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qomp is a brilliant example of minimalist mechanics and a fantastic idea

By Liam Squires-Hand,
In the game qomp you are the ball, the ball that has been thrown around games like Pong for a very long time and you've had enough - it's time to escape.

Rogue Star Rescue is a fun mix of twin-stick bullet-hell and tower defence out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Released out of Early Access as a full game on February 4, Rogue Star Rescue blends together a furiously good mix of twin-stick bullet-hell action with tower defence.

Save the world in the dark sci-fi adventure ENCODYA out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ENCODYA is an adventure that follows a little girl with a world-changing plan and her big clumsy robot, set in a dark and grey cyberpunk Neo-Berlin it's a pretty bleak future.

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a delightful repeatable head-swapping action rogue-lite out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After being in Early Access since February 2020, SouthPAW Games have now released their head-swapping rogue-lite action platformer Skul: The Hero Slayer.

Quirky comedy action-adventure Skellboy Refractured is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Skellboy Refractured, the new and fresh release from UmaikiGames is out with Linux support as an expanded version to the game that originally released for the Nintendo Switch.

Jumpala is an intense score-fighting highly competitive action-platformer out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Jump across platforms to turn them your colour, use abilities to mess with your opponents and try to keep platforms your colour as they fall off the screen to score - Jumpala is a lot of fun.

Shot in the Dark is a clever tough platformer where enemies blend into the background

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Shot in the Dark needs you to have good platforming skills, good point and click aiming skills and it's a whole lot of fun if you're up for the challenge.

Malmyr is a thoroughly charming city-building logistics puzzler out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Blending together city-building, resource gathering and logistics into a fine puzzle game Malmyr is worth taking a good look at with a wonderful relaxing atmosphere.

WHAT THE GOLF? is a good question and a highly amusing game

By Liam Squires-Hand,
WHAT THE GOLF? A game created by Triband who clearly have no idea what Golf actually is and as it turns out, they created a game that's pretty amazing.

Our top favourite Linux games released in 2020

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As 2020 comes to a close, here's a brief look over what games we personally thought truly stood out in 2020 that directly supported Linux.

Glitchangels is a fantastic glitchy retro-arcade shooter out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Love twin-stick shooters? Need a fresh modern take on retro classics with plenty of upgrades? Glitchangels is pretty much all you need and it's fantastic.

Explore, hatch monsters and train in Monster Sanctuary out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Monster Sanctuary from Moi Rai Games and Team17 has now left Early Access as a finished game, along with a bunch of extra content in the 1.0 update.

Crumble might be the best 3D platformer I've played in ages with swinging physics fun

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Crumble from BRUTE FORCE is a fast-paced 3D physics platformer, one that released with Linux support on December 4 and it's pretty awesome.

Tricky Towers is a really great game I've discovered far too late

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After releasing originally in 2016, it seems Tricky Towers is one game that I just seemed to have forgotten all about and that's such a shame.

Picture logic puzzle game Pixross from Kenney is out now and it's total joy

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Kenney, creator of masses of free and paid assets for game developers has released a second game with Pixross. It's a picture logic puzzle game with tons of levels and it's great.

Amnesia: Rebirth is easily one of the scariest and best games of 2020

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After a rough launch, Frictional Games have nicely fixed up Amnesia: Rebirth and overall the experience is one we're not going to forget any time soon.

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

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

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

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

Smash up an office to find vermin hiding in the free game Perfect Vermin

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A free game that lets you run around a seemingly empty office with a sledgehammer? Perfect Vermin is not quite what it seems as you hunt for some weird creatures.

Perspective puzzle game Superliminal is out now on Steam, along with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Superliminal's timed exclusive period on the Epic Games Store is now up, and it has released on Steam along with Linux support with a port from Ethan Lee.
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