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

Update : Men of War II added at rank #23.
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Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault (2014)

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Ardennes Assault offers a compelling standalone single-player campaign starring the American Armed Forces. Engage in a dynamic non-linear campaign and bear the consequences of your actions as overall company health persists between missions. USF multiplayer army not included.


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

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Steel Symphony (2024)

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Steel Symphony is a 2D Action-Strategy platformer where players craft combat sentinels by selecting components and balancing stats like integrity, mobility, and weapon capabilities. Chassis, weapons, and modules shape each sentinel's role with varied abilities for strategic customization.

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  • 2d
  • customization
  • dystopian
  • tactical
  • gun
  • post-apocalyptic
  • platform
  • robots
  • futuristic
  • space
  • character
  • real-time
  • sci-fi
  • vehicle
  • atmospheric

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Gratuitous Space Battles (2012)

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Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.


  • auto-battler
  • strategy
  • spaceships
  • battle
  • tower-defense
  • tactical
  • real-time
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • building
  • top-down
  • battle-fleet
  • moddable
  • endless-wave
  • sandbox

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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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Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies (2014)

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The Western Front Armies is a multiplayer standalone for COH2 that adds two factions to the roster of playable multiplayer armies: the Oberkommando West (OKW) and the US Forces (USF). Each army can also be purchased separately.


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

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The Dwarves (2015)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 Xbox One

A few heroes are facing hundreds of foes – are you even able to lead the coolest fantasy people to victory against the dark hordes? Explore a vast world, fight tactical real-time battles, and experience the fantastic story based on the bestseller "The Dwarves".


  • fantasy
  • real-time
  • rpg
  • battle
  • pause
  • novel
  • tactical
  • narration
  • tactically
  • combat
  • moba
  • book

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Rise of the Robots X (2023)

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Rise of the Robots X (RoRx) is an online futuristic card-based strategy game played on a hexagonal grid battleground. Played on a hexagonal grid battleground, each game is an opportunity to refine your army and get better Robots, Buildings or Masteries!

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  • card
  • 4x
  • battler
  • deckbuilder
  • grid
  • real-time
  • tabletop
  • mech
  • hex
  • futuristic
  • movement
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • tactical
  • team

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In Freedom Rest Ideal Tomorrows (2023)

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Lead your group of warriors in a unique country (procedurally generated), where looting cities and facing guards is just the beginning. With each victory, increase your power, preparing to face the king and take control of the area. Are you ready to go for the victory?

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  • rogue-like
  • real-time
  • perma-death
  • pve
  • character
  • strategy
  • procedural
  • hex
  • foreign
  • customization
  • exploration
  • medieval
  • tactical
  • pixel
  • 2d

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Defending Earth (2023)

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As the Earth faces the greatest asteroid storm in the solar system, players must strategize and use a variety of weapons, tools and other resources to protect the planet. With a countdown to the incoming storm, players must act quickly and make strategic decisions to save Earth from the asteroids.

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  • space
  • simulation
  • real-time
  • spaceships
  • immersive
  • grand-strategy
  • life
  • tactical
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • strategy
  • physics
  • 3d
  • 2d

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The Hive (2016)

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Assume control as the Insectoid Hive mind. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined underworld riddled with dangers and lost civilizations. Can you reach the surface?


  • base-building
  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • tactical
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • industry-leading
  • on-rails

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