Open Source Linux Turn Based Strategy Games

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.

"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.

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.

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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Realism Invictus is a comprehensive mod for Civilization IV with 20 years of development.

Scorched3D incorporates lively, fully destructible 3D landscapes that include animated jets, naval vessels, water and even birds, with detailed tanks and projectiles and stunning visual effects. A simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others' weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Test your skill in timing, aiming and judgement of distance, move around on the landscape, or outsmart your opponent economically.

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.

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.

A GUI application for managing Empire: Total War pack files. Features: * adding, deleting, extracting, and replacing of files * changing between different pack types (boot/release/patch/movie)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival, rogue-like game in a post-apocalyptic world. You are thrown poorly equipped into a vast landscape filled with monsters and horrors. With enough determination you can create a existence by destroying monsters, hunting for food and with a little bit of luck, a vehicle to drive out a variety of threats; guns blazing.

The BUG Mod (Beyond the Sword Unaltered Gameplay) is a mod for the popular TBS game Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. This mod adds many interface enhancements that aid game play without modifying the rules or providing hidden information.

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.

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

Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.

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.

Atanks is a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition.

LGeneral is a turn-based strategy game heavily inspired by the classic Panzer General.

Pioneers is an emulation of the board game The Settlers of Catan, which can be played over the internet.

Free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine. SDL is used.

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 prior release of the game, v. 1.1 released in 2013. There is now a v.2.0.0, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/raceintospace/raceintospace/releases/tag/v2.0.0. News and updates are available on our Mastodon account at https://mstdn.games/@raceintospace