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Sky Racket mixes together a shoot 'em up with a block-breaker and it's really fun

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing sometime later this year, Double Dash Studios have merged together a block-breaker with a shoot 'em up to create something a little odd but it's very fun.

First-person strategy game "Colony Survival" finally has a major update after a year of waiting

By Liam Dawe,
After a year of work, developer Pipliz have finally updated their first-person colony building game Colony Survival.

Flippin Kaktus is an absolutely mad looking action-platformer coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
As a huge fan of games like Broforce, I'm always on the look out for another good action-platformer with over-the-top craziness and Flippin Kaktus looks pretty sharp.

The in-development medieval RPG "Donensbourgh" had a huge upgrade recently

By Liam Dawe,
Donensbourgh is one I highlighted only recently, a medieval RPG with no combat or violence that seemed promising. It just had a pretty massive upgrade to improve all of it.

Studio Attic Salt are bringing a very stylish looking Visual Novel "Misadventures of Laura Silver" to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing next month, Turkish developer Studio Attic Salt are trying their hand at a Visual Novel with Misadventures of Laura Silver and it looks good.

Pushy and Pully in Blockland looks like a fun co-op arcade game coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Pushy and Pully in Blockland from Resistance Studio is a solo and co-op arcade game with a retro visual style, confirmed to be coming to Linux.

The first-person exploration puzzle game "Supraland 2" managed to get funded

By Liam Dawe,
That's another tick for a game funded and coming to Linux! Supra Games managed to reach their funding goal on Kickstarter earlier this month for Supraland 2.

Escape-room puzzle game "Escape from Chernobyl" recently added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Likely riding on the popularity of the recent Chernobyl series, Escape from Chernobyl is a puzzle game with multiple endings where you take on the role of a scientist based in some secret lab.

Knightin'+ is a small and streamlined dungeon crawler out with Linux support now

By Liam Dawe,
Developed by the Ukrainian solo outfit Muzt Die Studios, Knightin'+ is a real-time 2D dungeon crawler with a simple pixel-art style and streamlined gameplay. They're calling it a "Zelda-lite adventure".

Break my body takes Arkanoid gameplay and puts a medical spin on it

By Liam Dawe,
With the same basic idea as Arkanoid, Break my body is an arcade game about breaking blocks. Break my body does it a little differently though, as your objective is to destroy Cancer cells and not every single block.

Green Sauce Games bring some more match-3 casual fun to Linux gamers with Storm Tale

By Liam Dawe,
Everyone needs a game to relax with, perhaps something a little less demanding during the hot weather. With that in mind, Storm Tale a nice looking match-3 game released with Linux support recently.

Dota Underlords is to split up matchmaking with Casual and Ranked options

By Liam Dawe,
The Dota Underlords team at Valve have put out their plans for the next update which is focusing on the matchmaking.

Pixel art survival horror "Lamentum" has been fully funded and it's heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Lamentum is another crowdfunding success story, as the very freaky looking pixel art survival horror has hit the funding goal on Kickstarter.

Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan is still progressing

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Zink? The project announced in October last year from developer Erik Faye-Lund at Collabora, which provides a Mesa Gallium driver for getting OpenGL on top of Vulkan, well it's still going.

Extinction Protocol is a very stylish looking minimalist strategy game coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
As a huge fan of strategy games, Extinction Protocol has caught my eye. Using a stylish and minimalist visual style, it gives off a very alluring atmosphere.

The streamlined fighting game "Fantasy Strike" has now officially released

By Liam Dawe,
Featuring Linux support, Fantasy Strike is a fighting game that's quite streamlined giving more people an opportunity to enjoy it while still being difficult to master.

SDL 2.0.10 released, testing a more regular release cycle

By Liam Dawe,
If you're a game developer, you've likely heard of SDL 2 and plenty of you are probably already using it. In fact, SDL 2 helps power a huge amount of Linux games and a new release is out now.

Stone Story, an RPG animated entirely in ASCII symbols is releasing in Early Access next month

By Liam Dawe,
Stone Story is a name I've not heard for a while, after posting about it myself way back in 2017 it's one I completely lost track of. This rather different RPG is animated entirely using ASCII symbols!

Jupiter Hell has a new crazy trailer ahead of the Early Access release on August 1st

By Liam Dawe,
ChaosForge have managed to craft something quite special here with Jupiter Hell. Saying it's a turn-based roguelike DOOM would be a reasonably fitting description, but you need to play it to appreciate it.

The unique dice-rolling, deck-building roguelike "Dicey Dungeons" is releasing on August 13th

By Liam Dawe,
Dicey Dungeons from Terry Cavanagh (Super Hexagon and VVVVVV), chipzel, and Marlowe Dobbe now has a confirmed release date of August 13th.