Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linu…

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Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.

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Monster Train 2 is now set for release on May 21 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mons…

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Monster Train 2 is now set for release on May 21

Following the news I shared yesterday about Monster Train 2 being Steam Deck Verified, they've today revealed the release date as well.

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Luck be a Landlord dev's bullet heaven roguelite Maze Mice arrives May 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/luck…

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Luck be a Landlord dev's bullet heaven roguelite Maze Mice arrives May 2

Maze Mice is the next game from the developer of the popular Luck be a Landlord, and it's going to chew through your skirting board into Early Access on May 2nd.

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Blendo Games announce full Steam Deck support for stealthy shooter Skin Deep gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/blen…

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Blendo Games announce full Steam Deck support for stealthy shooter Skin Deep

Blendo Games who previously made Flotilla, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher have a brand new release coming on April 30 with Skin Deep. It will come with full Steam Deck support.

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GE-Proton 9-27 brings fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, Wuthering Waves and Monster Hunter Wilds gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ge-p…

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GE-Proton 9-27 brings fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, Wuthering Waves and Monster Hunter Wilds

The community maintained compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck, GE-Proton version 9-27 is out now with numerous fixes.

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Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.24 released with fixes for Avowed and No Rest for the Wicked gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stea…

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Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.24 released with fixes for Avowed and No Rest for the Wicked

Valve have released the latest stable SteamOS update for Steam Deck. SteamOS 3.6.24 is here with a few fixes and improvements, while work continues on the huge SteamOS 3.7 update.

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The Last of Us Part II Remastered is Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The Last of Us Part II Remastered is Steam Deck Verified

What could be the biggest surprise of the year. The Last of Us Part II Remastered releases on Steam on April 3rd, and Valve just gave it the green Steam Deck Verified checkmark.

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Monster Train 2 is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mons…

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Monster Train 2 is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

Great news for gamers on the go as Monster Train 2 from Shiny Shoe / Big Fan Games is Steam Deck Verified. It hasn't even released yet so Valve got in early for this one.

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Rogue Kingdoms blends tower defense with Vampire Survivors action and will have full Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/rogu…

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Rogue Kingdoms blends tower defense with Vampire Survivors action and will have full Steam Deck support

With an upgrade system that's a little inspired by the popularity of Vampire Survivors and all the games that followed, Rogue Kingdoms combines some interesting looking tower defense gameplay with direct hero control and roguelike elements.

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Critter Cove gets a major performance update - should work better on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/crit…

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Critter Cove gets a major performance update - should work better on Steam Deck

Critter Cove is an open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. It's currently in Early Access and a recent update brings a big performance improvement to it.

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ProtonUp-Qt v2.12 brings a new Steam Deck theme and support for Proton-CachyOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/prot…

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ProtonUp-Qt v2.12 brings a new Steam Deck theme and support for Proton-CachyOS

ProtonUp-Qt is a tool to add extra compatibility tools on Linux / Steam Deck like GE-Proton. A new release out now with version 2.12.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/kde-…

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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs

Work on the KDE Plasma desktop sounds like it continues to go very well, with some really important bug fixes arriving to make the experience a lot nicer. My favourite Linux desktop environment and what powers the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck.

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has lost its Steam Deck Verified rating gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/marv…

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has lost its Steam Deck Verified rating

Valve's Steam Deck rating system is generally quite correct, but there are clearly some times when it isn't. Thankfully, Valve do go back over various games to re-test them and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been hit with a downgraded rating.

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Cassette Beasts is getting a new companion character and story quest gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/cass…

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Cassette Beasts is getting a new companion character and story quest

Cassette Beasts from Bytten Studio has a fresh update announced for release on April 7th, bringing in a number of extras to the already fantastic and unique monster catcher.

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Historical strategy game Old World switches to Vulkan for Linux / Steam Deck

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Historical strategy game Old World switches to Vulkan for Linux / Steam Deck

Mohawk Games continue releasing some pretty big updates to their Civilization like game Old World, with the latest aiming to fix up lots of issues and improve performance.

