New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Silksong and Cronos: The New Dawn - 2025-09-10 Edition
Between 2025-09-03 and 2025-09-10 there were 47 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 377 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.5 % of total released titles.
In this past week, we have already mentioned the release of Silksong, but there’s also the horror game Cronos: The New Dawn from Bloober Team, who are specialists in the genre. Seems like they executed almost perfectly on that one.
Here’s a quick pick of the titles you ought to consider:
HEROES OF THE SEVEN ISLANDS
Released on 9 Sep, 2025, developed by Rap2h and published by 2 Left Thumbs. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Indie, RPG
About the game: An open world party-based RPG with turn-based combat. Heroes of the Seven Islands is a comfy yet challenging mid-sized adventure in a vast fairytale world, inspired by 90s games.
LOOTPLOT
Released on 9 Sep, 2025, developed by CodeTheory Ltd, self-published. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Indie, Strategy
About the game: Re-arrange items, discover synergies, bend the rules, and break the game! LOOTPLOT is a points-based, inventory builder Roguelite centered around items, which all have a unique twist.
AXIS FOOTBALL 2026
Released on 8 Sep, 2025, developed by Axis Games, self-published. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Indie, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
About the game: Axis Football 2026 is a complete American Football Simulation featuring fluid gameplay, endless customization, and the industry’s best franchise mode.
LAKELADY
Released on 5 Sep, 2025, developed by HungerWhale Games and published by Wise Games. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Indie, RPG
About the game: THE LAKE LADY is a story-driven realistic horror interactive game. The river took everything from him. To find his daughter who went missing in the flood, Salvio returns to his hometown as a doctor and infiltrates Hongqiang Hospital for investigation.
CRONOS: THE NEW DAWN
Released on 5 Sep, 2025, developed by Bloober Team and published by Bloober Team SA. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Action
About the game: A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG
Released on 4/set./2025, developed by Team Cherry, self-published. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Metroidvania, Difficult, Indie
About the game: Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
ADVENTURE OF SAMSARA
Released on 4 Sep, 2025, developed by Ilex Games and published by Atari. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG
About the game: A hero resurrected. A new Adventure. With stunning, 2D pixel art, Adventure of Samsara combines classic gameplay, a deeply connected world, and a heady, twisting narrative of death, rebirth and memory. Become the Solar Champion and restore balance to the multiverse.
CASEBOOK 1899 - THE LEIPZIG MURDERS
Released on 4 Sep, 2025, developed by Homo Narrans Studio, self-published. [Steam Store Page]
Genre: Adventure, Indie
About the game: Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Games From Last Week
You can also check our previous entries in the series for the New Steam Games released with Native Linux clients. We have them every week: