Tactics 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Tactics genre

Cities: Skylines - a game in the Tactics genre

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Tactics, City Building, Construction

Game released: Linux → 10 March 2015

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Cities: Skylines is a city planning simulator with a developed management system and metropolitan management. As mayor, you'll have to take care of education...

Dungeon Warfare

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2015

Steam: 95/100

A strategy game in the tower defense genre, where the role of the dungeon defender is assigned not to towers, but to numerous deadly traps. Spikes, rotating blades...

Magicka 2

Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A cooperative action-adventure set in a fantasy world shaped by Norse folklore, Magicka 2 follows a Midgård left almost without Wizards after the Wizard Wars. A...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...

Total War: Attila

Strategy, In real time, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Total War: Attila is a continuation of the historical strategy with real-time battles and turn-based movements on the global map. The game tells the story of the...

Hard West

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

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hard West is a turn-based tactical western. The plot of the game will suggest delving into the darkest recesses of the soul of the main character Warren. You have...

Party Hard

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A tactical stealth game about someone trying to stop noisy parties hosted by neighbours across the United States. Rather than call the police, the protagonist uses...

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 medical empire. You...

Renowned Explorers: International Society

Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A strategy adventure with turn-based tactical conflicts, Renowned Explorers: International Society takes place in a fictional 19th-century world. The player leads...

Knights of Pen and Paper 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Defend the Highlands

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

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2015

Steam: 95/100

Defend the Highlands is a humorous tower defense strategy game set in a medieval setting. The events of the game take place in Scotland, where proud highlanders are...

Frozen Cortex

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Sports game, Cyberpunk, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Frozen Cortex is a unique tactical game that combines elements of Frozen Synapse and American football. The game features both a single-player campaign, offering...

Running with Rifles

Arcade, Shooter, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Action, Open world

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Running with Rifles is an isometric top-down tactical shooter set in an open world where you take on the role of a common soldier. Together with your squad, you...

Massive Chalice

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A tactical strategy game set in a fantasy world, where an Immortal Ruler leads a nation through a 300-year war against the mysterious Cadence. The player commands...

Battle of Empires: 1914-1918

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Historical, Action

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 68/100

This real-time tactical strategy game depicts battles of the First World War through story campaigns and multiplayer combat. Missions feature trench fighting...

Chaos Reborn

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Chaos Reborn is a multiplayer tactics game from the creator of the original X-COM. In which, in turn-based mode, from two to six warlocks controlled by players...

Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown

Role-playing game, Online, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Mini-game / browser-based, Tactics, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Set in the cyberpunk universe of Shadowrun, this tactical role-playing game takes place in Boston, where a corrupt megacorporation’s schemes threaten thousands of...

Strife

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

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 90/100

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 team. Only gold...

Crusader Kings 2: Horse Lords

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics, Medieval era, Simulation, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 67/100

Crusader Kings 2: Horse Lords is an expansion for the real-time strategy game. The expansion reveals the full potential of nomadic peoples — the Mongols and other...

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 and fights...

Dungeon Crawlers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

This turn-based strategy game brings a comedic ghost-hunting concept to a dungeon setting. Its gameplay centers on tactical, turn-based encounters, with a...

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 of “Heroes of...

Chroma Squad

Role-playing game, Strategy, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A tactical role-playing game about five stunt performers who quit their jobs to make their own TV show about heroes in colorful suits. The player runs the studio by...

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: 45/100

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 faction. Create...

Masterplan

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2015

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set in the 1970s, this tactical, squad-based heist game presents its action from a 2D top-down perspective. The player plans robberies and chooses whether to rely...

Ceres (2015)

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

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 52/100

Ceres — real-time space strategy. Players will take control of a squadron of spaceships and take part in battles, trade and exploration of solar systems. It...

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 planet Genai. To...

Cheats 4 Hire

Strategy, Indie, Free game, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 25 June 2015

Steam: 72/100

Set in Travian High School, this tactical puzzle game follows a group of students who help their classmates cheat on exams as more and more of them fail. Janitor...

Interloper

Online, Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 21 May 2015

Steam: 84/100

Interloper is a real-time strategy game in which players compete for control of territory rather than trying to destroy one another. Capturing the map means...

Convoy

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 78/100

In a post-apocalyptic future, this tactical roguelike follows a squad crossing a wasteland to find parts for a broken spaceship. The group travels in combat...

Living Dungeon

Role-playing game, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Tactics, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2015

Steam: 69/100

Living Dungeon is a tactical board-game adventure set in a perilous dungeon, where players compete to survive and complete their objectives. In the story campaign...

Massive Chalise

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Massive Chalise is a strategy game with elements of a fantasy game, an indie game and a tactical game from the developers of Double Fine Productions. The game is...

Breach & Clear: DEADline

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Zombies, Action

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2015

Steam: 53/100

A tactical strategy game with action and RPG elements, in which a special forces squad investigates the source of a dangerous outbreak. The player commands four...

Tactics

Best Games in the Tactics genre of 2015 for Linux