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The Fertile Crescent, a Bronze Age RTS gets a tutorial and more improvements

By Liam Dawe, May 14, 2020

Continuing to be a favourite indie game I keep a close eye on, The Fertile Crescent is a Bronze Age real-time strategy game that's currently entirely free to play.

Yell orders through your microphone in Radio General now with Linux voice support

By Liam Dawe, May 13, 2020

Radio General, a strategy game that puts you in a tent with a radio and a map and has you direct troops around released recently with Linux support.

Stellaris turns 4 with the big 2.7 'Wells' update - free to play for a few days and a big milestone hit

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2020

Today Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio have released the huge 2.7 'Wells' update for Stellaris, as it recently turned 4.

The FOSS real-time strategy 0 A.D. gains FXAA, more animals and a lot more ready for Alpha 24

By Liam Dawe, May 9, 2020

0 A.D. is a free and open source in-development real-time strategy game from Wildfire Games, one that hasn't seen a big release for quite some time but work continues with it pulling in lots of goodies.

Epic city-state simulator 'Songs of Syx' fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

Songs of Syx blends quite a lot of genres together. It's part city-builder, real-time strategy, grand strategy and more. Thankfully it's also been funded with a successful Kickstarter.

Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release

By Liam Dawe, May 3, 2020

OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.

Simple local-multiplayer PvP real-time strategy title 'Rover Wars' is out now

By Liam Dawe, Apr 24, 2020

Rover Wars strips down the RTS genre to some of the basics and makes it a competitive local multiplayer game, it's actually pretty darn fun and it's out now.

Serfs is a new in-development medieval RTS that looks promising, it just added Linux support

By Liam Dawe, Apr 21, 2020

Currently in development, Serfs, a medieval styled real-time strategy game that feels quite like a city-builder with warfare now has Linux support.

OpenRA has a new test release, plus the OpenRA powered RTS 'Fractured Realms' has a pre-release

By Liam Dawe, Apr 20, 2020

OpenRA, the free and open source real-time strategy game engine for playing classic Westwood games has a new testing release up. Additionally, Fractured Realms, a game powered by OpenRA tech has a pre-release.

Blending a MOBA with an RTS 'Asteroid Fight' is out now and free to play

By Liam Dawe, Apr 13, 2020

Asteroid Fight had a great idea but little to no marketing and it went unnoticed, now it's left Early Access as a full game and the developer has made it free to play.

A new OpenRA test build is up for classic RTS action, with more single-player mission support

By Liam Dawe, Mar 30, 2020

The incredible people hacking away on OpenRA have a new test build up to provide a better experience playing Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern systems.

AI War 2: The Spire Rises is a huge expansion to the space RTS out now, plus a big update for everyone

By Liam Dawe, Mar 27, 2020

Arcen Games are continuing to improve and update their massive grand-scale real-time strategy game, AI War 2, with a huge expansion name The Spire Rises out now.

Rover Wars, a streamlined local multiplayer mix of strategy and action coming soon

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2020

Sakari Games have taken the basic idea of a real-time strategy game, made it local multiplayer for up to 8 people and basically turned it into chaos with Rover Wars.

Free real-time strategy 'The Fertile Crescent' has a big update focused on overall quality

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20, 2020

The Fertile Crescent, a (currently) entirely free to play real-time strategy that's a little like a retro Age of Empires just had a big update focusing on the overall quality.

Amoeba Battle is a real-time strategy game on a microscopic scale with a Battle Royale

By Liam Dawe, Mar 11, 2020

Amoeba Battle: Microscopic RTS Action, a title that's somewhat a mouthful and it was a surprise when it released on Steam earlier this month coming out of nowhere.

OpenRA for classic Red Alert and Command & Conquer has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 4, 2020

Dune 2000, Red Alert, Command & Conquer - all classics and all playable on Linux with the cross-platform open source OpenRA.

AI War 2 gains a massive feature expansion with The Spire Rises

By Liam Dawe, Feb 29, 2020

War, war never changes. Except when it's against a super smart AI that has you completely outgunned, and things just got a lot more interesting with AI War 2: The Spire Rises.

Dungeon-building RTS 'Dungeons 3' has another DLC out with a claim of it being final

By Liam Dawe, Feb 21, 2020

I'm not sure I believe it. Kalypso Media and Realmforge Studios just put out a brand new DLC for the delightfully silly dungeon-building RTS Dungeons 3 with a claim that it's the final one.