Challenging inventory management auto-battler Backpack Battles 1.0 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chal…

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Challenging inventory management auto-battler Backpack Battles 1.0 is out now

Backpack Battles is a PvP inventory management auto-battler from developer PlayWithFurcifer, which just hit the big 1.0 release.

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Diablo 2-inspired auto-battler Skull Horde gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/diab…

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Diablo 2-inspired auto-battler Skull Horde gets a demo

From developer 8BitSkull, their latest game Skull Horde now has a demo available to test ahead of the release later this year.

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Net.Attack() is a very unique take on survivor-like roguelikes with programming your abilities gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/net-…

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Net.Attack() is a very unique take on survivor-like roguelikes with programming your abilities

Net.Attack() takes the basic idea of the action from Vampire Survivors and other survivor-likes but, it gets you to program your abilities with code blocks.

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Burn your cards and do forbidden rituals in the deck-builder Burn With Me gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/burn…

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Burn your cards and do forbidden rituals in the deck-builder Burn With Me

Burn With Me is a narrative deck-builder like no other, where permanently burning your cards is one of the main game mechanics.

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Narrative retro FPS DERELIKT looks awesome with inspiration from Alien Resurrection and System Shock gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/narr…

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Narrative retro FPS DERELIKT looks awesome with inspiration from Alien Resurrection and System Shock

I absolutely need this. DERELIKT from developer Visuwyg releases in 2026 and it's everything I wanted in a retro styled FPS.

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Defend your moving castle in the demo for Castlebound gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/defe…

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Defend your moving castle in the demo for Castlebound

Castlebound from Ogre Pixel now has a demo available to try on Steam, so you can defend your moving castle in this cute looking action roguelike.

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Sent to a new school, dark comedy Kindergarten 3 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/sent…

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Sent to a new school, dark comedy Kindergarten 3 is out now

If the craziness from Kindergarten and Kindergarten 2 wasn't enough, there's now a third helping with Kindergarten 3 out now.

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Hack into an unethical superstructure in s.p.l.i.t from the dev of Buckshot Roulette gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/hack…

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Hack into an unethical superstructure in s.p.l.i.t from the dev of Buckshot Roulette

You have to hand it to indie devs, they sure do keep coming up with weird and wonderful looking games.

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Soulstone Survivors hits 1.0 bringing crazy blinding action with a huge skill tree gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/soul…

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Soulstone Survivors hits 1.0 bringing crazy blinding action with a huge skill tree

Soulstone Survivors 1.0 is out now and it's one of the best survivor-like RPG action rogue-lites available.

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In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-t…

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In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource

Sandustry seems a bit like the excellent Noita but a factory sim. Here every pixel is a simulated resource to use.

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Run a post-apocalyptic food truck in Wasteland Bites and serve weird meals to strange creatures gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/run-…

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Run a post-apocalyptic food truck in Wasteland Bites and serve weird meals to strange creatures

Wasteland Bites is an upcoming questionable cooking sim set in the post-apocalypse. It looks thoroughly weird and I want it now.

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Nautical Survival is an overlooked naval-based roguelite auto-shooter gem gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/naut…

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Nautical Survival is an overlooked naval-based roguelite auto-shooter gem

Look away now if you value your free time, as Nautical Survival is an absolute gem that will throw your free hours overboard.

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POLDERS is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/pold…

#POLDERS #IndieGames #CityBuilder #Linux #PCGaming

POLDERS is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper

Reclaim the land from the sea in POLDERS, what the developer says is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper.

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BALL x PIT is a delicious challenge gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/ball…

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BALL x PIT is a delicious challenge

BALL x PIT was a recent announcement from Kenny Sun and Devolver Digital that took only a few minutes to completely hook me in.

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Klei Entertainment announced Away Team, a new Oxygen Not Included adventure gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/klei…

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Klei Entertainment announced Away Team, a new Oxygen Not Included adventure

Klei Entertainment have revealed Away Team, a new adventure set in the world of the popular base-builder Oxygen Not Included but it's a little different.

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Check out the demo for Paris Transylvania, a pachinko roguelike deckbuilder gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chec…

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Check out the demo for Paris Transylvania, a pachinko roguelike deckbuilder

Another one with a good demo during Steam Next Fest is Paris Transylvania, a pachinko roguelike deckbuilder.

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Great shooter Selaco gets fixed up for Steam Deck and many more bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/grea…

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Great shooter Selaco gets fixed up for Steam Deck and many more bug fixes

Selaco is by far my favourite upcoming shooter in Early Access. After the recent big update, they've put out some essential fixes.

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Craftlings refreshes the classic Lemmings with mini city-building gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/craf…

#Craftlings #IndieGames #Unity #PCGaming #Demo

Craftlings refreshes the classic Lemmings with mini city-building

I had fond memories of playing tons of Lemmings on the Amiga, and now Craftlings is rekindling my love of it but with a city-building twist.

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Chill out and breed fish in We Love Fish Tanks gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chil…

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Chill out and breed fish in We Love Fish Tanks

No space for your own aquarium at home? Check out the sweet casual game We Love Fish Tanks and breed your own little world.

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Gentoo Rescue is a puzzle game with twists that will melt your mind that I'm too stupid for gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gent…

#GentooRescue #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #PuzzleGame

Gentoo Rescue is a puzzle game with twists that will melt your mind that I'm too stupid for

Gentoo Rescue from Jagriff seems simple on the surface but it's a real brain melting puzzle game that's well worth your time.

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Catch rocks and rockets to throw at your enemies in Galactic Glitch gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/catc…

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Catch rocks and rockets to throw at your enemies in Galactic Glitch

Galactic Glitch is a twin-stick roguelite shooter where you get to catch and throw rockets, rocks and enemies at other enemies - and it's damn good.

