Chaotic spider-physics sandbox A Webbing Journey is out now in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/chao…

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Chaotic spider-physics sandbox A Webbing Journey is out now in Early Access

A game that finally made me think a Spider could be adorable? Nah, they still terrify me, but A Webbing Journey really is wholesome. Great idea for a game too with some fun physics and web-slinging.

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Mineshaft is a tough but unique Tetris-like with crafting and mining for gems gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/mine…

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Mineshaft is a tough but unique Tetris-like with crafting and mining for gems

Mineshaft is a clever blending of genres that takes the very basics from Tetris but makes it quite an interesting challenge with resource gathering, tool crafting and puzzle solving. It's like a mini Minecraft / Terraria version of Tetris.

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Shroom and Gloom is a first-person fungus-filled deck-builder with a demo you need to try gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/shro…

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Shroom and Gloom is a first-person fungus-filled deck-builder with a demo you need to try

We're getting totally spoiled with unique deck-builders lately like Moonsigil Atlas that I really can't wait for. And now Devolver Digital announced they're publishing Shroom and Gloom with a demo up now and it's glorious.

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Frogspin is a chaotic platformer where you spin a slot machine for crazy level modifiers gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/frog…

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Frogspin is a chaotic platformer where you spin a slot machine for crazy level modifiers

Frogspin pulled my in by the colourful and inviting sweet visuals but reading more into it, the game sounds like it becomes pure hilarious chaos due to the slot machine modifier mechanics.

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Rift Riff is a beautifully designed tower defense game about pumping juice gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/rift…

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Rift Riff is a beautifully designed tower defense game about pumping juice

Rift Riff is all about jumping through portals (okay Rifts, whatever) and extracting precious juice. Monsters don't like you doing that though but the juice must flow. It's out now with Native Linux support.

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Granvir: Zero Front is a fresh 3rd-person customizable mech-combat prologue out on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/gran…

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Granvir: Zero Front is a fresh 3rd-person customizable mech-combat prologue out on Steam

Love customising mechs and going into battle? Granvir: Zero Front is a new prologue, acting as a long-term demo for the bigger game of Granvir that's due out later. Seems to be worth a look if you love mech action.

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City-building on the back of a huge creature, The Wandering Village gets a big Story Update gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/city…

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City-building on the back of a huge creature, The Wandering Village gets a big Story Update

The Wandering Village is such a sweet idea for a city-builder, taking place on the back of a huge walking creature. It's in Early Access with Linux / Steam Deck support and a big new update just arrived.

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RimWorld in space, colony sim Stardeus gets a major upgrade with ship combat gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/rimw…

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RimWorld in space, colony sim Stardeus gets a major upgrade with ship combat

Kodo Linija and publisher Paradox Arc have released a massive update to Stardeus, that's a bit like a RimWorld in space with ship-building. Now, it has ship to ship combat too.

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Control an interstellar train in the deck-builder Break Siege out now in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/cont…

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Control an interstellar train in the deck-builder Break Siege out now in Early Access

Another strategy game with trains? Sign me up. Break Siege from FojoGames just hit Early Access and looks like it could be another good one.

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In the survivorlike ARPG 'Conquest Dark' you start off nude and build up clothing as you go with multi-life mechanics gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/in-t…

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In the survivorlike ARPG 'Conquest Dark' you start off nude and build up clothing as you go with multi-life mechanics

Just what the survivorlike bullet heaven genre thingy needed - nudity! Conquest Dark from Eldritch Sword Games actually has quite a number of fun game mechanics worth exploring, the nudity is optional but it has a point.

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Go web-slinging in the adorable looking A Webbing Journey on May 19 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/go-w…

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Go web-slinging in the adorable looking A Webbing Journey on May 19

Fire Totem Games have announced their really sweet spider physics game A Webbing Journey is finally ready for an Early Access release on May 19th.

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A Slight Chance of Sawblades is a fun high-score chaser with a demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/a-sl…

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A Slight Chance of Sawblades is a fun high-score chaser with a demo out now

For readers who like their smaller, faster more casual high-score chasers you'll want to check out A Slight Chance of Sawblades.

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Hordes of Hunger turns Vampire Survivors into a fast 3D slasher from devs of Blood West gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/hord…

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Hordes of Hunger turns Vampire Survivors into a fast 3D slasher from devs of Blood West

With combat that feels more like a faster and slashier Diablo / Path of Exile, the latest game from Hyperstrange is Hordes of Hunger and so far it's a lot of fun.

