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Classic multiplayer action game Soldat is now open source

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2020

Soldat, a side-scrolling multiplayer shooter that was ridiculously popular in the early 2000s is now open source.

Travel through hell to find demon girls in Helltaker, now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2020

Helltaker, a game about someone on a quest through hell to gather a bunch of demon girls is now available on Linux.

Free and open source FPS 'Tomatenquark' releases on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2020

Derived from the classic Cube 2: Sauerbraten game, Tomatenquark aims to reinvigorate it and bring it to a new audience with it now live on Steam.

Free and open source evolution sim 'Thrive' has moved to Godot

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Along with a brand new released version, the free and open source evolution game Thrive has now moved over to Godot Engine as a base to carry development forwards.

Estranged: Act II to leave Early Access on May 22

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Estranged: Act II is an impressive and currently free first-person adventure game with certain horror and puzzle themes that has been a labour of love from developer Alan Edwardes and it's done.

Chapter 8 of Higurashi When They Cry Hou out now, first chapter free

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Higurashi When They Cry Hou, a very popular series of anime styled novels has the first chapter set temporarily free to claim and the final chapter is out now with Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.

Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.

Dwellers of the Gut has you rescue the townsfolk inside a giant

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2020

Just like with Planetfriend, we're continuing to highlight a few smaller experimental and outright weird games and another recent discovery is Dwellers of the Gut.

Make your own planet pet in Planetfriend, now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2020

Planetfriend is a peculiar game, built by Laura Michet and Brendon Chung during the first few months of the COVID-19 quarantine.

The Fertile Crescent, a Bronze Age RTS gets a tutorial and more improvements

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2020

Continuing to be a favourite indie game I keep a close eye on, The Fertile Crescent is a Bronze Age real-time strategy game that's currently entirely free to play.

Keep It Alive - a short game that has you keep a heart beating and a train running from the Pony Island dev

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2020

Developed for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam that happened in April this year, one of the most interesting games to come out of it was Keep It Alive.

Space Station 14 is another attempt to capture the spirit of the classic BYOND multiplayer RPG

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2020

Just like Unitystation, Space Station 14 is another game attempting to revive the classic RPG Space Station 13 with cross-platform support on a more modern platform.

The FOSS real-time strategy 0 A.D. gains FXAA, more animals and a lot more ready for Alpha 24

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2020

0 A.D. is a free and open source in-development real-time strategy game from Wildfire Games, one that hasn't seen a big release for quite some time but work continues with it pulling in lots of goodies.

Go on a free and slightly disturbing journey as an egg cell in Swallow the Sea

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

I love short experimental games and Swallow the Sea is up there in my favourites this year, as it's so delightfully weird that it's absolutely captivating.

Chroma: Bloom And Blight is an ambitious upcoming competitive card game - on Kickstarter and demo up

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Chroma: Bloom And Blight was quite a surprise to be told about today, a very ambitious upcoming competitive card game that will have full Linux support.

Humble Store has a massive Spring Sale on with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation FREE to claim

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Humble Store just announced their massive Spring Sale is live, with tons of games discounted and you can grab a free game too.

Free to play MMO 'Albion Online' is going very strong with 500K monthly players during April

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Not many popular MMO games have Linux support but Albion Online does and it appears that in terms of player population overall they're doing well.

Tasty Static, clone of the classic SkyRoads has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2020

Remember SkyRoads? A classic 90's racing game with a bit of a twist, that acts a bit like a platformer. It has a free clone called Tasty Static, which recently had a big update. I've been a little obsessed over it too.