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Area 86 is a challenging and amusing physics-based escape room puzzler out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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 Squires-Hand,
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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Selfless Heroes, a sweet programming-puzzle game where you help heroes in a dungeon - with source code available

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
A wonderful little programming-puzzle game here with Selfless Heroes, tasking you with helping heroes travel through a dungeon and avoid dangers.
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The AI generated text adventure 'AI Dungeon' can now be played online with others

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
AI Dungeon is absolutely fascinating. Every single adventure is different, as it's all powered by a fancy AI and now you and friends can join up for an adventure you're never going to forget.
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Linux game manager 'Lutris' has a sweet new build up - better Wine support, new DXVK handling

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Lutris is probably in my top 5 of free and open source Linux apps, as it's made gaming outside of Steam many times easier on Linux.
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Couch-based Linux 'GamerOS' shows how SteamOS could be done - with a new release up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
24
While SteamOS had a nice idea to bring Linux gaming to the living room, it's currently on hold (although Valve may return to it). Now, there's another choice with the simply named GamerOS.
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Looks like 'Sword of the Necromancer' will be coming to Linux, as it's fully funded on Kickstarter

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Dungeon-crawler action RPG 'Sword of the Necromancer' is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, with quite a long time left to go they've been fully funded and it will be coming to Linux.
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Slash Roll replaces cards with throwing dice and it's actually an interesting idea

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Slash Roll, a new Early Access indie game from NiankSoft recently appeared and it has a fun idea. It aims to be a 'pouch builder', that replaces card deck-building with collecting dice.
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Free and open source Master of Orion clone 'Remnants of the Precursors' has a Beta release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Remember the original Master of Orion? Remnants of the Precursors is a strict feature clone of the 1993 classic. It's free, open source and a Beta version is out now.
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Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle went live with a few Linux games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
15
Humble Bundle has a new set of games ready with the Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle, there's a few nice picks for Linux gaming fans in it and more if you use Steam Play Proton.
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Gun simulating first-person shooter 'Receiver 2' is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Wolfire Games have released 'Receiver 2', their brand new first-person shooter that takes gun simulation to an interesting level that makes it different to other traditional shooters.
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Challenging roguelike spaceship simulator 'Shortest Trip to Earth' released for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Shortest Trip to Earth takes elements of FTL, and then sprinkles in a huge amount more to make it have a lot more depth and quite a lot of challenge to it.
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