Category: Strategy

The big patch to Planetary Annihilation that I spoke about recently has been officially released. This makes the Linux client much more stable too.

It’s no secret that I love the visual style of Nightside, and this new update has boosted the content rather a lot.

Interloper is a small scale real time strategy that recently released for Linux, and it managed to capture my interest for being a bit different.

Uber Entertainment have been busy, and their work has shown in their latest public test build. It includes lots of new AI fixes and behaviours, as well as some promised Linux fixes!

Cities: Skylines is undoubtedly our best city builder on Linux, and the new content update makes it even sweeter.

Endless Legend was originally going to come to Linux, and then the developers decided it wasn't worth it. The Linux client had even been started and was looking good, but was dropped after the Windows and Mac OS clients were deemed too buggy. Now SteamOS has appeared in Amplitude's voting system for what to work on, and it needs votes.

You will have to forgive me on this one, as I never played a Cossacks game, but it is from the developers of STALKER. Cossacks 3 has been announced, and apparently Linux support too. Warning: Huge images!

Good news everyone! Civilization: Beyond Earth has announced an expansion called 'Rising Tide', and it will launch on Linux alongside Windows.

Planetary Annihilation is a great game, despite a few flaws here and there. It's my favourite strategy game on Linux, and the news is good.

If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, then you will have probably heard of Master of Orion. Honestly, Master of Orion 2 is one of my all time favourite games, and now I can play it without any messing around on Linux.

Invisible, Inc. has snuck out the door and is now available on your favourite operating system. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time, so I took a look.

It's great to see bigger games coming to Linux like Empire: Total War, but having Linux only multiplayer does make the experience less fun. Feral Interactive are trying to fix this for us with a beta test.

The developers of Prison Architect have sent word out that their game will fully launch in "Q4 2015". They have been on a big bug squashing run recently too.

It took longer than we liked, but Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth now has the winter update. You can now play with your Mac & Windows friends again.

While it's not perfect, Planetary Annihilation is still really quite fun to play. It's currently in the Killer Bundle 3 from Bundle Stars for cheap.

More GOG news today folks! Fantasy General is new to GOG and comes with a Linux version, so for the fans of classic games here's another to check out.

Cosmochoria is a game that both myself and Samsai liked quite a lot while it was in Early Access. If you have been waiting to pick it up, wait no more!

Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown, formerly known as Shadowrun Online, came out of Early Access last week. The tactical turn-based game is the latest set in the cyberpunk Shadowrun universe and the second that takes a crack at multiplayer. As a fan of the setting, I decided to take a close look at the game and see if it was any good.

For fans of the board game 'Risk' you may want to try out Lux Delux which is now available on Steam for Linux.

Banished is a highly rated city-builder from Shining Rock Software that is coming to Linux, and the developer has a new blog post detailing how it’s going.