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KnotBot, a very sweet looking programming-puzzle game involving knots and strings

By Liam Dawe,
2
KnotBot might be one of the sweetest looking puzzle-programming type of games I've ever seen. A game where you give a little robot directions across a bunch of hand-crafted levels.
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GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
7
In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.
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Indivisible adds drop-in co-op for up to 4 players and a New Game Plus mode

By Liam Dawe,
1
Indivisible, the action RPG platformer from Lab Zero Games (Skullgirls) can now be played with others in local co-op making it quite a different experience. Plus a New Game Plus mode if you enjoy pain.
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Turns out The Butcher's Circus expansion for Darkest Dungeon will be FREE - plus more details

By Liam Dawe,
4
Earlier this month we reported on Darkest Dungeon getting a new online PvP DLC named The Butcher’s Circus, well it turns out it's going to be free and they've given more details.
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Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe,
14
Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.
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Game Boy Color inspired Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die to enter Early Access on May 29

By Liam Dawe,
0
Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die, a retro non-linear dungeon crawler that was funded on Kickstarter back in October 2017 is finally about to release.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II and Northgard free weekend, Overcooked! 2 has DLC free to keep

By Liam Dawe,
4
Looks like even more games are letting you play free across this weekend and there's plenty of fun to be had for everyone with Linux as their favourite system.
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Humble Store giving away 'Manual Samuel' for FREE over the next few days

By Liam Dawe,
2
Manual Samuel, a classic adventure game with a wild twist, is currently being given away FREE on the Humble Store.
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Merging elements from XCOM and HOMM 'Fort Triumph' is out now - some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
8
Fort Triumph from CookieByte Entertainment and All in! Games is out today, after a while in Early Access this turn-based strategy game combines XCOM with HOMM with some environmental interactions too.
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Epic space drone constructor 'Nimbatus' to leave Early Access on May 14 - new update out too

By Liam Dawe,
1
Nimbatus, a game about space exploration, science and creativity with a whole lot of spacecraft/drone creation is set to leave Early Access on May 14.
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Area 86 is a challenging and amusing physics-based escape room puzzler out now

By Liam Dawe,
5
Area 86 takes the idea of an escape room game, adds a bunch of physics interactions with an unwieldy little robot as the protagonist and gives you a pretty good time for your monies.
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Open-world vehicle building adventure 'TerraTech' free to play until April 21

By Liam Dawe,
0
British indie team Payload Studios have put their Linux game, TerraTech, up on a long Steam Free Weekend so you can download and play for free now until April 21.
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KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
19
Stick a fork in it! KDE's window manager KWin officially has a full fork with a new project called KWinFT, with an aim to support modern development practices and further expand Wayland support.
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Top-down content-filled 2D racer 'Ultimate Racing 2D' now has Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
2
Developer Applimazing has announced that their 2D racer, Ultimate Racing 2D, has added Linux support.
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Challenging turn-based open world RPG 'Stoneshard' has a huge update

By Liam Dawe,
1
After an impressive free Prologue and a successful Early Access launch, Stoneshard just received it's first major update named "Trollslayer" with a ton of new content.
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F1 2020 announced for release on July 10 with Google Stadia support

By Liam Dawe,
13
While we don't yet know if the F1 series will make a return to the Linux desktop, it's at least confirmed that the new F1 2020 will be released on Google Stadia so you can stream it.
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Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
12
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.
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Logistics sim 'STATIONflow' has you direct thousands of passengers across complex 3D layouts

By Liam Dawe,
0
Out today is STATIONflow, a 3D logistics puzzle simulation game that has you manage a busy metro station with thousands of passengers passing through.
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Promising spaceship colony sim 'Space Haven' Alpha 7 out with a Sandbox Mode, Early Access this year

By Liam Dawe,
0
Bugbyte continue expanding their in-development spaceship colony sim, Space Haven, with a huge new Alpha release available.
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Set in a sinister, slowly decomposing land the action-RPG 'Crumbling World' has a demo out

By Liam Dawe,
3
Releasing later this year on May 21, Crumbling World definitely has a curious setting. An action-RPG where the world is just falling apart and decomposing around you.
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