Boiling Steam

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 ...

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 Fi...

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 coul...

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 Pen...

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 cas...