers and external online services, what a nuisance they can be for Steam Deck and Linux desktop players. Thankfully, Valve keep working away on Proton to fix up issues.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony builder and probably one of the best. Space is dangerous and of course there's going to be Meteors but now you can have a bit more fun with them.

Here's your chance to jump into the Survivors-Like games phenomenon, so I guess that's what we're calling games like Vampire Survivors now? Survivors-Like? Humble Bundle has some good picks here.

Deadnaut: Signal Lost from the developer of Deadnaut, Zafehouse Diaries and Fear Equation is officially out now with Native Linux support.

The fourth and final giveaway on GOG during their Spring Sale is for Deep Sky Derelicts, a tactical roguelike RPG set in a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy.

Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.

After closing up shop back in 2022, Farsky Interactive have now revived their game FarSky and made it free on itch.io.

Here we are, another big release on Steam and sadly it's just seemingly not a good experience from my early testing.

The internet is currently buzzing about mentions of Left 4 Dead 3 appearing in files for the upcoming Counter-Strike 2. So apparently Valve can count to 3.