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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Manic Digger	author	?
Phatman	QBlueSoft	?
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Halloween	Jadeware	2003
Open Surge	Open Sonic Team	2008	Gimacian the Dark wants to bring darkness to the world. He's kidnapping animals a perpetrating industrial havoc on Sunshine Paradise. Surge the Rabbit, Neon the Squirrel, and Charge the Badger Battle Gimacian and his underling Sharp the spikey thingy (could be a porcupine, echidna, or GASP a hedgehog). Surge, Neon, and Charge must cooperate to undo the damaged caused by Gimacian and Sharp and rescue their victims in this warp speed hop'n'bop with puzzle elements. Note, older version of the game were an advanced Sonic the Hedgehog clone.
Minecraft	Mojang	2011	[media=youtube]oG8ar_ieu7Y[/media]*GPL license is likely wrongly applied to this: [quote]Do not distribute anything I've made. This includes the client and the server software for the game. This also includes modified versions of anything I've made.[/quote] source: [url]http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp[/url] Also on the former DRM tag: [quote]Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM.[/quote] source: [url]http://www.minecraft.net/prepurchase.jsp[/url]Unlike the Windows and Mac versions, the Linux version is distributed as plain Java runtime (.jar archive) which is not Linux specific at all and can be run on any other platform with Java VM.Go prospecting for materials to build game world bricks and more advanced items (such as minecarts). Fend off enemy creatures. Also grow crops if you like.*Online play is free, offline play requires purchasing online play. The game is GPL and source code is freely available (so paying is not strictly required for anyone who modifies and compiles the code themselves. This is perfectly legal, though somewhat inconvenient)
From Dust	Ubisoft (Ubisoft Montpellier)	2012	Only playable on Linux via Chrome as GNaCl app.
Incredipede	Northway Games	2012	[media=youtube]TIxef7gelnI[/media]
Waking Mars	Tiger Style	2012
Lonely Ruins	VAR studio	2012	You are a robot on a rescue mision. The rescuer and the rescued are alone in a strange place. Good Luck!
Questminer	Evolution Game Studios	2012
Jorvick	TACS	2013
Judgement	Peter Porky	2013	An action-adventure RPG that regularly presents the player with choices. Often, none of the choices are good ones.
Lander: Mission Control	Budgie Games	2013
Monster Minis Extreme Off-Road	Mindwedge	2013	[screenshot] Monster Minis Extreme Off-Road, the initial offering from micro studio Mindwedge, lays on the nitrous in a big way and gets some serious air off with retro racing that takes off-road in new directions. But this is not a retread of past retro games. As an independent, this studio has been able to explore some very unique and unexpected racing challenges along with a mix of terra-firma themes. A retro look and a surreal style are only the beginning of the ways that this single-player title takes you back to when racing was a personal experience for as long as you could handle it. Lean and mean, this game puts you in the action fast and keeps you there, not in menus or watching pretty animations. With a whopping 90 tracks over 18 themes, you'll be racing for hours and hours before you finish this game on the first run. Think you're a hardcore racer? Not until you beat this game on hard difficulty where the AI are relentless and cut you absolutely no slack. But it's not all hardcore either. Easier difficulty modes add unexpected game mechanics to the mix, such as a feature called "Bully Truck" which lets you bash your way through the competition as if they were toys. Tested and proven, even a 5-year-old can have fun with this. [screenshot] [b]Are you ready to race?[/b] If you have a mouse in your hand you're all set to go racing. That makes this title accessible to everyone with a PC. In addition Monster Minis Extreme Off-Road supports all types of inputs, and even has an auto-setup routine to handle any type of wheel and pedals setup you have. Just follow the on-screen pop-up directions and you're ready to rock! [screenshot] [b]The Gameplay[/b] The action here is fast and furious and the trucks handle very well as you might expect from an arcade style racing game. There are 3 difficulty levels here ranging from "just finish the race" to "you must finish first to advance", and 2 basic racing modes. Arcade let's you run through all 90 tracks in succession if you just want to race. Competition mode adds a points and trophy system so you can keep track of how well you race, and in this case you can choose which races you want to run in what order. Starting with the initial level 1 performance