The Best Real-time tactical Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Space Menace 2 added at rank #28.
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Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces (2015)

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This latest multiplayer standalone entry in the COH2 series features this iconic Allied army. Experience a unique tech-tree that challenges the player to balance the constant trade-off between mobility and defense. Surprise opponents with your development choices and an open end game configuration.


  • strategy
  • real-time
  • world-war-2
  • tanks
  • artillery
  • war
  • tactical
  • battle
  • squad
  • cover
  • single-player
  • resource
  • vehicle

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Hero Among Us (2021)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone PC Windows

Hero Among Us is a strategy/manager game were you create your own super hero, define where in the globe he/she will appear and manage how the world reacts to your actions and decisions.

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  • superhero
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • management
  • 2.5d
  • political
  • time-management
  • tactical
  • speed
  • villain
  • top-down
  • customization
  • skill
  • character
  • combat

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Summer Islands (2025)

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Summer Islands is a holiday real-time strategy business simulator. Be the right businessman, build your holiday paradise and grab the money from your tourists. Play alone, with your friends and with computer enemies and survive natural disasters without going insolvent.

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  • capitalism
  • building
  • procedural
  • economy
  • retro
  • pixel
  • real-time
  • management
  • cooperative
  • editor
  • sandbox
  • level
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • casual

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Castle Combat (2025)

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RTS, but the soldiers will act automatically: Each soldier has different characteristics/attribute values/action methods. Choose the appropriate soldiers and buildings according to the battlefield situation, and destroy the opponent's castle only through your strategy rather than operation!

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  • real-time
  • wargame
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • building
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • casual
  • military
  • war
  • 2d
  • colourful

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Zenteni (2024)

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Build, conquer and collect puzzles.

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  • collector
  • creature
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • magic
  • building
  • loot
  • demons
  • dragon
  • colourful
  • base-building
  • turn-based
  • hex

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IDUN Prologue - Frontline Survival (2025)

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Step into the arena with IDUN: Prologue, a thrilling slice of our full-length defense RTS where real-time strategy meets rogue-lite chaos. Fight your way through unique mission objectives with overwhelming swarms of enemies.

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  • real-time
  • tower-defense
  • mining
  • wargame
  • god-game
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • tactical
  • top-down
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • 3d
  • survival
  • war
  • controller-support

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DEFCON (2006)

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Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • war
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • submarine
  • online
  • atmospheric
  • naval
  • survival
  • tactical
  • resource
  • cold
  • full-scale
  • real-world

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Guardians of Holme (2023)

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Guardians of Holme is a tower defense game with deckbuilding and roguelite elements. Players must use the terrain to their advantage and formulate defensive tactics by strategically placing powerful traps to repel endless waves of enemies.

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  • deckbuilder
  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • card
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • 2d

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Rage of Mechs (2024)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Experience intense mech battles in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Rage of Mechs. Command powerful mechs, upgrade weapons, and strategize in multiplayer sessions. Unleash your rage and conquer the wasteland!

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  • tactical
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • wargame
  • turn-based
  • moba
  • real-time
  • historical
  • pvp
  • mech
  • cyberpunk
  • old-school
  • post-apocalyptic
  • top-down
  • alternate

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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS (2019)

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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

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

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