Open Source Java Turn Based Strategy Games

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/

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This is an unofficial android port of the PC game Battle for Wesnoth. Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game, featuring many addictive campaigns, lots of units, different races, AI controlled players, multiplayer gaming and much more.

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.

The Campaign Simulator is an attempt to statistically model and predict the outcome of an American presidential election; several users assume the roles of competitive candidates and inflict the repercussions of certain decisions on a GSS based dataset.

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.

This is a multiplayer client/server java rewrite of Microprose/Simtex's classic DOS turn based strategy game Master of Magic. Latest versions now require Java 25, however since a lot of folks have been having trouble setting this up, I am now providing 2 versions, one with a JRE included in the download, and one without. Beyond this, it should just be as simple as unzipping the file and running server.bat to get the server running locally, and client.bat to start up the client. See the readme for more details. The project is effectively finished at this point and I did not really plan any further major releases. However Simbey has been commissioning an artist to upscale all the graphics from the original game so these have been incorporated into 1.7.0. By default it uses the original graphics, you need to enable the upscaled graphics in the options screen. I am at the MoM discord server at https://discord.gg/wFNQf36 Or can message me or raise ticket on SourceForge

VASSAL is a game engine for creating electronic versions of traditional board and card games. It provides support for game piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a live connection.

Colossus is a Java clone of the boardgame Titan, a turn-based fantasy wargame for 2-6 players. Each player moves stacks of creatures around a strategic board, recruiting more creatures and fighting enemy stacks on tactical maps.

It is the year 2077, for the first time in its history mankind has finally began the colonization of another planet. Will the pioneers from Earth succeed in colonizing their new home or will they fail to survive against the harsh and inhospitable conditions of the Red planet? Free Mars is a turn based strategy game about colonizing Mars.

Tyrant is a graphical roguelike fantasy adventure game. It features intricate randomly generated landscapes, towns and dungeons. It is written in Java with a highly extensible game engine.

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.

JCivED aims to be the go-to tool for fans of Sid Meier's Civilization, to hack savegames, edit maps, create custom scenarios, mod/patch CIV.EXE, mod Civ PIC graphics... and more!

Risk has been renamed to Domination.

This is a game of Scotland Yard, which has been coded in Java. The moves of Mr. X are made by the program, while the human player makes the detective moves. The game works fine on both Windows and Linux platforms.

JSettlers2 is a web-based version of the board game Settlers of Catan written in Java. This client-server system supports multiple simultaneous games between people and/or AI bots. Originally written by Robert S Thomas as an AI dissertation (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsettlers). The active source code is hosted at https://github.com/jdmonin/JSettlers2 including full history; the sourceforge CVS is historical up to 2012-09-28.

The Magellan Client is basically a GUI for the PBEM (play by email) game Eressea, but can be used for other "Atlantis" based games, too. -- Magellan ist die am weitesten entwickelte graphische Oberfläche für Eressea, das Email-Fantasy-/Strategiespiel -- For further informations please have a look at our repositories unter https://github.com/magellan2

Solaris Skunk Werks is a tool used to design Battlemechs for use with the Classic Battletech wargame. Data Files are available at www.solarisskunkwerks.com

The goal of the project is to create a Java multi-user game server that can be easily extended and used for adding a multiplayer feature to games. User authentication, chat and interfaces for adding custom capabilities will be provided out of the box.

SJCE - Strong Java Chess Engines, free portable cross-platform graphical chess game, 100%-pure Java. Support with including many best free/open-source java xboard/uci chess engines. It is possible to play both White and Black. It is possible to play Human to Human, Human vs Engine, Engine vs Engine. Simple and intuitive GUI - Graphical User Interface. Tested on Windows/Linux. Need jre1.8 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase8-archive-downloads.html. Source - https://github.com/harp077/sjce If you like this - put a star on https://github.com/harp077/sjce/ for support project please.

Java Open Chess is a project written in Java in NetBeans IDE. There is possibility to play for 2 players on local computers and via network connection. There is also an option to play versus quite weak computer oponent. Stronger computer oponens will be implemented soon. ATTENTION: Requires Java 1.8 or higher!

A Java port of the Palm game Space Trader. This port is based upon the C# port at Space Trader for Windows. Recent improvements are being made to enhance it into a full-window application, under a new branch of development. Consult the wiki for info.

A map editor for Civilization 4. It is designed to make creating static maps' basic features much simpler. The first public version features cut-copy-paste, and optional conveniences like: Auto coastline, auto latitiude climate, and more

JChessBoard is a chess game written in Java that can be connected to another JChessBoard via a direct TCP/IP connection. No Internet Chess Server is required for playing. It also became a full featured PGN viewer and editor.

A J2ME MIDlet implementing a Portable Chess Board to run on a Java enabled Cell Phone. In order to download the binaries and/or the source files please follow the Files->MobileChessBoard link above.