Weird teeth-pulling tactical roguelite Sol Cesto hits 1.0 in April gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/weir…

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Weird teeth-pulling tactical roguelite Sol Cesto hits 1.0 in April

Sol Cesto remains as one of the weirdest games I discovered during 2025 (but also very cool), and it's about to hit the big 1.0 release.

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Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/slay…

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Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever

Mega Crit have a massive success on their hands with the Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2, smashing records across the Steam store.

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The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-…

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The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1

Gambonanza is easily one of the top games demos I played during Steam Next Fest, and now we know it's going to release on May 1st.

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Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Early Access with online co-op gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/slay…

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Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Early Access with online co-op

Slay the Spire 2 has officially launched into Early Access giving us a taste of the latest deck-builder that can be played solo or online with up to 4 players.

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Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/them…

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Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend

Parkitect is an absolute gem and if you've not played this theme park builder before - well, now is your best chance because it's free for a while.

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Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/upco…

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Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh

I hesitate to use the term "friendslop" but The Road seems to fit in nicely with the recent rise of online co-op games and actually looks good fun.

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Aquarium building sim Megaquarium gets a big free update and new DLC gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/aqua…

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Aquarium building sim Megaquarium gets a big free update and new DLC

Megaquarium has evolved with the latest big free update for this aquarium building sim, along with a fun sounding new DLC expansion out now.

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Gambonanza is the best Balatro-like version of chess yet and you have to try the demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/gamb…

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Gambonanza is the best Balatro-like version of chess yet and you have to try the demo

If you love strategy games and roguelikes, Gambonanza fuses together the worlds of Balatro and chess like no other and it won me over completely.

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Smash everything apart together as Teardown goes multiplayer on March 12 gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/smas…

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Smash everything apart together as Teardown goes multiplayer on March 12

The physics-based voxel destruction game Teardown is set for a huge free upgrade on March 12th, when the multiplayer update arrives.

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Frostrail gets a new trailer to showcase its freezing train-survival gameplay gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fros…

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Frostrail gets a new trailer to showcase its freezing train-survival gameplay

Frostrail is another exciting game to keep an eye on, an open-world survival game where you and friends travel through a frozen world on a train.

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Run your own band in the pixel art management game Legends of Rock gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/run-…

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Run your own band in the pixel art management game Legends of Rock

Legends of Rock is coming later this year from the developer of Dude, Where Is My Beer? that sees you build up and manage your own band.

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Topdeck Automat blends the worlds of roguelike deckbuilder and autobattlers gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/topd…

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Topdeck Automat blends the worlds of roguelike deckbuilder and autobattlers

Topdeck Automat gives you hundreds of cards to build a deck where your printer droid spits them out at random - sounds like quite a fun mixture.

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Kick fascists so hard they fly into the sun in Verminsteel gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kick…

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Kick fascists so hard they fly into the sun in Verminsteel

Verminsteel is a new announcement from Glass Bottom Games that will see you hack and slash your way through hordes of fascists and take down their leaders.

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Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brot…

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Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG

GOG fans can finally get in on the Brotato action, just keep in mind - it might suck away endless hours of your time if you're not careful.

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Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/use-…

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Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo

Your train is your deck in Fogpiercer, with an updated demo available in Steam Next Fest this is a turn-based strategy game worth your time.

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/batt…

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing

Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/turn…

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Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo

Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game from the developer of APICO and Mudborne, and looks to be another great indie game to try out.

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Lexispell is a Balatro-styled roguelike word game with a demo worth trying gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lexi…

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Lexispell is a Balatro-styled roguelike word game with a demo worth trying

Lexispell from MrEliptik is a roguelike that has you spell out words for points with some Balatro-styled mechanics, and the new demo is worth a go.

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Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/slay…

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Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op

Mega Crit just revealed that Slay the Spire 2 is set to arrive in Early Access on March 5, and we're getting 4-player co-op with the launch.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Bend the market to your will in the roguelike Insider Trading gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/bend…

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Bend the market to your will in the roguelike Insider Trading

Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Stack synergies, trigger price swings, and trade wisely.

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From the creators of SpeedRunners, a demo of Sprint City is live now gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/from…

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From the creators of SpeedRunners, a demo of Sprint City is live now

Coming from the original creators of the popular competitive platformer SpeedRunners, a first playable demo for Sprint City is live on Steam.

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Fight first-person rock-paper-scissors style duels in the deck-builder Handmancers gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/figh…

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Fight first-person rock-paper-scissors style duels in the deck-builder Handmancers

Handmancers looks like a fun spin on deck-builders with the first-person view and the rock-paper-scissors style counter system.

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Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewg…

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Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales

A little bit of good news - Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is a clear hit, with it recently hitting a big sales milestone.

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Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hyta…

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Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content

Hypixel Studios continue building up Hytale during Early Access with Patch 3 out now that adds in a ridiculous amount of additions to the game.

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SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/scop…

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SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls

Go through exorcisms to collect souls and repeatedly click through a vast network of additional upgrades and abilities in SCOPECREEP.

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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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}