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WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ww2-…

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WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support

Offworld have updated their tactical WW2 shooter Squad 44 (formerly known as Post Scriptum) to bring a whole bunch of fixes, while do so they've also updated Easy Anti-Cheat and enabled Linux platforms to jump in and play.

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Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ever…

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Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 28th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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Fixing a Steam Deck OLED bug for the Linux kernel 6.14 release was a major challenge gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/fixi…

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Fixing a Steam Deck OLED bug for the Linux kernel 6.14 release was a major challenge

With the Linux kernel 6.14 out now, I noted in my quick-look overview about a bug that was fixed for the Steam Deck OLED model. Collabora have given a little more info on their work for this issue and how it was a challenge.

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New Steam Beta brings fixes for child accounts and improvements to download time estimates gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/new-…

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New Steam Beta brings fixes for child accounts and improvements to download time estimates

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta Client update for March 27th bringing with it a few fixes, plus an interesting seeming improvement for how they calculate download progress and timing.

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Stealth platformer Kiyo puts up a new playtest with improved Linux and Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

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Stealth platformer Kiyo puts up a new playtest with improved Linux and Steam Deck support

After requesting Linux testers back in Early 2024, the sneaky stealth platformer Kiyo has a new playtest on Steam for you to try with expanded Linux support. The style and lighting in this one really does look interesting.

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Retro sci-fi first-person shooter Viscerafest leaves Early Access in April with a huge update gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/retr…

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Retro sci-fi first-person shooter Viscerafest leaves Early Access in April with a huge update

Fulqrum Publishing and developers Acid Man Games and Fire Plant Games have revealed that Viscerafest, their retro styled sci-fi shooter will see a full launch on April 14th.

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Minecraft Spring to Life drop is out now with more mob variants and ambient features gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mine…

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Minecraft Spring to Life drop is out now with more mob variants and ambient features

Mojang have released the latest update for Minecraft, the Spring to Life drop. This is part of their sped-up release schedule to bring more updates to the game.

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Humble launch the Tactical Triumph and Dice and Destiny bundles both with some great games gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/humb…

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Humble launch the Tactical Triumph and Dice and Destiny bundles both with some great games

Humble Bundle just launched two new bundles with Tactical Triumph and Dice and Destiny. Each have some pretty great looking games, so here's your usual run over what compatibility to expect for Linux platforms like Steam Deck.

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Dig up planets for skeletons and fight huge guardians in the latest No Man's Sky update gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/dig-…

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Dig up planets for skeletons and fight huge guardians in the latest No Man's Sky update

Hello Game have somehow done it again. No Man's Sky has another surprisingly large update available adding in more new content like a fossil beds to dig up skeletons and big fights against huge guardians.

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Monsterpatch is Pokemon meets Stardew Valley from the dev of Littlewood and Kindergarten gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mons…

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Monsterpatch is Pokemon meets Stardew Valley from the dev of Littlewood and Kindergarten

Monsterpatch is the latest game from Sean Young developer of Littlewood and Kindergarten, blending together Pokemon and Stardew Valley with a little of their own Littlewood thrown in.

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Folkways DLC for the excellent village builder dotAGE released - here's a little interview with the developer gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/folk…

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Folkways DLC for the excellent village builder dotAGE released - here's a little interview with the developer

dotAGE is a very unique turn-based village builder that blends in roguelike survival elements. It's one that you should definitely add to your list, and a new DLC expansion is out now so I took the chance to speak to the developer a bit.

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UnderMine 2 comes to Early Access in July with co-op gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/unde…

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UnderMine 2 comes to Early Access in July with co-op

UnderMine 2 from developer Thorium is set to enter Early Access on July 22nd, promising to take the best bits of the fun original and expanding on it.

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Infinity Nikki devs are working on Steam Deck support for the Steam release gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/infi…

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Infinity Nikki devs are working on Steam Deck support for the Steam release

While there's no current release date for the Steam release, Infold Games are still working towards it for Infinity Nikki and it seems it may be good news for Steam Deck players.

