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Inspired by Cube World, the free Veloren 0.12 release is out

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2022

Fully free and open source, Veloren continues to expand their inspiration from Cube World and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with version 0.12 out now.

Send help as I have discovered Super Auto Pets

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2022

Sent in by a reader a while ago and one I've been meaning to try out properly, Super Auto Pets is a free to play auto-battler from Team Wood Games that's delightfully good.

With You looks like a sweet co-op experience and it's free

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2022

Need a new casual co-op game to play with a partner? With You recently released on Steam and itch.io and it looks adorable.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds a new cell to grow with

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Currently in Early Access, Thrive is an impressive scientific evolution sim developed in Godot Engine that continues to mature with a new version up.

RPG game engine Flare gets improved gamepad support, fonts and more in v1.13

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Flare is a free and open source game engine for creating RPGs, plus it also has its own Empyrean Campaign to play through and it continued to get enhanced to be a bit more modern.

Free and open source space sim Pioneer gets a big UI upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

Pioneer started off life as a basic spiritual successor to Frontier: Elite II and nowadays it continues being upgraded, to give fans of classic 3D space exploration something fun.

If you still don't own Stellaris it's currently free with Amazon Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2022

Quick tip - GOG and Amazon Prime Gaming have teamed up to give subscribers an offer they can't refuse - another free game! Get a copy of Stellaris from Paradox Interactive / Paradox Development Studios.

Dota 2 on Linux gets upgraded to use the newer Steam runtime container

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Hopefully an update that will allow Dota 2 to continue working on Linux and the Steam Deck long into the future.

Minetest 5.5.0 is out, forked their own rendering engine with IrrlichtMT

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Minetest 5.5.0 has rolled out, with a switch over from Irrlicht to their own fork of the rendering engine IrrlichtMt designed to have special enhancements just for Minetest.

Splitgate - Beta Season 1 is out now with a Map Creator

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Splitgate, the free to play first-person shooter with portals has a big upgrade out now with the start of the first official Beta Season.

The 2012 strategy game Oil Rush from Unigine is now free

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2022

Released all the way back in 2012, Oil Rush from Unigine is a naval strategy game and they've now decided to set it free by removing the price.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is out on Steam and runs well on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2022

Want to get into a new card game? Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel just released on Steam from Konami Digital Entertainment and the great news is that it works out of the box with Steam Play Proton Experimental on Linux.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, more tweaking for Steam Deck + Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2022

Valve continues to tweak more of their games ahead of the Steam Deck release in February and their focus now appears to be on CS:GO with a fresh update out.

SuperTux released free on Steam, an open source classic

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2022

Giving a nice boost to a classic free and open source game, SuperTux has now been released on Steam and it's free to download and play.

Remnants of the Precursors is a modern take on Master of Orion out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2022

Developed as a modern reincarnation of the original Master of Orion, the free and open source Remnants of the Precursors is officially out now.

Free top-down action game Steelbreakers gets a bunch of new maps

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2022

Love local multiplayer action games? Do check out Steelbreakers, a free 2D top-down multiplayer arena fighter.

Hypnagonia is an upcoming open source "spire-like" deckbuilder

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

Do you love games like Slay the Spire? I sure do and so seeing a new free and open source game appear that's inspired by it has me a little excited. This is Hypnagonia.

Classic open source platformer SuperTux is coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

One we don't cover or hear about too often is SuperTux, a free and open source platformer that's been around for some time now and it's getting a Steam release.

GOG have one last free game during their sale with Iratus: Lord of the Dead

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2022

While the GOG Winter Sale shall be ending soon, they have one last freebie for you with the rather good turn-based tactical roguelike RPG Iratus: Lord of the Dead.