Projects

Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists ... [More] , and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against enemies. [Less]

Freeciv

Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization.

UFO: Alien Invasion

UFO: Alien Invasion is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also ... [More] have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves. [Less]

FreeCol

The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). It's a turn based strategy game similar to Civilization.

Hedgewars

Hedgewars, it's a Blast! This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!

Thousand Parsec

claimed by KDE

Thousand Parsec is not only a game by itself, it is also a framework for creating a similar group of turn-based space empire building games, which are often called 4X games, from the main phases found in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec ... [More] draws ideas from are Stars!, VGA Planets, Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. The idea is that a protocol is specified which defines how game servers and game clients communicate with each other. Protocol also specifies which objects are available for custom games or rulesets, which can have different rules of gamplay. Any client should be able to connect with any server and player should be able to play any game with it. [Less]

FreeOrion

Master of Orion-inspired turn-based game of epic space strategy that builds on the classic '4X' model by incorporating the nation-building elements of games such as Europa Universalis 2 and a versatile tactical combat engine. While its modular design allows for a significant degree of ... [More] customization of the game engine and the story elements by the community. The FreeOrion team is dedicated to the construction of a living, breathing universe in a 'grand campaign' model. [Less]

VCMI

Open-source version of Heroes of Might & Magic 3.5 : Wake of Gods

Free Heroes II Engine

Free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine.

GNOME War Pad

GNOME War Pad is a VGA Planets client for GNU/Linux, being developed in Python + GTK (previous versions were in C + GTK). VGA Planets is a play-by-email turn-based space conquest strategy game, a very addictive game back from the days of FidoNet.