Strategy 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Strategy genre / Page 3

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 59/100

An action-adventure roguelike set in the Bermuda Triangle, Lost Sea follows a survivor stranded on a mysterious island after a freak storm. To escape, the player...

Nanuleu

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2016

Steam: 79/100

Players need to take control of certain points on the map by planting trees and destroy...

Purgatory

Strategy

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2016

Steam: 59/100

Purgatory is a tactical turn-based strategy game about a protagonist whose death marks the beginning of events in the afterlife. To return to the world of the...

Nova Blitz

Online, Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 25 October 2016

Steam: 70/100

This real-time collectible card strategy game is set in a future universe shaped by five Aspects of energy: Arcane, Tech, Divine, Nature, and Chaos. Players channel...

Cities: Skylines - Match Day

Strategy, Simulation, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Free game

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Steam: 90/100

Cities: Skylines — Match Day is a free-to-play add-on for the city-building simulator Cities: Skylines. It includes detailed customization of sports facilities...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer. Choose one of...

Star Vikings Forever

Arcade, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row), Science fiction, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Steam: 90/100

Star Vikings Forever is an arcade strategy game with role-playing elements and a side view. Your task will be to assemble your invincible team of Vikings and fight...

Total War: Warhammer - The Grim and the Grave

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Action

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2016

Steam: 69/100

Total War: Warhammer — The Grim and the Grave is an addition to the fantasy strategy with the game mechanics of the Total War series of games in the Warhammer...

Football Manager 2017

Strategy, Football, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Sports game, Turn-based, Side view, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Football Manager 2017 is a football management simulator in which you become the manager of a football team and lead it to success. The game features more than...

Glittermitten Grove

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Farm Simulator, City Building, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2016

Players: 4/10

Steam: 82/100

Glittermitten Grove is a fantasy real-time strategy game with a side view. You will find yourself in a colorful magical world, where you need to build a settlement...

Niche

Strategy, Puzzle, Turn-based, Adventure

Early Access: Linux → 15 September 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Niche is a turn-based strategy game inspired by Spore and Don't Starve. You have to help a tribe of funny creatures find shelter in this dangerous and difficult...

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Turn-based, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 75/100

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero is an add-on to the sci-fi strategy with turn-based battles in space StarDrive 2. It introduces large-scale changes to the structure of the...

Sol Trader

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2016

Steam: 61/100

Sol Trader is a new sci-fi game that puts people and their relationships at the forefront. It's a mix of 2D, classic top-down arcade action with deep, tactical...

Frost

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Tactics, Survival

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Steam: 17/100

Frost is a board card strategy game in a fantasy setting, created by famous artist Jerome Bodine. The game is inspired by projects such as Dominion and Ascension...

Okhlos

Action, Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2016

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Okhlos is a real-time action strategy game with eight-bit graphics. The events of the game take players to Ancient Greece, where the people, dissatisfied with the...

Master of Orion (2016)

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Master of Orion (2016) — restart of the popular space strategy with turn-based battles. The new game inherited the main philosophy of the original: explore...

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2016

Players: 3.6/10

Steam: 66/100

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is a tactical RPG strategy with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. As a young princess, you have to save your...

Stable Orbit

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy, Space

Early Access: Linux → 14 October 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 51/100

Stable Orbit is a sci-fi simulator that will send you to conquer outer space. You will be able to manage your own space station, explore starry space and gaze...

Europa Universalis 4: Mare Nostrum

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

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2016

Steam: 36/100

Europa Universalis 4: Mare Nostrum is an addition to the global strategy of Europa Universalis 4. In the update, you will have the opportunity to create trade...

Axes and Acres

Indie, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2016

Steam: 85/100

A turn-based, single-player strategy game about developing a village on a small plot of land. The player is its lord, managing peasants represented by dice...

Excubitor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2016

Steam: 40/100

Excubitor is an arcade game with action, shooter and strategy elements from the Tesseract Interactive studio. The game is published by Kasedo Games. Overall, the...

Steam Squad

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2016

Players: 1/10

Steam: 47/100

Steam Squad is a tactical strategy with an isometric camera view and turn-based battles. The game takes place in an alternative universe of the First World War. You...

Doomstar

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Board / Group Game, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2016

Steam: 57/100

Doomstar is a futuristic strategy game with turn-based combat developed by gaming industry veteran Lewis Pulsifer. Doomstar is a two-player board game that...

Football Manager Touch 2017

Strategy, Football, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Sports game, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Players: 3.2/10

Football Manager Touch 2017 is a football management simulator for mobile platforms, where you will become the manager of a football team and lead it to success...

Bitardia Cards: Memes of 2ch

Free game, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 74/100

This casual card strategy game features characters from a Russian-language imageboard, depicted on 2D cards. Bitardia Cards also offers multiplayer matches against...

Westport Independent

Strategy, Business / Management, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 21 January 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Westport Independent — management strategy with logic puzzles. You will become the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, who edits news texts every day before...

Trulon

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Logic, Steampunk, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2016

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Set in a world of steampunk and magic, this adventure RPG follows Gladia, a monster huntress searching for a cure to a disease spreading across the kingdoms of...

Retool

Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 77/100

Retool is a top-down tactical action puzzle game in a sci-fi setting. The main character Maria is a hacker engineer who is trying to get out of a destroyed orbital...

Ant Queen

Strategy, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2016

Steam: 63/100

This colony simulation puts the player in the role of an ant queen building an empire. By breeding different types of ants, the colony can expand, conquer its...

Earth Space Colonies

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2016

Steam: 38/100

A strategy simulation about building space colonies across the Solar System and developing planets and moons. On Mars, the player manages resources and expands a...

Infinium Strike

Arcade, Strategy, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Infinium Strike is a tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre in a space setting. You have to become a weapons officer on the battle cruiser Freedom...

Battlevoid: Harbinger

Strategy, Space, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2016

Steam: 79/100

A space strategy game with roguelike elements, Battlevoid: Harbinger centers on exploring procedurally generated galaxies and fighting enemies that threaten...

Age of Conquest 4

Strategy, Puzzle, Turn-based, Free game, Online

Game released: Linux → 6 April 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Age of Conquest 4 is a shareware turn-based strategy with elements of a logic game. You have to conquer the whole world with the help of your troops, which can be...

Tumbleweed Express

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action game with strategy and route-defense elements is set in the American West of 1885, where entrepreneur Dirigibaus has monopolized trade with a...

Defect (2016)

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2016

Steam: 63/100

A space simulator with action elements, where players will have to create their own ship to conquer limitless space. The game provides a wide range of components to...

Agenda

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 43/100

Agenda is a strategic simulator in which you have to manage an independent international agency and, with its help, achieve world domination. You will be able to...

Arsonville

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2016

Steam: 82/100

Arsonville is a real-time arcade strategy game with an isometric camera view. Your main task is to start a fire in the village, so that eventually the entire...

Zombo Buster Rising

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Free game, Side view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

A 2D action game with tower-defense elements, in which the player fights off zombies by shooting at them from a terrace. Two AI-controlled characters assist in...

Castle Battles

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

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2016

Steam: 90/100

Castle Battles is an unusual classic top-down strategy game in a medieval setting. Expand your empire by building castles near abundant resources, collect gold to...

Sol 0: Mars Colonization

Strategy, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2016

Steam: 67/100

This real-time strategy game with simulation elements follows the establishment of humanity’s first Martian colony, from the arrival of an exploratory rover to the...

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Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2016 for Linux