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Check out these Steam Deck Verified titles to start your week

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh week is here, it's Monday (I know, terrible right?) and you're in need of something new to get you through the week. So here's a whole bunch of newly Steam Deck Verified games to take a look at.

Anodyne Remastered is out now with Linux and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Anodyne from 2013 is a peculiar and unique Zelda-lite game, and a big refresh has been released today with Anodyne Remastered as a free update for all existing owners.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Recently I highlighted that the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra was doing a big move over to Vulkan, giving it a modern rendering system to keep on pushing performance. The latest updates also give a big boost for Linux / Steam Deck.

Mortisomem is a horror-adventure based in early 20th century Brazil

By Liam Dawe,
Love retro styled horror adventure games? Mortisomem looks like it could be interesting, and another that's going with the old PlayStation 1 graphics style. Mortisomem is set in early 20th century Brazil and seems quite spooky.

Turbo Overkill is a brutal FPS well worth your time

By Liam Dawe,
Turbo Overkill finally released the big 1.0 back in August, and StridePR sent over a key and I had an absolutely blast with it and it works great on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Diablo be damned, Last Epoch plans to release 1.0 in February, 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Diablo who? Eleventh Hour Games have announced that their action RPG Last Epoch will release the big 1.0 on February 21st, 2024! With multiple big previews of new stuff coming before release.

itch.io is hosting a Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Want to support queer indie developers, authors, and artists? Here's a good chance for you with the Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023 hosted on itch.io.

GE-Proton 8-21 released fixing up FSR issues

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 8-21 was released today for Steam Deck and Linux desktop to improve your gaming. Here's a run over what's new and how to use it.

Welcome to the new and much the same GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
New server who dis? Hello again. GamingOnLinux just did a full server migration and so if you’re seeing this, welcome back home, please wipe your feet at the door.

Proton gets upgrades for TEKKEN 8, Burnout Paradise Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released two separate Proton upgrades recently with Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental both seeing releases. Here's what's new for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gaming.

Steam Deck Beta gets some essential bug fixes and new Gyro options

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up some nice bug fixes in the latest Preview and Beta updates for the Steam Deck, here's a run over what's new and improved for you.

Mosa Lina is pure physics puzzle-platforming chaos

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is certainly an unexpected pleasure to appear. Mosa Lina is pure physics puzzle-platforming chaos and it's out now along with Native Linux support and works great on Steam Deck.

Check out the first-person dark-fantasy dungeon crawler Ludus Mortis

By Liam Dawe,
Set in a dark-fantasy timeline version of the Roman Empire, Ludus Mortis is a dungeon crawler like the classics but with plenty of modern touches now in Early Access with Linux Support and Steam Deck playable.

Gearbits is a fast-paced mecha combat indie game now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Love mecha combat? Gearbits is a new indie release on Steam from Quackpond Games, following on from their early builds on itch.io.

Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.

Act quick to claim these free games like CRYPTARK and The Evil Within

By Liam Dawe,
Need some free games for the weekend? Got you covered with a list here of some games you can claim to keep so you'll have no excuse for a boring time.

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
The game manager Lutris has a brand new release out with some sweet new features, so time to take another look at one of the best ways to run games from pretty much anywhere on Linux and Steam Deck.

Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical have another Play on the Go Bundle live, this time a "Premium Edition" with some games they thought deserved that status. All games are Steam Deck Verified too.

Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Stellaris Astral Planes is the latest main expansion announced today for Paradox Interactive's popular space strategy game, and this one sound delightfully different to their previous additions and quite exciting.