This website makes use of cookies to enhance your browsing experience and provide additional functionality -> More info Deny Cookies - Allow Cookies

Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through

PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.

Latest News

Click for more

Massive scale city-builder Songs of Syx gets a new world map, Total War styled conquests

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

After the initial Early Access success where Songs of Syx managed to quickly shift over 11,000 copies the developer has been toiling away on a massive update that's now in Beta.

Albion Online continues to see big player counts, with lots more to come on the roadmap

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

After a successful launch on mobile which saw player numbers explode, the cross-platform Albion Online is getting some more big upgrades.

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms blends many factions into one big package

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Love your classic RTS games? I sure do and thanks to the power of the OpenRA game engine reimplementation you can try out Command & Conquer - Combined Arms which bundles many factions from different C&C games together.

Explore a new world in Sea of Roses a heartwarming free adventure out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Free Game Friday! Sea of Roses is an award winning adventure from Portuguese team Crescent Tea Studios and it's out now with Linux support. Best of all, it's free.

The SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS becomes ChimeraOS with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Getting a console-like big-screen experience with Linux gaming was a thing with SteamOS until Valve stopped updating it, then came along GamerOS to carry the torch which has evolved again with a new name of ChimeraOS.

Humble Bundle confirms changes coming mid-July to add a minimum payment for Humble

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Humble Bundle announced back in April they would be making changes to the purchase sliders based on (much hated) testing, then backpedaling in May, they've announced again some changes are coming to always give Humble a cut.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through June 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for June 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

Dark detective hacking adventure Song of Farca releases on July 21

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

In the upcoming detective hacking adventure Song of Farca from developer Wooden Monkeys and publisher Alawar Premium you sees you hack into crime scenes, look over evidence and sends you down a dark a brutal rabbit hole.

Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Love some quirky comedy? A few months after releasing for Windows, Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) is now available for Linux too.

The popular board game Brass: Birmingham gets the digital treatment

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Brass: Birmingham, a popular board game that had a big and successful crowdfunding campaign which was the sequel to Martin Wallace's original game Brass has now been made into a digital game.

ScummVM adds support for Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy and The Journeyman Project 2

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Have time to play some more classics? The latest release of ScummVM might not be out yet but they have announced some more titles will be playable.

Apogee Entertainment surprise releases Secret Agent HD, a remaster of the 90s classic

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

The 1992 classic Secret Agent has been revived with a HD remaster from Apogee Entertainment and Emberheart Games that was surprise announced and released today with Secret Agent HD.

How We Know We're Alive - a free point & click mystery set in Sweden's bible belt

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

Free Game Wednesday? Yup! How about short, intriguing and incredible looking pixel-art mystery adventure with How We Know We're Alive.

Top-down stealth escape horror The Equinox Hunt is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

On the run with various horrors hunting you, The Equinox Hunt developed by EvilStar Studios from 2020 is now on Linux.

Surreal point & click horror adventure Strangeland released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

Strangeland from Wormwood Studios and Wadjet Eye Games has just been released for Linux and it looks awesome.

System76 has launched Pop!_OS 21.04 with the new COSMIC desktop

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

The big day for System76 has arrived, as they've now officially launched the latest big upgrade to the Pop!_OS Linux distribution with Pop!_OS 21.04 bringing their new COSMIC desktop environment.

Rainbow Six Siege out on Stadia today, more games confirmed and a big 'mega' sale

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

Google continue bringing over more and more titles to Stadia, with the next set of Stadia Pro titles revealed too.

The hilarious Paint the Town Red leaves Early Access on July 29, sold more than 400,000

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

After a very successful development time in Early Access where they sold over 400,000 copies, Paint the Town Red is now set for leaving Early Access on July 29.

Zach-like puzzle game ComPressure is now technically free with the full demo

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

ComPressure, a puzzle game about designing increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam is now technically free, as the demo is the full game.