The Best Real-time tactical Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Space Menace 2 added at rank #11.
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Space Menace 2 (2025)

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Start small, expand your fleet, and rise to power as you navigate a galaxy full of opportunity and danger. This simple, non-traditional sci-fi RTS and space combat game offers strategic gameplay, evolving challenges, and satisfying ship customization through a variety of modules and upgrades.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • mouse
  • touch-friendly
  • moddable
  • spaceships
  • sci-fi
  • pause

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Total War: Attila (2015)

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Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...


  • strategy
  • battle
  • real-time
  • historical
  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • war
  • empire
  • military
  • naval
  • economy
  • grand-strategy

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Hearts of Iron IV (2016)

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Control your own nation during World War II and dominate the planet in Hearts of Iron IV. With intricate military simulations, choose any nation and build your industrial and technological power to achieve glory, either playing solo or competing online. The game is both immersive and challenging, with engaging visuals that bring the experience to life.


What we like:
  • Historical accuracy
  • Mod community
  • Rewarding strategic gameplay
What could be improved:
  • DLC locks parts of the game
  • Overly complicated mechanics
  • Limited AI orders

  • grand-strategy
  • historical
  • strategy
  • world-war-2
  • war
  • military
  • naval
  • real-time
  • economy
  • tactical
  • alternate
  • political
  • grand
  • tanks
  • simulation

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A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia (2018)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

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  • strategy
  • battle
  • real-time
  • historical
  • tactical
  • war
  • turn-based
  • empire
  • military
  • economy
  • naval
  • grand-strategy

15

Company of Heroes 2 (2013)

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Experience the brutal battles of World War II's Eastern Front in Company of Heroes 2. With a focus on tactics over base-building, TrueSight technology, and dynamic weather, this game requires you to think carefully about your every move to succeed. Play as a Soviet soldier in the single-player campaign, or test your skills in the impressive multiplayer mode with detailed statistics and customization options. With engaging gameplay and excellent graphics and sound design, Company of Heroes 2 is a must-play for any real-time strategy game lover.


What we like:
  • Unique forces of WW2 with excellent unit skills and designs
  • Engaging campaign mechanics with excellent storytelling and scene-setting
  • Fun to be had with custom maps and mods
  • Great game for RTS fans
  • Entertaining and immersive gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Expensive DLC with necessary commanders to access special units and abilities
  • Missing content in skirmish mode unless DLC is purchased
  • Luck and balance changes can be annoying
  • Lack of access to bigger tanks and other units can be disappointing for some players

  • strategy
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • war
  • artillery
  • tanks
  • world-war-2
  • battle
  • squad
  • cover

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Legacy of Sin ill-boding (2025)

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The world as we knew it no longer exists. Join the few remaining survivors, lead them, and build your city, feed your people and organize your defenses to survive the hordes of enemies attacking your kingdom, mankind's last kingdom, our hope. Can you turn a small village into a great realm?

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  • tactical
  • real-time
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • rpg
  • agriculture
  • board-game
  • wargame
  • isometric
  • turn-based
  • building
  • anime
  • dungeon-crawler

17

AI War 2 (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.


  • real-time
  • grand-strategy
  • 4x
  • moddable
  • strategy
  • space
  • tactical
  • management
  • pause

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Ultimate General: Gettysburg (2014)

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Ultimate General: Gettysburg is a Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to lead thousands of soldiers in the famous Battle of Gettysburg as commander of either the Union or Confederate army. The game features the most accurately created map, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI. You have the freedom to use different strategies while the battle progresses. Your decisions and military performance play a crucial role in the result. Lead your army and win the Battle of Gettysburg!


  • historical
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • battle
  • artillery
  • war
  • wargame
  • military

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Total War: WARHAMMER (2016)

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Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.


  • battle
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tabletop
  • historical
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • empire
  • war
  • turn-based
  • artillery
  • fight
  • economy
  • vampire
  • management

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Total War: Rome Remastered (2021)

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Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.

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  • strategy
  • battle
  • real-time
  • historical
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • war
  • empire
  • military
  • grand-strategy
  • naval
  • economy

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