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The fab strategy sim Mini Metro now has full Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2020

After recently expanding the game with a free update with Nigeria and Chile, Dinosaur Polo Club have given users another reason to come back to their excellent strategy sim.

340 or so days later and I am still lost in The Longing

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2020

Remember the unique mix of point and click adventuring with an idle game in The Longing? It's supposed to have taken people 400 days to finish.

Tristam Island is a Infocom-inspired text adventure available on over 30 platforms

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2020

Okay, now this is quite impressive. Tristam Island is a text adventure designed like old Infocom works and it's playable across more platforms than you might expect.

Deep survival game Vintage Story has my full attention with the latest expansion

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2020

Vintage Story has a huge new version almost ready to release, with a couple of Release Candidates going up for the 1.14 release and it's looking awesome.

A chat with Trese Brothers Games about the upcoming cyberpunk Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

We have a chat with Trese Brothers Games who are currently developing Cyber Knights: Flashpoint following a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in March 2020.

The upcoming metroidvania RPG 'Heart Forth, Alicia' is looking gorgeous

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

Here's a game I haven't heard of for a few years. Heart Forth, Alicia is an upcoming modern Metroidvania RPG, filled with devious monsters, lethal dungeons, creative puzzles, lively towns & many uncharted wonders.

Have a short immersive narrative adventure with Beyond Your Window

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

A pretty apt game for 2020, as Beyond Your Window is a narrative game about what goes on outside as you look outside your window as you search for new stories to tell.

The modern retro adventure Alwa's Legacy is now available on itch.io

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

Do you prefer to buy your games from the indie store itch.io? Good news, another quality game arrived with the platformer adventure Alwa's Legacy.

A Monster's Expedition, one of 2020's best puzzle games is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2020

After an initial release in early September, Draknek & Friends have now put up a Linux build of their absolutely gorgeous puzzle game A Monster's Expedition.

Want a great virtual tabletop for RPGs? Check out Foundry VTT

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2020

After we pointed out Fantasy Grounds Unity adding Linux support a while ago, some readers pointed out another virtual tabletop experience for fans of making and playing tabletop RPGs with Foundry VTT.

Pharaoh-like isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar to release February 17, 2021

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2020

While there is an upcoming Pharaoh remaster (which has no Linux support plans), we also have the far more interesting looking Nebuchadnezzar.

Tenderfoot Tactics sold well enough to fund another game, more updates coming

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2020

Tenderfoot Tactics is probably one of the best games released this year. An open-world tactics RPG that mixed real-time exploration and turn-based tactical battles, with a really gorgeous simple visual style with bright colours.

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is a huge amount of fun

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

A mashup that we never expected but it's here, Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead from ClockStone and Headup is out now and it's actually great.

Cyberpunk 2.5D adventure Encodya releases on January 26, 2021 - plus new trailer is up

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

After a successful crowdfunding campaign back in September 2019, Chaosmonger Studio have announced that their cyberpunk point and click adventure Encodya will release on January 26, 2021.

Revolution simulator Mesmer is out now from the developer of Teslagrad

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Rain Games, creator of Teslagrad and World to the West recently released a new title called Mesmer, which is a unique social survival game where 'every encounter matters' they say.

Fraymakers aims to be the ultimate customizable Smash-like platform fighting game

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Fraymakers is a brand new platform fighter coming from McLeodGaming, the creators of Super Smash Flash 2 which is the most popular Smash Bros. fan-game on PC.

If you enjoy first-person dungeon crawling, you need to play Vaporum: Lockdown

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Vaporum: Lockdown is the standalone prequel to the original Vaporum from 2017 and Fatbot Games did another fantastic job with a great world to explore.

Fold Stories is an upcoming combat-free adventure in dreamlike origami world

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Fold Stories from OtterWays recently caught my attention, as a brand new adventure puzzle-platformer with a really quite wonderful style and setting.

Probably the biggest 2D RTS around, Rusted Warfare has a major new release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Rusted Warfare is sitting in quite a sweet spot for me. It's a grand-scale 2D RTS, that's like an indie low-res Supreme Commander and it's great. This latest update adds in a massive modular spider mech and it's awesome.