Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brot…

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Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets

With Evil Empire now in control of updates to Brotato as the original dev has moved on, a major Paws & Claws free upgrade has rolled out adding in pets.

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ABIDE is an extreme stop-motion horror game from the devs of Judero and Mashina gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/abid…

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ABIDE is an extreme stop-motion horror game from the devs of Judero and Mashina

Set in a secluded community retreat that uses various therapeutic techniques to try and rehabilitate its residents, ABIDE certainly looks to be different.

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Comedy co-op physics platformer Log Riders adds Linux support and looks hilarious gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/come…

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Comedy co-op physics platformer Log Riders adds Linux support and looks hilarious

Log Riders is a co-op platformer around running on top of wooden logs, it looks hilarious and now there's full Native Linux support too.

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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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Thoroughly strange dungeon crawler Pluto is all about constructing spells and using your fingers gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/thor…

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Thoroughly strange dungeon crawler Pluto is all about constructing spells and using your fingers

With a pretty creepy looking style, the dungeon crawler Pluto is all about experimentation as you construct spells and wiggle your fingers.

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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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Clever auto-battling racer Backseat Champions has a demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/clev…

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Clever auto-battling racer Backseat Champions has a demo out now

Taking some of the fun elements of survivor-likes and putting them into a tactical F1 game, Backseat Champions has a really fun idea with a demo out now.

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Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewg…

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Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now

Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is officially out now, and it will absolutely annihilate your free time.

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Butcher by day, people hunter by night - ZOMBUTCHER sounds like a fun but gruesome sim gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/butc…

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Butcher by day, people hunter by night - ZOMBUTCHER sounds like a fun but gruesome sim

As a butcher you serve people meat, but what if the meat is also people? You can't help it in ZOMBUTCHER, since you're a Zombie.

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In the deck-builder Voraxis you're a parasite that eats through a living planet gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/in-t…

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In the deck-builder Voraxis you're a parasite that eats through a living planet

Voraxis is a really interesting take on deck-building that has you play cards to eat through a living planet, with gameplay that really captured me.

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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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REMOTE CONTROL looks like Alien: Isolation if it was a retro-styled typing adventure gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/remo…

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REMOTE CONTROL looks like Alien: Isolation if it was a retro-styled typing adventure

REMOTE CONTROL has you send human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship, as you type out your commands and explore it all gets a bit weird and spooky.

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Winnie's Hole is a delightfully grim roguelite now in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/winn…

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Winnie's Hole is a delightfully grim roguelite now in Early Access

Winnie's Hole is a delightfully grim roguelite where you infect and constantly mutate Winnie-the-Pooh. Now available in Early Access.

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Hyperslice is a fast, focused and extremely fun action arena roguelite gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hype…

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Hyperslice is a fast, focused and extremely fun action arena roguelite

Hyperslice released recently and has easily positioned itself as one of my absolute favourite arena-arcade style action roguelite games.

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I really have no idea what's going on in STICKER/BALL but I love the chaos gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/i-re…

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I really have no idea what's going on in STICKER/BALL but I love the chaos

STICKER/BALL takes the very basic idea of playing cue sports and thoroughly warps it into chaos. You really have to try this one.

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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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Bash Moto is an upcoming 90s themed beat'em up motorcycle racing game gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/bash…

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Bash Moto is an upcoming 90s themed beat'em up motorcycle racing game

Welcome back, Road Rash. An indie developer is reviving the classic beat'em up motorcycle racing game with Bash Moto - and it looks worth keeping an eye on.

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Check out the new suitably weird Mewgenics feature trailer gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/chec…

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Check out the new suitably weird Mewgenics feature trailer

Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is set for release on February 10th, and we have a fresh look at it in a new weird features trailer.

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HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME looks like a glorious follow-up to HUNTDOWN from 2021 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/hunt…

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HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME looks like a glorious follow-up to HUNTDOWN from 2021

Easy Trigger Games and Coffee Stain Publishing just revealed HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME, a prequel to the original popular action-packed HUNTDOWN from 2021.

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Stardew Valley dev makes it clear Haunted Chocolatier is progressing well gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/star…

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Stardew Valley dev makes it clear Haunted Chocolatier is progressing well

Haunted Chocolatier will eventually be the next game from Stardew Valley creator "ConcernedApe" (Eric Barone), and the good news is that it's still coming.

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Comedy point and click adventure Shadows of the Afterland launches February 10th gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/come…

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Comedy point and click adventure Shadows of the Afterland launches February 10th

Aruma Studios have announced that their supernatural comedy point and click adventure Shadows of the Afterland is set for launch now on February 10th.

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Swipe right to slay beasts in Reigns: The Witcher announced for February 25 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/swip…

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Swipe right to slay beasts in Reigns: The Witcher announced for February 25

We're getting a new Witcher game - but it's not one you would expect. It's Reigns: The Witcher, and it arrives February 25th.

