Pixeljam have launched a new Kickstarter to get Dino Run 2 ready for Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/pixe…

#DinoRun2 #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Pixeljam have launched a new Kickstarter to get Dino Run 2 ready for Early Access

Dino Run 2 is finally actually happening, with the latest Kickstarter aiming to get enough funds to make it ready for Early Access.

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Duskers developers reveal Below the Crown a love letter to chess, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dusk…

#BelowtheCrown #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Duskers developers reveal Below the Crown a love letter to chess, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers

Below the Crown has now been officially revealed from Misfits Attic, developers of the award-winning Duskers. It's a thoroughly unique blend of games.

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Blackjack Roulette puts a literal spin on a classic card game gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/blac…

#BlackjackRoulette #IndieGames #Steam #PCGaming

Blackjack Roulette puts a literal spin on a classic card game

Giving Blackjack and Roulette a little Balatro treatment? Perhaps just a little, with it putting a literal spin on the classics here.

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Sword Hero is an impressive looking upcoming open-world fantasy RPG gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/swor…

#SwordHero #IndieGames #PCGaming

Sword Hero is an impressive looking upcoming open-world fantasy RPG

While it has a rather boring name, Sword Hero looks anything but boring in the new trailer and the combat demo you can try out right now.

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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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Monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG Siralim Ultimate gets a big 2.0 update gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/mons…

#SiralimUltimate #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux

Monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG Siralim Ultimate gets a big 2.0 update

Despite the developer being done with it, they've expanded it again. Siralim Ultimate 2.0 is out now as the "biggest update ever".

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Popular sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder Cobalt Core added Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/popu…

#CobaltCore #Linux #IndieGames #DeckBuilder #PCGaming

Popular sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder Cobalt Core added Linux support

Rated Overwhelmingly Positive from users on Steam, the sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder Cobalt Core just added official Linux support.

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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.

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Quartet is a fresh retro-styled RPG out now with Linux and Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/quar…

#Quartet #IndieGames #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #RPG

Quartet is a fresh retro-styled RPG out now with Linux and Steam Deck support

Four years after their successful crowdfunding, Quartet from developer Something Classic Games is out now with Linux support and now Steam Deck Verified.

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Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/brut…

#VintageStory #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced

Vintage Story has some of the most interesting game mechanics I've seen in a survival game, but it's a little brutal - so I'm keen for this new Adventure Mode.

^{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.

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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.

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Moonlight Pulse is a metroidvania set inside an immense interstellar organism now with a Linux version gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/moon…

#MoonlightPulse #IndieGames #Linux #Metroidvania #SteamDeck

Moonlight Pulse is a metroidvania set inside an immense interstellar organism now with a Linux version

Set inside an immense interstellar organism, Moonlight Pulse looks like a fun metroidvania and recently it gained a Native Linux version.

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Open source evolution sim Thrive adds planet customization gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/open…

#Godot #OpenSource #IndieGames #Thrive

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds planet customization

Open source evolution sim Thrive version 0.8.3 brings in some more customization in how you play, along with new additions to the gameplay.

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Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/lets…

#LetsBuildaDungeon #Proton #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists

I'm too stupid to make a game, but a game about managing a game studio building an MMORPG? Oh yeah, Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like my jam.

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Deep Dish Dungeon looks like a great co-op dungeon crawler gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/deep…

#DeepDishDungeon #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Deep Dish Dungeon looks like a great co-op dungeon crawler

Deep Dish Dungeon is a recent announcement from publisher Raw Fury, a dungeon crawler with an emphasis on exploration and player ingenuity.

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Dome Keeper set for full online and local multiplayer with a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dome…

#DomeKeeper #Godot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming

Dome Keeper set for full online and local multiplayer with a new trailer

Multiplayer is finally coming to the excellent Dome Keeper, in a major upcoming update from developer Bippinbits.

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Steampunk auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla gets a big free content update gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/stea…

#AirshipsLostFlotilla #Gaming #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Steampunk auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla gets a big free content update

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a really good auto-shooter taking elements from survivor-like bullet hells and it just had a big free content expansion.

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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.

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Clean up the world in Kingdoms of the Dump a SNES styled JRPG is coming in November gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/clea…

#KingdomsoftheDump #IndieGames #Godot #Gaming #Linux

Clean up the world in Kingdoms of the Dump a SNES styled JRPG is coming in November

After a successful Kickstarter back in 2019, Roach Games have confirmed that Kingdoms of the Dump is set for release in November.

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Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/mons…

#Aethermancer #Gaming #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23

Monster Sanctuary from moi rai games is a great monster taming metroidvania, and now they're set to release Aethermancer into Early Access for more.

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Bioneers combines factory-building with organism simulation in a microworld gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/bion…

#Bioneers #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Bioneers combines factory-building with organism simulation in a microworld

Bioneers will have you build up an organism on the micro-scale that mixes together elements of factory-building with organism simulation.

