Category: Exploration

Available now with Native Linux support and full Steam Deck support with the 1.0 release, Scorchlands has left Early Access.

Made with Godot Engine, ColdRidge is a cowboy themed Wild West turn-based exploration game that looks really worth your time.

Take the mining and defense idea from Dome Keeper, stick you in an underwater mech with exploration and twin-stick shooting and you've got Codename: Ocean Keeper.

Ah hell, here we go again. Hello Games just released another massive free update to No Man's Sky with Worlds Part I out now.

Palworld has just expanded in a rather big way with the Sakurajima Update, giving players a lot of new content to play through and it sounds pretty awesome.

A bit of a blending of Curious Expedition and Vagrus - The Riven Realms we have here with Sandwalkers, a roguelike turn-based exploration game where you guide a caravan across hostile environments.

Another big Minecraft update is live now with Tricky Trials bringing with it new decorative blocks, hostile mobs, items, weapons, paintings and the trial chambers.

Sun Haven is a multiplayer fantasy farming sim with dragons, magic, a main questline, RPG-style skill progression and a whole lot more.

Points for trying something a little different with the life sim genre here. Sally puts you aboard a magic flying ship, which is a bit unusual.

Enshrouded, the big open world survival and crafting game from Keen Games, just had the big Enshrouded: Melodies of the Mire update released. Should be good news for Steam Deck players.

Critical Wit recently revealed AI Confidential, a game where you take on the role of a RoboTechnician employed by AI megacorp where you'll be fixing up all sorts of strange robots as you fix up broken parts to broken hearts.

This is a compilation series from the last updates provided at the Veloren blog, the free and open source voxel action-adventure RPG.

APICO is a chilled beekeeping sim from TNgineers that just got a little bit more industrious, with the free APICO 4.0 update giving you some fun new tools.

I do love how indie developers come up with all these unique and quirky game ideas, and now Paper Sky is on the way from developer BRUTE FORCE who also made the dynamic physics platformer Crumble.

Finally! Valheim is getting close to the release of the big Ashlands update, and now you can go and actually test it.

Laid-back sweet beekeeping sim APICO from TNgineers is set for another big upgrade, with version 4.0 landing on May 20th.

God damn this sounds great. No Man's Sky just got another free huge upgrade in update 4.6 "Orbital" that comes with a bunch of big new features.

Sea of Thieves just got a big upgrade and with it Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is now online. Thankfully the developers have ensured it's enabled for Steam Deck / Linux players using Proton.

Enshrouded is another recent big hit for Steam, as players continue to love their open-world crafting games and the good news is that the developers at Keen Games plan to get it working better on Steam Deck.

Trappist is a new colony-builder that space sci-fi fans should take a look at, giving you access to a whole solar system to travel around and colonize multiple planets and moons.