https://boilingsteam.com PC Gaming on Linux is so Tomorrow! Copyright 2026 Boiling Steam Sun, 1 Nov 2026 03:05:14 +0900 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification SSG https://boilingsteam.com https://boilingsteam.com/android-chrome-192x192.png 192 192 Between 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-31 we selected 17 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The highlight for this week is Sulfur, a great extraction shooter that also brings a lot of gun customization on the table. And then for the calmer ones, we have another take at the Papers Please genre with Probably Stolen where you play a shopkeeper in a cyberpunk-y future. It goes pretty deep into the actual details of the job, and provides a lot of choices throughout the story. Our full selection is below. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-10-31-edition/index.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:01:43 +0000 Between 2026-10-21 and 2026-10-28 there were 152 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1241 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.2 % of total released titles. A lot of titles but a lot of shovelware as well. We went thru the garbage to find out some gems in the lot. There’s The Mailroom which is some kind of job simulation, adventure game, that’s fairly short but will leave you with some memorable moments. More games and full details below. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-10-28-edition/index.html Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:36:52 +0000 Between 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-24 we selected 8 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The obvious pick for the past week is Final Fantasy Resonance which is not only a new Final Fantasy (not a n-th remake!) but also not a stinky pile a shit, which is in itself an achievement for a Final Fantasy game these days. It’s actually quite good and will remind you of older titles in the series, you know, when the series used to be good! Another pick is Bruisers 2D Boxing which is much more like a boxing simulator than the trailer might suggest. It will probably a little repetitive but that may the closest thing to a faithful boxing related game you will get. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-10-24-edition/index.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:04:10 +0000 My full title for this review was: “I accidentally married my heir to the youngest daughter of the Badajoz’s king and now I get to rule Lisbon.” I always wanted to title something like those Korean novels. Now I can remove that from my bucket list thanks to Crown of Hispania, a simplified grand strategy game by Regalis Studio published by indie.io that focuses on the Iberian Peninsula. It works on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton. Calling it simplified is a disservice. For two reasons. One, if you are coming from Paradox games, like Europa Universalis, the game at first glance might seem to be offering less, in terms of size and options of things to do, but Crown of Hispania has some depth. Second, it is not as simple as it could be, because in its current state it is hard to find the things you want to do within the menus (and I hope they improve this). The scope of the game is the Iberian Peninsula starting in the earlier 1000s, long after the Moors conquered the land, right when the Christians realized they do not like a heterogenous land and started pushing away people from the land. The game starts with a balance that anyone can take power, but events might favor the people that knows their story well. https://boilingsteam.com/crown-of-hispania/index.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:14:35 +0000 One of my earlier memories of video games was choosing an arcade machine that would make my coin last longer. If possible a game that was enjoyable to pass the time. That usually meant Metal Slug. I only finished that game years later when it came out for console with infinite continues. I guess not finishing a game with a single coin makes me a casual, but I am glad that I could finally enjoy the full story and experience everything the game had to offer. I don’t have a memory of Thunder Hoop in the arcades nearby the outskirts where I grew up, but from what I read it seemed to be popular in some places. Made in 92 by Gaelco, a Spanish arcade game company that proceeded to make Thunder Hoop 2 or TH Strikes Back in 94. Both titles make this collection put together by QUByte Interactive a Brazilian company that has been dedicating their time to revive some obscure arcade titles through its product line QUByte Classics. https://boilingsteam.com/thunderhoopcollection/index.