Strategy 2010 for Linux — top best games in the Strategy genre

Mount & Blade: Warband - a game in the Strategy genre

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2010

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Mount & Blade: Warband is an action role-playing game with strategy elements and a third-person view in a medieval setting. You will be able to become the ruler of...

Battle for Wesnoth

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Sandbox, Free game

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

This turn-based fantasy strategy game is set in the world of Irdya, where campaigns follow struggles for a throne, battles against orcs and undead, and other...

Columns

Strategy, In real time, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 76/100

Columns is a puzzle game set in ancient Phoenicia, where colorful jewels fall from the top of the playfield. The player matches three or more jewels of the same...

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising

Role-playing game, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Online

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

An expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2, this real-time strategy game continues the Blood Ravens’ fight against Chaos in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A...

SpringRTS: 1944

Isometric, In real time, Tactics, Strategy, Tanks, Historical, Warships / Submarines, Online

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2010

Players: 7.9/10

SpringRTS: 1944 is a real-time tactical historical strategy game with an isometric view. The game takes place at the end of World War II on a massive scale, using...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Flotilla

Strategy, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2010

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A turn-based space strategy game with tactical combat in three-dimensional space, Flotilla puts the player in command of a fleet traveling through the galaxy. The...

Heroes of Newerth

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, MOBA

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2010

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Heroes of Newerth is a session-based multiplayer action RPG in the MOBA genre, with real-time strategy elements. It has a medieval fantasy setting and a...

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

Strategy, In real time, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 92/100

This puzzle game is set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, where Dr. Robotnik plans to turn the people of Beanville into robots and rid Planet Mobius of music and...

Worms Reloaded

Strategy, Turn-based, Side view, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Worms Reloaded is the legendary return of the fast-paced side-scrolling team strategy game. The game offers multiplayer play for up to four people and with a...

Depths of Peril

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2010

Steam: 88/100

This single-player action RPG with strategy elements is set in a fantasy world where leaders of barbarian factions vie for control of the city of Jorvik. The player...

Empire: Total War - Elite Units of the East

Strategy, DLC, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 8 February 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

An expansion for Total War: Empire, adding 12 elite units to the Maratha and Ottoman factions. The units can be unlocked in the campaign by meeting specific...

Making History 2: The War of the World

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Turn-based, Simulation, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

A turn-based grand strategy game set in the years leading up to and during World War II, where the player takes control of a nation. This includes managing its...

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2010

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition is a third-person arcade turn-based strategy game with platformer elements. Experience the visuals of a new high-definition...

Going Forward

Strategy, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2010

Going Forward is a strategy game with elements of a business...

AI War: Children of Neinzul

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2010

Steam: 87/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, centered on encounters with the Neinzul, an insectoid race whose Enclaves are small collectives with their own personalities...

OpenRA

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2010

Players: 5.5/10

OpenRA is a top-down...

NetNuclear

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2010

NetNuclear is a top-down strategy game from Studio Stök. The main publisher of the game is Studio...

Galcon Fusion

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

This top-down multiplayer arcade strategy game centers on a battle for control of the galaxy. Players send swarms of ships to enemy planets to defeat their...

Cubosphere

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2010

Cubosphere is a third-person action game with a mixture of strategy, puzzle and...

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to guide cubes to exits of matching colors. In Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH, routes are shaped with conveyor belts, warps...

Gain Ground

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 100/100

This arcade action game with strategic elements takes place inside a battle simulator, where contestants are trapped and androids have been turned into killing...

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Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2010 for Linux (Game released)