Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/epic…

#HORSES #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores

From Andrea Lucco Borlera / Santa Ragione, HORSES has proven to be a highly controversial title with both Epic Games and Steam banning its release.

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FIXKIN: A Long Way Home is a cozy, rhythmic, narrative road trip in a suddenly upside down world gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fixk…

#PCGaming #IndieGames #Demo #Gaming

FIXKIN: A Long Way Home is a cozy, rhythmic, narrative road trip in a suddenly upside down world

Sonderland Games (Bella Wants Blood, Landnama) announced FIXKIN: A Long Way Home - a new cozy rhythm-based adventure and there's a demo available.

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Check out the demo for Chipmatic an upcoming mining and automation game gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/chec…

#Chipmatic #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

Check out the demo for Chipmatic an upcoming mining and automation game

A mining incremental inspired by Motherload, Dome Keeper and Super Mining Mechs with some added automation - Chipmatic looks like one to keep an eye on.

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No Players Online returns after an 'unfounded DMCA claim' halted sales for nearly three weeks gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/no-p…

#NoPlayersOnline #IndieGames #PCGaming

No Players Online returns after an 'unfounded DMCA claim' halted sales for nearly three weeks

Showing yet again that the DMCA system is not fit for purpose, No Players Online launched on Steam on November 6 and then got taken down but it's back.

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Mewgenics will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible at launch gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mewg…

#Mewgenics #SteamDeck #IndieGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Mewgenics will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible at launch

From the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh, Mewgenics is promising to be one of the most interesting roguelites released in forever.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/pixe…

#RTS #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified

Now freshly Steam Deck Verified and with MicroProse Software backing it as publisher, TFC: The Fertile Crescent has a big upgrade out now.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Piece by Piece is a sweet looking puzzle platformer where you literally connect pieces to progress gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/piec…

#PiecebyPiece #Godot #GodotEngine #IndieGames

Piece by Piece is a sweet looking puzzle platformer where you literally connect pieces to progress

This looks absolutely wonderful! A puzzle platformer that takes things quite literally with you running, jumping and building your path from puzzle pieces.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Core Keeper set for a massive update in January with a new boss, automation, new weapons and lots more gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/core…

#CoreKeeper #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Core Keeper set for a massive update in January with a new boss, automation, new weapons and lots more

This might be the most exciting update for Core Keeper yet bringing in loads of new tools and a big boss battle to the mining sandbox adventure.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/itch…

#itchio #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers

On top of doing their own Black Friday sale, the indie store itch.io has its Creator Day today as well where they take no cut from developers.

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SIDE EFFECTS is a disturbing pill-popping roulette game out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/side…

#SideEffects #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

SIDE EFFECTS is a disturbing pill-popping roulette game out now

SIDE EFFECTS from developer Free Lives takes the idea of Buckshot Roulette and puts a brutal pill-popping spin on it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cleared Hot is everything you could want in a modern twin-stick helicopter shooter gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/clea…

#ClearedHot #IndieGames #PCGaming

Cleared Hot is everything you could want in a modern twin-stick helicopter shooter

Cleared Hot just entered Early Access from developer Not Knowing Corporation and MicroProse Software, and it's simply pure joy to blast through it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Sektori is absolutely one of the best modern twin-stick shooters gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sekt…

#Sektori #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux

Sektori is absolutely one of the best modern twin-stick shooters

Sektori blasted onto Steam recently and I've been absolutely loving it, this is easily one of the best modern twin-stick shooters and fantastic to play.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/voiv…

#Voivod #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer

Chaosmonger Studio continue working on Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior a retro-styled heavy metal platformer in partnership with the band Voivod.

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Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chao…

#ChimpUP! #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming

Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious

ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/schr…

#IndieGames #SteamDeck #Linux #SteamOS #PuzzleGames #Demo

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a puzzle game with a cat that can be in two places at once, and that will no doubt confuse my brain.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/try-…

#Kinsfolk #IndieGames #PCGaming

Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood

Made in the spirit of the likes of Journey, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch - Kinsfolk is a casual adventure about fatherhood.

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Palworld publisher picks up Vision Quench, a co-op dark fantasy looter shooter set in a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/palw…

#VisionQuench #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Palworld publisher picks up Vision Quench, a co-op dark fantasy looter shooter set in a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon

Set in the underbelly of a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon, Vision Quench is now being published by Palword's Pocketpair Publishing.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Play dice against the guardian of the underworld in Dice of Kalma gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/play…

#DiceofKalma #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming

Play dice against the guardian of the underworld in Dice of Kalma

Dice of Kalma challenges players to descend into the Underworld and face the Finnish god of death, Kalma, in a high-stakes game of luck and skill.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/noda…

#NodalBastion #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression

Taking inspiration from incremental games with a long progress tree to unlock, NodalBastion is a tower defense game that just keeps on going.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Bioflux - Horde is a survival game where the infected numbers look insane gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/biof…