upgrades and several models, paint and wheel choices, this game starts you off a bit easy, giving you time to adjust to what's going on. Terra-firma themes begin the action with auto-recharging nitrous and explosive "track mines" scattered about. But the explosive action doesn't stop with that. In a few themes the game throws the explosives such as laser-guided bombs, depth charges and meteor showers around the track and you have to avoid them to stay in the race. Performance upgrade levels ramp up fairly quickly so you have most of the performance features you want for the majority of the game, though you continue to unlock new models, paint and wheel styles throughout. Performance and appearance upgrades appear in an all-in-one menu that makes it easy to customized your ride quickly. Just when you think you have the first 9 of 18 track themes down everything gets more than a bit surreal as the themes switch to all-new types of racing. In the very next race volcanoes start throwing random explosive "firestones" around the track and each lap can be very different from the last. Some of the race challenges can get a bit trickier from this point on with game mechanics that include slippery oil pools, bouncing off of "Elastic Air' jumps, racing under water in a floaty environment, and even in light gravity on the moon. There's one theme in here called "Black Matrix" which is so out there that we can't describe it except to say that you should prepare to get some massive air here. And there's even more that you just have to see for yourself to believe. [screenshot] As an added twist halfway through the game, limo-style Monster Mini trucks are unlocked as an option. While you can still race the standard size trucks, these super long machines add a whole new dimension to the racing action. For the final 18 out of 90 race challenges you get access to double nitrous. If you thought things were flying up to now, you'll really be blown away with the massive bursts of speed here. Timing your nitrous use becomes even more important if you're going to win, making completing this game an unusual challenge. Also of note here is the autosave feature. There are no save game menus to navigate, further demonstrating the "stay in the action" philosophy of this game. Every race is tracked and saved so when you're done with your session, you just quit the game and you're on your way. This feature also records replays for you which you can watch as many times as you like, and even has a fast-forward button for some wild looking replay scenes. The menu system is lean and mean keeping you in the racing, but if you should take a break for more than 5 minutes the game won't wait up for you. It kicks into a demo mode and the game starts playing itself. [screenshot] [b]Sound and music[/b] As you might expect from an "explosive" and "extreme' racing game, and with your use of nitrous at every chance the feel of the action is absorbing. Each track theme has its own musical score which surprisingly ranges from classical to country, rock, industrial and techno music. Most of these scores are fast paced to encourage you to race hard, with few exceptions which are theme appropriate such as underwater racing. [screenshot] [b]Summary[/b] While on the surface this may appear to be a bare-bones racer as it is intended to be, it has a surprising amount of depth to its design and features, and provides many hours of racing experiences that are like no other game out today. Download the free demo, and find out where to get this game at: Monster Minis Extreme Off-Road Official Site**[b]The Game[/b][list][]Extreme off-road racing speeds []90 tracks - 3 skill levels []18 Unique/unreal track themes []Nitro glycerin injected hazards []Mouse Input controls standard []Optional wheel and joypad controls []Realistic suspension/game physics []Instant replay with user interface[/list][b]The Minis[/b][list][]Nitrous oxide injected power []Standard and limo style trucks []Speed shop custom add-ons []Player tunable vehicle settings []Huge off-road wheels & tires []Rugged solid-axle suspension []Automatic transmission [*]Tough and indestructible[/list]
Mort The Intern	Polymath Games	2013
PixelJunk Shooter	Double Eleven (Q-Games;Double Eleven)	2013
Herbut's House	Perpetual Pyramid	2014
Orcs Must Die!	Robot Entertainment	2014
Orcs Must Die! 2	Robot Entertainment	2014
Towers of Altrac - Epic Defense Battles	Cybertron Design Studios	2014	A tower defense game where the AI analyses weaknesses in your defense, or creates them, and reacts accordingly.
Not Without My Robots	Five Archers Corporation	2014	The planet is about to bombarded. In two minutes the last rocket leaves. But, on colonist is not leaving before collecting all of their robots.
