It's a new year, so here's some games that should release on PC during 2026 that I'm excited for.

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Keeping classic video game ideas alive, OpenTTD is based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It's free, open source and now better than ever with v15 out now.

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Baba Is You remains as one of my all-time favourite puzzle games and the developer looks to be moving on, with what should be the final big update for it.

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Command & Conquer - Combined Arms is an excellent free and standalone classic RTS game, with release 1.08 out now adding plenty new.

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Generative AI is everywhere, and now it may be in your browser plugins too. The popular Augmented Steam recently had some backlash due to VaporLens integration.

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The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.

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A fresh new Humble Bundle to begin 2026 with some quality games and they're highly rated too, and they should all work on Linux / SteamOS.

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The D7VK project for providing Direct3D 7 support on Linux with Wine / Proton has expanded in the version 1.1 release to add experimental Direct3D 6 support.

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Much like Epilogue did with the GB Operator for playing actual Game Boy cartridges, they've recently revealed the SN Operator for the SNES.

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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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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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