This website makes use of cookies to enhance your browsing experience and provide additional functionality -> More info Deny Cookies - Allow Cookies

Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through

PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.

Latest News

Click for more

Galaxy of Pen & Paper announced by Behold Studios, will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

Behold Studios, those behind Knights of Pen & Paper and Chroma Squad have now officially announced their new game: Galaxy of Pen & Paper. It will have Linux support too and it sounds interesting.

Wrongworld, a rather hilarious looking surreal survival game is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

I like survival games, but often I find them hard to get into. Wrongworld looks like it will make that rather easy, as it just looks so damn funny.

Escape from aliens on small islands in 'Mugsters', a colourful and amusing looking indie game

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

I discovered 'Mugsters' recently and after watching the trailer I feel like I just have to play it. It looks downright hilarious.

Your staff are a bit more needy in Prison Architect update 11

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

Prison Architect got a surprise holiday update and it's an interesting one. It adds a little more simulation for your staff along with some bug fixes.

Transport Fever has released a big performance patch, might be worth it now

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

I liked Transport Fever, but the performance at release was pretty damn bad. The developers were well aware of this and so they have released a big performance patch.

'gifine' is a pretty simple open source tool for making small gifs and videos

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

Something I've wanted for a while was an easy way to make simple gif animations or videos of small sections of my screen. Thankfully, gifine has come along and seems to fit my needs perfectly.

Open Source

The open source 'OpenMW' has released 0.41.0 to further improve Morrowind on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

OpenMW, the open source engine for playing Morrowind has matured a little more with the release of 0.41.0.

Survival racing game 'Distance' has a big update with ghost car and replay support

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

Distance is easily one of my favourite racing games available on Linux. It has slick graphics, seriously good music and now it has support for ghost cars and replays.

RimWorld alpha 16 'Wanderlust' is a massive update

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

RimWorld, the colony building simulator has a massive alpha 16 update named 'Wanderlust' and it's truly huge.

Darkest Dungeon adds gamepad support and will get a shorter game-mode

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

Darkest Dungeon is a hard and long game, but thankfully the developers know what to do about it. They are planning to add in a shorter game mode for you. They also recently added in gamepad support.

Lifeless Planet Linux beta has been updated, with improved graphics from the PS4 version

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

The developers of Lifeless Planet have continued to improve their Linux beta, as it's now running on Unity 5 and has the improved graphics from the PS4 version.

The awesome itch store is also having a big sale, with some real indie gems going cheap

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

One store you really shouldn't look past is itch, as they have an open source client and I never hear a bad thing said about them.

OBS Studio 17.0.0 adds support for capturing previous x minutes and a Linux memory leak fix

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

OBS Studio 17.0.0 has been released and it's a pretty fun one. It now has a feature that allows you to capture a snapshot of a specific time before hitting a hotkey.

Open Source

Parkitect, the indie theme park building sim updated again, working towards big performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2016

Parkitect is really coming along nicely and just before the Christmas break it was updated with more great features.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By , 25 Dec 2016

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Some thoughts on Age of Conquest IV

By Hamish, 23 Dec 2016

Age of Conquest IV by Noble Master Games is a strategy title that manages to go far beyond its roots in family tabletop gaming to become a lightning fast war game where you must do or die to succeed.

Very Festive Friday Livestream at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 23 Dec 2016

Merry festivities, everyone! Before I too move on to eating myself to death with family and relatives I have one more Livestream for you. So, prepare yourself for a very festive dose of live Linux gaming!