Zelda fused with GTA vibes? Vice: Magic City Mayhem certainly sounds unique gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/zeld…

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Zelda fused with GTA vibes? Vice: Magic City Mayhem certainly sounds unique

Vice: Magic City Mayhem is an supremely odd blend but it looks like it works. A Zelda-like with some GTA elements thrown in because why not.

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Story-driven action-adventure Bittersweet Birthday launches November with a new demo live gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/stor…

#BittersweetBirthday #Godot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Demo

Story-driven action-adventure Bittersweet Birthday launches November with a new demo live

Every battle is a boss fight in the mysterious action-adventure game Bittersweet Birthday, which has a new demo and trailer along with a release date.

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Tears of Metal is pretty much a co-op Scottish Dynasty Warriors with fun upgrades and a demo worth trying gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/tear…

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Tears of Metal is pretty much a co-op Scottish Dynasty Warriors with fun upgrades and a demo worth trying

A roguelike Scottish Dynasty Warriors? Sort of. Tears of Metal has a demo out now on Steam and if you love a good hack and slash, this is one to try out.

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Dino society is about to fall apart in the pre-apocalyptic action adventure GNAW gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/dino…

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Dino society is about to fall apart in the pre-apocalyptic action adventure GNAW

Dinosaurs were able to suppress their cannibalistic urges and build a society, where of course it all goes to hell in GNAW.

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Free Lives (Terra Nil, Broforce) released a demo for Side Effects that's Buckshot Roulette meets Big Pharma gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/free…

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Free Lives (Terra Nil, Broforce) released a demo for Side Effects that's Buckshot Roulette meets Big Pharma

Buckshot Roulette meets Big Pharma in the latest game from Free Lives, and it's as grim as you might expect it to be with that sort of description.

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Merge dogs to make bigger dogs in the delightfully silly roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/merg…

#Dogpile #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Demo

Merge dogs to make bigger dogs in the delightfully silly roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile

I love how delightfully silly Dogpile is as you drop various types of dogs into a vertical yard where they merge into bigger dogs.

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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II gets a first demo live now gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/warh…

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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II gets a first demo live now

What will no doubt be a popular release, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games now has a demo available.

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Below the Crown from the developer of Duskers arrives November with a demo live now gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/belo…

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Below the Crown from the developer of Duskers arrives November with a demo live now

Misfits Attic developers of the excellent Duskers have revealed their quirky blend of genres in Below the Crown will hit Early Access on November 10th.

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Cinematic puzzle-platforming adventure LIFTED gets a new trailer and demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/cine…

#Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Cinematic puzzle-platforming adventure LIFTED gets a new trailer and demo

From the mind of former Disney Imagineer Jeffrey Ashbrook and his company Adventure Works, LIFTED looks gorgeous and a lot of fun in the new footage and demo.

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Check out the demo for Spectacular Team: Assemble, a physics-based super hero action game gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/chec…

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Check out the demo for Spectacular Team: Assemble, a physics-based super hero action game

Spectacular Team: Assemble is a silly physics-based action game about customizable super heroes, with a demo available for testing.

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CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/char…

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CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan

Balatro started another clear trend in gaming, with multiple games spawning like it and CHARK seems like it could end up being a real gem.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Like a creepy version of hide and seek, It Has My Face is out in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/like…

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Like a creepy version of hide and seek, It Has My Face is out in Early Access

Creepy stuff. It Has My Face makes you seek out your clone amongst the crowd, like some sort of hide and seek but with a real sinister vibe.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

A shotgun for an arm, boomer shooter Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation arrives in November gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/a-sh…

#FPS #Retro #GZDoom #PCGaming #BoomerShooter #Demo

A shotgun for an arm, boomer shooter Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation arrives in November

A retro styled boomer shooter where you have a shotgun for an arm. Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation is confirmed to launch on November 25th.

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Unlock tons of ways to slay slimes in the casual incremental game Maktala: Slime Lootfest gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/unlo…

#Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Unlock tons of ways to slay slimes in the casual incremental game Maktala: Slime Lootfest

One for casual gamers to highlight this morning, as Maktala: Slime Lootfest has a demo now available to try if you live incremental games.

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Your only weapon is a deadly bouncing ball in Sydless - check out the demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/your…

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Your only weapon is a deadly bouncing ball in Sydless - check out the demo

A first-person baller? Sydless has a fun idea with you repeatedly punching a deadly bouncing ball around rooms to take down enemies.

