The Best Real-time tactical Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Sunstone War added at rank #33.
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Unconventional Warfare (2022)

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early access PC Windows Linux

In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety. Rescue, train and manage your squad for the upcoming war of survival.

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  • real-time
  • tactical
  • i
  • war
  • rpg
  • military
  • strategy
  • pause
  • anime
  • tanks
  • simulation

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DEFCON (2006)

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Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • war
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • submarine
  • online
  • atmospheric
  • naval
  • survival
  • tactical
  • resource
  • cold
  • full-scale
  • real-world

33

Sunstone War (2024)

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Sunstone War is a unique Action game with Tower Defense element where you can carry EVERYTHING! Move towers, toss away enemies, carry obstacles, upgrade skills and journey through lands to protect your village from calamity!

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  • real-time
  • tactical
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • 1990s
  • mythology
  • pixel
  • action
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • surreal
  • rpg
  • top-down

34

Deterrence (2024)

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Artificial intelligence has plotted a path to a sustainable future, but humans aren't included. Defend humanity against the A.I. in this instant action real-time strategy, tower defense hybrid.

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  • real-time
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • building
  • wargame
  • tutorial
  • nonlinear
  • dystopian
  • sandbox
  • pause
  • military
  • war
  • tactical

35

Sudden Strike 4 (2017)

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Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders – making Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before!


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • world-war-2
  • ultra-competitive
  • historical
  • tanks
  • tactical
  • war
  • realistic
  • battle

36

Ruined Kingdom (2023)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Ruined Kingdom is a real-time strategy, RPG and reverse tower defense game. Defeat the insolent humans, control the battlefield, Defeat rival tribes! Take control of an army of Orcs fighting to conquer! Win and gain experience to unlock new upgrades and unique abilities.

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  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • wargame
  • rpg
  • tactical
  • comic
  • board-game
  • assassin
  • fantasy
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • book
  • dark
  • family-friendly

37

Hero Among Us (2021)

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Hero Among Us is a strategy/manager game were you create your own super hero, define where in the globe he/she will appear and manage how the world reacts to your actions and decisions.

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  • superhero
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • management
  • 2.5d
  • political
  • time-management
  • tactical
  • speed
  • villain
  • top-down
  • customization
  • skill
  • character
  • combat

38

Galactic Defense: Automation (2024)

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"Galactic Defense: Automation" is a Placement, Automated Battle, Real-Time Strategy game. Players can place construction plans, observe automated construction, automated battles, and unlock new technologies. Players pass the level after collecting tech points through activities.

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  • real-time
  • automation
  • tower-defense
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • strategy
  • deckbuilder
  • isometric
  • rogue-like
  • space
  • tactical
  • 2d

39

Steel Symphony (2024)

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Steel Symphony is a 2D Action-Strategy platformer where players craft combat sentinels by selecting components and balancing stats like integrity, mobility, and weapon capabilities. Chassis, weapons, and modules shape each sentinel's role with varied abilities for strategic customization.

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  • 2d
  • customization
  • dystopian
  • tactical
  • gun
  • post-apocalyptic
  • platform
  • robots
  • futuristic
  • space
  • character
  • real-time
  • sci-fi
  • vehicle
  • atmospheric

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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS (2019)

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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

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  • strategy
  • real-time
  • battle
  • historical
  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • war
  • empire
  • grand-strategy
  • military
  • naval

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