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Space sci-fi drone sim Duskers hits five years, dev talks sales and returns to indie

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2021

Misfits Attic, developer of Duskers are celebrating the well-received game hitting five years and they're returning to indie development once again. We also have sales info across platforms.

Fast-paced sci-fi arena-styled FPS Viscerafest has entered Early Access and looks great

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2021

Viscerafest from Acid Man Games, Fire Plant Games and 1C Entertainment is a nostalgic trip through fast-paced FPS goodness that you don't want to miss out on.

Sci-fi action-RPG Beyond Mankind launches with Linux support this August

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2021

Looking like it's from the early 2000s, Beyond Mankind might be an interesting sci-fi action adventure coming from the team behind the Viking Conquest DLC for Mount & Blade.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is out now as a free upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2021

If you've not played Sunless Skies, you absolutely should and the free enhanced Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is officially out now for all players.

AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught floods the space strategy game with a ton more content

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2021

If you're after a new strategy game to sink you mouse fingers into - check out AI War 2 as the huge second expansion AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught has just released.

Viscerafest is a sci-fi fantasy FPS with lots of punching entering Early Access on May 20

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2021

Ready for more retro-infused first-person shooting action? Viscerafest is now confirmed to be launching on May 20 into Early Access on Steam following a successful Beta.

System76 releases the open source Launch Configurable Keyboard

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2021

Ready for your next keyboard? How about one that's properly open source and looks quite fantastic? System76 has today properly revealed and released the Launch Configurable Keyboard.

VR is absolutely insane, I am officially a convert and it works mostly great on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2021

It is time! I finally have a Valve Index with thanks to supporter Scaine and it has genuinely blown a few braincells away with just how incredible an experience it actually is.

Grab a coffee for the Sunday Section and tell us what you've been playing

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2021

For today's Sunday Section we're going over a few missed bits and pieces for Linux, open source and gaming topics while also asking you that all important question.

EXsynchronos is a wild and completely bizarre free transhumanism cyberspace metahorror

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2021

Free Game Friday! Fancy trying out something completely bizarre? EXsynchronos from developer Ravee is a true cyberspace adventure and it looks fantastic visually.

World Turtles is a chilled-out city builder on top of a huge space turtle

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2021

World Turtles is a wholesome city-builder that has you build on top of a massive turtle, to save it and perhaps meet more space turtles. Something like that anyway.

The excellent space RPG 'Star Traders: Frontiers' is getting mod support

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2021

Trese Brothers have announced that their fantastic space exploration RPG Star Traders: Frontiers is getting modding support, three years after the original release.

Total War: ROME REMASTERED from Feral Interactive is out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2021

Total War: ROME REMASTERED from game developer / porter Feral Interactive and Creative Assembly with SEGA as publisher is now officially out with Linux support.

Collabora using AI to enhance VR hand tracking in Monado, the open-source OpenXR runtime

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2021

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) is continuing to be a very interesting space with lots of innovation going on and Collabora are at the front of this with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.

The Sunday Section - keeping up with some missed Linux and gaming bits

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2021

Hello and welcome to another Sunday Section here on GamingOnLinux, pointing out a few bits we wanted to cover across the week but didn't get time to do so. Grab a coffee and get ready for a little light reading across a few subjects.

Spaceship building 2D strategy Istrolid reaches the big 1.0

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2021

It's Free Game Tuesday! Today we have Istrolid, a free fleet-design strategy game from developer treeform that recently hit the big 1.0 release.

Voxelgram is a sweet 3D version of Picross and it's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2021

Putting Picross / Nonogram into 3D, Voxelgram is a pretty great puzzle game that sees you use your logical brain to work out what shapes are hidden inside blocks.

Check out the latest trailer for Stardeus, a space base building colony management sim

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2021

Sprinkle in a little RimWorld, Space Haven, Starmancer and more together and you get what looks like Stardeus.

ΔV: Rings of Saturn now gives the full game in the demo, with one catch

By Liam Dawe, 16 Apr 2021

Get ready to explore space, mine some rocks and lose yourself in the hard sci-fi game ΔV: Rings of Saturn which just expanded the demo in a very big way.