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:53:38 +0000 We have already received and talked about the OrangePi 6 Plus several times. It’s an awesome ARM64 system with a lot of power under the hood, akin to what you find on modern laptops in terms of performance, it can even run some fairly demanding X86_64 games with Box64! I was always a little sad that it sat naked on my table without a proper cover, so I purchased an aluminium case (I guess the only one?) on Aliexpress to see if it could not be a good match for it. It’s litterally made for it, so it had to! Note that this is NOT something that we were provided, and this is not an ad. Just wanted to share my impressions if you considered buying this case. Turns out, it’s a great case. It’s very light, as expected, but protects well the board that fits perfectly inside. You only need 4 screws to attach the main board, and there are two openings (one on the top of the board, and one on the side) that ensure that air will flow nicely to cool the SoC. I did not notice, under operation, an increase in noise profile so I am assuming the case has no negative impact on the air flow. All ports are clearly labelled, which is very practical. You get holes for other important functions like the micro-SD card port, the audio jack, and the power button. The board comes with a small attachment to make the power button very easy to click. One of the side of the board has a dark glass, which I presume is to allow for a remote infrared control to be used with this board. If you use this device as a media player, this is a great feature so that you can use a relatively cheap IR remote to control what’s happening on a large screen without having to plug a mouse or a gamepad. https://boilingsteam.com/a-nice-case-the-orange-pi-6-plus/index.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:23:15 +0000 Between 2026-10-10 and 2026-10-17 we selected 16 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. This week quite a few good titles, with Enshrouded reaching 1.0 and being widely recognized as great solo/multiplayer survival action RPG (with base building). If you are looking for something more relaxing, Over the Hill takes you offroad across challenging terrains, one more time either solo or with friends. Finally, there’s a new entry in the Warhammer 40k series with the sequel Boltgun 2, a pixel-art shooter that improved on most of the issues from the first opus. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-10-17-edition/index.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:35:15 +0000 We have been covering the Nintendo Switch emulation for years, because it’s a cool topic on the technical side, and has interesting legal ramifications as well. Emulation has pretty much always been considered legal as long as it’s done in a clean room fashion, but that did not prevent the two main Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Ryujinx, to be struck down one after the other by legal threats from Nintendo. Nintendo is an evil company who ignores any notion of fair use and systematically attacks even small fan projects. So my advice is always, don’t give them your fucking money. Today, it’s time to see if the takedowns from Nintendo on Switch emulators have proven to be effective in the end. It’s now been two years since both Yuzu and Ryujinx have officially closed shop. But those are FOSS projects in the first place. There is a saying that good FOSS never dies, it just hibernates until someone else picks it up. So did they ultimately survive in any shape or form? https://boilingsteam.com/did-nintendo-kill-switch-emulation-the-state-of-yuzu-ryujinx-and-their-forks-in-2026/index.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:36:51 +0000 Between 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-14 there were 105 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 768 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 13.7 % of total released titles. The highlight is a retro-looking game making you build stuff around cars in Car park Capital, published by Microprose. And then you have Hungry Horrors mixing old English tales with deckbuilding mechanics. All details below and a lot more games! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-10-14-edition/index.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:04:22 +0000 In Iron Nest, you have a job: you are in charge of a huge mobile cannon, and you have to precisely shoot enemies of the state on demand. Everything is in first person mode. You live inside the Iron Nest cannon, you even have a cat, and some music (vinyl) and a coffee machine to keep you entertained between the different missions. Because of the sheer power of your machine, your ability to destroy enemies from a far way distance is proving to be a decisive factor in the battles to come. Battles, you said? Don’t worry, you won’t see them. You are in a comfortable position, away from the danger. Like someone else said in a popular TV Show, YOU are the danger. The war takes place in alternate-history Spain in the late 1920s, with Dieselpunk elements, as you can guess from the design of the Iron Nest. https://boilingsteam.com/iron-nest-review-on-linux-and-steam-deck/index.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:49:26 +0000 This one was sitting in the backlog for a while. Now we have time to get to it! Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-23 there were 70 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 667 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 10.5 % of total released titles. The highlight is probably for me Stuntboost which is a cool physics based game about racing on cardboards and bedroom environments. There’s also Deified, a highly rated roguelite tactics game with a clever set of rules. It is going out of Early Access with additional difficulty modifiers. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-23-edition/index.