For the Linux users, the gaming industry has always been a frustration. There are more games coming for the platform but not all the biggest and latest titles support Linux. Well, there are still some of the finest and exciting games out there that’s worth playing right now!

Today, let’s have a look at some of the best strategy games for Linux. We’ve already discussed a few ASCII games and other big titles like Dota 2 and Zero-K.

Best strategy games

• Freeciv

In the world of strategy games, building an empire and ruling over your enemy kingdom is something that doesn’t get old, right? It always attacking the enemies while forcing us to keep sharp management of our own.

Sid Meyer’s Civilization became one of the finest turn-based strategy game of the history. However, because of the closed-source project, many Linux users simply can’t tolerate them. Interested in having the same experience as the Civ? Then why not check out Freeciv?

Freeciv is an open-source alternative to Civ with the exact experience. You can play as the ruler of a number of historical empires throughout the history of mankind. You have to conquer other nations, explore, maintain the economy, make allies and more!

Freeciv is available for all the major Linux distros. Get Freeciv.

• Tanks of Freedom

In this indie strategy game, you take control of a battle tank to fight against other player or a computer. It’s a turn-based strategy game. Your goal is to defend your area while defeating your enemy tanks.

Tanks of Freedom offers a pretty intuitive 2D pixel-art graphics. Don’t let the graphics fool you from enjoying the game!

The game is cross-platform – available for all the platforms like Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. Get Tanks of Freedom.

• Widelands

You got a clan with one sole purpose – leading your clan towards the ultimate place in the world. What would you do?

In Widelands, you take control of a clan. Collect and manage resources, explore other areas, establish trade networks with others and set a growing settlement.

It’s another cross-platform game. In the case of Linux, it’s available on the default software repo of all the major Linux distros. You can also get the game directly from the official website.

Get Widelands now!

• OpenRA

Remember the game Command & Conquer? You had to lead an army towards the absolute domination over the map in a real-time strategy game. OpenRA brings the same experience with a ton of improvements.

It’s an open-source project. It took a lot of for the devs to rebuild and re-implement the game engine for the new and modern operating systems like Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.

The project has been around for quite some time. Now, there is support for the custom mod and even the experience of various Command & Conquer releases like Tiberian Sun, Red Alert and more.

The game is available as AppImage and Flatpak. For the Arch Linux and Arch-based distro users, the game is directly available on the official repository!

Get OpenRA right now!

• Mega Glest

It’s another real-time strategy game that offers the players to play as one of the 7 available civilizations (Tech, Egyptians, Magic, Norsemen, Indians, Persian and Romans) to defeat their enemies.

The game doesn’t come up with a particular storyline. However, the action and the excellent combats with stunning gameplay will still attract the RTS fans anyway.

Get Mega Glest now!

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0 A.D. is an open-source game developed by Wildfire Games. The game sets you back in a historical war and economy world – around 500 B.C. and 1 B.C. at the first part and A.D. 1 to A.D. 500. The game is also available on a number of platforms like Windows, macOS, and OpenBSD. The game is highly comparable with the famous Age of Empires.

Getting 0 A.D.

The game is available on all the major platforms. There’s also an available Flatpak that you can enjoy on all the platforms that support Flatpak. Run the following commands according to your Linux distro –

• Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
sudo apt update
sudo apt install 0ad -y

• Debian

su -

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

# At the end of the file, add the following lines and save the file
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

# After the editing is complete, run the following commands

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

echo '#Debian Backports' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo >> 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian stretch-backports main'

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t stretch-backports 0ad

• OpenSUSE

# openSUSE Leap 15.0
sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/ opensuse-games

# openSUSE Tumbleweed
sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ opensuse-games

• Fedora

sudo dnf install 0ad -y

• Arch Linux

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

# Remove all the '#' from the "Community" section. Save and exit the editor.
# Now, run the following commands -

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -Syyuu

sudo pacman -S 0ad

• Flatpak method

Thanks to the Flatpak, the game is available for almost all the other Linux distros. If you want to enjoy the game on your distro, make sure that you have Flatpak installed. After the core installation is complete, run the following commands for installing the Flatpak version of 0 A.D. –

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.play0ad.zeroad

Playing 0 A.D.

Just start the game and enjoy!

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This is a nice, small and fun game that’s available on almost all the major Linux distros. This game is open-source and anyone can build it from source for enjoying in the system as well. It’s almost similar to Mario Kart. Let’s install and play the game!

Installing SuperTuxKart

• Ubuntu

It’s obviously one of the most popular Linux distros of all time. If you’re using Ubuntu, Ubuntu flavors or any other Ubuntu derivatives, then fire up the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install supertuxkart

Alternatively, the game is also available on Ubuntu Software Center.

• Debian

Debian users, run the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install supertuxkart

• Fedora

sudo dnf install supertuxkart -y

• OpenSUSE

# Leap 15
sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/ opensuse-games
sudo zypper in supertuxkart

# Leap 42.3
sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ opensuse-games
sudo zypper in supertuxkart

# Tumbleweed
sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ opensuse-games
sudo zypper in supertuxkart

• Arch Linux

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S supertuxkart

• Universal method

If your Linux distro wasn’t listed above, you can follow these steps to install the game on your system.

Download the TAR.XZ package for Linux from SuperTuxKart. Note that the file is a super large one, nearly half a gigabyte. Be patient.

Now, run the following commands:

# Move the compressed file to home directory
cd ~/Downloads
mv supertuxkart-0.9.3-linux.tar.xz

# Extract the archive
tar -xvJf supertuxkart-0.9.3-linux.tar.xz

# Move the launcher shortcut to desktop
cp ~/supertuxkart-0.9.3-linux/data/supertuxkart.desktop ~/Desktop

# Edit the shortcut
nano ~/Desktop/supertuxkart.desktop

# Change the line "Exec", press "Ctrl + O" to save the file and "Ctrl + X" to exit the editor
Exec=sh /home/<username>/supertuxkart-0.9.3-linux/run_game.sh

Voila! The game is installed!

Playing the game

Launch the game from the desktop shortcut.

The game is pretty simple. You can easily create an online account for backing up your progress.

As you’ve noticed, there are different game modes available – story mode, single player and multiplayer. The game is also expandable with a number of add-ons.

Don’t forget to check out other Linux games like Dota 2 and Zero-K!

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