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Legend of Keepers adds mini-bosses and Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Legend of Keepers has you defend a dungeon against heroes, as a sort-of reverse dungeon crawler that mixes in events and all sorted. It's currently in Early Access and Goblinz Studio just gave it a nice big content boost.

Peaceful town-building RPG 'Littlewood' should leave Early Access in July

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Littlewood is a wonderful casual game, one built for gamers who like the slower side of life and it's getting very close to leaving Early Access.

The Force Engine is a fresh attempt to rebuild the Jedi Engine

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Recently appearing is a new open source game engine project called The Force Engine, with an aim to be an accurate version of the Jedi Engine that powered games like Dark Forces and Outlaws.

Monster Sanctuary now allows you to enter The Underworld

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Creature capture and battle game Monster Sanctuary just had another huge update recently, adding in quite an interesting area to explore.

The Yellow King, an indie dark horror MMO is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

The Yellow King is an Early Access massively-multiplayer online world with a dark horror theme and it's now available on Linux.

3dSen PC will turn classic NES games into 3D on June 19

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

3dSen PC is quite magical. An emulator that not only runs classic NES games, it changes the way you play them and it now has an Early Access release date.

Valve slowly begin sending out Artifact 2.0 invites

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Artifact 2.0, the revamp of Valve's failed competitive card game inches ever closer with the announcement of invites starting to slowly go out.

Cross-platform game engine 'Defold' source code opens up

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

Cross-platform game engine Defold has announced that the source code is now available under a reasonably generous license, along with the formation of a Defold Foundation.

Try out some strategy, superpowers and sabotage in Jumpala

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

A competitive platformer like no other and one I'm already very fond of, Jumpala now has a demo on Steam ahead of the release later this year.

11 years later Minecraft sells over 200 million copies

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

It's hard to believe that Minecraft, a blocky survival game originally created over a weekend has gone onto sell over 200 million copies.

Wizardry action game Wizard of Legend has a big anniversary update

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Wizard of Legend has dungeon crawling, fast-paced action and a lot of different spells to choose from and on its second anniversary it just got even bigger.

Explore the beautiful Canadian wilderness in Ruth's Journey

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Ruth's Journey is an upcoming prologue for another bigger upcoming game called The Long Way Home from Nifty Llama Games. The trailer they just put out is quite mesmerising.

Estranged: Act II to leave Early Access on May 22

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Estranged: Act II is an impressive and currently free first-person adventure game with certain horror and puzzle themes that has been a labour of love from developer Alan Edwardes and it's done.

Spiritfarer, the cozy management game about dying is coming to GOG

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Spiritfarer might have a seemingly depressing theme but it appears to handle it in such a beautiful way. It also looks gorgeous and it's one of my most anticipated games.

Chapter 8 of Higurashi When They Cry Hou out now, first chapter free

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Higurashi When They Cry Hou, a very popular series of anime styled novels has the first chapter set temporarily free to claim and the final chapter is out now with Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.

Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.

Ancient board game Hnefatafl arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Hnefatafl, the ancient 'board game of the vikings' just recently had a version ported to Linux from developer Philippe Schober and it sounds like quite a complete package.

Wasteland 3 characters can have super powerful quirks

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

The first developer diary for Wasteland 3, which comes to Linux on August 28, shows off some of the customization and combat that's possible and it sounds ridiculous.

Beautiful puzzle game Lumote plans to support Linux through Proton

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2020

Released back in February, Lumote is an incredibly vibrant and quite beautiful looking puzzle game and it seems Luminawesome Games plan to support Linux with Steam Play Proton.