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Linux Release List has been updated for April 2016.

Linux Release List has been updated for March 2016.

This month has been dominated by quality point&click games, be it Deponia Doomsday from Daedelic, or cute pirate adventure Nelly Cootalot, but nevertheless there's been plenty from other genres as well:

- hack'n'slash phenomenon Hyper Light Drifter

- second Angry Video-game Nerd retro-platformer

- grim pixelated survivalist sim Sheltered from Team17

- Paws, sequel to Shelter

- or turn-based isometric RPG Balrum that (on paper) sounds like single-player Ultima Online.

Linux Release List has been updated for Feb 2016. We have seen several major games this month, be it "full-price" 50eu XCOM2 by Firaxis / Feral, or half a dozen self-published indie games: American Truck Simulator (by Prague-based SCS Software), Firewatch (a debut by Campo Santo), Layers of Fear (by Polish Bloober Team), Plague Inc: Evolved (Ndemic Creations) or Gnomoria.

February 2016 is one the biggest months yet in history of Linux gaming, both qualitatively and quantitatively. All of the mentioned games represent their own niche genre; you won't find that kind of diversity on any other platform but PC... And everything suggests the year will just get better.

Linux Release List has been updated for January 2016. Pony Island has been single-handedly leading the popularity chart.

Every month there are dozens new games released on Linux, but only handful of them present themselves with a demo.

Certainly - when you look at all the competition on the entertainment market, all the books, movies, music, mobile f2p, TV - that surely speaks of our "game-dev" ego, doesn't it :)

You -- "customer" -- have to start asking dummy questions. What exactly makes us game-devs think; what makes us believe that we can pitch our game to you for less and price it for more? Why should you pay for this random crap, when you have other shit available for free?

Now... Parasite. The dev of this little game tries to do it right. It's not a click-bait title. Parasite follows the trend set up by VVVV, "funny retro platformer from 16-bit era" - without a demo, I wouldn't ever notice this game exists... And that would be a shame.

In Parasite you play an alien worm on a quest to clean his planet of human colonists, before they take over your world. It's a bit of "The Thing" played from the other side, but in a neat, kids-friendly way. You take over humans, dogs, whoever, and try doing your best to sabotage the colony, preferably killing everyone before they escape.

You can download the demo directly from Steam or alternatively you can try the browser version.

Parasite has been made by Raphael Gervaise. It's available for Linux, Win and OSX.