Category: Strategy

A new RTS game we have covered here on GOL before is now up on Steam for pre-orders, hooray! This one does look rather great.

Fortix 2 is best described as a reverse turret defense game. As Sir Fortix, the knight, you must conquer castles while dodging tower turrets and evil monsters.

Planetary Annihilation an RTS game currently in alpha testing is due to go into beta on the 26th of September which means it will drop in price from $70 to $60 and a whole host of new features will be pushed!

Worlds of Magic is a 4X game being developed by a team of Master of Magic fans, determined to recapture the gameplay feel of the original MoM but with updated technology.

The awesome looking turn based strategy game Battle Worlds: Kronos has recently done a new alpha video to show it off. It has also just entered closed beta, it's coming soon folks!

Halfway is a turn-based strategy game taking place a few hundred years in the future. You take control of a small group of people who are witnesses to a violent overtake of their spaceship by an unknown species.

Valve sent a message to the Nuclear Dawn team to let them know they will work with them to enable them to support Linux, good guy Valve.

10 years ago, on September 9th 2003, a relatively unknown game studio by the name of S2 Games released a game. The game? Savage: The Battle for Newerth. By blending together several types of game-play, S2 Games managed to produce one of the most unique games of it's time by combining real-time strategy, first person, third person and more.

You may have seen our post before on this and the game on Steam for pre-order, we now actually have some gameplay footage of Ironclad Tactics, hooray!

Take the depth of Dwarf Fortress, add a bunch of lazy mages and update the interface to modern standards? That's Mage Tower in a nutshell. We're building something really ambitious - a world that you can build to your own whim, while carefully balancing resources, knowledge, and external threats.

The Unvanquished project has hit Alpha 19 which brings in major changes to gameplay to move away from the Tremulous project where they branched off from.

Tenshu General is a casual strategy game with a board game look and feel. Set in the time of the samurai in early Japan, players control a Tenshu castle from where they rule their land.

Natural Selection 2 my current favourite FPS/RTS game on Linux has been updated to build 255 which includes a needed fix for Linux. Also time to note their reinforcement program.

The latest and greatest of 0 A.D. the open source real time strategy game has been released, please welcome Alpha 14 Naukratis! Along side this is their new crowdfunding campaign.

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention. Analyze the situation, plan team routes, choose equipment and breach points and coordinate multiple troopers to reach the hostage room before the bad guys get to press that trigger.

This game mixes several classical gameplay-styles such as Tower Defense, Multi-player cooperation, Destructible world and Economics and it has just had a new update.

The critically acclaimed PSN hit PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate makes its way to Steam Linux for the definitive Monsters experience! Currently looking for testers too.

Game Dev Tycoon is now out on Steam but not yet for Linux, while they do have an older version for Linux on the website, we contacted them to find out what was up?

Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!

Eador. Masters of the Broken World is a sore spot for Linux gamers, a title that had Linux support stated on its greenlight page and even a blog post that stated it's now high priority and that they have a team of people dedicated to the port, delay after delay and we are still sadly waiting.