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Wipeout-like anti-grav racer BallisticNG v1.4 out now bringing lots of new content and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/wipe…

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Wipeout-like anti-grav racer BallisticNG v1.4 out now bringing lots of new content and Steam Deck Verified

Even though it was Steam Deck Verified back in February, that was Valve testing against an opt-in Beta (which is a bit weird) but now the big release is here for the anti-gravity racer BallisticNG.

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Metal Thunder puts you in a the gunner seat of an AC-130 with progression popularised by Vampire Survivors gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/meta…

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Metal Thunder puts you in a the gunner seat of an AC-130 with progression popularised by Vampire Survivors

This is quite a unique experience. Merging the progression system made popular by Vampire Survivors, with the aerial combat of Call of Duty's AC-130 missions. Metal Thunder definitely has a fun idea to it.

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Detective Dotson is a mystery adventure that's a love letter to India worth exploring out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/dete…

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Detective Dotson is a mystery adventure that's a love letter to India worth exploring out now

With a setting that not many games explore, Detective Dotson is a fresh adventure from Masala Games that's out now with Linux support. India is brought to life with some lovely pixel artwork in this new release, it's really quite eye-catching.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Junkyard Space Agency is a 'scrappier, multiplayer version' of Kerbal Space Program gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/junk…

#IndieGames #Godot #PCGaming #Linux

Junkyard Space Agency is a 'scrappier, multiplayer version' of Kerbal Space Program

Junkyard Space Agency is an upcoming co-op space agency simulator that the developer said is like a "scrappier, multiplayer version" of Kerbal Space Program.

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Easy Delivery Co. is a strange and spooky delivery driving sim with a demo worth checking out gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/easy…

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Easy Delivery Co. is a strange and spooky delivery driving sim with a demo worth checking out

Easy Delivery Co. from Sam C / Oro Interactive is a delivery driving sim that mixes together classic PlayStation styled visuals, with bouncing physics and a slightly spooky atmosphere.

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Check out the demo for no brake no gain, a precision-driving game where skill outshines speed gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/chec…

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Check out the demo for no brake no gain, a precision-driving game where skill outshines speed

Fancy a challenge? no brake no gain is an upcoming arcade precision-driving game where skill outshines speed. The developer just recently released the first demo.

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Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/glas…

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Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos

I cannot stop myself clicking play on Glass Cannon, it's a properly great and unique shoot 'em up experience that twists the genre in a fun way that's too easy to get obsessed with.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Pac-Man meets a time-stopping survivor-like bullet heaven in Maze Mice out in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/pac-…

#MazeMice #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming

Pac-Man meets a time-stopping survivor-like bullet heaven in Maze Mice out in Early Access

Maze Mice is the latest game from the developer of the popular Luck be a Landlord, and while many developers continue making their own form of Vampire Survivor-like, this is probably the most unique so far that truly mixes things up as it feels a lot…

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Wild West cosy life sim Cattle Country releases May 27 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/wild…

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Wild West cosy life sim Cattle Country releases May 27

Inspired by classic Western adventures and blended with wholesome farming charm, Cattle Country is definitely one you should be keeping an eye on. The developers have announced it's set for launch on May 27th.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cozy mystery game Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping arrives in May gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/cozy…

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Cozy mystery game Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping arrives in May

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping from Happy Broccoli Games is now set for release on May 22nd, and it will come with Native Linux support.

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COMBOLITE is a unique physics deck-builder where you build up combos to keep hitting a rock gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/comb…

#COMBOLITE #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #DeckBuilder

COMBOLITE is a unique physics deck-builder where you build up combos to keep hitting a rock

Probably the absolute weirdest deck-builder I've ever played, COMBOLITE is all about repeatedly hitting a rock to score points and activate special combos to score even more points.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/worl…

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World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans

This really brings back some memories. World of Goo 2 from 2D BOY and Tomorrow Corporation has officially launched on Steam with Native Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Starfox-esque 3D Shooter Ex-Zodiac gets a major update with a new level gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/star…

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Starfox-esque 3D Shooter Ex-Zodiac gets a major update with a new level

Ex-Zodiac is a 3D on-rails shooter made in the spirit of the classic Starfox, it's currently in Early Access with Linux support and a major update just released.

