The excellent BALL x PIT is getting three major updates in 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-…

#BALLxPIT #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

The excellent BALL x PIT is getting three major updates in 2026

One of my favourite games released in 2025, BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun and Friends / Devolver Digital has sold well enough that it's getting free upgrades.

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Rogue Legacy developer's next game is Neath, an eldritch roguelike tactical RPG gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/rogu…

#Neath #PCGaming #Roguelikes #IndieGames

Rogue Legacy developer's next game is Neath, an eldritch roguelike tactical RPG

One missed from earlier this month is Neath, a roguelike tactical RPG set in a decaying world shadowed by an irradiated, inverted tower.

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Tingus Goose is completely absurd and possibly 2025's strangest game gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/ting…

#TingusGoose #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

Tingus Goose is completely absurd and possibly 2025's strangest game

Tingus Goose has released recently and after being mystified by the demo, I took a look at the full game and I honestly still have no idea what is going on.

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Poly Bridge developer’s next game is Poly Bricks - a LEGO-like cozy, creative brick-building game gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/poly…

#PolyBricks #IndieGames #PCGaming

Poly Bridge developer’s next game is Poly Bricks - a LEGO-like cozy, creative brick-building game

Riding the wave of more cozy games, developer Dry Cactus (Poly Bridge series) is working on their next game titled Poly Bricks that will come to Linux.

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From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/from…

#Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames #AdventureGames

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure caught my eye recently with it's interesting premise and some pretty slick looking pixel-art for point and click fans.

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The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-…

#BulletHeaven #Steam #PCGaming #IndieGames #Gaming

The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre

The results are in, game developers look to move forward to create Bullet Heaven as an official genre spawned from Vampire Survivors.

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The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-…

#Megabonk #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content

New content for Megabonk? As if I needed more reasons to load it up. The absolute indie gem survivor-like bullet heaven just got even bigger.

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Fantasy city-builder with huge battles Songs of Syx gets a major upgrade with a focus on war gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fant…

#SongsofSyx #IndieGames #PCGaming #CityBuilder

Fantasy city-builder with huge battles Songs of Syx gets a major upgrade with a focus on war

Rated Overwhelmingly Positive from users on Steam, war is the focus of a major upgrade that just arrived for fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx.

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Dog merging roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile is out now and it's wonderful gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/dog-…

#Dogpile #IndieGames #PCGaming

Dog merging roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile is out now and it's wonderful

Dogpile was one of my absolute favourites during Steam Next Fest in October, and as a surprise it released yesterday.

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Factorio mod developer and Hooded Horse reveal new automation game Substructure gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fact…

#Substructure #IndieGames #PCGaming #Automation

Factorio mod developer and Hooded Horse reveal new automation game Substructure

This is going to be horrible for my free time. Substructure sounds like a real interesting entry into the factory building automation genre.

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Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/epic…

#HORSES #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores

From Andrea Lucco Borlera / Santa Ragione, HORSES has proven to be a highly controversial title with both Epic Games and Steam banning its release.

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FIXKIN: A Long Way Home is a cozy, rhythmic, narrative road trip in a suddenly upside down world gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fixk…

#PCGaming #IndieGames #Demo #Gaming

FIXKIN: A Long Way Home is a cozy, rhythmic, narrative road trip in a suddenly upside down world

Sonderland Games (Bella Wants Blood, Landnama) announced FIXKIN: A Long Way Home - a new cozy rhythm-based adventure and there's a demo available.

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Check out the demo for Chipmatic an upcoming mining and automation game gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/chec…

#Chipmatic #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #Demo

Check out the demo for Chipmatic an upcoming mining and automation game

A mining incremental inspired by Motherload, Dome Keeper and Super Mining Mechs with some added automation - Chipmatic looks like one to keep an eye on.

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No Players Online returns after an 'unfounded DMCA claim' halted sales for nearly three weeks gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/no-p…

#NoPlayersOnline #IndieGames #PCGaming

No Players Online returns after an 'unfounded DMCA claim' halted sales for nearly three weeks

Showing yet again that the DMCA system is not fit for purpose, No Players Online launched on Steam on November 6 and then got taken down but it's back.

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Mewgenics will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible at launch gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mewg…

#Mewgenics #SteamDeck #IndieGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Mewgenics will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible at launch

From the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh, Mewgenics is promising to be one of the most interesting roguelites released in forever.

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Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/pixe…

#RTS #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified

Now freshly Steam Deck Verified and with MicroProse Software backing it as publisher, TFC: The Fertile Crescent has a big upgrade out now.

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Piece by Piece is a sweet looking puzzle platformer where you literally connect pieces to progress gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/piec…

#PiecebyPiece #Godot #GodotEngine #IndieGames

Piece by Piece is a sweet looking puzzle platformer where you literally connect pieces to progress

This looks absolutely wonderful! A puzzle platformer that takes things quite literally with you running, jumping and building your path from puzzle pieces.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Core Keeper set for a massive update in January with a new boss, automation, new weapons and lots more gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/core…

#CoreKeeper #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Core Keeper set for a massive update in January with a new boss, automation, new weapons and lots more

This might be the most exciting update for Core Keeper yet bringing in loads of new tools and a big boss battle to the mining sandbox adventure.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/itch…

#itchio #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers

On top of doing their own Black Friday sale, the indie store itch.io has its Creator Day today as well where they take no cut from developers.