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Comedy first-person adventure The Dungeon Experience from Devolver Digital gets a demo and new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/come…

#TheDungeonExperience #Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

Comedy first-person adventure The Dungeon Experience from Devolver Digital gets a demo and new trailer

The Dungeon Experience is a comedy first-person adventure about a low-level mudcrab helping to bring you the true bliss of Financial Freedom.

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Scribbly adventure Scrabdackle looks fantastic with a new trailer and demo upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/scri…

#Scrabdackle #Godot #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #SteamDeck

Scribbly adventure Scrabdackle looks fantastic with a new trailer and demo upgrade

Scrabdackle is an action adventure I've been excited about for years, and now it has a proper fresh trailer along with a big demo upgrade.

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The story-driven Roguelike RPG 'Blanksword' looks absolutely rad with a wild setting gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-…

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The story-driven Roguelike RPG 'Blanksword' looks absolutely rad with a wild setting

Sometimes I come across a game that really just immediately jumps out at me as something that could be special, and Blanksword is one of those times.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Alabaster Dawn from the devs of CrossCode has a demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/alab…

#AlabasterDawn #IndieGames #Demo #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

Alabaster Dawn from the devs of CrossCode has a demo out now

Radical Fish Games known for the awesome CrossCode have just put a demo for their next action-RPG with Alabaster Dawn now available to test.

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Mixing retro Resident Evil vibes with a mystery dungeon, House of Necrosis arrives October gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/mixi…

#HouseofNecrosis #IndieGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #Demo #Gaming

Mixing retro Resident Evil vibes with a mystery dungeon, House of Necrosis arrives October

Looking a lot like a classic Resident Evil game but switching things up to be turn-based, with duneon exploration - House of Necrosis looks genuinely very cool.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Steel Knight's ARMIS turns Vampire Survivors into an anime inspired mecha shooter gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/stee…

#SteelKnightsARMIS #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #Demo

Steel Knight's ARMIS turns Vampire Survivors into an anime inspired mecha shooter

Could be a fun twist for the genre. Steel Knight's ARMIS takes the ideas of Vampire Survivors with the upgrade system and tweaks it to be like a mecha anime.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Build a deck of powerful programs in the cyberpunk deckbuilder Into The Grid in November gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/buil…

#IntoTheGrid #IndieGames #Demo #LinuxGaming #PCGaming

Build a deck of powerful programs in the cyberpunk deckbuilder Into The Grid in November

Into The Grid is a cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder that looked very promising from the demo, and now we have a release window for November.

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Tic Tactic arrives September 18 turning tic-tac-toe / noughts and crosses into a deck-building roguelike gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/tic-…

#Gaming #IndieGames #Demo #DeckBuilder #Roguelike

Tic Tactic arrives September 18 turning tic-tac-toe / noughts and crosses into a deck-building roguelike

Turning noughts and crosses into a deck-building roguelike isn't something I wasn't expecting, but it's real and Tic Tactic releases on September 18th.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Try out the demo for Yesterdreamt, a fresh twin-stick horrorvania gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/try-…

#Yesterdreamt #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #SteamDeck

Try out the demo for Yesterdreamt, a fresh twin-stick horrorvania

A sanity-as-a-resource metroidvania they're calling a horrorvania, Yesterdreamt seems interesting and now it has a Native Linux demo with Steam Deck support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Parkour meets Vampire Survivors in Midnight Horde gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/park…

#MidnightHorde #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

Parkour meets Vampire Survivors in Midnight Horde

Indie dev Carry Castle recently announced Midnight Horde, a game that blends the popular mechanics of Vampire Survivors with parkour moves.

