Free board game software for linux

Gridlock is a collection of 30 grid-based strategy board games for Linux, including Ataxx, Reversi, Checkers, Gomoku, Connect Four, and more. They are individually described in the "Games" section.

After launching the application, the game window will appear. Select the game you want to play from the "Game" popup menu in the upper right. Some games have different variations (board size, layout, etc); when one of those games are selected a "Variations" popup menu will appear from which you can select a variation.

The bottom right displays the color and status of the two players. Each players color is shown by a circle; the player whose turn it is has a filled circle. For games in which players have a score, the scores are shown next to the player labels. Popup windows underneath each players label allow you to specify whether each player is human or computer-controlled, and the difficulty of computer players. (Note that "Hard" and "Very Hard" computer opponents may take several seconds to make each move).

The rest of the window contains the game board. To make a move, click on the cell where you wish to place a piece. Some games require that you move from one cell to another; to do this first click on the cell you wish to move from, then click on the cell you wish to move to. (In some games such as Checkers you may be able to make a move containing several jumps; to do this click on each cell you wish to jump to in sequence).

For all games, cells that are legal moves will become highlighted when you move the mouse over them. A black dot indicates the position of the last move. If you are unable to make a move, you can pass by clicking the "Pass" button on the right. The "Restart" button will restart the game, requiring confirmation if a game is in progress.

The "Preferences..." menu item in the main Gridlock menu opens the Preferences window, which allows you to change the appearance of the game pieces, and to enable or disable the animation when they are captured. Game pieces can either be bitmap images chosen from the popup menus, or solid colors chosen from the color wells.

Games can be saved and restored using the "Save" and "Open" commands in the Game menu. Games are saved with their full move history, so you can save a game after it is finished, open it later, and undo moves back to the beginning.

The Edit menu contains Undo and Redo commands. Selecting Undo will back the game up to the last time it was a human players turn. There is no limit to how many moves can be undone. Selecting Redo will redo a move that was previously undone, but only if no new moves were made after the undo.

The Window menu contains commands to toggle the display of network and statistics drawers. The network drawer is described below and is primarily used to chat with your opponent during a network game. The statistics drawer shows a table listing all the moves that have been made in the current game, and information on the analysis performed during the last move made by a computer player.

Space Hulk is a great board game of Games Workshop in the world of Warhammer 40000. This is a two player turn-based game where one play the Marine, the other play the alien called Genestealer. If you need more infos on the game, you can get the rulebook or some links on Space Hulk
This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd edition rules. Well, I know there is some fans discussion to know whether the 1st or the 2nd edition of the rules is the better. For my part, I only played the 2nd edition, thats the edition this game is based on.
The project is aiming at providing a way to play SpaceHulk on your computer exactly as you could do it with the real board version but with some extra : you can play via network (no need to have two players in the same room) synchronized or asynchronized (via e-mail), and you will even be able to play solo against an artificial intelligent opponent. Currently, only HotSeat and Play-By-Email mode game are implemented. You can see some screenshots or download it.
This game is developed as a free software with the GPL license. We always need some volonteers to help us on coding, bug reports, creating new skins or new levels, writing documentations, maintaining web sites, etc. See the development site for more infos.
Enhancements:
- Problem with diceroll.
- BF: Problem when transmitting genestealer orientation during creation.
- BF: Mail sent with n instead of rn (fix from Unifex).
- BF: segfault with newby question in pbem.

London Law is a networked multiplayer manhunting board game.

London Law is an online multiplayer adaptation of the classic Scotland Yard board game. One player controls the movements of the criminal Mr. X as he tries to evade Scotland Yard, while another one to five players control five detectives trying to track him down.

The game client features an attractive map overlaid on high-resolution satellite imagery.

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.

Mill 3D is a nine mens morris game, based on classical board game. You can play against the computer, or a human player, in a nice 3D environment. The computer has three difficulty level, it is quite smart.
Main features:
- Play against your friend
- Play against the computer, choose from the 3 difficulty levels
- Sophisticated 3D enviroment
- Runs under Linux and Windows

Gojax is a web-based GO-board using PHP, javascript and ajax techniques to produces a nice-looking interface.

Gojax is a C++ go server handling the GO boards(game number limited only by memory).

Planetoids is a game similar to bejeweled. The player must swap jewels to create combinations, including power and hyper jewels.

It includes a top score board to keep track of high player scores. Planetoids game also includes a hint feature, various jewel types, custom board sizes, and more.