Between 2025-01-29 and 2025-02-05 there were 17 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 104 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 16.3 % of total released titles. There’s a good stream of good games again this week, with Dead Letter Dept. taking the crown with a very original idea: typing lost letters for a data entry job, leading to uncovering things happening in the city…

There’s a lot more to check, so here’s the list of what we selected:

AETHER COLLECTOR

Released on 5 Feb, 2025, developed by Magory.net, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Adventure, Indie

About the game: A surreal point-and-click adventure about harvesting mysterious Aether in an abandoned town. As a new corporate hire, explore a reality-bending anomaly, uncover dark secrets, and confront existential horrors while questioning the true nature of your mission.

RED TOWER

Released on 5 Feb, 2025, developed by Dream4team and published by Dream4Team. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie

About the game: Master new powers as you face hordes of demons in intense battles in a frenetic top-down action shooter with rogue-lite elements. Fight against the darkness consuming the tower and uncover mysteries capable of saving or dooming everything around you.

STARLIGHT LEGACY

Released on 5 Feb, 2025, developed by Decafesoft and published by Eastasiasoft Limited, . [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Indie, RPG

About the game: Explore the vast Evaria Kingdom in this 16-bit JRPG adventure. As the fate of the kingdom hangs in balance, three warriors are tasked with finding the Starlight Relics scattered across the Forest, Mountain, Desert, and Sky Provinces. Collect the four relics in any order in this non-linear retro RPG.

LONELY TINY SPACESHIP

Released on 4 Feb, 2025, developed by Lonely bro, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Indie, Early Access

About the game: A shooter in the space arena, in which you grow from a small, clumsy to a powerful capital spaceship, using resources obtained from destroyed hordes of enemies and other cosmic evil.

SAUNA OF THE DEAD

Released on 3 Feb, 2025, developed by Finger tip, , self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG

About the game: Heatwave Master, bring order to underworld’s sauna. FEEL the exhilarating chaos of Heatwave Mastery!

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Released on 30 Jan, 2025, developed by Mike Monroe, and published by Belief Engine. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Indie

About the game: Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.