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Check out the demo for Solace Creek a horror game blending suspense, exploration, stealth & puzzle solving gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/chec…

#SolaceCreek #IndieGames #Demo #Horror #Linux #PCGaming

Check out the demo for Solace Creek a horror game blending suspense, exploration, stealth & puzzle solving

Developer starlit studio recently put up a Linux demo for Solace Creek, a retro-styled horror game that has a focus on suspense, exploration, stealth & puzzles.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Match Shot Chimera blends together a shoot 'em up with clever match-3 mechanics gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/matc…

#MatchShotChimera #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #Gaming

Match Shot Chimera blends together a shoot 'em up with clever match-3 mechanics

Match-3 and blow everything up in Match Shot Chimera, a unique fusion of two rather different genres of games into something fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Check out the new demo for Frogspin, a platformer all about mayhem where you spin to win gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/chec…

#Frogspin #Demo #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Check out the new demo for Frogspin, a platformer all about mayhem where you spin to win

Frogspin is an upcoming roguelike platformer where you spin to win, which results in some absolute mayhem as every level begins with the pull of a lever.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Mystery delivery game Truckful is getting a demo next month, will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/myst…

#Truckful #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux #Demo

Mystery delivery game Truckful is getting a demo next month, will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible

Truckful is a very colourful looking delivery mystery adventure from MythicOwl and Palworld publisher Pocketpair Publishing. A demo is coming next month!

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Puzzle colony builder AUTARKIS looks great with a demo up and releases September 1 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/puzz…

#AUTARKIS #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #PCGaming

Puzzle colony builder AUTARKIS looks great with a demo up and releases September 1

AUTARKIS is an upcoming puzzle colony builder from developer rockingprojects. It's all about building mini colonies, and protecting them from catastrophes.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Clay-animated shoot 'em up Platypus Reclayed releases September 18 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/clay…

#PlatypusReclayed #ShootEmUp #IndieGames #PCGaming #Demo

Clay-animated shoot 'em up Platypus Reclayed releases September 18

Platypus Reclayed revives the classic 2002 claymation shooter for the next-generation. A demo is up now and it's releasing September 18th.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/rept…

#Repterra #IndieGames #RTS #Demo #PCGaming

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs

Repterra is a promising upcoming real-time strategy game that has a demo available, and if you love the idea of facing hordes of dinosaurs it's one for you.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Change the world around you with unique spells in the colourful puzzle game Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/chan…

#Gaming #PCGaming #Steam #Demo #PuzzleGames

Change the world around you with unique spells in the colourful puzzle game Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times

With a spell system that somewhat reminded me a little of the amazing Baba Is You, the upcoming Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times looks damn fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

You absolutely have to try the expanded demo of Moonsigil Atlas gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/you-…

#MoonsigilAtlas #Demo #Steam #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming

You absolutely have to try the expanded demo of Moonsigil Atlas

Moonsigil Atlas is easily one of the most unique deck-builders around, and the latest major update to the demo has me hooked. You have to try it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Mecha fans should keep an eye on Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/mech…

#Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

Mecha fans should keep an eye on Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera

A mecha action-JRPG ranged and melee mechanics, mech customization, companion customization and lots more? Sign me the heck up.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Whimsical exploration-trading adventure Townseek gets a big demo refresh gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/whim…

#IndieGames #Demo #PCGaming #Gaming #Steam

Whimsical exploration-trading adventure Townseek gets a big demo refresh

Townseek is a colourful casual exploration and trading adventure game from developer Whales And Games, with a brand new big upgrade for the demo available.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Space Drilling Station looks fun for building and automation fans - with a new Steam Deck compatible demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/spac…

#SpaceDrillingStation #IndieGames #Demo #SteamDeck #Steam #Gaming

Space Drilling Station looks fun for building and automation fans - with a new Steam Deck compatible demo

Space Drilling Station has you manage and automate a drilling station on a distant planet. The developer detailed their Steam Deck work with a new demo.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

2.5D turn-based strategy game Avante! Atlantis gives off Advance Wars vibes gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/2-5d…

#AvanteAtlantis #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Demo

2.5D turn-based strategy game Avante! Atlantis gives off Advance Wars vibes

Avante! Atlantis is an upcoming turn-based strategy game that looks like you're playing a board game with a clever 2.5D style.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck - sign up the Playtest gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/plan…

#Cropdeck #IndieGames #Demo #Steam #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck - sign up the Playtest

Blending two very different ideas together, Cropdeck brings farming to deckbuilders and it's actually really good.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Try the big demo update for Dicey Bugs, a turn-based deckbuilder where you control both sides gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/try-…

#IndieGames #Demo #DiceyBugs #PCGaming #Linux

Try the big demo update for Dicey Bugs, a turn-based deckbuilder where you control both sides

Dicey Bugs is a roguelike, turn-based deckbuilder where you control both sides of the battles. A new demo is live now!

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}