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Skeletal Dance Party, the silly physics-based dungeon crawler with partying skeletons had a nice update

22 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Catalope Games have put out a major update to Skeletal Dance Party, adding in some rather nice new features for their amusing physics-based dungeon crawler.

Taking place in a dystopian near future 'Slave RPG' looks very retro and you can try it free for now

22 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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If you enjoy games with ASCII art you might want to take a little look at Slave RPG, an upcoming game from developer Rising Sun Interactive.

Puzzling machine learning puzzler 'while True: learn()' recently left Early Access and it's good

22 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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while True: learn() is a puzzle game about machine learning, neural networks, big data and AI and something about a cat.

Golf With Your Friends is a surprisingly amusing mini golf game

22 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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I've been meaning to try out Golf With Your Friends for some time, after it has been recommended by various followers. I finally got around to it and it's pretty good.

Broforce, possibly the best action-platformer ever is still being updated

22 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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Developer Free Lives has given Broforce a bit of a refresh recently with a new update with possibly more to come.

Paladins, the team-based shooter seems to work well with Steam Play

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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For those curious about Steam Play and wanting to test it out a little, the free to play fantasy team-based shooter Paladins seems to work rather nicely.

Sunless Skies is steaming ahead towards release, UI overhaul is out

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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Sunless Skies from Failbetter Games is leaving Early Access on January 31st and it recently had a pretty big UI overhaul.

ATOM RPG, the Fallout-like game now has a full tutorial starting area and more

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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The developers behind the Fallout-inspired ATOM RPG certainly have been busy since releasing it in December.

Deadly Days, the strategic zombie survival rogue-lite has continued to evolve into a better game

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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There's a number of Early Access game that I'm keeping a close eye on for having a huge amount of promise, Deadly Days is one such title that has come along very nicely recently.

Night of the Blood Moon, a cramped Nuclear Throne-like shooter is now in Early Access

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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Night of the Blood Moon from sole developer Tyler McDermott is a cramped and quite interesting action game that feels like a twin-stick shooter inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne.

Sparticles, a fast-paced platformer that reveals hidden terrain with particle explosions is now on Linux

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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We have a lot of platformers, however Sparticles is one that looks incredibly unique visually due to the hidden terrain mechanic. It looks very colourful and really quite interesting.

Age of Fear: The Free World, a free fantasy turn-based strategy game

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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For those in need of their next turn-based strategy game, the Age of Fear series now has a free entry for you to test the waters.

I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris

21 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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You might remember, that back in September last year I talked a little about Lutris and Overwatch together and how it was working well. Here’s an update on how it's been going.

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Lord of Dwarves will have you build large structures and defend them, developed on Linux

20 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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Here's a fun one, Lord of Dwarves from developer Stellar Sage Games is a game about helping a kingdom of dwarves survive, build, and prosper. It's made on Linux too and releasing in Early Access in March.

Dead Ascend, an open source point and click 2D adventure game

20 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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For those wanting to check out another open source game or perhaps see how they're made, Dead Ascend might be a fun choice for a little adventure.

The new System Shock is looking quite impressive with the latest artwork

20 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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System Shock, the remake coming eventually from Nightdive Studios continues along in development and it's looking impressive.

vkQuake2, the project adding Vulkan support to Quake 2 now supports Linux

20 Jan 2019 | By Liam Squires-Hand

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At the start of this year, I gave a little mention to vkQuake2, a project which has updated the classic Quake 2 with various improvements including Vulkan support.