Category: Casual

Hive Time from developer Cheeseness is a mixture of hive-building and bee management and it recently had a rather sweet update for World Bee Day.

Available now with Native Linux support, APICO from TNgineers and Whitethorn Games might be one of my new favourite was just to chill-out.

Probably one of the most important creatures on Earth and now you'll be looking after them in APICO on May 20, 2022.

The Garden Path is an upcoming casual chilled-out life sim that looks gorgeous. Now you can get access to it with the early bird limited access system on itch.io.

The Jackbox Party Starter has been announced to launch this "Summer", which will be the perfect entry to get the party started with more languages supported.

Stardew Valley, the peaceful farming life sim from ConcernedApe has hit over 20 million sales two years on from hitting 10 million.

Dorfromantik is a masterful blending of genres to create something you don't often see. Bringing together elements of tile matching with a city-builder, it sure is a peaceful way to game.

The Game Jam Ludum Dare 50 is over and the overall winner appears to be Claustrowordia, and it turns out it actually is a great crossword-type game.

Turn customers into food in Godlike Burger, to serve more customers. This is like the opposite of the Overcooked series.

Proteus, a relaxing casual exploration game from Ed Key and David Kanaga (with porting by Ethan Lee) was recently upgraded for Linux and the Steam Deck due to some graphical problems.

Wobbly Life, an open world physics based sandbox that looks like a lot of fun recently had a huge update and with it comes Steam Deck support.

You can now go on A Short Hike wherever you want with the Steam Deck and perhaps bring along a whole lot of friends too.

DDraceNetwork, a free and open source online co-op platformer now has Vulkan API integrated as of the latest update.

Love your casual games? Lazy Galaxy 2 from Coldwild Games is out now with a Linux version and it's a wonderful idle / clicker game that also blends in some other strategy elements too.

With gameplay that's a fun mix of Stardew Valley, Minecraft and survival games it seems Core Keeper has become an instant hit on Steam.

Do you love games that might split your brain in half? Hyperbolica might just do that with the mind-bending world design based on Non-Euclidean curved space.

Want to get Minecraft working easily on Steam Deck or a normal Linux desktop without much fuss? Here's one way you could do it and it makes it easy.

Even more developers get their games ready to be played on the Steam Deck! SimplePlanes looks like a lot of fun and it's quite a popular one too.

Love trains? Tracks looks like quite a sweet little game really and it has a new release out to help with Steam Deck compatibility.

A very scary Minecraft 1.19 snapshot, Mojang say, with the introduction of a new biome along with a new mob - and you can test it all out right now.