Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during August 2026. Helping you find something interesting to go and play if Native Linux gaming is your favourite thing.
A top 15 based on user reviews, to help you cut through the noise since there's thousands of new games releasing all the time. Proton is great, we love it, but we also love to see developers supporting Linux directly with a Native Linux build too. And who knows - maybe you will find something interesting from this little round-up. A next favourite perhaps?
Here's what reviewed well below:
Fields of Mistria
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (25,209 reviews)
Release Date: 05/08/2026
"Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!"
Sandustry
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (3,050 reviews)
Release Date: 13/08/2026
"Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource."
Sludgineers
Review Score: Very Positive (1,644 reviews)
Release Date: 25/08/2026
"Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests."
Sovereign Tower
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,644 reviews)
Release Date: 06/08/2026
"Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again."
Lootbound
Review Score: Mostly Positive (1,271 reviews)
Release Date: 14/08/2026
"Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure."
Project P.I.T.T.
Review Score: Mostly Positive (982 reviews)
Release Date: 19/08/2026
"Feed rubber ducks to a corporate void. Build physics contraptions. Chain combos for profit as the Maw grows hungrier... and larger. Brutalist PSX satire meets first-person sandbox chaos."
Hearth and Hamlet
Review Score: Very Positive (942 reviews)
Release Date: 19/08/2026
"Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more."
Smack Talk
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (869 reviews)
Release Date: 27/08/2026
"Say your moves out loud, trash-talk your friends, and fight to win. Smack Talk is a 1–8 player online PvP platform fighter where your voice controls your attacks. Call moves, land one-liners, and finish foes with wild ultimates."
Money for Girls: Amortized
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (837 reviews)
Release Date: 24/08/2026
"A girl detective faces her darkest mystery yet, in this horror-romance visual novel with stickers, fashion, and bad ends."
Divinum
Review Score: Very Positive (543 reviews)
Release Date: 28/08/2026
"Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration. Master devastating combos and craft unique builds to repel mysterious invaders and uncover your island's hidden truth."
Crownhold
Review Score: Very Positive (483 reviews)
Release Date: 17/08/2026
"Noble Rulers — grow your realm and expand your castle in this short incremental game! Manage resources, discover foreign lands and build up an army to lay siege to your enemies."
Flats Full of Cats
Review Score: Very Positive (376 reviews)
Release Date: 03/08/2026
"Flats Full of Cats is a cozy hidden object game where you explore adorable apartments packed with feline friends!"
Stackmon
Review Score: Mostly Positive (369 reviews)
Release Date: 18/08/2026
"Stack, train and collect 100+ powerful Stackmon in this creature-collector with a card-stacking twist! Build your camp, challenge rival Scouts in combat and face the mysterious corruption spreading throughout your land."
Ultrapool
Review Score: Very Positive (278 reviews)
Release Date: 24/08/2026
"The pool bar is always open! Ultrapool is a colorful roguelike about playing pool with a bunch of wacky balls with crazy effects. Carefully craft a perfect build and get the craziest trickshots!"
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
Review Score: Very Positive (190 reviews)
Release Date: 21/08/2026
"You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?"
If you like this quick format - then we'll be back early next month to let you know what was hot during September! We'll probably keep tweaking the format month to month to make it as useful as we possibly can.
What have you been playing recently? Any of the picks above? Let us know in the comments.
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What have you been playing recently? Any of the picks above?My backlog's too big to have played anything that recent. I'm still working my way through Schrodinger's Cat Burglar (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.), which really is lots of fun. Divinum is on my wishlist, though, so I'll get round to it eventually.
Flats Full of Cats: I haven't bought the DLCs, because I didn't like the newer ones (Building… 2 and this) as much as the earlier titles in the series (Building…, Park… and Castle…). It's probably the art style – it is too busy with all the lines. Not really sure, but it feels slightly off.
Lootbound caught my eye yesterday, but then I saw that the dev bought positive reviews (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.), so I’m staying away from this one.
- Sludgineers - I do not recommend this at all. It's simply too short. Feels like the entire game is just a demo. I mean max playtime is probably like 3 hrs? I finished it all the way through (even WITH the frustrating late game grind as @Klaas mentioned) in two short sittings.
- Hearth & Hamlet - highly recommend! This has got some better length to it, and it's really fun watching your little town expand and upgrade.
Last edited by Jarmer on 21 Sep 2026 at 6:01 pm UTC
Even though I mostly suck at at it, at ~70 hours I'm still a noob...
Quoting: Jarmer
- Sludgineers - I do not recommend this at all. It's simply too short. Feels like the entire game is just a demo. I mean max playtime is probably like 3 hrs? I finished it all the way through (even WITH the frustrating late game grind as @Klaas mentioned) in two short sittings.
I finished Sludgineers, but it took me considerably more than three hours (~10 hours). Getting the final achievements for 100% was a bit of a grind. As an excuse for my plodding performance, I would like to mention the definition of "Incremental":
happening gradually in a series of small, regular steps or additions.
At this stage of my life, my entire existence is very incremental.
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