Games: New Titles, DIY Game Boy Cart, ChimeraOS, and Steam

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2022

• Fab deck-builder Across the Obelisk out now under Paradox Arc publishing

  Across the Obelisk is a fantastic deck-builder that just left Early Access, as the first game under Paradox Interactive's new publishing label Paradox Arc. You might want to clear your schedule for this one, as it can easily suck away over 100 hours as you constantly want to jump back in for another attempt.

• Twin-stick shooter Titan Shell looks intense and will be supported on Linux

  Titan Shell is an in-development twin-stick shooter from Meatbag Studio that blends in features from roguelikes / rogue-lites to offer a pretty interesting experience not many such shooters give you.

• Dreamed Away is an upcoming emotional action-adventure RPG set in France

  Love your cute and colourful little adventures? Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton / Pineapple Works looks like it's worth keeping an eye on.

• Axiom Verge 2 lands on Steam with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified

  Axiom Verge 2 from Thomas Happ Games has jumped over from the Epic Store to Steam and it comes with Native Linux support and it is also Steam Deck Verified! This was made with Ethan Lee's FNA, so it's another quality port too and uses the Vulkan API.

• Backpack Hero is an inventory management roguelike and my new favourite game

  Backpack Hero is a dungeon crawling roguelike where you need to constantly sort out your small backpack and it's absolutely sucked me in. A new Native Linux release from Jaspel and IndieArk, I have no doubt this will be something of a hit on Steam.

• SquareBoi Is The DIY Game Boy Cart You’ve Always Wanted

  Running unofficial code on a Nintendo Game Boy has long been a solved problem. However, you still need a way to get that code onto the handheld console. The Squareboi cartridge promises to do just that, as created by [ALXCO-Hardware].

• Couch-gaming Linux distro ChimeraOS 34 released

  ChimeraOS continues to improve the couch-gaming experience for Linux with ChimeraOS 34 out now and there's quite a number of improvements and fixes. Before you had the likes of HoloISO and winesapOS there was ChimeraOS, giving you a tailored experience more like SteamOS when Valve wasn't updating it.

• Steam finally gets easier to grab free stuff

  It seems Valve has made it easier to claim free stuff on the Steam store, so you no longer need to quickly try to install something free and back out of it to claim it. Seems this happened somewhat silently but it's obvious enough that no one is going to miss it.

• Valve improves Steam Deck offline mode with more to come

  Valve has put out a small upgrade for the Steam Deck in the Beta and Preview channels that seeks to improve the offline mode. This is a much needed fix.