The Best Real-time Games for Linux

Update : Bunny Bunker added at rank #45.
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Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice (2024)

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Linux PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.


  • real-time
  • tactical
  • stealth
  • ninja
  • strategy
  • isometric
  • assassin
  • historical

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Rift Riff (2025)

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Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.

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  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • nonlinear
  • base-building
  • pve
  • minimalist
  • isometric
  • post-apocalyptic
  • pause

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Airships: Conquer the Skies (2018)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!


  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • naval
  • steampunk
  • strategy
  • i
  • wargame
  • 4x
  • authentic
  • pvp
  • data-driven
  • cooperative
  • mech
  • combat
  • tanks

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Final Outpost (2025)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

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  • real-time
  • colony
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • zombies
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • tower-defense
  • economy
  • simulation
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management

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Cats on Duty (2024)

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Linux PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Cats on Duty is a🐱 purr-fect blend of RTS, tower defense, game genres. Manage two game fields, upgrade adorable cat towers, and watch your fluffy warriors bravely defend against foes. 🐾

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  • tower-defense
  • voxel
  • cats
  • strategy
  • match-three
  • cooperative
  • zombies
  • deckbuilder
  • real-time
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • battle-hardened
  • cute
  • funny
  • local

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Space Menace 2 (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux

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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Retro Commander (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • cross-platform
  • wargame
  • base-building
  • 2.5d
  • multiplayer
  • naval
  • thrilling
  • isometric
  • submarine
  • mech
  • team
  • tutorial
  • tanks

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AI WAR (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The exciting shooting game, AI WAR, is a war game where players need go through a hail of bullets and blow up the master control base of the intelligent robots. This game is full of uncertainty, where players seem to be in a real war field and the unexpected may happen any time. Wish you good luck!


  • automobile
  • hero
  • fmv
  • wargame
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • superhero
  • tps
  • cinematic
  • robots
  • sniper
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • empire

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Total War: Warhammer III (2022)

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The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?

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  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • dwarves
  • dark
  • war
  • cooperative

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Tooth and Tail (2017)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • pixel
  • war
  • resource
  • battle
  • political
  • controller-support

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