Games to Play on Your Linux Machine

Relive the award-winning strategy game franchise's history. Total War: Rome Remastered comes in 4K resolution with a variety of visual and gameplay improvements. New high-resolution models have been added to the campaign maps, and troops have been rebuilt and retextured to look their best on the battlefield. The in-game camera has been upgraded in Campaign mode, featuring map rotation and a better zoom level. In a Total War first, you may now engage your chosen faction against friends in cross-platform multiplayer across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Wildermyth

Developer: Worldwalker Games LLC
Genre: Indie, RPG, Strategy

Follow heroes through their whole careers, from early days to mighty primes, and all the way to old age and oblivion. It's a procedural narrative RPG with a party-based fighting system in which tactical combat and story choices change your environment and modify your cast of characters. Every game, new heroes are born in distinct surroundings, similar to tabletop gaming. They get older, change, fall in love, dispute, and so on, and make devastating sacrifices.

Escape Simulator

Developer: Pine Studio, Pine Studio D.O.O.
Genre: Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

A first-person puzzler that can be played solo or in internet co-op, it works best with 2-3 people but may be played with more. Discover a series of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, take everything up and inspect everything, destroy pots, and break locks. If you enjoy escape rooms and solving riddles, this is a game you should have in your collection.

WorldBox - God Simulator

Developer: Maxim Karpenko
Genre: Indie, Strategy, Simulation

A god simulator as well as a sandbox game. Using various powers, you may create your own universe or destroy it. Watch civilizations evolve, build kingdoms, conquer new territories, and sail to distant continents. Towns will revolt, and empires will crumble. You have the option of assisting them or simply watching them battle.

Unpacking

Developer: Witch Beam
Genre: Indie, Puzzle, Simulation

A new zen game about the familiar feeling of taking items out of boxes and rearranging them in a new house. You are asked to construct a fulfilling living place while gathering hints about the life you are unpacking. Its gameplay is meditative, with no clocks, meters, or scores. While stacking plates, hanging towels, and arranging bookcases, you may explore household spaces with all of their nooks and crannies. Discover a character's narrative through the objects she brings with her to each new house and those she leaves behind. The soundtrack was composed by a BAFTA-winning composer.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder

Developer: Konfa Games
Genre: Strategy, RPG

Guide a ragtag army of humans through a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your crew and sacrifice them as you combat foes and other players in randomized dungeons. Choose your treasure and turn the squishy people into wizards, cultists, ninjas, and a slew of other heroes, including the legendary stale pretzel throwers. There are countless of ways to assemble your army using perks and class combinations.

Valheim

Developer: Iron Gate AB
Genre: Survival, Indie, RPG, Adventure, Shooter, Sandbox, Fighting

The Valkyries have carried your spirit to Valheim, the tenth Norse realm, as a battle-slain warrior. You are the newest caretaker of the primeval purgatory, besieged by monsters of chaos and old foes of the gods, entrusted with defeating Odin's ancient adversaries and restoring order to Valheim. Your struggles begin in Valheim's deceptively tranquil centre, yet the gods reward the courageous, and grandeur awaits. Explore and inhabit fascinating environments, from dark woods to majestic snow-capped mountain ranges and breath-taking meadows, each with its own legendary animals to combat and fauna to hunt. Valheim allows autonomous, player-hosted servers and infinite world building, so you can traverse the regions alone or with trusted companions.

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Developer: Square One Games Inc., Black Isle Studios
Genre: Action, RPG, Dungeon, Fantasy, Singleplayer, Local Co-Op

Thrusts into an epic Dungeons & Dragons adventure full with furious action, sophisticated riddles and ominous intrigue, where your mastery of cold steel and destructive spells is the only thing between you and ultimate evil. You can Battle alone or join a teammate in two-player cooperative mode. It features Fantasy violence and scantily dressed ladies.

The Jackbox Party Pack 8

Developer: Jackbox Games
Genre: Party, Trivia

The eighth instalment of the popular Jackbox Party Pack series is here! Your next game night, holiday party, happy hour, or video call will be energised by these five new games. No extra controls needed – participants use their phones or tablets to play along! Do you have a larger group? Play with up to ten players and a crowd of up to 10,000 people. Drawful, Animate, Job, The Poll Mine, Weapons Drawn, and The Wheel of Enormous Proportions are among the new party games.