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Tower Defense? How about Trap Defense with the newly released Rats, Bats, and Bones

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Rats, Bats, and Bones from Mark Begenisich looks like a great retro-styled strategy game, one that takes the gameplay idea of Tower Defense and replaces it with Traps.

Colour smashing rotating Match 3 puzzle game 3x64 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Lightning Soft just released 3x64, a casual Match 3 puzzle game that has you chasing the high score in short sessions.

Face a dying realm of the gods in the 4x strategy Fantastic Creatures out November 14

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Developer Blue Callisto announced today that their fascinating 4x strategy game, Fantastic Creatures, is releasing with Linux support on November 14.

Subcube is a puzzler about building cuboids that will push your mind

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Released last month with same-day support for Linux, Subcube from Dizzy Mind Games is a puzzler that requires you to build cuboids and it's pretty clever with the design.

Fan-made sequel to The 7th Guest, The 13th Doll is finally out

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Just in time for Halloween to give you a little fright, an officially licensed fan-made sequel to the classic FMV game The 7th Guest named The 13th Doll is out with Linux support.

The Khronos Group has launched a unified samples repository for Vulkan learning

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Today, The Khronos Group announced their newest Vulkan initiative with the Unified Samples Repository. A new place to find what they say are high-quality Vulkan code samples reviewed by their team.

The Humble 'Hambleween' Sale has some seriously good deals

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Humble Store have just launched their own Halloween sale, a little later than everyone else giving you a bit longer to look around and get a good deal.

The Automation update for Volcanoids adds some serious new toys to play with

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Volcanoids certainly mixes up the survival genre, giving you a great big mobile drillship base to build up and the Automation update looks seriously good.

Rob banks as anthropomorphic animals in the co-op game Put 'Em Up!

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Pewter Games and LoPoly have teamed up for Put 'Em Up!, a ridiculous looking co-op game where you're in control of anthropomorphic animals and you get up to a whole bunch of mischief.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' integrates the Yarn Dialogue editor in the latest build

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Creating dialogue in your games with GDevelop just got a lot more advanced, as the team have integrated the Yarn Dialogue editor into their FOSS game engine.

The classic FOSS run and gun action game C-Dogs SDL just had a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

It's not just OpenTTD having a new release lately, as the seriously classic C-Dogs SDL also has a big new build to run and gun through.

Don't Starve Together gains another new character with their Halloween event live

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Klei Entertainment have expanded their stylish survival game Don't Starve Together, with the character Wurt making an appearance along with the Hallowed Nights event.

FOSS building sim OpenTTD based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe has a new test release

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Based on the absolute classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the free and open source OpenTTD has a major new release build out that's in need of some testing.

Casual 5v5 action game Kronorite recently added Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Kronorite seems to have gone completely under the radar. A team-based casual action game with each team trying to capture the map and it added Linux support back in September.

Valve rolls out the new Steam Library and Remote Play Together for everyone

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

That's it, done, finished. The beta for the new Steam Library is over and the Remote Play Together beta is now out for everyone as soon as your client updates.

Mixing retro FPS flavour with modern design, Hedon is now available on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

After releasing a freeware version back in March this year and then appearing on Steam a few months later, Hedon is now available on GOG as well.

Fatbot Games have announced the first-person steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum: Lockdown

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

As a prequel to the original stylish dungeon crawler, Vaporum: Lockdown follows Lisa Teller, a scientist who is a part of a mysterious research project in the middle of an ocean.

Graveyard Keeper - Stranger Sins expansion is out allowing you to build your own tavern

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

You're no longer just a Graveyard Keeper and a Priest all in one, you're now also in charge of building and running your own tavern in the Graveyard Keeper - Stranger Sins expansion,.