A reminder of some recent Linux game releases - October 2020 edition
Despite this feeling like the longest year ever, time continues moving on and there's been a number of great games released with Linux support in the last few months.
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Humble Store has a big Halloween sale on right now
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Check out the fresh demo of Bound By Blades and take down some fierce monsters
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Nonsense Soccer is a highly amusing local multiplayer platformer-soccer-hybrid
After your next local multiplayer game? Nonsense Soccer is out in Early Access and it's already a huge amount of fun if you're the competitive type.
Developer of Hive Time reflects on the release and their pay what you want model
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Try not to lose your head in a world full of colour in GONNER2 out now
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First-person magic-shooting rogue-lite 'Ziggurat 2' enters Early Access
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Don't Starve Together gets a brand new biome and an animated short
Klei Entertainment continue expanding their incredible looking survival game Don't Starve Together, with the Return of Them: Forgotten Knowledge update out now along with a Halloween event.
Ahoy, Me Hearties! Civilization VI's free Pirates game mode is out now
Fancy sailing the seas and becoming king of the pirates? We're not talking about One Piece but Civilization VI with the latest major free update out now.
The big tech upgrade for They Bleed Pixels is now out everywhere
They Bleed Pixels, a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror recently released on the Nintendo Switch which gave the PC version a nice tech upgrade too.
Cyberpunk adventure Quadrilateral Cowboy goes 64bit on Linux
The weekend is just about here and if you're stuck for something to do, why not try out the cyberpunk adventure Quadrilateral Cowboy with the latest update.
According to a Stadia developer, streamers should be paying publishers and it backfired
After a three day event to show off new games for Stadia, along with three special demos now live you would think Google was having a good time. Unfortunately, one developer derailed it all.
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Hunt down other players in the competitive local multiplayer game Unspottable out now
Unspottable has you and friends all blended together amongst a crowd, and you each need to find the other to take them down. It's highly amusing and out now.
Explore an open world with dynamic turn-based battles in Tenderfoot Tactics out now
I honestly feel like I need to take an entire week off just to play Tenderfoot Tactics, a mix of turn-based battling and open-world exploration that's out now.
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