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Spooky 2D co-op submarine sim Barotrauma is getting a big Home & Harbor expansion gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/spoo…

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Spooky 2D co-op submarine sim Barotrauma is getting a big Home & Harbor expansion

Daedalic Entertainment and developers Undertow Games and FakeFish recently revealed the Home & Harbor expansion for Barotrauma.

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Base-building co-op exploration adventure game Necesse hits 1.0 in October gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/base…

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Base-building co-op exploration adventure game Necesse hits 1.0 in October

After a big graphics overhaul last year, the co-op base-building exploration adventure Necesse is set for the big 1.0 in October.

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Sol Cesto is a super weird tactical roguelite with rad art all about luck and pulling teeth gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/sol-…

#SolCesto #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming

Sol Cesto is a super weird tactical roguelite with rad art all about luck and pulling teeth

It was the art style of Sol Cesto that first pulled me in, now I'm hooked on the roguelite slot-machine like mechanics of it.

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Net.Attack() is like Vampire Survivors but you program unique attacks gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/net-…

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Net.Attack() is like Vampire Survivors but you program unique attacks

Now this is seriously cool! Net.Attack() takes the basics of Vampire Survivors, and gets you doing a little visual programming.

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Near-Mage is a gorgeous looking new hand-painted witchy adventure gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/near…

#NearMage #IndieGames #Linux #AdventureGames

Near-Mage is a gorgeous looking new hand-painted witchy adventure

Near-Mage is a brand new hand-painted adventure from Stuck In Attic, who also made Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.

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Dragon Lands is Forager meets a creature collector and it looks real sweet gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/drag…

#DragonLands #IndieGames #Gaming #SteamDeck #PCGaming

Dragon Lands is Forager meets a creature collector and it looks real sweet

One now on my radar is Dragon Lands, a sweet looking mixture of an incremental game about creature collection, farming, crafting and automation.

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Move over Stardew, it's time for Cattle Country gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/move…

#CattleCountry #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Move over Stardew, it's time for Cattle Country

Ready for your next casual game after Stardew Valley? Cattle Country is a good choice with a big sense of adventure.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

DELTARUNE is now on Steam with Chapters 1-4 available gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/delt…

#DELTARUNE #PCGaming #IndieGames

DELTARUNE is now on Steam with Chapters 1-4 available

Developer tobyfox has released DELTARUNE on Steam, their follow-up to the smash-hit UNDERTALE and it's a game that's just insanely hard to describe.

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Ricave is a quirky first-person 3D roguelike dungeon crawler with some fun interactions gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rica…

#Ricave #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming

Ricave is a quirky first-person 3D roguelike dungeon crawler with some fun interactions

Ricave is a thoroughly quirky and unique first-person, 3D roguelike dungeon crawler, now available in Early Access and worth a look.

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Re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization in Regions of Ruin: Runegate gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/re-e…

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Re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization in Regions of Ruin: Runegate

Regions of Ruin: Runegate has just been announced from Gameclaw Studio, a fresh explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure full of dwarfs.

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Pulp adventure thriller The Drifter looks amazing and releases July 17 gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/pulp…

#TheDrifter #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #AdventureGames

Pulp adventure thriller The Drifter looks amazing and releases July 17

The Drifter from Powerhoof is an awesome looking adventure thriller and it just got a new trailer, along with a release date reveal of July 17.

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Freaky incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/frea…

#Horripilant #Godot #GodotEngine #Demo #IndieGames

Freaky incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a demo

Horripilant is a thoroughly unusual dungeon crawler that will make you feel quite uneasy, blending in some elements from idler, puzzle and autobattler elements.

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Chilled factory-builder shapez 2 gets a massive upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chil…

#shapez2 #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming

Chilled factory-builder shapez 2 gets a massive upgrade

shapez 2 was already good and now the huge Dimension Update is out now, it looks like it's going to suck away plenty more hours of your time.

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Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rock…

#RockCrusher #Demo #Steam #IndieGames #Gaming

Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree

I have, admittedly, spent far too long playing the demo of Rock Crusher. An upcoming incremental clicker with Leaf Blower Revolution vibes.

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Point and click adventure The Mystery of Doomsday Valley confirmed for Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/poin…

#Gaming #Linux #AdventureGames #IndieGames #Demo

Point and click adventure The Mystery of Doomsday Valley confirmed for Linux

Another good one for fans of point and click adventure, keep an eye on the upcoming The Mystery of Doomsday Valley.

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Pixel-art RPG adventure Quartet releases August 26 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/pixe…

#Quartet #IndieGames #RPG #JRPG

Pixel-art RPG adventure Quartet releases August 26

Following a successful Kickstarter back in 2021, pixel-art RPG Quartet has a new trailer and release date set.

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Random chaotic puzzle-platformer Mosa Lina gets a big free expansion gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/rand…

#MosaLina #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

Random chaotic puzzle-platformer Mosa Lina gets a big free expansion

Mosa Lina is a crazy game, one that sometimes the levels don't exactly work right. It's all part of the fun in this random puzzle-platformer.

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Kabuto Park is a short cosy bug-catching and battle game out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/kabu…

#KabutoPark #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #SteamDeck

Kabuto Park is a short cosy bug-catching and battle game out now

Like collecting creatures but don't have a lot of time? Kabuto Park is the one for you.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

World of Goo 2 gets a rough level editor and Steam Workshop gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/worl…

#WorldofGoo2 #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

World of Goo 2 gets a rough level editor and Steam Workshop

2D BOY / Tomorrow Corporation have updated World of Goo 2 to include their developer level editor, along with Steam Workshop support.

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