Category: Strategy

Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team. There are no given strategies, rails to move on, or paths to follow; it‘s up to you to decide how you will play through both the story-driven missions and generated missions with randomized objectives.

Linux fans have demanded it, so indie studio Paper Machete Games has brought their mad science themed real time strategy game to the Linux platform.

This is very exciting especially for any RTS fan as Planetary Annihilation has entered beta which unlocks more features and lowers the price.

A new major bugfix update to Achron has been released to fix a lot of bugs and a few minor new features. Glad to see this games continues to be supported.

Steam Squad is a turn-based war-game for PC, Mac and Linux. It takes place in an alternate universe during World War I.

Natural Selection 2 has gotten two updates recently 256 and 257 to give you lots of big fixes with a few new features thrown in for good measure too.

OpenRA the Open Source Time Strategy game engine that recreates the early Command & Conquer titles released another huge jump, with over 1,100 changes and improvements by 17 authors.

A highly regarded tower defence game Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate will come to Linux on the 30th of September the developers tweeted to let us know.

Remember Pixel Piracy? The fun looking Side-scrolling 2d, Real Time Strategy, Sandbox, Simulation Game we showed you? It's been getting some fun updates!

It seems Linux is to get a game in the Arma series, not one of their realistic FPS games, but rather a new turn based game called Arma Tactics.

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.