Category: Action

Volgarr the Viking is a highly rated game that mixes action and platforming, and it's now on GOG for Linux.

Slime Rancher is a hard game to categorise, it looks cute in a way that makes me want to play it, and you capture pokemon like slimes to mess about with.

I'm a fan of roguelikes and I'm a fan of first-person shooters. So naturally I really like the idea of combining these two genres. And as it happens, another game called Barony has attempted that. Let's see how it fares!

It seems a developer of America's Army: Proving Grounds sent an email to Phoronix to mention they are looking to port it to Linux.

Good news AMD users, BioShock Infinite has been patched to hopefully fix some lock-ups you have been getting.

It's been a while, but Trine Enchanted Edition is finally available for Linux users on GOG. It's well worth checking out, so hopefully a few more of you can play it now.

So what do you get when you mix FTL and Mad Max? Well, the answer would probably be Convoy. Let's take this roguelite game for a spin and blow up some nasty raiders in a very desolate wasteland on a planet far far away.

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a classic tactical shooter that now has a Linux version on GOG, and it's highly rated.

TF2 seems to be doing what Counter Strike Global Offensive is with limited time campaigns, and charging for them. Some of the profits do go to the community, so that's nice.

Victor Vran is now content complete with the latest patch, and it has a full release date now too. This is an action RPG not to miss out on folks.

DiRT Showdown is a highly rated racing game that looks like it's close to a Linux release, exciting times for racing fans!

The Last Dogma is a dark comedy exploration adventure game set in the year 1999 of an alternate reality world, where US actively campaigns for world domination after being disappointed with the results of the Cold War.

A free standalone(-ish, I'll talk about that a bit later) Portal 2 mod called Portal Stories: Mel has been released on Steam. So those who want more Portal can get it in the form of 22 levels and approx. 6-10 hours of gameplay.

Pillars Of Eternity looks to be solving issues I had with it, and then some with the 2.0 release and expansion.

Street Rage is the video game tie-in to the 80s style action comedy flick Kung Fury, which was funded on Kickstarter last year.

Distance is a beautiful neon survival racer that I finally had a chance to play, and what I found really did surprise me.

Shift Happens is a co-op platformer in development built around the concept of shifting mass between two player characters, and it promises a "shiftload" of fun action and puzzles.

Some of you might remember this open, procedurally generated space exploration / exploitation game that was kickstarted in late 2012. The project has now woken up from extended, months-long cryosleep.

VoidExpanse is a good looking and fun space RPG game from AtomicTorch Studio. It has recently been through some major updates, and they finally sorted a proper Linux structure for their data files.

Well I do love SteamDB, as it appears STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ has a Linux icon added, so it looks like the previous ESRB leak about a Linux version could be true after all.