Category: Sandbox

After another Linux site listed ARK in their top games list, the ARK Twitter account tweeted out publicly to let everyone know that ARK: Survival Evolved will move to Vulkan for Linux.

I came across Raft thanks to games store itch and it’s a brilliant prototype I hope to see developed further!

Zombie apocalypse be damned, Project Zomboid has a new major stable version available and it's quite a massive update.

RimWorld, the colony building simulator has a massive alpha 16 update named 'Wanderlust' and it's truly huge.

Planet Explorers, the open world sandbox adventure RPG has finally left Early Access. The developer accepted my request for a key so I could take a look.

Starbound is going to get a major content update soon, which will feature a bunch of awesome new features.

Parkitect is a really damn cute theme park building game currently in Early Access, the developers have recently release another content update.

You may not remember Astroneer, as I covered it late last year as a possible game coming to Linux. The developers have since been back in contact with me to confirm a Linux version is coming.

For those of you who stick with GOG, you may want to know that Besiege, a very cool physics based building game is now available.

Angeldust is a late night discovery after trawling through Steam around midnight last night. It's free to play, looks amusing with the colourful cartoon-like characters so I gave it a go.

Project Zomboid, the zombie survival sandbox game has two new big features in their beta right now. A Factions system to bring survivors together and VOIP chat for survivors near each other.

Minecraft 1.11 is now available which is the 'Exploration Update' aimed at making the world more interesting. They also showed off the new Minecraft launcher running on Linux recently.

'BossConstructor' is an indie spaceship building and combat simulator that was in Early Access for some time, but now it's released in full!

Planet Explorers has been in development for quite a while, with a Kickstarter in 2013 and Early Access in 2014 it has finally seen a full release.

Bohemia Interactive have now formally announced 'Ylands', a cheerful sandbox game that will come to Linux in future.

In an announcement posted on the Steam store page of CHKN the day before yesterday, the developers of this strange but interesting sandbox game are celebrating a contest for Halloween. Basically, you need to create a monster and submit it before October 31st. There will be three winners.

Streets of Rogue is already an extremely cool game, but now it's about to get even cooler. The developer mentioned to a GOL follower than he is planning online co-op support!

Project Zomboid is the rather good sandbox Zombie survival game from The Indie Stone, and it has come a long way!

Don't Starve Together, the multiplayer expansion of action-adventure video game Don't Starve has been updated with 'A New Reign: Part 1'. It's a big update that adds interesting new features!

I'm always impressed by the level of effort put into 'Maia' and I think once it's finished it will be great. It has problems for sure, but this latest small patch aims to start sorting them out.