Having already gone to the trouble of getting the original Doom 3 binary working on my modern Arch Linux system a few months back, it made me wonder just how much effort it would take to get the closed source Quake 4 port up and running again as well.
I thought Endless Horde looked like it could be a nice Tower Defense game to kill a few minutes since it's cheap, so I took a look.
I decided to bite the bullet and actually pick up a personal copy of Opus Magnum, I’m glad I did and it's fantastic.
If you play only one twin-stick shooter this month, make it 'JASEM: Just Another Shooter with Electronic Music' as it's properly good.
Since releases are always light at the start of a year, I've been able to look over some more titles sent to our Steam Curator. Guppy is one such game, that sees you become a fish.
I have fond memories of Breakout as a child, my son even has a rather low quality version on his 'kids camera' and Puppet Kings is an interesting take on it.
I love stealth games, so when the chance came to test Turnover, where you’re escaping a hostile takeover of your company HQ I couldn’t pass it up.
Swipe right to invite people to adventure with you! Questr is a somewhat amusing mix of RPG party-based gameplay, with jokes aimed at dating apps.
While it has a bit of a grind to it, Sky Force Reloaded is still an absolutely fantastic shoot 'em up for Linux gamers.
Do you like high-speed racing games, how about hovercrafts? SmuggleCraft combines them and turns you into a smuggler.
Bridge Constructor Portal is the latest from developer ClockStone and publisher Headup Games that pulls in the Portal franchise from Valve. It’s now out, here’s some thoughts.
When I last tested Castle Story I came away thoroughly unimpressed by how many issues I saw. It's had a huge update, so it's time for another look.
Battle Chef Brigade is a very strange mix of combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking and now GOG have the Linux version too.
In Hyper Knights: Battles you make your own battles and your own units and then send them into battle and watch the carnage.
Need a super cheap time filler? Grass Cutter seems like a reasonable game to add to your backlog that has Linux support. It seems totally silly, but it's actually not bad at all.
Super Night Riders is a racing game that looks a little like OutRun and Hang-On and it's available on Linux.
Like your strategy games and tower defence? HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea is a rather colourful strategy game that’s now on Linux.
Now that Cattails, the animal simulation RPG is out in the wild I've managed to take a look, here's some thoughts.
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, a fleet-based RTS also described as a 'rogue-lite' released for Linux earlier this month, here's what I think.
The Point & Click Horror game Black Mirror from KING Art and THQ Nordic released day-1 for Linux, here’s some thoughts.
