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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-…

#VEIN #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #SurvivalGames

The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything

Just released into Early Access with Native Linux support, VEIN could be the next big survival game with a whole lot of features that just look and sound great.

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Check out the demo for Turnbound, a clever haunted boardgame inventory battler gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/chec…

#Turnbound #Godot #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux

Check out the demo for Turnbound, a clever haunted boardgame inventory battler

Turnbound looks like it could be a really good one, a PvP inventory management auto-battler that does things quite differently to others in the genre.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

MISERY is a new rogue-lite Stalker-like co-op survival game gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/mise…

#MISERY #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #UnrealEngine

MISERY is a new rogue-lite Stalker-like co-op survival game

A rogue-lite Stalker-like to play with friends designed to look like a game from retro consoles? You can sign me up for some MISERY right now.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Spin to fight and win in Roulette Hero, a rather unique strategic roguelike deck-builder gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/spin…

#RouletteHero #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming

Spin to fight and win in Roulette Hero, a rather unique strategic roguelike deck-builder

Combining elements of Slay the Spire and Luck be a Landlord, the roguelike deck-builder Roulette Hero is out now and it will likely spin your hours away.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Roman city-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms & Castles arrives in January gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/roma…

#NovaRoma #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming

Roman city-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms & Castles arrives in January

From Lion Shield who created the rather great Kingdoms & Castles, their next game Nova Roma has been confirmed for Early Access release on January 22, 2026.

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Grab a short free horror experience with the new release of Days Without Incident gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/grab…

#DaysWithoutIncident #Horror #IndieGames #FreeGames

Grab a short free horror experience with the new release of Days Without Incident

First built in 2017 it never saw a release until now, Days Without Incident is a free short horror game that looks worth a go.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Heroes of Magic & Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/hero…

#DeckBuilder #Roguelike #Poker #IndieGames

Heroes of Magic & Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment

With a demo coming on November 5th, Heroes of Magic & Cards is another interesting spin on deck-builders that blends in poker mechanics for something different.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SNES styled fantasy RPG Kingdoms of the Dump will launch November 18 gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/snes…

#RPG #JRPG #KingdomsoftheDump #IndieGames #SteamDeck #Linux

SNES styled fantasy RPG Kingdoms of the Dump will launch November 18

Fans of pixel art and classic SNES styled RPGs will no doubt love Kingdoms of the Dump, and we finally have a proper launch date for it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Craft unique cards with stickers in the cute deck-builder My Card Is Better Than Your Card! gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/craf…

#DeckBuilder #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

Craft unique cards with stickers in the cute deck-builder My Card Is Better Than Your Card!

As far as deck-builders go, My Card Is Better Than Your Card! is definitely more on the cute side with you crafting cards from stickers you collect.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Tingus Goose is one of the weirdest games I've ever seen gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ting…

#TingusGoose #IndieGames #Gaming

Tingus Goose is one of the weirdest games I've ever seen

I really don't have a clue what's going on in Tingus Goose, an upcoming idle / clicker game in the spirit of stuff like Cookie Clicker. It's supremely weird.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Coal LLC has annoyingly absorbed my entire attention gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/coal…

#CoalLLC #Godot #GodotEngine #IndieGames #PCGaming

Coal LLC has annoyingly absorbed my entire attention

It doesn't look like much with some of the simplest pixel art around but Coal LLC is a like a black hole that freezes your life when you hit play.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Deep colony sim Stardeus adds a huge new narrative-focused update gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/deep…

#Stardeus #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming

Deep colony sim Stardeus adds a huge new narrative-focused update

Because there was always going to be some drama in deep space right? Stardeus is a spaceship colony sim that just expanded in a huge way.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Co-op adventure, town-building and survival game Necesse hits the big 1.0 gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-o…

#Necesse #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming

Co-op adventure, town-building and survival game Necesse hits the big 1.0

Necesse is a blend of quite a lot of genres that can end up a bit like a top-down Terraria, it's awesome and it's finally out properly.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

#Demo #Linux #SteamDeck #AdventureGames #IndieGames

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

#TinyAutoKnights #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Inspired by 80s and 90s trash-horror cinema, 3rd person action game HandFoot looks hilarious gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/insp…

#HandFoot #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Inspired by 80s and 90s trash-horror cinema, 3rd person action game HandFoot looks hilarious

HandFoot is an upcoming chaotic 3rd person action game where every gun is also a melee weapon. Inspired by 80s and 90s trash-horror cinema it could be great.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox releases October 28 gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/deat…

#DeathbyScrolling #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox releases October 28

MicroProse and Terrible Toybox have revealed an October 28th release date for Death by Scrolling which is all about fighting, dying and trying again.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

#Cloudheim #Demo #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

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)}

HELLREAPER from the devs of Fury Unleashed looks incredible gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/hell…

#HELLREAPER #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames

HELLREAPER from the devs of Fury Unleashed looks incredible

From the studio that gave us Fury Unleashed and Yet Another Zombie Survivors, their next game is a dark action roguelike HELLREAPER and it looks amazing.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

#ViceMagicCityMayhem #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Demo

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Co-op puzzler PICO PARK: Classic Edition is now permanently free gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-o…

#PICOPARK #FreeGames #IndieGames #PCGaming

Co-op puzzler PICO PARK: Classic Edition is now permanently free

Thanks to a bit of a woops, PICO PARK:Classic Edition from TECOPARK is now staying free to play, permanently.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

CloverPit is another big hit on Steam hitting 500,000 sales gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/clov…

#CloverPit #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck

CloverPit is another big hit on Steam hitting 500,000 sales

Much like with Megabonk being a success, we have another good one here with CloverPit managing to be quite the hit on Steam.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Death Road to Canada gets a major free update with new game modes gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/deat…

#DeathRoadtoCanada #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Death Road to Canada gets a major free update with new game modes

9 years after the original release, Death Road to Canada is still going with a major update released with fun new game modes.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Megabonk is a mega success selling 1 million in 2 weeks, after being repeatedly told to delay it gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/mega…

#Megabonk #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Megabonk is a mega success selling 1 million in 2 weeks, after being repeatedly told to delay it

Even though they were told constantly to delay the release, developer vedinad who made Megabonk has clearly cut through the noise with it now a mega success.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

#Side #Effects #IndieGames #Demo #PCGaming

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Travel through time in the action-adventure Mai: Child of Ages - now with Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/trav…

#MaiChildofAges #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Travel through time in the action-adventure Mai: Child of Ages - now with Linux support

Mai: Child of Ages from developer Chubby Pixel launched recently, and an update has added official Native Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles (TCHDC) is for fans of dungeon crawlers with roguelite replayability gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-…

#TCHDC #IndieGames #DungeonCrawler #Linux #SteamDeck

The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles (TCHDC) is for fans of dungeon crawlers with roguelite replayability

Filled up with eccentric characters, tricky foes, plenty of jokes, and a lot of pop culture references - The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles (TCHDC) sounds fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Co-op sandbox action-adventure settlement builder Necesse 1.0 moves to October 16 gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-o…

#Necesse #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Co-op sandbox action-adventure settlement builder Necesse 1.0 moves to October 16

A short delay but hopefully the 1.0 release will be worth it for Necesse, which is a really interesting blend of genres and great for co-op play.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}