Games: VKD3D-Proton 3.0, Forestrike, Below the Crown, The Many Sins of House Ocampo, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 18, 2025

• VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades | GamingOnLinux

  VKD3D-Proton is one of the secret ingredients for Proton to make so many Windows games work well on Linux / SteamOS with a new 3.0 release out now.

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

  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. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.

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

  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. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.

• Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer | GamingOnLinux

  Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have ended their partnership on Cities: Skylines, with it moving onto a new developer.

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

  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. Could be a really good one for fans of point and click mystery adventure games.

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

  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.

• Nightdive recently showed off Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster footage in a dev diary video | GamingOnLinux

  Looking forward to the next remaster from Nightdive? They recently put up a new dev diary video for Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster to show it off. It's releasing on November 20th, so this is a nice behind the scenes look into some of the work that went into upgrading the visuals.

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

  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.

• Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam | GamingOnLinux

  Need a new chill puzzle game? UMAMI from indie studio Mimmox has arrived with Linux support. Across 15 hand-painted levels, you’ll tinker, toy, and rotate wooden blocks, attaching them to a board to create meals including towers of fluffy pancakes, gravity-defying burgers, freshly prepared onigiri, and even seasonal sweets for holidays such as Halloween and Christmas.