Open Source Linux Turn Based Strategy Games

NetHack is a popular single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.

Realism Invictus is a mod for Civilization IV with over 15 years of development.

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. You start with only a few colonists defying the stormy seas in their search for new land. Will you guide them on the Colonization of a New World? The last stable version release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/files/latest/download The latest test pre-release of the next version can be found here: https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol/releases If you want to contribute to Freecol please visit our welcome information thread to see how here: https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/2d0063a3bc/

Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.

FreeOrion is a free and open source community-developed 4X turn-based galactic empire strategy game.

Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: to become (or subvert) the greatest civilization.

CevoMapGen is a map file generator for Cevo that facilitates harsher terrain and climate. It gives greater control than the internal map generator within the game, and allows much faster generation of novel or extreme worlds than using the map editor.

"Shane's Chess Information Database" is a huge chess toolkit with extensive database, analysis and chess-playing features. Scid vs. PC is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. It has many interface fixes and improvements, and is fully compatible with Scid's .si4 databases. New features include a rewritten Gamelist, Computer Tournament, and FICS, Tree, Book and Graph improvements.

Scid is a chess database application (cross-platform, for Unix/Linux and Windows) with many search and database maintenance features.

A free and open source chess database application for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures.

Tour based strategic game. Similar to Heroes of M&M, but different. You can play this game under http://heroes.ca7.eu/

A Civilization style, turn based strategy game, of the Civ II era. In this game, each player becomes the leader of a civilisation. To win, the player's civilization has to be first to build a spaceship. C-evo Distant Horizon (c-evo-dh) is a fork of C-evo New Horizons https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo/ which is itself a fork of C-evo There is an excellent in-game manual, see also; https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Strategies_(C-evo)/For_first_few_turns https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Game_mechanics_(C-evo) https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Strategies_(C-evo) http://www.c-evo.org/text.html#design http://www.c-evo.org/faq.html http://www.c-evo.org/bb/index.php External Map Generator for more varied terrain https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/

It is the year 2084. You control a secret organisation charged with defending Earth from a brutal alien enemy. Build up your bases, prepare your team, and dive head-first into the fast and flowing turn-based combat.

MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map. Development currently occurs on GitHub (see https://github.com/MegaMek). This SF page remains as a mirror and archive of the old issue trackers. The trackers are currently locked and new issues should be created on the GitHub page.

MekHQ is a java helper program for the MegaMek game that allows users to load a list of entities from an XML file, perform repairs and customizations, and then save the new entities to another XML file that can be loaded into MegaMek.

MegaMekLab is a Mek creator program. Currently it can create Meks, vehicles, battlearmor, and conventional infantry. It can also print PDF record sheets for almost all Battletech units. Created units can also be exported to formatted text or html for posting online.

Vespucci is an open-source remake of the old Colonization classic.

Trek7 the original multiplayer network star trek game from the early-mid 70s. We are hoping to revive this classic (no, its not netrek/mtrek, not even close). hopefully the SF community can help port this to modern day networks.

"Conquest of Time" is a turn based strategy game inspired by Civilization and Empire. You start with one city and one unit - search your opponents and defeat them! (Note: Java 1.5.0 needed for running.)

PyMancala implements rules of the Mancala game, also called Awale. It can be played in different modes: human-human, human-computer or computer-computer. Different variants of the rules are implemented. Several 'basic' strategies are proposed for the human to get an advice and for the computer. Many others can be added and compared to the already existing ones.

This was the official home of Race Into Space, the computer version of the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner. It was developed by Strategic Visions and published by Interplay as a disk-based game in 1993 and a CD-ROM in 1994. This location houses the latest release of the game, v. 1.1 released in 2013. However, development has migrated to GitHub and continues. We hope for a v. 2.0 release soon. (https://github.com/raceintospace/raceintospace) News and updates are available on our Mastodon account at https://mstdn.games/@raceintospace

The game is inspired mainly by ADOM, but it also incorporates a lot of original ideas. It's not completed yet (though fully playable), but is developed actively and gets improved every day. Not only you can play it, you are also able to create your own locations with a built-in editor and custom quests with a dedicated scripting language.

Posts the Empire News and Power reports to Discord. Lets your users track the Empire activities outside the game and to make your game more exciting for new players.