The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-…

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The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1

Gambonanza is easily one of the top games demos I played during Steam Next Fest, and now we know it's going to release on May 1st.

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Monster battler EvoCreo 2 arrives on Steam in April gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mons…

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Monster battler EvoCreo 2 arrives on Steam in April

EvoCreo 2 from Ilmfinity Studios is the second in the series of popular mobile monster catching games and it's confirmed for a Steam release on April 6th.

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Gambonanza is the best Balatro-like version of chess yet and you have to try the demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/gamb…

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Gambonanza is the best Balatro-like version of chess yet and you have to try the demo

If you love strategy games and roguelikes, Gambonanza fuses together the worlds of Balatro and chess like no other and it won me over completely.

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Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/use-…

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Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo

Your train is your deck in Fogpiercer, with an updated demo available in Steam Next Fest this is a turn-based strategy game worth your time.

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/batt…

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing

Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.

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Creature collector EvoCreo 2 gets a demo on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/crea…

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Creature collector EvoCreo 2 gets a demo on Steam

Ahead of Steam Next Fest which is quickly approaching, the creature collector standalone sequel EvoCreo 2 has a demo live now.

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Fight first-person rock-paper-scissors style duels in the deck-builder Handmancers gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/figh…

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Fight first-person rock-paper-scissors style duels in the deck-builder Handmancers

Handmancers looks like a fun spin on deck-builders with the first-person view and the rock-paper-scissors style counter system.

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SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/scop…

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SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls

Go through exorcisms to collect souls and repeatedly click through a vast network of additional upgrades and abilities in SCOPECREEP.

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Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/astr…

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Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time

I sure do love 4x strategy games, but they really can take forever - which is where Astro Protocol is different with its tactical approach.

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Clean the infected family PC in the new Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/clea…

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Clean the infected family PC in the new Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional demo

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional takes the idea of Vampire Survivors and everything similar, and turns you into a mouse cursor inside an infected PC.

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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/star…

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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date

The retro single-player FPS Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! has a demo available on Steam and it's going to release March 16th.

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How Many Dudes does it take to beat 1 horse-sized duck and 75 duck-sized horses? This game answers your dumb questions gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/how-…

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How Many Dudes does it take to beat 1 horse-sized duck and 75 duck-sized horses? This game answers your dumb questions

If you love games that are a bit on the stupid side, the auto-battling roguelike How Many Dudes? may answer a few of your dumbest questions.

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Check out the demo for Wireworks, a tower defense where you wire up modules to make weapons dance gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/chec…

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Check out the demo for Wireworks, a tower defense where you wire up modules to make weapons dance

Wireworks might be the most unique tower defense game I've ever played, with you building up weapons from modules you wire up to different logic blocks.

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Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fact…

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Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory

Anyone have fond memories of retro Windows? Well, now you can make a slide show factory in this automation sim that has a demo available.

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Obey the Insect God brings live-action digitized sprite weirdness to action platformers gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/obey…

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Obey the Insect God brings live-action digitized sprite weirdness to action platformers

Remember how the original Mortal Kombat used live-action sprites for characters? Now imagine if someone stuck that style into a modernised action platformer.

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Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/thir…

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Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo

Give me some of that sweet mech combat action - RIG Riot looks pretty fantastic, and now there's a demo available for you to try.

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Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/luxm…

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Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

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Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/beco…

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Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026

Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.

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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…

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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…

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The wonderful roguelite farming deckbuilder Cropdeck has a proper demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-…

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The wonderful roguelite farming deckbuilder Cropdeck has a proper demo out now

Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck, with a demo out now that you definitely need to put on your list to try.

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Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/tabu…

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Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike

Another Balatro-inspired game and this time it's a chess roguelike, and one that actually looks like it could be pretty fun.

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

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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.

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Cronos: The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/cron…

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Cronos: The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam

If you were interested in Cronos: The New Dawn but weren't sold on picking it up yet, you can now try the demo that's recently released.

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Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/uncl…

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Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe

Uncle Lee's Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster was recently announced that will bring five interesting point and click adventures to Linux / Steam Deck.

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Grab the new demo for Tiny Auto Knights, a pretty chill and fun looking PvP auto battler gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/grab…

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Grab the new demo for Tiny Auto Knights, a pretty chill and fun looking PvP auto battler

Tiny Auto Knights is an upcoming release from Mumpitz Games with a demo now available that now has Native Linux support for it.

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Supernatural adventure Shadows of the Afterland gets a fully voiced demo upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/supe…

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Supernatural adventure Shadows of the Afterland gets a fully voiced demo upgrade

If you love your adventure games be sure to check out Shadows of the Afterland, with a new fully voiced demo available to try in Steam Next Fest.

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One of the most promising deck-building roguelikes ever, Moonsigil Atlas gets a big demo upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/one-…

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One of the most promising deck-building roguelikes ever, Moonsigil Atlas gets a big demo upgrade

Moonsigil Atlas is by far one of the most interesting and promising upcoming games I've played in a while, taking deck-building roguelikes in a fun direction.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/star…

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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first demo

Clearly still a work in progress but a taste of things to come, Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown now has a public demo available.

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From the creator of Sally Face, horror deckbuilding roguelike The House of Hamelin has a demo up gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/from…

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From the creator of Sally Face, horror deckbuilding roguelike The House of Hamelin has a demo up

Enter the frightful world of The House of Hamelin and take control of Perdita, a young woman tasked with finding her missing cat, Paige.

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A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad is certainly an appropriate name for this game gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/a-pi…

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A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad is certainly an appropriate name for this game

A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad is an upcoming release from Azimuth Studios, and you don't really need to guess what the game is about with that name.

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Take on the role of a curious baby boar in the demo for Adorable Adventures gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/take…

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Take on the role of a curious baby boar in the demo for Adorable Adventures

Adorable Adventures is a cozy third-person exploration adventure where you're Boris, a curious baby boar on a mission to find their family.

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Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/effu…

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Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen

This is a very fun surprise, Effulgence RPG is an upcoming party-based sci-fi role-playing game rendered entirely from text symbols arranged in 3D space.

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Physics-based delivery adventure Truckful gets a first demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/phys…

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Physics-based delivery adventure Truckful gets a first demo

From developer MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing (Palworld), Truckful is a wacky and mysterious physics-based delivery adventure.

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Culinary roguelite deckbuilder Hungry Horrors gets a big demo upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/culi…

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Culinary roguelite deckbuilder Hungry Horrors gets a big demo upgrade

Hungry Horrors is a deckbuilder where you strategically cook and serve authentic traditional dishes to legendary monsters.

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Check out the demo for the physics-driven co-op action-RPG Cloudheim gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/chec…

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Check out the demo for the physics-driven co-op action-RPG Cloudheim

Coming from Noodle Cat Games, Cloudheim is shaping up to be an impressive physics-driven co-op action-RPG.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}