Try the pre-alpha of Hyperspace Harvest and run a farm on top of a giant space mammal
Top marks for originality and total quirkiness here. Sleeper Games have a pre-alpha build out and available for Linux of their new title Hyperspace Harvest.
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Shield Cat is a thoroughly charming in-development action-adventure with a free demo
With a strange otter/cat as the protagonist, Shield Cat seems like one to keep on your watch list with some really charming visuals and you can try the free demo.
In the 2D survival game Underlings, you're a monster trying to live a peaceful life
Underlings is a new Early Access 2D survival game where the protagonist is a former monster, trying to get away from their past life and start fresh.
Mindustry, one of the best open source games around has a huge upgrade in testing
Mindustry, a game that mixes in Factorio with Tower Defence and then goes wild from there is a fantastic example of how good a free and open source game can be.
Ova Magica blends Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley and Pokemon in the tech demo
Currently available as a tech demo with the developer needing feedback, Ova Magica looks like a promising start of a new casual sim blending lots of different gameplay features.
EVERSPACE 2 sure does look shiny in the new Alpha footage
Open-world space action sim EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games has shown off plenty of new footage across multiple events recently and it looks seriously shiny.
Social deduction hacking game Untrusted looking for stress-test players
Untrusted, an upcoming online indie game of hacking and social deduction inspired by the likes of Werewolf/Mafia genre and others similar is running a free stress-test soon.
Try the updated free alpha of ski resort builder Snowtopia
Snowtopia, currently in development with a free version available while it's early on continues to be a promising new building sim that has you build a ski resort.
Verdant Village puts a high-fantasy spin on Stardew Valley styled gameplay - try it free
Currently in development with it classed as being in an "alpha state", Verdant Village seems like a sweet and promising high fantasy alternative to Stardew Valley with some new themes.
Promising spaceship colony sim 'Space Haven' Alpha 7 out with a Sandbox Mode, Early Access this year
Bugbyte continue expanding their in-development spaceship colony sim, Space Haven, with a huge new Alpha release available.
Untrusted is an upcoming online multiplayer social deduction game about hacking
Untrusted is similar in idea to other social deduction games like Mafia/Werewolf (amongst plenty of others), only this time it's a bit more nerdy and technical with the hacking idea.
Space is a little more hostile in Space Haven, with Alpha 6 introducing ship to ship combat
One of my most anticipated releases to come from a crowdfunding campaign, Space Haven continues to get some really fun features and another huge Alpha release recently went up.
Try out the Alpha testing build of the obstacle course racer Turbo Boom! - coming to Steam
Race around tracks, avoid obstacles and attempt to get the best time in the racing game Turbo Boom! that's coming to Steam.
Unitystation, a cross-platform remake of Space Station 13 has a first public build up
Space Station 13 is something of a classic, released way back in 2003 on the BYOND service. It's being remade with Unity to have a more modern experience, as well as being cross-platform.
Developer of Brutal Doom reveals new project: VietDoom; alpha 0.1 already available
Last August, the developer responsible for the excellent mod Brutal Doom, revealed after a month of absence that he was working on a new project called VietDoom, which takes place during Vietnam War.
You will need to protect your colonists from vicious aliens in the latest Space Haven alpha build
Surviving in Space Haven just got a whole lot more interesting, with a fourth Alpha release now available.
The currently free indie RTS 'The Fertile Crescent' should now work better at different resolutions
The Fertile Crescent is an upcoming in-development indie RTS that feels like a retro Age of Empires and it's really quite good. A new update is out (and it's still free) fixing up the UI for different resolutions.
The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
A day some of our readers have been eagerly awaiting, 7 Days to Die has a big Alpha 18 experimental build available to try.
FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released
With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.
Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
Move over Cube World, there's a new open source voxel RPG in town under development called Veloren and it supports Linux too so there's a bonus point for you.