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Belle Citique blends a little Tiny Glade and Townscaper into a fresh sandbox builder gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/bell…

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Belle Citique blends a little Tiny Glade and Townscaper into a fresh sandbox builder

If you enjoy your more casual chilled building games, Belle Citique looks like one that brings something fresh to the table.

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Terraria 1.4.5 the absolutely huge Bigger and Boulder update is now live gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/terr…

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Terraria 1.4.5 the absolutely huge Bigger and Boulder update is now live

With a huge bumper of additional content for the game, Terraria version 1.4.5 the "Bigger and Boulder" update is now officially live.

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MECHBORN is a roguelike deckbuilder that fuses '90s mech anime with Greek mythology gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mech…

#MECHBORN #IndieGames #PCGaming

MECHBORN is a roguelike deckbuilder that fuses '90s mech anime with Greek mythology

MECHBORN captured my attention with the wild sounding setting that blends elements of a '90s mech anime with Greek mythology inside a deck-builder.

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Narrative-heavy horror platformer LOVE ETERNAL looks fantastic and arrives February 19 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/narr…

#IndieGames #Gaming #LOVEETERNAL #PCGames

Narrative-heavy horror platformer LOVE ETERNAL looks fantastic and arrives February 19

Run, jump and flip gravity in the narrative-heavy horror platformer LOVE ETERNAL when it releases February 19th. The atmosphere in this looks simply awesome.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Hungry Horrors is a unique deck-builder about feeding monsters out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/hung…

#Godot #IndieGames #DeckBuilder #Gaming #PCGaming

Hungry Horrors is a unique deck-builder about feeding monsters out now

Gather ingredients, make dishes and feed all the strange creatures in a deck-builder that manages to set itself apart from the others in Hungry Horrors.

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French indie studio Accidental Queens are closing and delisting their games from Steam gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/fren…

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French indie studio Accidental Queens are closing and delisting their games from Steam

A few more games are going to be lost to history, as the French indie studio Accidental Queens announced they're closing down.

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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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Survive an elevator trying to eat you in co-op horror KLETKA when it releases February 19 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/surv…

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Survive an elevator trying to eat you in co-op horror KLETKA when it releases February 19

A bunch of criminals sent down the depths of a massive structure using a living elevator - what could go wrong? Lots and you'll find out in KLETKA.

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Giving some Undertale and OMORI vibes, the strange looking Immortal Boy gets a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/givi…

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Giving some Undertale and OMORI vibes, the strange looking Immortal Boy gets a new trailer

Immortal Boy is an upcoming retro-styled fantasy RPG adventure due out this year, and now it has a first proper full gameplay trailer.

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From Project Zomboid modders - the survival-horror Dandelion Void will have multiplayer gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from…

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From Project Zomboid modders - the survival-horror Dandelion Void will have multiplayer

Now I'm even more interested in Dandelion Void! It looks like Project Zomboid in space with plant-based horrors and now it will get multiplayer.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Walaber announced precision-driving physics sim 4x4 in a Furniture Store gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/wala…

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Walaber announced precision-driving physics sim 4x4 in a Furniture Store

Walaber known for the likes of JellyCar, Replicube and Parking Garage Rally Circuit just revealed the aptly named 4x4 in a Furniture Store.

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Tile Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tile…

#TileTactics #IndieGames #PCGaming #TowerDefense #Linux

Tile Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles

I simply love how indie developers constantly come up with new weird and wonderful combinations. Tile Tactics looks like it will properly hook me in.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

From the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from…

#MilkiDelivery #IndieGames #CosyGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

From the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game

Love your shorter and more cosy games? Milki Delivery is the latest from the developers of the popular Minami Lane and it looks to be another wholesome one.

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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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Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tabu…

#Tabulo #IndieGames #PCGaming #Steam #Linux

Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now

Is it chess? Is it Balatro? It's both, sort of. Tabulo is a pretty clever mixture of gameplay elements that looks set to hook you in.

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Less Miserables is an upcoming point-and-click parody of Les Misérables gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/less…

#LessMiserables #IndieGames #AdventureGames #Linux #PCGaming

Less Miserables is an upcoming point-and-click parody of Les Misérables

A point-and-click parody of Les Misérables. Could be a fun one to keep an eye on if you love classic adventure games with modern touches.

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Multiple years later Terraria 1.4.5 has a release date for January 27th gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mult…

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Multiple years later Terraria 1.4.5 has a release date for January 27th

Wow, they've been cooking for a while on this one huh? Terraria 1.4.5 will officially arrive January 27th and it's going to be massive.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Check out the demo for CiniCross if you enjoy roguelikes and nonogram styled puzzles gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/chec…

#CiniCross #IndieGames #PCGaming #PuzzleGames #Roguelikes

Check out the demo for CiniCross if you enjoy roguelikes and nonogram styled puzzles

Is it a roguelike? Is it a puzzle game? CiniCross is both, taking place in a retro-styled dark fantasy universe it looks rather interesting.

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