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Become a chaotic vacuum in the physics-based action-adventure ACUVAC gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/beco…

#ACUVAC #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

Become a chaotic vacuum in the physics-based action-adventure ACUVAC

I couldn't help but giggle a fair bit at the actual full name - ACUVAC: A Suck and Blow Adventure.

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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.

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Inspired by classics like UFO: Enemy Unknown / XCOM - Archrebel Tactics gets MicroProse backing gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/insp…

#ArchrebelTactics #Gaming #PCGaming #StrategyGames #IndieGames

Inspired by classics like UFO: Enemy Unknown / XCOM - Archrebel Tactics gets MicroProse backing

Archrebel Tactics looks awesome if you're into challenging sci-fi strategy games, and now it has MicroProse backing it as publisher.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

With a flooded world, survival-crafting sim Oceaneers is getting a proper demo September 25 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/with…

#Oceaneers #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

With a flooded world, survival-crafting sim Oceaneers is getting a proper demo September 25

Oceaneers is definitely one of the games I'm most excited to see, with it's interesting take on survival and colony building across a flooded world.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Make the biggest mess possible in the local multiplayer game Splatterbot - releasing September 4 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/make…

#Splatterbot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

Make the biggest mess possible in the local multiplayer game Splatterbot - releasing September 4

Splatterbot is one you're going to need to stick into your party game rotation, with up to four players trying to make the biggest possible mess.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Some game developers are far too shameless about generative AI use gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/some…

#AI #IndieGames #PCGaming #Games #Gaming #AIGen

Some game developers are far too shameless about generative AI use

I'm having to be steadily more careful on what I choose to cover here on GamingOnLinux, with more games releasing using generative AI.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Long-awaited prehistoric multiplayer platformer Dino Run 2 is heading back to Kickstarter with a new demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/long…

#DinoRun2 #DinoRun #IndieGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming #PCGaming

Long-awaited prehistoric multiplayer platformer Dino Run 2 is heading back to Kickstarter with a new demo

After some setbacks, Pixeljam are readying a fresh Kickstarter to help fund the prehistoric multiplayer racing platformer Dino Run 2, along with a fresh demo.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Rogue-lite slot machine nightmare CloverPit launches September 3 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/rogu…

#CloverPit #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux

Rogue-lite slot machine nightmare CloverPit launches September 3

The demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette, apparently. CloverPit looks like it will suck away all your time.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Rising Heat aims to be a next evolution of horde survival twin-stick shooters gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/risi…

#RisingHeat #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Rising Heat aims to be a next evolution of horde survival twin-stick shooters

A sprinkle of Geometry Wars and other twin-stick shooters, a dash of Vampire Survivors styled upgrades - Rising Heat thinks it's going to be special.

^{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)}

Smash everything with your balls in BALL x PIT releasing October 15 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/smas…

#BALLxPIT #IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux

Smash everything with your balls in BALL x PIT releasing October 15

Do you have the balls to go deep into a bottomless pit? Well, you'll find out on October 15 when fast-paced fantasy roguelite BALL x PIT releases.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Dark fairy-tale metroidvania Well Dweller looks incredible, probably a must-have for Hollow Knight fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dark…

#WellDweller #IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Dark fairy-tale metroidvania Well Dweller looks incredible, probably a must-have for Hollow Knight fans

Dark fairy-tale metroidvania Well Dweller is the next game from Kyle Thompson who also made the highly rated Crypt Custodian and Islets.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderful cosy logic puzzle game where you move people around gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/is-t…

#Gaming #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming

Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderful cosy logic puzzle game where you move people around

Is This Seat Taken? is a game I've absolutely adored since trying the demo in February and it's officially out now with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Become a raging mom trapped in an arcade nightmare in V's Rage releasing in September gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/beco…

#Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Become a raging mom trapped in an arcade nightmare in V's Rage releasing in September

V's Rage is a hand-drawn arcade adventure inspired by the great arcade classics of the '80s and '90s that has no single genre.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Solve mysterious murders in Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders with a launch set for September gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/solv…

#Casebook1899 #Gaming #IndieGames #AdventureGames #PCGaming

Solve mysterious murders in Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders with a launch set for September

Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders is a richly atmospheric, retro-inspired point-and-click adventure set in Leipzig, Germany at the dawn of the 20th century.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Stumble and fall through the free release of FALLSTRUKTUR gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/stum…

#FALLSTRUKTUR #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #FreeGame

Stumble and fall through the free release of FALLSTRUKTUR

FALLSTRUKTUR is a new free 3D platformer game that sees you descend through a world of dream-like geometry.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Frostliner announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/fros…

#Frostliner #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

Frostliner announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder

Okay, now this is cool. Frostliner puts you in charge of a train in this survival city builder on rails that's practically Snowpiercer.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Click through the joy of opening up mystery boxes in Unboxathon gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/clic…

#Unboxathon #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Click through the joy of opening up mystery boxes in Unboxathon

If you love your chilled casual clicker games, Unboxathon could be a good one for you with a demo available to try.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}