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Wonderful point and click comedy adventure Guard Duty is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2020

Get yourself a bit of DRM-free comedy, with the release of Guard Duty onto GOG serving as a nice reminder for anyone who missed it originally. This nostalgic experience offers a bit of a wild ride.

Resolutiion is set to get a big free expansion soon

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2020

Fast-paced action-adventure Resolutiion from Monolith of Minds is going to be getting a big free content expansion.

Narrative-driven adventure Impostor Factory has new teaser trailer

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Following on in some way from To the Moon and Finding Paradise, the next title from Freebird Games is the previously announced Impostor Factory and now they have another teaser out.

Minesweeper but it's a rogue-lite with tons of features - DemonCrawl is out for Linux PC

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Oh no, I think DemonCrawl might just end up being my next 100 hour game and it's now available for Linux PC.

Cursed Gem is a pretty charming and amusing challenging platformer out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

I have to admit, Cursed Gem is quite a nice surprise. Throwing in a little comedy into a challenging pixel-art platformer.

Action RPG 'Last Epoch' laughs at your free time with the biggest update ever

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Free time be damned, it's time to jump back into Last Epoch for another dozen hours or so because Eleventh Hour Games clearly don't want me to sleep tonight.

Need another building and farming RPG? Verdant Village enters Steam Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Littlewood and Stardew Valley not enough for you? Need more farming, crafting and exploration? Verdant Village is now live in Early Access on Steam.

Take an emotional trip through the mind in Into A Dream out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Into A Dream is a brand new release from indie developer Filipe F. Thomaz, telling a tale about diving into the mind of someone diagnosed with severe depression.

Master of Orion inspired open source 4x strategy FreeOrion has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

Inspired originally by Master of Orion, the free and open source FreeOrion project has a brand new release.

Jagged Alliance 2 game engine 'Stracciatella' has a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2020

The community working to keep the classic Jagged Alliance 2 alive with the Stracciatella game engine have put out their first release in a few years.

Award-winning strategy game The Battle of Polytopia is now on Linux PC

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

After winning awards and gaining popularity in the mobile space, Midjiwan AB have ported over The Battle of Polytopia to PC (Linux, macOS, Windows) and it's out now.

LunarG releases new Vulkan SDK with DirectX Shader Compiler for Linux and more

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

LunarG have today, August 4 2020, released a new and enhanced version of their Vulkan SDK (software development kit).

Littlewood is a seriously peaceful town-building RPG out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

After a successful Kickstarter campaign in the beginning of 2019 and an Early Access release later that same year, Littlewood has grown into a wonderful town-building RPG.

Free to play collectible card game 'Doomtrooper' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

Reviving the collectible card game from the 90s, developer Secret Cow Level has now launched Doomtrooper CCG into Steam's Early Access program.

GOverlay makes Linux gaming overlay MangoHud even easier to use

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

MangoHud has become the go-to way to get a decent readout of game performance with an overlay on Linux, and now with the latest improvements the GOverlay interface has made it much easier to use.

Ecosystem building sim 'Terra Nil' now gives you a whole continent to restore

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

A building sim that's as relaxing as it is challenging, Terra Nil has a truly wonderful idea and I absolute love following it along in development with a new big update out now.

The fab physics bridge-builder Poly Bridge 2 gets a huge free content update

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

Already finished Poly Bridge 2? Looks like it's time to jump back in as Dry Cactus have just released a huge free content upgrade with lots of new goodies to play with.

Unrailed! is gearing up for launch with a discount before the price goes up

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

Unrailed! is an absolutely fantastic co-op game from Indoor Astronaut and Daedalic Entertainment that has you frantically build a train track to keep your train going as far as possible.

xoreos, the FLOSS game engine for titles like Knights of the Old Republic has a new update

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2020

xoreos is an in-development effort to create a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the BioWare Aurora Engine that powers games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.