Interstellar Marines was once an incredibly promising FPS game with nice visuals and interesting gameplay. Sadly, their money pretty much vanished, but it's pleasing to see it still being developed.
Off Grid sounds pretty interesting! An adventure, satire and stealth game that follows real-world events surrounding data privacy.
BallisticNG is an in-development racer heavily inspired by Wipeout on Steam. It seems it has picked up a community member to bring it over to Linux and has unstable builds available.
Unity 5.6 beta is now available and it brings Vulkan into the main builds of the Unity engine, exciting times!
For those that remember the classic game Myst, Quern - Undying Thoughts a game clearly inspired by it launched with day-1 Linux support.
The Exiled, a new discovery recently that aims to combine the open-world approach of an MMO together with MOBA style battles. The icing here is that it supports Linux.
Edge Of Eternity is a really fantastic looking indie tribute to the J-RPG classics and the developers have confirmed Linux will not see a release until Vulkan is stable in Unity.
Unity 5.5 has been released as a pretty major update to this popular game engine. One interesting bit for us is that games built with 5.5 onward will only have access to the modern OpenGL system.
Syndrome, a good-looking sci-fi survival horror was supposed to come to Linux at release, but it seems Unity is holding it back with bugs.
The Linux editor of Unity has been in beta for quite a while, over a year in fact, so it's really pleasing to see it getting bumped up to an official status. Updated!
Honestly, I had never heard of Silence until someone asked me in our IRC to look it up. I am glad they did, as Daedalic were more than happy to provide review access and this game is fantastic.
The Linux developers at Unity have been plugging away on putting SDL2 into the Linux builds, and with Unity 5.6 it should be there.
The recent Steam Dev Days 2016 now has videos of the talks available, so it could be something interesting for you to watch over the weekend.
Bohemia Interactive have now formally announced 'Ylands', a cheerful sandbox game that will come to Linux in future.
Unity is currently doing their Unite 2016 event, and they have talked a bit about more multithreading and enhanced Vulkan support which will come soon.
Streets of Rogue is already an extremely cool game, but now it's about to get even cooler. The developer mentioned to a GOL follower than he is planning online co-op support!
Well if that headline didn't catch your attention I don't know what will. Sally Face is a dark adventure game about having a prosthetic face.
It seems being a big space nerd on Linux has no shortage of good games, as now we have 'Concealed Intent' to join the ranks.
Star Vikings from Rogue Snail is a casual puzzle RPG where it plays a little like a reverse plants vs zombies. It feels very much like a casual mobile game.
Cloudbase Prime is a charming Early Access game about fighting robots and manipulating hexagonal platforms the levels are built with.