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:43:12 +0000 So this time this is going to be a different kind of hardware review. Not a keyboard. Not gaming handheld. Not a powerful ARM64 SBC that can game. Today, it’s about the Radxa Linkr, which appears just like a regular HDMI adapter, with a few usb-c ports, one on the side and one at the back. In technical terms, it’s what we call an IP KVM remote control device. Radxa is not unique in that space, but the Linkr is very affordable device considering what it can do. It’s also possible to build you own, if you want to go down that route. And commercially you can also find JetKVM, albeit more pricey. The Radxa Linkr sits just in between: affordable, and featureful, while being plug’n play. https://boilingsteam.com/radxa-linkr-review/index.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:02:09 +0000 Gaijin Entertainment is a famous publisher and developer that you probably know if you have ever played stuff like War Thunder, Enlisted or Crossout. So, Gaijin has just launched their new title, Active Matter in September 2026, and it’s a “multiverse extraction shooter”. Yes, that’s a genre nowadays! And we are talking about it also because it has a native build for Linux that runs pretty well. More on that later. Rather than a full review, I plan to share my impressions of the game so far. I have not been able to spend much time in PvP mode (probably not enough players in my time-zone) so this will deserve a follow-up article later on. https://boilingsteam.com/active-matter-review-on-linux-and-steam-deck/index.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:15:02 +0000 Between 2026-10-03 and 2026-10-10 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of good stuff in this week, with the latest game from Jonathan Blow (known for Braid and Witness), Order of the Sinking Star. If you like puzzles you’ll be served a bunch with that one! For my part I’d go wityh Silver Pines, an action-adventure game taking a bunch of inspiration from Silent Hill and Lynch in general. Seems extremely well made. Full details below. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-10-10-edition/index.html Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:20:32 +0000 Between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-07 there were 107 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 735 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 14.6 % of total released titles. This week our selection is quite short despite the large initial pool of games. Worth noting is Toy Shire, a tower defense game in a very nice package. Let’s not forget Train Station Tycoon that is still early but shows some great promise. Find details for those 2 and more games below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-10-07-edition/index.html Fri, 9 Oct 2026 15:37:09 +0000 Between 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-30 there were 128 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1022 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.5 % of total released titles. Nothing super exciting in this week but a few good titles here and there, such as Radiotext. Also it’s worth mentioning The Great Release (free) as a good source of laughs! Full list and details below: https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-30-edition/index.html Sun, 4 Oct 2026 13:32:42 +0000 Timur Kristof is a open-source graphics developer and electrical engineer working as a subcontractor for Valve. He used to work on SailfishOS (Jolla), before starting his work on several parts of Mesa, the open graphics drivers stack on Linux. He used his XDC 2026 talk, streamed by the X.Org Foundation on September 30, 2026, to report that decade-old AMD graphics cards now run cleanly on the modern amdgpu driver. The work closed long-standing gaps in display output, video encode and decode, and crash recovery across the GCN generations. https://boilingsteam.com/older-amd-gp-us-get-a-second-life-in-linuxs-amdgpu-driver/index.html Sun, 4 Oct 2026 17:11:42 +0000 Brigador Killers is a Sci-Fi top-down isometric insurgent (or terrorist depending on whom you ask) simulator, made and published by Stellar Jockeys. It works great with Proton for Linux PCs and the Steam Deck. https://boilingsteam.com/brigador-killers/index.html Sun, 4 Oct 2026 14:01:48 +0000 Between 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-30 we selected 19 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of games, and in there you have the excellent Stick it to the Stickman which is a physics-based brawler, very creative. Note that it has some performance problems on the Deck despite its Verified status. Thre’s also Dicevaders that build on the Balatro model, in a nice new package. Full list and details below! Here’s what we could find: https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-30-edition/index.html Thu, 1 Oct 2026 16:30:55 +0000 Valve has just recently shipped SteamOS 3.8.28 stable, and this is a major update for the Steam Deck, but not only. https://boilingsteam.com/steam-os-3-8-28-is-a-big-update/index.