Free classic board game software for linux

Acquire is a computer version of the classic board game.
The goal of the game is to make the most profit by buying stocks in companies that form, merge and grow as tiles are placed on the game board.
This program is a text-based version of the game and should be playable on any system with a C++ compiler.
Enhancements:
- The main improvement of this release is that the bug causing the game to crash at the end was fixed, so you can now see who won.
- There were some other small bugfixes and changes.

BoardGame Tool provides a C++ front-end/Python back-end for running board games.
It features an easy and flexible interface to interact with the players and has transparent support for network or AI-controlled games.
Through a clear XML interface, games elements can be specified. Using an easy-to-learn back-end language like Python for rule implementations makes it very easy to implement, adjust, or enhance rules that come with a game.
The same back-end language can be used easily for simple or complex AI implementations.
Main features:
- XML specification with DTD validation for game definition
- Easy-to-learn Python programming for rule implementation
- Integrated and transparent network play
- Network chat with selected players
- Simple interface for programming AI players
- Extensive support for image formats
- Runtime scaling of images, allowing easy application of anything as gamepiece
Games currently implemented:
- Chess
- Go
Enhancements:
- This release includes the data archive with correct licensing information for the Fergus Duniho abstract chess piece set.

DoSSi Zola is a board game under GPL licence, using SDL. You can play with two players or you can play on your own against the computer.

The goal of the game is quite simple: block your opponent by destroying the fields which surround him without being blocked yourself. Every turn of play, each player must first move to some adjacent field and then destroy a field of his choice. The first player who cannot move anymore loses the game.

Cassiopeia is a board game similar to Carcassonne. It allows playing over LAN and Internet and features also computer players. The project supports multiple Graphic Sets, on similar to the board game and one with a space setting.
The program supports two languages at the moment, English and German. The development documentation and the handbook in the game is only avaible in German at the moment.
Main features:
- Multiplayer over LAN and Internet
- Metaserver to find other players
- Computer players
- Most Carcassonne addons are implemented
- Gameoptions can be combined as you like

Ascal is a Gnome Version of the board game Lasca.
Lasca is a game similar to Draughts but with some really cool enhancements. In a future release youll find a great description in the help system of Ascal. In the meantime the article on Wikipedia will help you understanding the rules.
Ascal tries to give a great Gnome experience of Lasca for one and two players. You can undo moves, save and load games and all that on a nifty graphical board.
Enhancements:
Now we are looking for tranlators...
Here and there we still have some glitches, but we are on our way...
- Better AI
- i18n possibility
- German translation
- Beginning of Desktop integration

Adams Happy Electronic Morabaraba is an implementation of Morabaraba, an ancient African board game similar to Nine Mens Morris.
Enhancements:
- A new GUI based on reusable Morabaraba control was added.
- The ability to edit games visually was added.
- The ability to create custom "themes" (board/piece sets) was added.
- Animation was made faster for rapid gameplay.
- A move may be taken back.
- The engine is unchanged.

KsirK is a computerized version of a well known strategy board game: Risk !
KsirK is a game for KDE released under the GPL. In the current version, KsirK is a usable multi-player mono-machine game with a basic AI. Planned future versions will be really network-enabled multi-playered with a better AI and a lot more enhancements (see Status for details).
The goal of the game is simply to conquer the World... It is done by attacking your neighbors with your armies.
At the beginning of the game, countries are distributed to all the players. Each country contain one army (represented by an infantryman) at this moment. Each player has some armies to distribute to his countries. Note that five armies are represented by a cavalryman and 10 by a cannon.
On each turn, each player can attack his neighbours, eventually conquering one or more countries. At the end of each turn, some bonus armies are distributed to the players in function of the number of countries they own.
The winner is the player that conquered all the world !!
!!! WARNING !!!
To compile KsirK1.3beta2, you have to patch a file in the libkdegames/kgame library.
A version of the patched file is given in the kgame-patch directory of the
distribution. If you dont know how to do that, maybe should you wait for a corrected kdegames package or for binary distributions of KsirK.
Enhancements:
- Updated the waf build system to 1.0.1