Retrobooster has just released onto Steam and brings with it skill based old school gameplay as you pilot your ship through caves trying not to bounce off too many walls and explode, oh and it's bloody hard too.
A fantastic looking and free visual novel with strategy elements is now on Steam for Linux and it's good. I give it a quick look and tell you what I think.
MouseCraft is a highly rated and crisp looking puzzler inspired by both tetris and lemmings, and it's now joining the ranks of Linux games on Steam.
We have good news for those of you who like action-adventure hack and slash games as we have a neat screenshot of Darksiders running on Linux!
To celebrate Mount & Blade: Warband being out of beta the developers have put on a free weekend for it. This means you can download and play the full version all weekend, and that's not all it's on sale for super cheap too!
Quest for Infamy is a fantastic looking love letter to old school point and click adventure games with RPG mechanics and turn based battles thrown in for good measure.
Black Ice the excellent cyberpunk FPS game is now on Steam in the Early Access section and it's looking as good as ever.
Among The Sleep is a great looking game that sadly on Linux doesn't quite work right with many people unable to play, and no sign of a fix yet.
One month after the initial E3 announcement, Double Fine have let slip the PC platforms that Grim Fandango re-release will be launching on.
Don't set your hopes too high yet folks as this doesn't yet include performance fixes, as this is a bug-fix only open beta for now. I am glad Virtual Programming decided to go down this road as it seems they are learning from past mistakes.
Interstellar Marines the beautiful tactical FPS game that was recently released for Linux has now been updated for Linux due to their older game engine having mouse issues.
My spidey sense is tingling. Marvel Heroes 2015 a free to play MMO Action RPG looks like it will be coming to Linux thanks to info taken from the excellent SteamDB.
Daedalic Entertainment has released a bundle of the Deponia Trilogy, adding Linux support for the first time. The Visionaire game engine (which the game uses) now also has Linux support, giving the potential for a slew of similar games to appear on Linux.
Natural Selection 2 is now entirely supported by a community of coders for free because they love the game, and they need help from tech savvy Linux developers to improve the game on Linux.
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The kicker is that the graphics are all text, no actual graphics.
When I say weird in this case I really mean it. Cult Of The Wind has all players pretending to be aeroplanes and it's quite funny.
Hand of Fate is now in Steam's Early Access section for those of you willing to front some bucks to get it on the action. The game is described as a hybrid roguelike/action-RPG/deck builder and it looks rather pretty too.
The next game in the Natural Selection series has been shown off some more recently and we have the videos ready for your pleasure.
Knight Squad is a fun looking multiplayer combat game that the developers say mixes old style Bomberman with aspects of Gauntlet and it looks good.
Thanks to the community a bunch of demo games built in Unreal Engine 4 now work on 64bit Linux, so give it a try!