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:59:05 +0000 There are quite a few gems out there when it comes to classic shooters, and R-Type series is extremely popular if you had the chance to live in the 80s. R-Type was a go-to arcade side-scroller shoot’em up where you control a small spaceship, attacking waves of enemies called the Bydo, and at the end of each level you get to fight huge bosses before you can move to the next one. It had novel mechanics letting you have a shield (called the Force) move around independently from your ship (you can detach it anytime from your ship, but it will also make you vulnerable). This is not a bullet hell game (that came later with games in the 90s like DonPachi and DonDonPachi). Here, you have ample time to see bullets coming. Not saying it’s easy though, because a single bullet will kill you. Numerous ports were made in 8 bit and 16 bits machines at the time, some better than the others. Today we are reviewing a modern take on a retro opus from the series, R-Type Dimensions III. The concept is dead simple: take R-Type III: The Third Lightning, the 1993 Super Famicom swan song of Irem’s legendary series, and rebuild it for modern hardware without touching the core design. The Bydo are back, the R-90 Ragnarok is in your hands, and you have six stages to go through a biomechanical nightmare. Still a challenge thirty years later. Maybe more so, since most games have become easier on average. https://boilingsteam.com/r-type-dimensions-iii-review/index.html Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:31 +0000 Between 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-26 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The biggest title of the week is Well Dweller, which is apparently one of the best metroidvanias ever made, on par with Hollow Knight if I am to trust what the reviewers are saying. The trailer does certainly look good and make convince you further. Full list and details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-26-edition/index.html Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:59:24 +0000 Oh my God we are so late with this one, but since there were quite a few good games released in that week, better late than never! Between 2026-08-12 and 2026-08-19 there were 131 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1017 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.9 % of total released titles. In that week, I would have chosen to highlight Dreamcards. It’s a card game where card interactions generate emergent story beats. It gives rise to a bunch of unexpected combos, and it has a Palworld meets Slay the Spire vibes! Honarable mention to I.T. Never Ends, framing a the desk-job around absurd IT tickets, with GLaDOS-tier voice acting and a lot of secrets to uncover. Full details and more games below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-19-edition/index.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:36:15 +0000 It’s 2026, you are one of the biggest Japanese publishers, and you just realized that in a few months down the road there’s the TGS 2026, and you don’t have no plans for it. I mean, you have a couple of news, but nothing worth filling a huge booth that we usually go for. Never mind that! Sega didn’t have a lot this year. It was fairly obvious and their only real new title was Stranger than Heaven which is some kind of spinoff from the Yakuza (Like a Dragon) franchise. It was too early for Persona 6, and the only thing they could do is to throw a P6 teaser with nothing in it back in June 2026 ahead of the show. There’s Crazy Taxi World Tour but it was so low key that they had to put it on the side. Don’t get me wrong, this multiplayer Crazy Taxi has a good chance of being a fun game, but nobody came to TGS to see that. https://boilingsteam.com/tgs-2026-persona-4-revival/index.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:24:58 +0000 Learn how to produce music with OFFBEAT, both a game and a music creating platform developed by Whetstone Games and published by Pantaloon. Works great on Steam Deck (Playable) and on Linux with Proton. The game starts with your uncle gifting you a music sequencer, and then asks you to create a ringtone with it. You plug your tiger keyboard (not a musical cat toy) and start making music with them. The music sequencer is your main producing tool allows you to set some inputs, pick the notes you want to play from each input and at which time they should play. It also allows you to set beats per minute, and the key of the composition. Once you are satisfied, you can save it to a cassette tape. The initial keyboard, for a toy, it is quite robust, it can mimic a piano, an organ, it also makes meows and engine revving sounds. There is a limit of 3 notes input at a time to create chords. By clicking on it, you can go to an interface that let you play it, or tweak its settings (which kind of sound you want it to make). But you don’t need to play the instrument, the sequencer will take care of that. https://boilingsteam.com/offbeat/index.