The Best Strategy Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Sid Meier\'s Civilization VII added at rank #2.
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The Unexpected Quest (2020)

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"The Unexpected Quest" is a strategy and management simulation game that takes place in a fantasy world where you play as a group of dwarves trying to rebuild their lives after a shipwreck. The game features fun gameplay mechanics with puzzles and the ability to strategize.

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What we like:
  • Fun gameplay mechanics
  • Engaging puzzles
  • Strategy element
What could be improved:
  • Combat can be unsatisfying
  • Limited replay value

  • time-management
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • clicker
  • management
  • fantasy
  • same-adventure
  • medieval
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • sims
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • adventure

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The Escapists 2 (2017)

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The Escapists 2 is a thrilling prison escape game that will put your creativity to the test. As a prisoner, you must sneak your way out of some of the toughest prisons in existence by creating intricate plans and crafting clever weapons. You can even team up with friends to escape together! With a diverse range of levels, crafting items and interactive combat, you'll be hooked in no time.


What we like:
  • Multiplayer adds value to the gameplay
  • Exciting new combat system
  • Fun mechanic of knocking out guards and swapping outfits
  • Opportunity to use creative strategies to escape
  • Includes a Prison Map Editor
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive prisons
  • Goofy escape routes feel unimportant
  • Co-op only levels make single player feel limited

  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • online
  • pixel
  • local
  • stealth
  • retro
  • difficult
  • crime

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Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith (2017)

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In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

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  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • god-game
  • grand-strategy
  • 4x

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Poly Universe (2018)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.

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  • strategy
  • simulation
  • resource
  • farming
  • relaxing
  • card
  • city-building
  • empire
  • construction
  • pause
  • innovative
  • sandbox
  • military

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Everspell (2024)

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Everspell is an RPG with card battle and deckbuilding mechanics. Explore the world. Cast spells. Be the best mage, outsmart your enemies, and create your own story!

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  • hex
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • deckbuilder
  • battler
  • rpg
  • grid
  • open-world
  • pve
  • stylized
  • action-adventure
  • card
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • story

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Elemental Defender (2025)

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Elemental Defender is a tower defense game using card to power up your units. Build your deck and place powerful units to defend your base from passing enemies.

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  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • 2d
  • deckbuilder
  • card
  • simulation
  • casual
  • wave
  • pulse-pounding
  • rock-solid

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Winter Falling: Battle Tactics (2022)

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Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Inspired by Warhammer, FTL and Total War.

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  • real-time
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • rpgesque
  • perma-death
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • pause
  • replay-value

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Dragonium Adventure (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Fight and make your way through the world of Akinori in this strategic turn-based RPG! Defeat powerful enemies, complete the intriguing story mode, upgrade your character, unlock new skills and join the fray!

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  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • clicker
  • tactical
  • fiction
  • hidden-object
  • action-adventure
  • loot
  • interactive
  • old-school
  • colourful
  • arcade
  • third-person
  • 2d

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Out of Space: Couch Edition (2020)

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You and your friends are about to move into a house in space, where you will have to deal with a deadly alien infestation and face the challenges of building a sustainable spaceship, all to make your new place feel as cozy as home!COUCH FUN MEETS STRATEGYEach match starts in a procedurally generated spaceship house that will demand your best planning and teamwork skills to become clean and comfy. You and your friends will need to generate resources, recycle trash and alien goo, buy and build new technologies, and take care of one another, if you ever want to call home the mess that you got into.As a COUCH-FUN game, Out of Space has short matches and is easy for everyone to grab a controller and play. At the same time also as a STRATEGY game, it will require short and long-term decisions, expanding and conquering new rooms and building technology to automate tasks.FEATURES- Buy, build and place your new technology, while keeping your systems efficient and sustainable.- Power up your spaceship by recycling alien goo and producing energy batteries.- Harvest and take care of your fruitful gardens to keep everyone fed.- Clean rooms with mops and water, while containing the deadly alien menace.- Take a nap on your sofa, while your friends desperately claim for help.- Automate cleaning and harvesting with the help of robots.- Adopt Dogs, they will love you for it and help you in any way they can!OTHER FUN STUFF- Procedural spaceship generator: different challenge everytime you play.- Missions to guide the player's progression that never leave out what couch-fun is about.- Unlock new content when completing achievements.- Play single-player or local multiplayer- No weapons of any kind.

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  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • local
  • twin-stick
  • couch
  • strategy
  • colourful
  • casual
  • multiplayer
  • platform
  • cute
  • controller-support
  • robots
  • skill
  • stealth

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Turnament (2023)

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You are a space mining apprentice with a bright future ahead. However, your superior Commander Neek would rather watch a movie than teach you anything. Can you collect crystals and survive on your own?

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  • soundtrack
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • editor
  • level
  • linear
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • space
  • 2d
  • funny
  • story
  • controller-support
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist

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