1.
Rocket League. Or "Little baby kicky cars".
This game is sheer fun. It causes joy, as Sean Plott demonstrates
here.
The controls are super-tight and driving the cars is just
satisfying. It's immediately fun as you drive around, matched with other noobs, scrambling for the ball and just trying to hit anything. But it's also one of the most skill-based games I've ever played and if you get good enough you can do stuff like
this.
It's the best football game I've ever played.
The bit we all care about: The devs have said that they
will port it to Linux but it's not on Linux yet. But it's ok! It runs flawlessly in Wine! Yay!
2.
Caves of Qud.
It's a post-apocalyptic roguelike with deep narrative and cool emergent systems.
An enemy man threw a weird artefact at me which exploded and set me on fire. I ran up to him and killed him, luckily managing to crit him which meant his blood went
everywhere. I was on fire and nearly dead though. I took out one of my empty canteens and scooped up as much of his blood as I could get my hands on, then I poured the blood over myself which put the fire out. Surviving for another day.
S'good.
3.
Shadow of Mordor.
Just got ported to Linux so I've been playing it a bit. It seems to be about killing Orcs/Uruks. I'm not sure what else it's about because I get distracted by killing Orcs. It's quite fun.