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2016 has been an absolute knockout year for Linux gaming, let’s have a little talk about what we have achieved.

The developer of Super Rad Raygun sent in a key for me to check out their retro-inspired action platformer.

Valve have announced a massive 7.00 update for Dota 2 which changes the entire way the game works, and it sounds very interesting.

OneShot, a pretty promising looking puzzle & adventure game was planned as a day-1 Linux release, but it's seen a delay.

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition), the rather excellent Tower Defence and RPG hybrid has been updated to get gamepad and Steam Controller support.

Everybody’s favorite rocket-powered-cars-hitting-oversized-balls-competitively game has gotten another one of its hefty updates. There’s a new space-themed arena, car and a series of new drops and features for players to enjoy.

SHENZHEN I/O is the new simulator/puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of other excellent games like Spacechem, Infinifactory and TIS-100. After being on Early Access for some time, it's now available on Steam since November, 17th.

Dungeon Souls is a roguelike I was quite impressed with back when I played it in January, and it's really pleasing to see development now finished.

After a beta period that took two and a half months, Redie is finally available on Steam, so I gave it some thoughts about whether it lived to its expectations or not. There is a demo available too.

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.

0 A.D. has a change in leadership with Erik stepping down, but work continues on and the new Alpha is already shaping up.

The game finally has its finished version available on Steam since November 17th. If you count all the reviews from Steam users so far, it has collected 187 positive ones against 6 negatives only. There is also a demo available.

Tower Unite is an interesting MMO, it's a community-based virtual world full of other games to play online. An interesting concept, sounds a bit like Second Life to me.

Thanks to my contact at Paradox, I have been able to test the new Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters DLC before release. Here are my thoughts on it.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the popular FPS from Valve has another update with one rather interesting feature. You can now join game lobbies made by members of Steam groups you belong to.

If you're looking to play an adventure game but you don't have a lot of time, then you may be interested to check "Sisyphus Reborn", a lightweight (300 MB) and short existential adventure that will only take you 40 minutes to finish (and that includes getting all the achievements).

Ballistic Overkill, the cheap and fun online FPS has a major update. Included in this update are the first lot of skins to grab for free after matches complete and the progression system to unlock weapons is now in too.

Personally, I am interested in playing Homefront: The Revolution even if it's not the best FPS ever made. The good news is that it looks like the Linux port is still being worked on.

Saints Row IV has just been updated to include proper Steam Workshop support, but the kicker is that it only supports Windows. VP will need to update the port to work with it.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has been revived and then some. This massive new patch focuses on performance and turns it up to max.