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Spiritfarer, the cozy management game about dying is coming to GOG


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Spiritfarer might have a seemingly depressing theme but it appears to handle it in such a beautiful way. It also looks gorgeous and it's one of my most anticipated games.

Chapter 8 of Higurashi When They Cry Hou out now, first chapter free


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Higurashi When They Cry Hou, a very popular series of anime styled novels has the first chapter set temporarily free to claim and the final chapter is out now with Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.

Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release


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Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.

Ancient board game Hnefatafl arrives on Linux


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Hnefatafl, the ancient 'board game of the vikings' just recently had a version ported to Linux from developer Philippe Schober and it sounds like quite a complete package.

Wasteland 3 characters can have super powerful quirks


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The first developer diary for Wasteland 3, which comes to Linux on August 28, shows off some of the customization and combat that's possible and it sounds ridiculous.

Beautiful puzzle game Lumote plans to support Linux through Proton


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Released back in February, Lumote is an incredibly vibrant and quite beautiful looking puzzle game and it seems Luminawesome Games plan to support Linux with Steam Play Proton.

Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately


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Another week down, plenty of new games have released or been updated and we're about to begin another cycle. Let's have a chat.

Terraria is finally done 9 years later with Journey's End


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Terraria, the side-scrolling sandbox exploration and crafting game from Re-Logic is finally done, with the Journey's End update that's out now.

Experiment with light beams in the fantastic LIT: Bend the Light


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LIT: Bend the Light is a puzzle game about bouncing and bending around beams of light, and eventually finding a solution to each puzzle.

Direct3D to Vulkan gets even better with DXVK 1.7


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Today the latest and greatest in Direct3D to Vulkan translation for the Wine (and Proton) compatibility layers has released with DXVK 1.7.

Solve circuit board maze puzzles in the demo of R.E.E.L.


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Love electronics? Love puzzle games? You may want to keep an eye on R.E.E.L., as not only does it combine the two and looks incredibly stylish - it also has a demo up now.

KDE Plasma 5.19 has a first Beta in need of testing


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Want to ensure the next stable release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is as good as can be? Plasma 5.19 Beta is out.

Into the Breach gets a few tweaks for the new Linux version


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After waiting quite a while, Subset Games finally gave us the Linux port of Into the Breach and it's been working well for us but they just put out a fresh update to fix some issues.

Caesar III open source game engine 'Julius' has a new release


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Julius, a constantly improving free and open source game engine to play the classic Caesar III on modern systems has a brand new release available.

Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source


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During a recent online event the current Microsoft President, Brad Smith, opened up a little bit about open source and their previous failures with it.

Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan


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Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

A quick look over recent and upcoming Linux game releases


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With so many games being released, announced and teased it's often hard to keep on top of things so we're here to help.

Deformed Doom lets you warp and distort classic Doom maps


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Ever wanted to play through any of the classic Doom games in something like GZDoom but have everything slightly different? Deformed Doom will let you warp levels in interesting ways.

2D dig 'em up puzzler 'Something Ate My Alien' releasing June 18


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Platforming, puzzles and plenty of digging is what's in store for you in Something Ate My Alien, and plenty of weird creatures too.

Dwellers of the Gut has you rescue the townsfolk inside a giant


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Just like with Planetfriend, we're continuing to highlight a few smaller experimental and outright weird games and another recent discovery is Dwellers of the Gut.