#BiofluxHorde #Gaming #IndieGames #Unity #PCGaming

Bioflux - Horde is a survival game where the infected numbers look insane

Coming across it by pure chance recently, Bioflux - Horde is an upcoming survival game with enemy numbers that actually look like true hordes of infected.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Need a new local co-op game? Puzzle platformer Tentacle Tango looks great and challenging gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/need…

#TentacleTango #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Need a new local co-op game? Puzzle platformer Tentacle Tango looks great and challenging

Starving for more local co-op games to play with a partner? Tentacle Tango could be what you need and it looks really fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SNES styled JRPG set in a world of garbage - Kingdoms of the Dump is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/snes…

#KingdomsoftheDump #Godot #IndieGames #Linux

SNES styled JRPG set in a world of garbage - Kingdoms of the Dump is out now

After being funded on Kickstarter back in 2019, dreamed up by actual janitors, the SNES styled JRPG set in a world of trash Kingdoms of the Dump is out now.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy…

#Townseek #IndieGames #Demo #PCGaming

Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo

Discover exotic landmarks, meet whimsical townsfolk, fish in tranquil waters, collect rare artifacts, and uncover secrets in a wondrous hand-drawn world.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fore…

#Forestrike #IndieGames #PCGaming

Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future

Using the power of Foresight, in the 2D martial arts roguelite Forestrike you can see how each fight will go down, and it's really damn good.

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Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/belo…

#BelowtheCrown #IndieGames #PCGaming

Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now

Out now in Early Access, from the minds that gave us the excellent Duskers, Below the Crown is a mixture of chess-like pieces and moves in a dungeon crawler.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-…

#TheManySinsofHouseOcampo #IndieGames #AdventureGames #PCGaming

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is a new announcement from the developers of If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers and it looks great.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/timi…

#WildHorseRacing #IndieGames #Gaming #Demo

Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now

If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chec…

#Shroomwood #IndieGames #Roguelike #PCGaming #Linux #Demo

Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam

A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy…

#UMAMI #IndieGames #Gaming #Linux

Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam

Need a new chill puzzle game? UMAMI from indie studio Mimmox has arrived with Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Brill co-op climbing game PEAK gets a major fix for gamepads gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/bril…

#PEAK #IndieGames #Gaming

Brill co-op climbing game PEAK gets a major fix for gamepads

PEAK remains a favourite this year, easily one of the best casual co-op games and the latest bug-fix update is important for gamepad players.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Pill-popping medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21 gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/pill…

#SideEffects #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

Pill-popping medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21

I love the idea of Buckshot Roulette meets medical horror, so I'm keen to see what all the pill-popping fuss is about with Side Effects.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Instead of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/inst…

#BackseatChampions #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Instead of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer

Backseat Champions has a pretty clever idea, bringing the worlds of auto-battlers and roguelites to racing games with you managing an AI driver.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/thra…

#THRASHER #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER

I'm not entirely sure what I thought of THRASHER but it's certainly a unique experience and it's officially out now with Linux / Steam Deck support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/lexi…

#Lexispell #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #Gaming

Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-…

#TheFalconeer #Linux #Proton #IndieGames #Gaming #SteamDeck

The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton

The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster is now available bringing a massive upgrade to the action-adventure game, but Linux gamers will now need to use Proton.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Scribbly, open-world action adventure Scrabdackle arrives December 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/scri…

#Scrabdackle #IndieGames #Godot #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming

Scribbly, open-world action adventure Scrabdackle arrives December 2

Follow along the misadventure of a novice wizard in Scrabdackle, a scribbly-art open-world action adventure when it arrives on December 2nd.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Replicat is basically the classic card game snap meets Balatro - check out the demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/repl…

#Replicat #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #Unity #Demo

Replicat is basically the classic card game snap meets Balatro - check out the demo

Balatro, much like Vampire Survivors, has created a bit of an indie trend and now the classic card game snap has been given the Balatro treatment in Replicat.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Brotato gets a juicy free update out now - along with new Linux and macOS support gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/brot…

#Brotato #IndieGames #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming

Brotato gets a juicy free update out now - along with new Linux and macOS support

With Evil Empire now in control of the future of Brotato, the first free content update under their wing is out now and it really sounds great.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Vampire Survivors just keeps on giving with a free Balatro DLC, online co-op and more free content gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/vamp…

#VampireSurvivors #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Vampire Survivors just keeps on giving with a free Balatro DLC, online co-op and more free content

Vampire Survivors just dropped a massive content update that includes a free Balatro crossover DLC, online co-op is live and more added.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Time to run as Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/time…

#DeathbyScrolling #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #Gaming

Time to run as Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox is out now

Death by Scrolling is a rather unique twist on some of the ideas from survivor-like bullet hells, from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox and MicroProse Software.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}