Category: Simulation

Flippfly (Race The Sun, Evergarden) have announced Cats Fly Helicopters, an amusing sounding game about being a cat flying around a simulated city full of physics and emergent gameplay. On the topic of Linux support, they had some comments for me when asked.

KeeperRL, a dungeon simulator with a mixture of roguelike and RPG mechanics had another massive update at the end of last month.

OpenTTD continues to mature for those who love their building and business sims, with the first major release in a year now available.

Road to your City is a city builder but it's not the usual kind, with a focus on building up a Football team to go along with your city it's pretty interesting to play.

Space Haven from Bugbyte, an exciting entry into the colony-building sim genre taking place on a spaceship has managed to get funded.

El Presidente returns for one more try at building a prosperous city on the island state of Tropico, as expected the release comes with official Linux support.

While the Linux version has been up on GOG for a little while, Steam was left a bit behind. Now the Linux version on Steam has been officially announced and released but there's an issue with Steam Play.

Oxygen Not Included, the incredible space-colony sim from Klei Entertainment is leaving Early Access in May and they've detailed some of what's coming and future plans.

Two Point Studios and SEGA have put out the first expansion for Two Point Hospital with Pebberley Island.

Egosoft recently put out the Linux beta of X4: Foundations as promised, it's been running well on Linux and a fresh update is out now too.

It was announced earlier this week that Dwarf Fortress was coming to Steam and itch.io, including a bunch of enhancements. What wasn't clear, was the Linux support for this newer edition. We now have some info on that.

The Universim is a very impressive Early Access god sim and this latest update expands it that little bit further.

Hypnospace Outlaw is both ridiculous and brilliant, a game that simulates the '90s internet in a rather disturbing way and it's out now with Linux support.

For those who love their building and management sims, one I spotted recently was School Owner and it's coming to Linux in May.

Lord of Dwarves, a survival-kingdom building game developed by Stellar Sage Games on Linux has arrived on Steam in Early Access.

Space Haven from developer Bugbyte (Battlevoid: Harbinger, Battlevoid: Sector Siege) managed to get funded in less than 48 hours and it keeps on growing.

Objects in Space, the open world 2D stealth-action space trading game left Early Access this month and it was supposed to have Linux support but it seems they're having issues.

Merchant of the Skies was just announced this week, a peaceful trading game with a little base-building management thrown in.

Nimbatus is a game I've been absolutely in love with from the first moment I touched it and Stray Fawn Studio only continue to impress me with the development of this Early Access title.

For those interested in seeing how well indie games are selling, developer James Patton who made Spinnortality has given out some interesting details including a breakdown per-platform.