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Monster taming and farming mix in Ova Magica is up on Kickstarter and already funded

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

Ova Magica, a blending of casual farming in the spirit of Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon blended with monster taming and battling like something out of Pokemon is now live on Kickstarter.

With some epic 8-bit styled artwork Cyber Shadow is out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

Cyber Shadow from Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker and Yacht Club Games is an epic throwback to the likes of Ninja Gaiden and Shadow Of The Ninja and it's out now with Linux support.

Seriously deep monster-catching dungeon-crawler Siralim Ultimate releases in March

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

Ready for a run through the dungeons? How about to catch 1000s of monsters? Siralim Ultimate will see return of the deep RPG when it enters Early Access on March 12.

Colony building sim Maia surprises with a big feature release, gets ray-marched shadows

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

I always have a soft spot for Maia, a colony building sim from Simon Roth of Machine Studios with its very different take on building up a space colony on a distant world.

Try out Luxtorpeda, a Steam Play tool to run games in native game engines

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

There's quite a few games available on Steam that either don't support Linux, or do support Linux but like the Windows release there's a better way to run it perhaps with an open source game engine. Luxtorpeda will help with that.

Super sweet chilled-out game Kind Words has a nice free content update

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

Kind Words is one of the most chilled-out games around, although calling it a game feels a little weird. You write anonymous caring letters to real people around the world and it really is sweet.

VKD3D-Proton begins work to support DirectX Raytracing on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

There's a few mountains that Steam Play Proton still needs to climb over the next few years, to enable more Windows games and more features in those games to work under Linux. One big one is at least in progress.

GraviFire is a block-pushing puzzler with a gravity twist now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

Love your block-pushing puzzle games? GraviFire released back in November 2020, and it recently gained Linux support.

NVIDIA release the Vulkan Beta Driver 455.50.03, new extensions supported

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Need to be on the bleeding edge of what NVIDIA have to offer? They just released driver version 455.50.03, as part of their Vulkan Beta Driver series.

Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood from The Coma devs launches February 10

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is going to take you on an adventure that loops over with twists and turns, featuring a narrative time-loop like some kind of Groundhog Day.

Critters for Sale is super weird, first episode out free and the rest this year

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Love you wild adventures? Critters for Sale is one you should take a look at because this is the second time I've played it and I still have no idea what the hell is going on.

Lutris game manager v0.5.8.3 out, requires contributors to agree to a CLA

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

For regular Linux gamers, Lutris is pretty much a household name by now. For those that aren't - Lutris is a game manager allowing you to sort through all your games from various stores.

Try the demo for Bittersweet Birthday, a creepy action game with you being hunted

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Bittersweet Birthday is an upcoming action game set inside a mysterious building. You wake up dazed and confused, there's people after you but someone is trying to help you escape.

Empire building terminal game Arcane Fortune adds trade, nobility, assassination

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Inspired by the likes of Dwarf Fortress, Civilization, SimCity and more we have the free and open source Arcane Fortune which continues to expanding in features.

Free and open source modern level editor LDtk has a huge new release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

LDtk (prev called LEd) is an in-development free and open source level editor, one that's modern and designed to be as user-friendly as possible designed by a former dev on Dead Cells.

Open-world voxel sandbox game Rising World is going through a rewrite

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

After entering Early Access in 2014, JIW-Games have been rewriting their open world sandbox game Rising World to move away from Java and instead use the Unity game engine.

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a delightful repeatable head-swapping action rogue-lite out now

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2021

After being in Early Access since February 2020, SouthPAW Games have now released their head-swapping rogue-lite action platformer Skul: The Hero Slayer.

Tencent now own majority stake in Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included creator Klei

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2021

More game industry news coming at you following the Team17 buying up Golf With Your Friends and YoYo Games being acquired by Opera we now have Klei Entertainment agreeing for Tencent to take a majority stake in them.

Interested in Godot Engine and games made with it? GodotCon is up on January 23

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2021

Tomorrow, January 23 there's going to be an online GodotCon that's going live on YouTube. This is a chance for anyone interested to learn more about the free and open source game engine Godot Engine.

Quirky comedy action-adventure Skellboy Refractured is out now

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2021

Skellboy Refractured, the new and fresh release from UmaikiGames is out with Linux support as an expanded version to the game that originally released for the Nintendo Switch.

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