According to YouTuber Dave2D who managed to get their hands on the Lenovo Legion Go S, the SteamOS version destroys Windows in performance and battery life.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-massively-beats-windows-on-the-legion-go-s/
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Firaxis are still working to improve Civilization VII, with a big update coming in June and a smaller update out now.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steam-workshop-support-comes-to-civilization-vii-in-june-with-a-new-update-out-now/
#Steam #Strategy #4X #Turnbasedstrategy #SteamDeck #NativeLinux
With a demo that's just been released and a full release date announced, Becoming Saint looks like a clever blending of genres. I actually love how this looks.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/becoming-saint-mixes-a-roguelike-with-a-mini-medieval-real-time-strategy/
#Steam #IndieGame #Upcoming #Roguelike #Demo #RTS #NativeLinux
Valve continue hammering away at the code for SteamOS to get it working nicely on more devices and hardware, with SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta bringing more fixes.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-3-7-9-beta-has-fixes-for-rog-ally-legion-go-s-booting-on-strix-point/
#Steam #Beta #SteamOS #Valve #Misc #SteamDeck #HandheldGaming #LegionGoS #ROGAlly
The big cross-over mod Lambda Fortress that puts the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries into Half-Life 2 and other Source campaigns is coming to Steam.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/putting-team-fortress-2-inside-half-life-2-lambda-fortress-is-coming-to-steam/
Quite a surprise. 1047 Games recently launched the free to play Splitgate 2 in Beta on Steam, initially with their anti-cheat RedKard blocking Desktop Linux but allowing the Steam Deck with SteamOS. Now they've tweaked it to allow Desktop Linux players in.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/splitgate-2-now-works-on-desktop-linux-with-the-anti-cheat-updated/
#Steam #FreeGame #FPS #Beta #Proton #OnlineMultiplayer #AntiCheat
Valve have launched the Zombies vs Vampires Fest on Steam running until June 2nd 5pm UTC. There's a number of nice games discounts, so here's some suggestions to go for that will work on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/zombies-vs-vampires-fest-is-live-on-steam-some-recommendations/
With Pooh now in the public domain, of course we're going to get some weird Winnie the Pooh games. Winnie's Hole sounds a bit…you know, but it's actually a clever sounding game from Twice Different who made Ring of Pain.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/play-as-a-virus-inside-winnie-the-pooh-in-winnies-hole-demo-out-now/
#Steam #IndieGame #Unity #Upcoming #DungeonCrawler #Roguelite #Proton
After the news recently that EA Codemasters were pausing development plans on future rally titles, we now know who will continue the series with it being back with NACON.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fia-world-rally-championship-wrc-games-return-to-nacon/
Cogs from Lazy 8 Studios originally released back in 2009, and gained a Native Linux version back with the Humble Indie Bundle 3 in 2011. Now, 16 years or so later, the developer has give it a small remaster.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/indie-puzzle-game-cogs-from-2009-gets-a-remaster/
On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-manager-for-bios-updates-tdp-and-gpu-clock-controls-now-open-source/
#OpenSource #SteamOS #Valve #Misc #SteamDeck #SourceCodeRelease
Cyan Worlds went back to their classics Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile to get them upgraded and also Steam Deck Verified at the same time.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/myst-masterpiece-edition-riven-1997-and-myst-iii-exile-get-upgraded-and-now-steam-deck-verified/
Into the Restless Ruins is a rather different dungeon crawler, one where you build the dungeon over time with a deck of cards you continue to gather and upgrade.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/into-the-restless-ruins-gets-you-to-deck-build-a-dungeon-and-then-explore-it/
#Review #Steam #IndieGame #DungeonCrawler #Proton #NewRelease #Deckbuilder #SteamDeck
Starship, the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 announced by the team who also made PC ports of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian) and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2 Ship 2 Harkinian), has a new release out which includes a Native Linux version.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fan-made-pc-port-of-star-fox-64-gets-a-linux-version-in-a-big-update/
The developer of the exploration climbing game Lorn's Lure is working on a new game named MEGANAUT, a 3rd person narrative horror and now there's a demo available with Linux support.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/3rd-person-narrative-horror-meganaut-from-the-dev-of-lorns-lure-gets-a-demo/
#IndieGame #Upcoming #Demo #Horror #Exploration #NativeLinux
OpenTESArena is an in-development open source game engine remake of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, with a big new release out now as the developer continues working towards making it actually playable.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/the-elder-scrolls-arena-remake-gets-jolt-physics-and-big-new-features/
Sometime in 2024 a publisher called BD Games was banned from Steam, taking with it numerous smaller games. Bioprototype from Emprom Game recently returned to Steam without a publisher, and it's free to claim and keep for a while.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/after-their-publisher-was-banned-from-steam-bioprototype-returns-and-its-free/
#Steam #IndieGame #FreeGame #Action #NewRelease #SteamDeck #NativeLinux
Brickadia has been an interesting project to follow, that combines some elements of Roblox with powerful creation systems along with an LEGO styled building system to create all sorts of things.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/brickadia-is-like-roblox-and-lego-combined-and-it-arrives-july-11/
#Steam #IndieGame #Upcoming #Sandbox #EarlyAccess #UnrealEngine #Proton #OnlineMultiplayer #SteamDeck
Out now in Early Access with Linux support, An Amazing Wizard brings an interesting spell mixing system to a Dead Cells-like action platformer.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/an-amazing-wizard-is-a-dead-cells-like-where-you-mix-spells-out-in-early-access/
#Steam #IndieGame #Action #Platformer #EarlyAccess #NewRelease #SteamDeck #NativeLinux
CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/corectrl-app-has-entered-maintenance-mode-with-no-new-features-coming/
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