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Planetary Life is a neat looking indie sandbox evolution sim

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2023

Developer Sotenbox recently put up a trailer for Planetary Life, a pretty neat looking entry into the evolution simulation genre.

Settlement-building strategy game Circle of Kerzoven is up on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2023

Made with Godot Engine with full Native Linux support planned, Circle of Kerzoven is an upcoming settlement-building strategy game with some heavy simulation going on.

Prison Architect has a final free update out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2023

Prison Architect is officially done. The final update has rolled out with The Sunset Update, as Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have said they're finished with it.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds prototypes for going on land

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Thrive is a free and open source in-development evolution sim, a bit like a more scientific version of EA's Spore and Thrive 0.6.2 expands the gameplay even more with some new prototypes.

Look after your pixel people in life sim Tiny Life

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

A pixel-art version of The Sims? Sign me up. Tiny Life from Ellpeck Games and Top Hat Studios is now available in Early Access.

Pixel-art Sims styled game Tiny Life hits Early Access on May 3rd

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Ellpeck Games have announced their pixel-art game inspired by The Sims, Tiny Life will be releasing with Linux support on May 3rd.

Publisher of King under the Mountain backs out so it's re-releasing as Mountaincore

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

King under the Mountain was a pretty nice colony-building game from Rocket Jump Technology, and it was going through a huge upgrade. Sadly, their publisher cancelled on them so they're having to re-release as Mountaincore.

Oxygen Not Included gets a new animated short, plus fun with Meteors

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony builder and probably one of the best. Space is dangerous and of course there's going to be Meteors but now you can have a bit more fun with them.

Open source RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 'OpenRCT2' v0.4.4 out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

The first release this year for OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has landed with version 0.4.4.

Build bridges over hot lava in Hellgineers

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2023

Hellgineers takes the idea of Bridge Constructor and gives it a devilish spin, available now with Native Linux support.

Build your own racecar in Revhead, now with added Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 24 Mar 2023

Revhead, a racing sim all about actually building your own vehicle, recently had an upgrade with the developer now supporting the Steam Deck. It also has Native Linux support.

Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2023

After being in Beta for a while for pre-orders, Big Ambitions, a role-playing business sim from Hovgaard Games (who previously developed Startup Company) launched in Early Access on Steam and then dropped Native Linux support.

Transport Fever 2 has a big free upgrade, plus Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2023

Transport Fever 2 is going strong since the release in 2019. They just launched a console version, and upgraded the PC release with some massive improvements too.

Factorio gets official Wayland support on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2023

Are you a Wayland user? Do you play Factorio? The latest update should make things a lot smoother for you.

Open source tabletop game simulator gets a second Beta release

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2023

Free, open source and getting better all the time. Tabletop Club has a fresh Beta release available with a whole lot of fixes and improvements.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2023

Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.

Open source evolution game Thrive adds part upgrades and a benchmark mode

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2023

Benchmark the cells! Evolve all the things! Thrive 0.6.1 is a fun sounding upgrade to this free and open source scientific evolution sim.

Free 2D space exploration sim Endless Sky v0.10.0 adds new factions, gets better AI

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2023

If you love free and open source games keep an eye on the 2D space sim Endless Sky, which just got a new Beta release with version 0.10.0 giving some fresh gameplay improvements.

Colony builder Maia gets big optimizations, along with controller and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2023

A name I've not heard for a while that I seemed to miss some emails on recently. Colony building sim Maia, from developer Simon Roth, had a rather big upgrade.