Here's another one we missed from Kickstarter. Neolithic: First City-States is a historical strategy game inspired by the likes of Age of Empires, Civilization, Caesar and more. It's fully funded and coming to Linux.
Neolithic: First City-States is a Deep Historical Strategy Game heavily influenced by games such as Age of Empires I, Civilization & Caesar III, and to a lesser extent games like Haven and Hearth, UnReal World and games like RimWorld. The game includes aspects of city building, military strategy and deep character development.
It was funded on Kickstarter back in September of 2017 with over 300 backers contributing more than AU$13K to help it speed along.
Here's a nice overview of some gameplay elements:
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The developer said Linux and Mac are platforms that will be supported, but it might not be a same-day release along with the Windows version. They were very clear on this during the Kickstarter campaign. However, they did say in a recent Kickstarter update that Linux testing would be happening soon. A later post on Twitter mentioned Linux testing had actually begun, so hopefully there will be no delay.
Since it seems rather interesting, we will now be following it a little more closely. For the release, they're hoping to be on both Steam and GOG.
See more on the official site.
Hat tip to Tiedemann.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Schattenspiegel Nov 30, 2018
0AD has been on Alpha since I was in college almost 10 years ago. And it is STLL in Alpha.
Would like to see a nice RTS on Linux that is complete.
Basically, everything that I didn't like was reworked and now is much smoother.
Game is a bit empty right now, currently all you can do is build small village (as in video), but there is much more planned. Defensive buildings (palisades and stone-walls for big cities), warfare (some weapons and combat is already implemented, but it is lacking on enemy AI), trade and many other things you would expect in neolithic age.
It wasn't originally planned on Linux, but I have been pestering dev long enough that he tried to click on export button in Unity and it worked:) another proof that when you are smart enough and build with multiplatform code in the first place, it is not hard.
Same goes for the recently showed Fertile Crescent, I annoyed dev a bit and he send me linux build:)
So thanks Alex for this and LincRead for FC!
btw. I love the graphics in Neolithic, it remind me paintings in these history books (and textbooks).
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