The Best Turn-based Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Warside added at rank #7.
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FORWARD: Escape the Fold (2022)

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Forward: Escape the Fold is a retro-styled, simple, and bite-sized roguelike/roguelite game that is meant to be played in short sessions. It offers fun decision making and the procedurally-generated replayability that fans of the genre crave. The game is very relaxed, offering a very simple premise - enter a procedurally-generated dungeon and fight your way forward until you escape or die. The game's rules are simple, but your choices are carefully considered, and the depth of the game is more vast than expected, creating an interesting dynamic of weighing benefits with the sacrifices made to get those benefits. Combat is extremely simple and any time you come across an enemy that you can attack or be attacked by, your health is reduced by the damage number on the enemy card, and the enemy disappears. Your goal is simply to have more health at the end of each stage than the boss card's damage number.

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What we like:
  • Quick games
  • Easy to learn
  • Lots of replay value
  • Variety of different game modes and challenges
  • Well-designed and challenging
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive gameplay, lacks variety between runs
  • Not challenging enough on classic difficulty

  • card
  • rogue-like
  • turn-based
  • dungeon-crawler
  • procedural
  • strategy
  • choices
  • pixel
  • dark
  • tactical
  • dungeon
  • minimalist

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Jupiter Hell (2021)

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Jupiter Hell is a turn-based shooter from the depths of cosmic hell, built on a classic roguelike framework updated with modern 3d graphics. Rip and tear zombies, demons, and heavy metal monstrosities with chainguns and chainsaws. Like chess... with shotguns!


  • rogue-like
  • turn-based
  • traditional
  • open-source

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TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children (2020)

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TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.

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  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • tactical
  • japanese
  • wargame
  • strategy
  • lore
  • party
  • jrpg
  • old-school

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Urtuk: The Desolation (2021)

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Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.


  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • hex
  • fantasy
  • perma-death
  • grid
  • open-world
  • procedural

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The Hand of Merlin (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

The Hand of Merlin is a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror. Recruit mortal heroes to explore lands rife with otherworldly evil, make narrative bending choices in unique interactive encounters, and search for the lost fragments of your soul across the multiverse!


  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • rogue-like
  • medieval
  • rpg
  • perma-death
  • soundtrack
  • strategy

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Siralim Ultimate (2021)

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early access Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 4

Siralim Ultimate is an RPG with over 1200 monsters to collect and customize to your liking. With randomly generated dungeons and post-story content, this game offers a never-ending adventure. The game's specializations and teambuilding options give an insane amount of choice to the player. If you're an RPG fan who loves discovering something new each time you play, Siralim Ultimate delivers.

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What we like:
  • Endless teambuilding and tactic optimisation potential
  • Engaging and streamlined grind
  • Castle customization and skins/avatars/transmogs are well done
  • Turbo mode and the ability to program macros to deal with any situation automatically
What could be improved:
  • Can be too grindy to progress into the cooler parts of the game
  • Simplistic story
  • Sound is average

  • collector
  • creature
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • party
  • turn-based
  • collectathon
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • loot
  • character
  • retro
  • isometric
  • battle
  • dungeon

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Iratus: Lord of the Dead (2020)

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Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!


  • rogue-like
  • turn-based
  • villain
  • dark
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • battle
  • strategy
  • protagonist
  • rpg
  • dungeon
  • goth
  • squad
  • dungeon-crawler
  • combat

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Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

Command intergalactic forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your royal house through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.


  • 4x
  • lore
  • turn-based
  • political
  • strategy
  • wargame
  • moddable
  • politics
  • economy
  • tutorial
  • resource-management
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • futuristic
  • space

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ATOM RPG Trudograd (2021)

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ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.


  • rpg
  • post-apocalyptic
  • turn-based
  • old-school
  • atom
  • isometric
  • classic
  • survival
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • open-world
  • roleplaying
  • stand-alone
  • combat

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Great Powers (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.

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  • turn-based
  • grand-strategy
  • 4x
  • hex
  • wargame
  • economy
  • strategy
  • historical
  • military
  • isometric
  • grid
  • medieval
  • pve
  • tactical
  • 2d

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