Super Win The Game	Minor Key Games;IndieBox (Minor Key Games)	2014	Zelda II, Metroid, and Super Mario without swords or any weapons, epic music, extra lives, boss battles, life meter, destroyable enemies, cutting edge 8-bit graphics, or magic. What does it add for the things it lacks? Optionally, it can be experienced in CRT mode. CRT mode is everything bad about playing on old style TVs. Fuzzy moire hexagonal screen pixels, color bleeding, curved screen distortion, invisible overscan and rounded off image corners, motion blur/phosphor burn, reflections on the CRT frame. Even rolling screen, RF interference, and static make an appearance. But it's nostalgic... I think this might well be the only Linux game that has "action safe" and "title safe" design (google it). CRT mode is also tunable to better match the old TV players used when they had no other choice. Personally, I found CRT mode to be worth 15 seconds of enjoyment, then I switched it off. But, that's just my personal preference. Turning off CRT mode does not result in 'modern' graphics. Without the CRT mode, this game is about gameplay only. It also ads some sort of quasi-bonus, playable dream segments. Same gameplay but confusing transdimensional level design and dialog I cannot make any sense of. The author admits that the dream segments are about something deeply personal. With that, I expect few would understand. This is OK, the dream segments don't require the player do do anything except progress through them and the author hasn't decided to leave the gaming industry or threaten to (like some others have after their deeply personal game designing when uninterpreted). All sorts of game mechanics make up the game. Double-jumping, wall clinging, wall jumping, invisible structures, switch-on platforms, etc... Each one needs to be earned. Each new ability opens more areas to explore and more places to discover when revisiting. And to make 100% completion, full expert use of each mechanic will be required. There are no map spoilers. The in-game mapping falls somewhere between Metroid and Super Metroid. There is no in-game map item to reveal areas you've missed. Get out your oldskol grid paper and start making checklists if you want to do a 100% completion of the game. Once again, this seems a deliberate feature to invoke nostalgia. Speedruns are also added to the mix. Complete with online leader boards. Finally, death is instant, likley frequet, but not costly. Everything kills the player without HP, shield, or mercy. The player cannot eliminate enemies at all, only earn better methods to avoid them. In contrast, pretty much every door is a retry point. In short, I you like(d) NES games, SWTG is for you. If you've never played NES games and are curious, SWTG is for you.
Shovel Knight	Yacht Club Games	2014	Play as an honorable knight trained in the code of shovelry. Fight the rogue knights of The Order of No Quarter, defeat the evil Enchantress, and save your girlfriend.
Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows	Yacht Club Games	2014
Poi	Polykid	2015
Truecraft	author	2015	Created by reverse engineering Minecraft beta 1.7.3. It is Minecraft with all the basic features. Dig up resources, cultivate resources, craft stuff, and things.
Terraria	author (Re-Logic)	2015	Several fans have unofficially ported the game to Linux. All of these ports are quite playable. Re-Logic is developing an official port.
Alice's Mom's Rescue	Orion_	2016
BUTCHER	TransHuman Directive	2016
Hot Lava	Klei Entertainment	2016
King Lucas	DevilishGames;Spherical Pixel (DevilishGames)	2016
Lavapools	Plug In Digital (4EdgesGames;Visumeca)	2016
Magma Tsunami	StrangeLight Games	2016
Ori and the Blind Forest	Moon Studios	2016	Microsoft is directly preventing this game from being released.
Starbound	Chucklefish	2016
AM2R: Return of Samus	Project AM2R	2016	A Metroid II remake with features from Super Metroid, Zero Mission, and Prime. Ten years in development, it was released on Metroid's 30th anniversary. Guide Samus through Alpha, Gamma, Zeta and Omega to defeat all the Metroids. No linear gameplay here, back track and skip ahead as desired and/or needed. Battle new mini-bosses and participate in some entirely new gameplay with new power-ups to match (effectively two major minigames) and new areas to explore, a map to help and mission logs to follow the narrative. New enemies and scenery as well. Some enemies are faster and smarter.***ESC - Options Menu F11 - Show FPS F12 - Capture Screenshot Alt+Enter - Toggle Fullscreen Alt+F4 - Exit Game XBox 360 controllers are automatically detected (if properly installed on your system) Other gamepads require players to press the "Back" button. This button can be changed, somehow.
Lava Problems	Exaton	2017
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment	Yacht Club Games	2017
JETBROS	Weltrom Studios	2017
Maia	Machine Studios (Mode 7 Games)	2018
Darksiders II	Nordic Games (Vigil Games)	TBA
Voxatron	Lexaloffle	TBA

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