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:12:12 +0000 I wandered into the eXtremeRate booth at the recent Tokyo Games Show 2026 expecting the usual: more remap kits, more back paddles for controllers I already own too many of. But my eyes caught something on the wall: a Steam Controller with an all-white shell on it, and honestly? My first thought was “Wait, Valve made white?” They didn’t. eXtremeRate did it themselves. And here’s the part that matters: this isn’t a faceplate sticker or some kind of half-assed cosmetic crap. It’s a complete replacement shell. Every single outer panel of the Steam Controller swapped out in one go. Same trick they’ve been pulling on the Steam Deck for years with their full-set shells, where you replace front plate, back plate and buttons as a whole kit instead of hoping your old plastic never ages or cracks. And to be honest, even though my Steam Deck always rests firmly into its case when I am not using it, it’s developed some micro-cracks and some rashes here and there, so sooner or later I may have to swap its shell if I really care about its looks. I’m guessing the same will probably happen with the Steam Controller sooner or later. https://boilingsteam.com/tgs-2026-a-steam-controller-with-a-white-shell/index.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:33:20 +0000 How long is too long before something “gets good”? The first few episodes of a TV series? 50 pages of a novel? What about 5-10 hours of a ~30-hour game? At what point do you give up on something, not sure if it is you or it? That was my dilemma in playing the highly lauded Blue Prince, a 2025 indie puzzle “roguelite” game from developers Dogubomb. I had heard good things, and even if I don’t play much in the puzzle genre, it had some familiar mechanics (roguelite, strategy, deck drafting sort of). So I was excited to have a review copy. But it just never landed for me, never making it to something I wanted to see through. And really, I dreaded a run ending to start a new one, the opposite of what any run-based game needs. I was waiting to get over an early hump to see the game open up, but I couldn’t, or wouldn’t, make it over. Drafting a room, with red ones generally a negative, but at least the Chapel gives you a path forward. You can’t rotate the placement. (Screenshots are all from the Steam Deck.) In browsing the community a little, I found I wasn’t alone, if a clear minority. And that doesn’t make it a “bad” game by any means. More like one that didn’t hit for me, because of me (and the genre?) and its own missteps, I would say. There’s a lot that is well done, new, and intriguing in Blue Prince, that I might one day try again. Right now, though, I don’t want to walk through the random corridors of Mt. Holly, not to unravel a mystery, not to unlock more of the game, and not to see if it really gets that good. It has had my time, and I’m not getting that back. https://boilingsteam.com/blue-prince-review/index.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:03:50 +0000 This one is a few days late too but we are catching up after the TGS! Between 2026-09-09 and 2026-09-16 there were 100 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 980 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 10.2 % of total released titles. First I’d like to highlight Knuckle Jet which is a new action ricochet platformer from the makers of Teslagrad, produced with top-notch stop-motion like animation. And there’s also Throttle Race, where you are in control of a F1-like car but only play with brakes and acceleration as your two main variables. It does not mean it’s easy! And it manages to be addicting with a carreer mode that goes into more depth than you’d expect. Full details and more games below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-16-edition/index.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:26:50 +0000 A few days ago we went to the Tokyo Games Show 2026 and as expected, we were able to see the new model from ROG/ASUS, the Xbox Ally X20. Why 20? Well, ROG celebrates their 20th year anniversary so the model gets the 20 from there. They had a huge booth at the TGS 2026, even bigger than last year’s, with a large number of X20 units to try hands-on. https://boilingsteam.com/rog-xbox-ally-x20-at-the-tokyo-games-show-2026-improving-further/index.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:42:29 +0000 Between 2026-09-12 and 2026-09-19 we selected 14 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. This time Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter stands out in the list, with a very well executed remake that makes the original look like an amateurish title. It works very well on the Steam Deck as well. Full details below as well as other games we selected: https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-19-edition/index.html Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:51:12 +0000 This article is running a little late because of the Tokyo Games Show preparations that were undergoing over the past few weeks! Between 2026-09-02 and 2026-09-09 there were 83 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 647 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.8 % of total released titles. You should definitely not miss Beetle Ball if you liked Rocket League, it seems to be a worthy renewal of the concept now with bugs instead of cars! Another excellent contender for your attention should be Rogue Blight which follows the formula of Slay the Spire very closely yet with a different execution. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-09-edition/index.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:37:54 +0000 It’s September and as usual we will be covering the Tokyo Games Show later in this week, as it takes place September 17–21, at the Makuhari Messe. This year should be somewhat special with the 30 years anniversary of the show! This makes it one of the longest running video games shows around the world. Many others have stopped midway (ECTS, E3…) and the TGS has had a fairly stable or even increasing attendance over the past few years. So what’s new in this year? https://boilingsteam.com/tokyo-game-show-2026-what-to-expect/index.