Tactics for Linux — top best games in the Tactics genre / Page 5

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine - a game in the Tactics genre

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This tactical stealth game follows a crew of thieves as they case buildings and carry out heists while avoiding security. The cast includes a...

Jagged Alliance: Flashback

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2014; Early Access: Linux → 4 June 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 38/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Jagged Alliance: Flashback is the incredible return of the Jagged Alliance series of tactical strategies. The game takes place during the Cold War on...

Hard West: Scars of Freedom

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

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2016

Steam: 81/100

Hard West: Scars of Freedom is an addition to the turn-based tactical western. The story of the DLC tells the story of a woman named Liberty, who at...

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...

Ganbare! Super Strikers

Role-playing game, Football, Sports game, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2018

Steam: 84/100

Ganbare! Super Strikers is a unique turn-based sports RPG focused on football. You will find non-standard football matches, where victories will...

Veliri: Planet of Machines

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Futurism (Future), Free game, Tactics, Sandbox, Simulation

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.3/10

Veliri is a browser-based multiplayer role-playing game in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell about the conflict between armies for territory and...

Escape from Chernobyl

Action, Adventure, Tactics, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Escape from Chernobyl is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and tactical elements. You will plunge into the darkness and danger of the...

Planet S

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Tactics, Free game, City Building, Online

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2023

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

A tactical real-time strategy game with a world of 14 procedurally generated planets ready for colonization. The planet type affects things like...

NightRunner

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Zombies

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Cooperative action with elements of survival, extraction, and dungeon exploration. The game combines dynamic shootouts with resource gathering and...

Fish vs. Crabs

Arcade, Isometric, Logic, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2013

Fish vs. Crabs is an isometric arcade game with elements of a tactical game from developers from the Swift Creek Games studio. The game is published...

Trapped Dead: Lockdown

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

An isometric action RPG set in a small American town overrun by the living dead. The protagonist enters just before the military locks down the town...

Iron Marines

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Science fiction, Action

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2019

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Iron Marines is a tower defense strategy game in a futuristic setting from the creators of Kingdom Rush. In this game you will act as the commander...

Death by Game Show

Arcade, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Death by Game Show is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with a side view. The project is steeped in comic book culture and largely...

Braveland Pirate

Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Fantasy, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2015

Steam: 87/100

Braveland Pirate is a side-scrolling turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy setting. The final part of the trilogy of classic games in the spirit...

A.W.O.L.

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Stealth, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2022

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 78/100

A.W.O.L. is a free first-person shooter developed on the Duke Nukem 3D engine and Ion Fury. You'll play as Dwayne Allen, a recently demobilized...

Lords of Ravage: Dread Knights

Role-playing game, Tactics, Roguelike, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 11 January 2025

Steam: 91/100

Prologue to Lords of Ravage, in which you can learn about the events preceding the original game. The main character is one of the Lords of Ruin in...

DEFCON

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2007

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

DEFCON is a real-time strategy game simulating global nuclear war during the Cold War. From an underground bunker, a general must destroy the enemy...

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2016

Steam: 32/100

This physics-based space strategy game with action elements follows an effort to save humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The player leads a...

Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 9 January 2015

Steam: 44/100

This real-time tactical strategy game follows the Black Talons mercenary company, stranded in the Oberon system after the Tzanar Union captures the...

Fat Chicken

Strategy, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 86/100

A reverse tower defense strategy game about running an industrial farm that fattens livestock for processing into meat. The player builds towers to...

Long Live Caesar

Indie, Role-playing game, Tactics, Historical, Roguelike, Side view, Puzzle, Detective, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2024

Steam: 78/100

A step -by -step role -playing strategy with elements of a crogue in which the fate of the Roman Empire depends on the decisions of one person...

The Chronos Principle

Puzzle, Indie, Arcade, Tactics, Logic

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2022

Steam: 100/100

The Chronos Principle is an arcade puzzle game based on the concept of time manipulation. The game features 77 well-developed and interesting...

Crystal Project

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2022

Steam: 91/100

Crystal Project is a Japanese-style RPG adventure game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You have to go to conquer a large open world...

Live Lens

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2025

A tactical shooter with a body-camera view and real-life graphics. The game has three modes: a single story campaign, where you need to uncover a...

Digital Defender ORC

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2026

Steam: 100/100

A free tactical game in the "tower defense" format with role-playing elements set in a cyberpunk future, where the player defends monsters from...

Tribal Trouble

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Online, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Tribal Trouble is a third-person strategy game from developers from the Oddlabs ApS studio. The game is published by Oddlabs ApS. In some circles...

Big Pharma

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle, Tactics, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2015

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Big Pharma is a management strategy with an isometric camera, where you will become the head of a new pharmaceutical company and create your own...

Strife

Online, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Free game, MOBA

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 72/100

Strife is a multiplayer MOBA strategy game in a fantasy setting. You will find gameplay familiar to this genre, also three lines and five heroes per...

Bad Business

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

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2019

Steam: 66/100

Bad Business is a top-down tactical shooter where Mr. Bunny Rabbit, an assassin, is tasked with taking down a rival gang. A difficult task for any...

Into the Void (2015)

Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Business / Management, Adventure, Tactics, Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2015

Steam: 47/100

Into the Void (2015) is a fantastic turn-based strategy game with an isometric view and RPG elements. You will be able to completely command your...

Sunset World Online

Online, Role-playing game, MMO, Platformer, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Roguelike, Side view, Tactics

Early Access: Linux → 2 March 2022

Steam: 64/100

Sunset World Online is a side-scrolling adventure online role-playing game with platforming elements. You can gather your group and go on an...

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...

Graywalkers: Purgatory

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Adventure

Early Access: Linux → 15 January 2020

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 38/100

Graywalkers: Purgatory is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements set in a post-apocalyptic setting where Heaven and Hell have become...

Mechajammer

Role-playing game, Stealth, In real time, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Tactics, Open world

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2021

Steam: 48/100

Mechajammer is a role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place on an island suffering from...

Vigilantes

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

Game released: Linux → 3 October 2018

Steam: 80/100

Vigilantes is a tactical RPG with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. The events of the game take place in the vastness of the fictional...

Pretend

Free game, Arcade, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics, Casual game, Strategy, Survival

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 56/100

Pretend is a casual multiplayer online game about social deduction. The game is very similar to Among Us, but instead of a space base, the action...

Heck Deck

Card game, Arcade, Tactics, Indie, Top-down view, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 12 January 2022

Steam: 92/100

Heck Deck is a top-down tactical card arcade game with indie elements. Over the course of 5 stages, you will be able to show dexterity and...

RavenWeald

Free game, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Roguelike, Fantasy, Isometric, Procedural generation, Adventure

Early Access: Linux → 13 January 2021; Game released: Linux → 8 September 2022

Steam: 89/100

A free strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. The main action takes place in a magical forest filled with...

Beacon Patrol: First Horizons

Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game, Turn-based, Tactics, Board / Group Game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 30 November 2023

Steam: 80/100

The gamer controls a coast guard ship and creates a map of the coastal area. You can place up to three tiles in one move. By placing new pieces of...

Silence of the Siren

Tactics, Role-playing game, Top-down view, Online, Turn-based, Science fiction, Strategy, Simulation

Early Access: Linux → 30 September 2024

Steam: 89/100

A sci-fi game in which several space-faring civilizations battle for control of a distant star system. You need to explore the surface and extract...

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Best Games in the Tactics genre for Linux