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SIDE EFFECTS is a disturbing pill-popping roulette game out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/side…

#SideEffects #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

SIDE EFFECTS is a disturbing pill-popping roulette game out now

SIDE EFFECTS from developer Free Lives takes the idea of Buckshot Roulette and puts a brutal pill-popping spin on it.

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Cleared Hot is everything you could want in a modern twin-stick helicopter shooter gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/clea…

#ClearedHot #IndieGames #PCGaming

Cleared Hot is everything you could want in a modern twin-stick helicopter shooter

Cleared Hot just entered Early Access from developer Not Knowing Corporation and MicroProse Software, and it's simply pure joy to blast through it.

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Sektori is absolutely one of the best modern twin-stick shooters gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sekt…

#Sektori #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux

Sektori is absolutely one of the best modern twin-stick shooters

Sektori blasted onto Steam recently and I've been absolutely loving it, this is easily one of the best modern twin-stick shooters and fantastic to play.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/voiv…

#Voivod #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer

Chaosmonger Studio continue working on Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior a retro-styled heavy metal platformer in partnership with the band Voivod.

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Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chao…

#ChimpUP! #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming

Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious

ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/schr…

#IndieGames #SteamDeck #Linux #SteamOS #PuzzleGames #Demo

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a puzzle game with a cat that can be in two places at once, and that will no doubt confuse my brain.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/try-…

#Kinsfolk #IndieGames #PCGaming

Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood

Made in the spirit of the likes of Journey, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch - Kinsfolk is a casual adventure about fatherhood.

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Palworld publisher picks up Vision Quench, a co-op dark fantasy looter shooter set in a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/palw…

#VisionQuench #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Palworld publisher picks up Vision Quench, a co-op dark fantasy looter shooter set in a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon

Set in the underbelly of a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon, Vision Quench is now being published by Palword's Pocketpair Publishing.

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Play dice against the guardian of the underworld in Dice of Kalma gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/play…

#DiceofKalma #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming

Play dice against the guardian of the underworld in Dice of Kalma

Dice of Kalma challenges players to descend into the Underworld and face the Finnish god of death, Kalma, in a high-stakes game of luck and skill.

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NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/noda…

#NodalBastion #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression

Taking inspiration from incremental games with a long progress tree to unlock, NodalBastion is a tower defense game that just keeps on going.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Bioflux - Horde is a survival game where the infected numbers look insane gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/biof…

#BiofluxHorde #Gaming #IndieGames #Unity #PCGaming

Bioflux - Horde is a survival game where the infected numbers look insane

Coming across it by pure chance recently, Bioflux - Horde is an upcoming survival game with enemy numbers that actually look like true hordes of infected.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Need a new local co-op game? Puzzle platformer Tentacle Tango looks great and challenging gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/need…

#TentacleTango #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Need a new local co-op game? Puzzle platformer Tentacle Tango looks great and challenging

Starving for more local co-op games to play with a partner? Tentacle Tango could be what you need and it looks really fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SNES styled JRPG set in a world of garbage - Kingdoms of the Dump is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/snes…

#KingdomsoftheDump #Godot #IndieGames #Linux

SNES styled JRPG set in a world of garbage - Kingdoms of the Dump is out now

After being funded on Kickstarter back in 2019, dreamed up by actual janitors, the SNES styled JRPG set in a world of trash Kingdoms of the Dump is out now.

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Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy…

#Townseek #IndieGames #Demo #PCGaming

Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo

Discover exotic landmarks, meet whimsical townsfolk, fish in tranquil waters, collect rare artifacts, and uncover secrets in a wondrous hand-drawn world.

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Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fore…

#Forestrike #IndieGames #PCGaming

Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future

Using the power of Foresight, in the 2D martial arts roguelite Forestrike you can see how each fight will go down, and it's really damn good.

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Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/belo…

#BelowtheCrown #IndieGames #PCGaming

Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now

Out now in Early Access, from the minds that gave us the excellent Duskers, Below the Crown is a mixture of chess-like pieces and moves in a dungeon crawler.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-…

#TheManySinsofHouseOcampo #IndieGames #AdventureGames #PCGaming

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is a new announcement from the developers of If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers and it looks great.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/timi…

#WildHorseRacing #IndieGames #Gaming #Demo

Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now

If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chec…

#Shroomwood #IndieGames #Roguelike #PCGaming #Linux #Demo

Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam

A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy…

#UMAMI #IndieGames #Gaming #Linux

Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam

Need a new chill puzzle game? UMAMI from indie studio Mimmox has arrived with Linux support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Brill co-op climbing game PEAK gets a major fix for gamepads gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/bril…

#PEAK #IndieGames #Gaming

Brill co-op climbing game PEAK gets a major fix for gamepads

PEAK remains a favourite this year, easily one of the best casual co-op games and the latest bug-fix update is important for gamepad players.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}