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Love board games and pure chaos? Fortune Avenue is a new spin on Monopoly out in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/love…

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Love board games and pure chaos? Fortune Avenue is a new spin on Monopoly out in Early Access

Out now with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified, Fortune Street is the latest game from Binogure Studio (City Game Studio, Sneak In) that puts a fresh, fast and chaotic spin on the classic Monopoly.

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Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about making 3D voxels gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/repl…

#IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PuzzleGame #Programming

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about making 3D voxels

Walaber Entertainment LLC (JellyCar Worlds, Parking Garage Rally Circuit) have just released Replicube, an open-ended programming puzzle game where you make 3D voxel-based objects.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Point and click adventure Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders launches later this year gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/poin…

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Point and click adventure Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders launches later this year

Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders from Homo Narrans Studio is now on the road to release, with it being confirmed a GOG and Steam release will happen this year with Native Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Check out the unique demo for Insectile, a bug-catching creature collection game with puzzle-battles gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/chec…

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Check out the unique demo for Insectile, a bug-catching creature collection game with puzzle-battles

Insectile is an upcoming game that blends together exploration, creature collection and puzzle battles into what looks like quite a unique and charming experience. It will have Native Linux support and a demo is now available.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Popular mobile game Final Outpost: Definitive Edition arrives gets a PC release on May 22 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/popu…

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Popular mobile game Final Outpost: Definitive Edition arrives gets a PC release on May 22

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition from Exabyte Games is the expanded and upgraded version of their popular mobile game. They've now announced the full PC release with Native Linux support will arrive on May 22nd.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Time-travel adventure Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/time…

#OldSkies #IndieGames #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Time-travel adventure Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games is out now

The latest point and click adventure from Wadjet Eye Games is out now with Old Skies sending you through time. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Popular idle game Melvor Idle is getting a sequel with Melvor Idle 2 bringing some huge new features

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#MelvorIdle2 #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #Godot #GodotEngine

Popular idle game Melvor Idle is getting a sequel with Melvor Idle 2 bringing some huge new features

Coming sometime soon to Early Access, Melvor Idle 2 has been announced by developer Games by Malcs. Building upon the success and popularity of the first game, but with some big new features to hook you in.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Suvivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/suvi…

#FIENDRISE #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Suvivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support

Originally released on April 17th, FIENDRISE is another quality looking survivor-like bullet heaven / bullet hell like thingy that has randomly generated stages to explore to give you a new experience every time.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Expand and rearrange your inventory, watch numbers tick up and break the game in LOOTPLOT gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/expa…

#LOOTPLOT #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Expand and rearrange your inventory, watch numbers tick up and break the game in LOOTPLOT

I have no idea what actual genre LOOTPLOT belongs in, or how to properly describe it. You go through rounds of sorting through your inventory and expanding it, trying to create crazy synergies and keep increasing your points needed to beat each level…

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Co-op dungeon crawler Never Split the Party gets a big surprise update celebrating a million downloads gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/co-o…

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Co-op dungeon crawler Never Split the Party gets a big surprise update celebrating a million downloads

The free to play online co-op dungeon crawler Never Split the Party from Legend Studio just had a massive update to celebrate one million downloads. Quite a surprise, since the last update to the game was back in 2022.

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Supernatural school-life tactics RPG Demonschool set to release in Q3 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/supe…

#Demonschool #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Supernatural school-life tactics RPG Demonschool set to release in Q3 2025

We're finally getting close to Demonschool actually releasing, with it now having a Q3 2025 release window so it will be here before the end of September.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Nitronauts is classic Bomberman with a few new twists out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nitr…

#Nitronauts #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Nitronauts is classic Bomberman with a few new twists out now

Featuring both local and online multiplayer, Nitronauts is a fun looking Bomberman styled game that recently released with Native Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Peaceful nature simulation city-builder Of life and Land launches May 16 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/peac…

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Peaceful nature simulation city-builder Of life and Land launches May 16

Of life and Land has been in Early Access for just over a year now, and it's about to cross over the finishing line as Metaroot and Kerzoven have announced the 1.0 launch for May 16th.

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Witch Beam the creators of Unpacking have released the musical puzzler Tempopo gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/witc…

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Witch Beam the creators of Unpacking have released the musical puzzler Tempopo

Tempopo is the latest release from Australian developer Witch Beam, the creators of Unpacking and Assault Android Cactus.

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