★ 3.5/5 Cinematic puzzle-platforming comedy LIFTED is a delightful short adventure
LIFTED is a family-friendly and quite funny cinematic platforming adventure that recently released with Native Linux support.
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Initial Thoughts It's time to enter the Torment Hexus for some roguelike match-3 battling
I'm a bit of a sucker for match-3 games and Torment Hexus has style oozing out of it, so it was a must-played for me and it's great.
Initial Thoughts TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age is one to check out for RTS fans
TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age just entered Early Access with Linux support, and if you love RTS games you need to check it out.
Initial Thoughts Hand of Fate: Hordes is a bullet heaven survivor-like filled with story-telling and games of chance
Hand of Fate: Hordes recently entered Early Access bringing some interesting story-telling, games of chance and deck-building to the bullet heaven genre.
The LULULOOK Gaming Pillow for Steam Deck is the ultimate way to be lazy
LULULOOK sent over the LULULOOK Gaming Pillow for Steam Deck and it has become my go-to when I want to be truly lazy.
Initial Thoughts Hell Let Loose: Vietnam arrives on Steam and works on SteamOS / Linux
The tactical online shooter Hell Let Loose: Vietnam from Expression Games / Team17 has now officially launched and it does thankfully work on SteamOS / Linux.
★ 4/5 Typomagical is a typing spell-building bullet heaven that will make you panic
Blending the very different worlds of typing games with survivor-like bullet heavens, Typomagical will make you sweat as you frantically type spells.
★ 4/5 Cellular roguelike shooter 'Pathogenic' is a body-infecting good time
Pathogenic is a top-down roguelike shooter where you control a customizable lone pathogen infecting a human host.
Initial Thoughts Make every shot count in Perihelion: Rogue Orbit, a space roguelite with EVE-style transversal combat
Perihelion: Rogue Orbit is a 2D space combat roguelite with a simplistic style, but combat that's quite a challenge due to the movement mechanics.
★ 3.5/5 SnekromancY is a clever reinvention of Snake with a survivor-like tower escape style
SnekromancY mixes three rather different genres together into something I haven't seen before with Snake, Vampire Survivors and Tower Escape.
★ 4/5 Inspired by the Minecraft Redstone system, minimalist puzzler 'Pight' is a real gem
Minecraft Redstone tends to melt my brain in a frustrating way, but the minimalist puzzle game Pight makes me feel somewhat smart.
★ 4/5 Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is a satisfying incremental-style tower defense with enemies flowing like waves
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem from developer Mumpitz Games released recently, and it is a thoroughly satisfying mixture of incremental-style tower defense.
Initial Thoughts I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do
The Steam Machine has released and as Valve go through the list more people will get it, but it was pushed out clearly a bit too early.
Initial Thoughts Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts
Good news everyone, I now have a Steam Machine in the GamingOnLinux house and I have some initial thoughts.
★ 4/5 HYPERWIRED is a great twist on arcade shoot 'em ups where you have to keep plugging in
HYPERWIRED brings together the worlds of arcade shooters with some roguelike mechanics of repeatable runs and upgrades - but with a finite resources twist.
★ 2.5/5 Blending Vampire Survivors and tower defense, 'The Gate Must Stand' is total chaos
Bringing together the worlds of bullet heavens and tower defense - The Gate Must Stand puts you and your towers in front of a great big gate.
Initial Thoughts Splitgate devs return with 'EMPULSE', a Titanfall inspired movement shooter
Attempting to pull in some fans of Titanfall for multiplayer action, the developers of Splitgate have released EMPULSE into Early Access.
★ 4/5 868-BACK is a roguelike game where hacking is cool
868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike with a surprising amount of depth to it, and it's one fans of the genre are going to need to check out.
Initial Thoughts Pilot a powerful warship in the space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight
With a demo available in Steam Next Fest that's incredibly promising, space combat bullet heaven roguelike Sublight hooked me right in.
Initial Thoughts EMPULSE is basically Titanfall but from the devs of Splitgate
No real points for originality here but if you're wanting something resembling the online play of Titanfall, then you may want to look at EMPULSE.