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:47:27 +0000 So there was an accidental leak of LTT’s first experience with the Steam Frame, apparently released at the wrong time (wink wink, we know what you guys did there). It was made private again soon after, but not fast enough to avoid copies from circulating. Well, good for everyone who wanted to know more what to expect without waiting further. Since we have had a quick look at this video, here’s what you should know (pending final confirmation of other reviewers, of course). The biggest wow effect of the Steam Frame according to LTT seems to be the elimination of the cables: “my life just went wireless”. He makes that point over and over again in this video. https://boilingsteam.com/ltt-leaks-steam-frames-first-look-ahead-of-schedule/index.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:49:32 +0000 Between 2026-09-05 and 2026-09-12 we selected 13 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The big news is Valheim coming out of Early Access after years of development and tweaking. I played it quite a bit in coop when it was first released, and it was already a solid game then, so I can only imagine how much it has progressed since then. There’s also the very peculiar Welcome to Elderfield that mixes horror, farming, lofi music and pixel art. What a mix! Full details below. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-12-edition/index.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:20:43 +0000 OrangePi has kindly sent us a new board to test, the OrangePi Zero 3W. Our last review with OrangePi hardware was the OrangePi 4 Pro SBC - a powerful, low wattage board, low-cost alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5 (while a little less powerful). This time the Zero 3W sits in a very different category. It’s absolutely tiny, and it’s hard to believe that this thing actually has pretty much the same hardware specs as the larger OrangePi 4 Pro! https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-zero-3w-review-tiny-yet-powerful/index.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:07:49 +0000 It’s going to be somewhat of a long story. https://boilingsteam.com/steins-gate-re-boot-review/index.html Wed, 9 Sep 2026 10:07:23 +0000 Between 2026-08-29 and 2026-09-05 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The big game of the past week is Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the long-awaited return the Capcom franchise from the 90s (PS1 players should remember it very well). It’s received the Resident Evil Reboot treatment, and last year I played it at the TGS 2025 and I found it very well done, while the regular enemies were a bit generic. Moonlighter 2 is also out, and while the overall reception is positive, fans of the first opus are divided by the direction taken by this new episode. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-05-edition/index.html Sun, 6 Sep 2026 12:12:22 +0000 Between 2026-08-26 and 2026-09-02 there were 110 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 825 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 13.3 % of total released titles. Somewhat of an increasing percentage, some might say… in any case my favorite of the week if Dirtnap, which is essentially Worms in real-time, on steroids, with jetpacks! It has some optimization problems at the moment but once fixed this will be a real blast for everyone. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-02-edition/index.html Sat, 5 Sep 2026 17:20:41 +0000 Prevent harmful individuals from leaving Area 51 as a security guard in Security 51, a game developed and published by Alawar. It works great with Proton on both Steam Deck (Verified) and on desktop. https://boilingsteam.com/security-51/index.html Sat, 5 Sep 2026 17:36:44 +0000 Between 2026-08-22 and 2026-08-29 we selected 15 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of indie titles, like Smack Talk, an multiplayer fighting game where you use your voice to attack your opponents (!), and there’s also the big AAA type of title with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, a prequel to the Plague Tale games. A lot of good stuff packed in a single week! Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-29-edition/index.html Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:36:59 +0000 Between 2026-08-19 and 2026-08-26 there were 131 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1051 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.5 % of total released titles. It’s worth checking T.W.I.R.L., an ASCII-art bullet-hell roguelike where your android companion carries persistent injury and trauma between runs. And there’s SENSORY OVERLOAD, a psychedelic dropper that ADHD and autistic players specifically report as inducing calm and focus despite being visually overwhelming. Full list below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-26-edition/index.html Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:35:32 +0000 Between 2026-08-15 and 2026-08-22 we selected 18 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. Two highlights for the past week, with How to Fish, a brilliant co-op chaotic that drives immediate fun and has great replay value. And there’s Twister Tower which can best be described as a a retro Bioshock set inside a Carnival. