On a seriously tight budget? I feel you. So here's a bunch of fantastic games in the Steam Summer Sale 2025 under £3.
In case you missed it I already highlighted various games on sale in the previous GamingOnLinux article. For this list, I'm sticking to those games that are 
Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible, so no matter where you're playing they will be click and play.
All included are highly rated too either by Steam players or games I think are just great.
FAR: Lone Sails - £1.13
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
GRIS - £1.27
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Crypt of the NecroDancer - £1.27
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
The Last Campfire - £1.27
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Fury Unleashed - £1.67
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
Severed Steel - £1.94
An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.
Blasphemous - £1.99
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - £2.19
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws.
INSIDE + LIMBO (bundle) - £2.32
Two classics platformers from Playdead.
LIMBO - Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
INSIDE - Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Brotato - £2.39
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Mad Max - £2.39
Become Mad Max, the lone warrior in a savage post-apocalyptic world where cars are the key to survival. In this action-packed, open world, third person action game, you must fight to stay alive in The Wasteland, using brutal on-ground and vehicular against vicious gangs of bandits.
Children of Morta - £2.77
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
JellyCar Worlds - £2.89
It's a Car, made of Jelly! Squishy Physics, Tactile, Silly & Imaginative Driving/Platforming
Vampire Survivors - £2.99
Finally time for you to see what all the fuss is about eh?
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.
And if you somehow still don't own them, various classic Valve games are also dirt cheap right now too. Including:
The Steam Summer Sale 2025 ends tomorrow!
Have you picked up something awesome that was super cheap? Suggest some more in the comments.
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williamjcm 19 hours ago
Ehvis 19 hours ago
Vampire Survivors needs to sort out their store data though. Main game, no Linux build advertised. Two DLCs do have Linux support on the store page, but the rest do not. Despite everything having it.
hardpenguin 18 hours ago
CatKiller 18 hours ago
Pyrate 18 hours ago
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper
So, that's why.
Ehvis 18 hours ago
I was wondering how I don't have Mad Max yet.
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo AntitamperSo, that's why.
Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.
Pyrate 16 hours ago
Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.
Didn't even realise there's a Native build ! That's awesome.
A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.
Ehvis 16 hours ago
A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.
The standard version is OpenGL and it suffers from a bunch of slow downs. The Vulkan Beta performs much better and it's how I finished the game back in the day (2016/2017), so should not be a problem for modern machines. Also part of gaming history since it is one of the first full games that used the then brand new Vulkan API (The Talos Principle being the other one I remember). It's unfortunate that Linux support got hidden due to publisher politics and that even fewer know that the Vulkan beta exists.
scaine 13 hours ago
Anza 7 hours ago
It's an incremental idle game. It does few things right. There's several minitargets you can accomplish once you unlock them, which gives bit of a sense of purpose in addition of just watching numbers go up. Unlocks are varied, so they change the game a bit. Game progresses also while it's closed
Could use better UI design though, but otherwise solid.
Another simple one is Suika Shapes. Basically you combine smaller items into bigger items while trying to not to have an overflow. Like Tetris, what you get is randomized, so have to make compromises now and then. Usually what you want to combine with is buried underneath of something else, so you need to play smart.
Craze for these kind of games was apparently many years ago, but I missed it. This variant has all kinds of shapes and modifiers. Different shapes stack bit differently. There's even multiplayer, but I haven't tried it.
If you have a Netflix subscription, they have Underwatermelon Fruit Merge, but Suika Shapes as native desktop game feels more responsive, though the Netflix game has nice ideas.
Last edited by Anza on 9 Jul 2025 at 11:47 pm UTC
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