Strategy 2011 for Linux — top best games in the Strategy genre

Dwarf Fortress - a game in the Strategy genre

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Simulation, Strategy, City Building

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Dwarf Fortress — in the main mode, the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, trying to build an underground fortress in a procedurally generated...

Total War: Shogun 2

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Turn-based, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Total War: Shogun 2 is a global strategy with turn-based movements on a global map and real-time battles. The end of the 19th century became a turning point in...

Cities in Motion

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Trains

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2011

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Cities in Motion is an economic simulation game that challenges you to model, build, and maintain an efficient mass transit network between multiple, growing...

Frozen Synapse

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie, Tactics, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frozen Synapse is a fantastic top-down turn-based tactical strategy game. This game allows you to give detailed and precise orders to your team: classic gameplay...

Atom Zombie Smasher

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Zombies, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This real-time strategy game is set during a 1961 zombie apocalypse. Players assemble a band of mercenaries to rescue survivors and launch nuclear missiles from...

Arma: Cold War Assault

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Simulation, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2011

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Arma: Cold War Assault is a tactical military shooter with a first-person view. The campaign's plot was based on a fictional conflict between NATO and the USSR...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...

HOARD

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 April 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This top-down arcade strategy game casts the player as a dragon seeking to amass the largest possible hoard. The dragon burns villages and castles, collects gold...

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: Linux → 1 January 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Nuclear Dawn

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2011

Players: 4.7/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Nuclear Dawn is a multiplayer game that combines first-person shooting with real-time strategy in a post-apocalyptic setting of war-torn cities. As infantry...

My Free Farm

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Free game, Construction, City Building

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 69/100

My Free Farm is a third-person simulator with a mixture of strategy and business simulator from the developers of upjers GmbH & Co. KG. The main publisher of...

Age of Fear: The Undead King

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2011

Steam: 89/100

This fantasy turn-based strategy game combines tabletop wargame battles with role-playing elements and follows two separate storylines: the knight Sir Edward...

TripleA

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Turn-based, Tanks

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2011

Steam: 81/100

TripleA is a top-down simulator with elements of strategy, business simulator, fantasy game, historical game and tank simulator. Sometimes the game is also called...

Klötzchen

Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2011

Klötzchen is an isometric strategy game with puzzle elements from Top Hat Game Productions. The main publisher of the game is Top Hat Game...

AI War: Light of the Spire

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

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2011

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, it brings the Spire back to the galaxy: an alien race nearly destroyed by the artificial intelligences that also drove...

Inside a Star-filled Sky

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2011

Steam: 69/100

A recursive tactical shooter with procedurally generated levels nested inside one another without end. The player moves through these spaces and can enter objects...

Revenge of the Titans

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

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A real-time strategy game with tower defense elements, Revenge of the Titans follows an invasion in which the Titans send ground forces against human bases across...

Conquest: Divide and Conquer

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2011

Conquest: Divide and Conquer is an isometric action game with strategy and tactical elements from the developers of Proxy Studios. The main publisher of the game is...

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood - Chapter 2: Dwarf Fortress

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2011

Players: 10/10

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood — Chapter 2: Dwarf Fortress is a top-down RPG with simulation, strategy, business and fantasy elements from the masters at Bay...

Stop That Hero!

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2011

Stop That Hero! is a top-down strategy game with a dash of fantasy from the masters at GBGames. The game is published by...

Crayon Physics Deluxe (2011)

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game where drawn objects become real, physical objects. The player solves puzzles by drawing and applying the laws of...

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Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2011 for Linux (Game released)