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-22-edition/index.html Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:53:14 +0000 Between 2026-08-08 and 2026-08-15 we selected 6 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. No huge release but a lot of nice smaller games that make it for the end of the summer. I’d like to highlight Servant of the Lake, a new entry in the Rusty Lake series, with great puzzles and packing a good story and upgraded visuals. And there’s also Sandustry that takes the concept of Noita with pixel-based physics and adds automation on top of it. Here’s what we could find: https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-15-edition/index.html Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:19:15 +0000 Between 2026-08-05 and 2026-08-12 there were 81 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 616 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 13.1 % of total released titles. This week’s pick is certainly Sovereign Tower since it’s another inventive choose your destiny adventure game where you are in charge of your kingdom. This time, you can backtrack on choices made before to achieve better results. Highly praised by gamers so far. Full list of games worthy of your consideration below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-12-edition/index.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:40:13 +0000 There are quite a few games inspired by Chess on Steam these days, most of them trying to turn the traditional 64 square games into something a bit more fun and approachable by adding timers or power-ups, and shit like that. I was caught off guard since I am a regular chess player and I was intrigued by Gambonanza, that takes the familiar chess pieces and their moves and put them in a totally different context with different victory conditions. In each level, you have to capture every single piece on increasingly chaotic boards while managing your boosts, bonuses and pieces that you collect in your reserve. The concept is simple: you’re playing chess, but the board starts tiny (roughly 4×6 tiles), pieces can literally fall off the edges if left unmoved too long (some tiles disappear after a while!), and victory means eliminating every enemy unit rather than checkmating a king. https://boilingsteam.com/gambonanza-review/index.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:15:03 +0000 Last time we had our regular checkpoint was in June 2026 and you may recall we observed that CachyOS was not only in the 1st spot on ProtonDB for desktop distros, but kept growing further, eating Arch Linux’s own share. So how have things changed since then? Before we take a look at the chart, the usual disclaimer that you love: - This may not be representative of all types of Linux users. I’m sure this is not what your AWS architect uses on EC2, nor what you installed for your grandmother to avoid being the IT troubleshooter in your family. - This may not be completely representative of all Linux gamers either. But I’d wage this is actually a good predictor where the market is going to shift. We saw first that Manjaro was getting the boot here first, before going under pretty much everywhere. https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-king-now-and-the-distro-world-settles/index.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:21:06 +0000 Between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-08 we selected 8 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The highlight is Iron Nest, that puts you in the middle of a huge turret capable of firing very large explosives. You get orders, and you need to adjust numerous parameters to hit the target with high accuracy. Very well done and unique in concept. Let’s not forget the new Stardew Valley clone, Fields of Mistria, that we already mentioned in our previous article about recently released games with native builds. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-08-edition/index.html Sat, 8 Aug 2026 17:12:03 +0000 Between 2026-07-29 and 2026-08-05 there were 138 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 926 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 14.9 % of total released titles. A high percentage, with the spiritual successor of Stardew Valley, Fields of Mistria - which has been very well received so far, apparently superior to its inspiration in almost every aspect. Full details below! https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-05-edition/index.html Fri, 7 Aug 2026 17:30:15 +0000 Between 2026-07-25 and 2026-08-01 we selected 16 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of titles in this weekm and I think you should check Sephiria, since it’s an action game that uses inventory management as a puzzle mechanic. It makes you optimize your build instead of simply stacking bonuses and boosts. And it looks very well made all around, too. Another one worth a mention is Kusan City of Wolves which is a new take on the hotline miami genre! Full details below. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-08-01-edition/index.html Sun, 2 Aug 2026 09:43:50 +0000