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Games: Steam, Siren, Luxman Moonlit Market, and More
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It's FOSS ☛ 13 Awesome Games Linux Users Can Grab in Steam Winter Sale 🎮 (Ends 5 January)
Linux gaming has been evolving over the years, thanks to Wine, Valve's Proton, and many other tools like Bottles, Lutris, and Heroic Game Launcher.
This means even if a game is unavailable natively on Linux, you can still play some of them thanks to Steam Play.
That's great. But you would need some great discounts on games to give them a try, right?
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion | GamingOnLinux
Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away. A demo is still currently available on the Steam page.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes | GamingOnLinux
Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun! There's a demo available on Steam with a Linux version you can try out right now, and it was just updated over the weekend to bring lots of improvements. Who knows, you might find your next game to stick on your Steam wishlist.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps | GamingOnLinux
Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now. It's fun seeing projects like this continue on for so long, especially as I grew up playing the likes of The Settlers on the Amiga and later Settlers 2 on PC. Good times, absolute classics.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks | GamingOnLinux
The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026. After getting hooked in by Below the Crown I'm keen to see what other developers can do with chess.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date | GamingOnLinux
The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage | GamingOnLinux
Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Quarantine Zone: The Last Check set for release on January 12 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Devolver Digital announced that Quarantine Zone: The Last Check from Brigada Games is now set for release on January 12, 2026. I initially stayed away from this one, as the developer was originally using some generative AI content for voice overs with the earlier demos, which has thankfully now been removed.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released | GamingOnLinux
Dear players of Heroes of Might and Magic II and fans of the fheroes2 project! Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.1.13. As usual, this release includes a variety of interesting changes and improvements. Let’s take a deeper dive into the details.