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Junk Store plugin for Steam Deck plans new release as closed-source paid software to run other stores gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/junk…

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Junk Store plugin for Steam Deck plans new release as closed-source paid software to run other stores

Junk Store may have failed to get released on Steam as Valve removed their store page, but that hasn't stopped their team working on this special Steam Deck plugin to bring other stores like Epic Games, GOG and Amazon Games to the Steam Deck.

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Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition hasn't been announced yet but it just got a Steam Deck Playable rating

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Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition hasn't been announced yet but it just got a Steam Deck Playable rating

We know Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition is probably coming, thanks to the previous leak, but it still hasn't actually been announced yet. However, it's clearly getting closer.

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Civilization VII update 1.1.1 adds quick move, lots of UI improvements, a new start position and lots of fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/civi…

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Civilization VII update 1.1.1 adds quick move, lots of UI improvements, a new start position and lots of fixes

Firaxis Games are quickly cleaning up the messy release of Civilization VII, with more new additions now available in patch update 1.1.1.

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Devs of Monster Crown: Sin Eater a 2D monster taming RPG want to 'take that concept to its absolute limits' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/devs…

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Devs of Monster Crown: Sin Eater a 2D monster taming RPG want to 'take that concept to its absolute limits'

Studio Aurum are developing a new 2D monster taming RPG with Monster Crown: Sin Eater, a standalone follow-up to their previous Monster Crown.

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Nexus formally announce their open source cross-platform Nexus Mods App: Stardew Valley Preview gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/nexu…

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Nexus formally announce their open source cross-platform Nexus Mods App: Stardew Valley Preview

The new cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods App is coming along with their team now formally announcing the Stardew Valley Preview. With support for Linux / Steam Deck baked right in.

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Temtem: Swarm recently hit 100K sales and a big update is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/temt…

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Temtem: Swarm recently hit 100K sales and a big update is out now

Temtem: Swarm is another survivor-like bullet heaven, a spin-off from the monster catching Temtem from Crema / GGTech Studios and it appears to have sold quite well.

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Starship Troopers: Extermination gets a Steam Deck upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/star…

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Starship Troopers: Extermination gets a Steam Deck upgrade

Starship Troopers: Extermination from Offworld just had another major upgrade released, and they're now improving the experience of playing it on Steam Deck.

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Emulation manager EmuDeck 2.4 brings Steam library integration changes, improved BIOS checker gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/emul…

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Emulation manager EmuDeck 2.4 brings Steam library integration changes, improved BIOS checker

EmuDeck is an all-in-one solution for managing emulation on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck and other handhelds and the 2.4 release brings some nice additions.

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The EchoPatch to modernize F.E.A.R. adds in gamepad support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The EchoPatch to modernize F.E.A.R. adds in gamepad support

EchoPatch, a mod patch for the classic and awesome shooter F.E.A.R. has another new release out and this brings gamepad support.

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The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with some great games for Women's History Month gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

#SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #PCGaming #Gaming

The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with some great games for Women's History Month

Another chance to pick up some quality games! The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with a different set of great games for Women's History Month supporting Girls Who Code and Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund.

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The Last of Us Part II Remastered devs aiming for "best possible experience on handheld gaming devices" gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The Last of Us Part II Remastered devs aiming for "best possible experience on handheld gaming devices"

Sony have revealed the system requirements and more info for the PC release of The Last of Us Part II Remastered, which is due to arrive on April 3rd. Looks like it might be good news for Steam Deck owners too.

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Get ready to defend a walking castle in the roguelike action game Castlebound gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/get-…

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Get ready to defend a walking castle in the roguelike action game Castlebound

From Ogre Pixel who made Lonesome Village and A Tiny Sticker Tale, their next game is an action roguelike where you're defending a walking castle. Castlebound seems like it could be a lot of fun.

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