Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

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A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.

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The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

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Another loss for game preservation and history, River City Ransom: Underground is being delisted from stores.

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Another fresh release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton, bringing fixes for some popular games and an issue with spatial audio.

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Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025, bringing with it a fresh look at how Linux / SteamOS are doing on Steam.

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The first bug fix release of 2026 for the open source graphics drivers Mesa is here with Mesa 25.3.3 out now.

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GOG is breaking off from CD PROJEKT with 100% of it now owned by one of the original co-founders, Michał Kiciński.

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A little holiday update for Proton Experimental from Valve to improve Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS systems.

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We're just about to hit the full swing of the holiday season, and so GamingOnLinux will go into its usual holiday hibernation to spend time with family.

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The year is almost over and so it’s time to let you know what we enjoyed the most this year while gaming on Linux.

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Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.

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Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.

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Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

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Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

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Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.

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The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.

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Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.

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The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.

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Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.

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Devolver Digital announced that Quarantine Zone: The Last Check from Brigada Games is now set for release on January 12, 2026.

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Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 on modern systems.

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Valve released the latest stable update for Steam across Desktop, Steam Deck / SteamOS and we have all the changes here for you to see.

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Valve have done this pretty quietly, but they're discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model now with just the Steam Deck OLED remaining.

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