Free strategy war games software for linux

Custom Strategy Role Playing Game project is an engine for creating strategy role-playing games.
Two players confront two parties of characters (which have RPG attributes: job, level, exp, skills, etc.) over a battlefield, and the surviving party wins.
Jobs, skills, etc. are stored in XML custom files. It has a combat style similar to Final Fantasy Tactics and Shining Force.
Enhancements:
- Custom effects for skils.
- New contender attribute managing is working now.
- New skill types and skill capabilities (as enable at a certain level).
- Contenders final attributes can now depend on skills.
- Jobs have now a basic bonus and a level bonus (which depends on
- contenders level).
- Partial code rewriting for some old features.

Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. Stratagus includes support for playing over the internet/LAN, or playing a computer opponent.

The engine is configurable and can be used to create games with a wide-range of features specific to your needs. See the data sets page for a list of current games using the stratagus engine.

StormWar is (actually, will be) a 3D realtime strategy game inspired by a quite unknown but great old game: NetStorm, Islands at war.
Game and datas are released under the GPL license.
Strictely speaking, StormWar will not really be a game, but rather a game engine. StormWar projects goal is to make a game engine with many limitations so that it is easy to edit or create a mod.
A frequent error in game engines projects (that often lead them to a sudden death) is to make the engine too general, so that only developers are able to make games around them.
As much as possible, some limitations will be removed in the future, with the same condition in mind: keep it easy.
A mod contains all the modifiable datas used by the engine in comprehensive data files. These files are mainly based on variables, which is even much simplier than an integrated scripting language.
So every people with a few computer skills would be able to make (or at least modify) a mod.
The StormWar official release will include:
- The StormWar engine, written in C.
- The default mod, namely the StormWar mod, which will tend to look like NetStorm.
- Maybe other interesting mods and/or testing mods.
The goal will be to play against bots handled by the computer or human opponents over a network. The games will be automatically generated. It will be possible to play tournaments where the players will evolve by learning new knowledge.
Main features:
- Quite portable source written in C.
- Many debugging options for developers and mod makers.
Core engine:
- Mods support based on files.
- Powerful variable system.
- In-game shell with runtime functions.
- Virtual modules with shell functions, preferences and shared ressources.
Game engine:
- Automatic ground generation.
- Bridges.
Graphical engine:
- OpenGL rendering.
- 3D objects organized in parts.
- 3D animation by keyframes.
- 2D on-screen objects.
- Graphical user interface management.
- Flexible architecture (many things can be changed on-the-fly).
- Bitmap font rendering.
- Basic 3D texturing by 2D textures.
- Bilinear, mip-mapped and trilinear texture filterings.
- Lighting.
- Simple materials.
- Fast motion blur emulation.
- Simple fog.
- Gamma correction.
- Manual camera positioning : scrolling, rotation around a point, panning.
Graphical user interface:
- Widget tree.
- Menubar and menus.
- Game panel.
- Graphical shell.
- Dialogs.
Sound engine:
- Music support.
- Stereo sound samples mixing.
- 3-dimensional sound positioning.
Predefined environmental effects:
- Cubic skybox.
- Cloud layers.
- Flocking (to simulate birds for example).
- Lightnings with thunder sound.
- Fog.

Othello Game is a classic strategy game, also known as Reversi. Its objective is to finish the game with the greater amount of pieces (circles) of the same color.
This version of the Othello game supports the writing of AI plugins in C++ or Python, network games, and interface themes.
Enhancements:
- pkgconfig support was added.
- It is now easier to write AI plugins.
- An installation guide, and a tutorial for writing plugins were incuded.
- It is now possible to disable Python support from the configuration.
- New icons were provided.

GNOME War Pad is VGA Planets client for GNOME 2 desktop platform. It aims to develop a full featured client, including scripting Python support.
VGA Planets is a play-by-email space conquest strategy game, it can be played by 11 players max. This game is being played by strategy fanatics all over the world for some years now, is very addictive and there are several servers on the Internet that host various kinds of this games.
Well, first of all this game is great, I thank Tim Wisseman for his creation, secondly its very cheap to register it (I think 5 USD) and if you dont want to register it, you still can play it with some limitations. Plus, because this game was developed for DOS, almost all clients existing this days are for DOS or Windows, and since Im a GNU/Linux freak, Im tired of playing VP with dosemu, its just too slow! :-)...so thats my itch, I wanna scratch it as ESR says.
Actually, there isnt a GNU/Linux client for VP that Im aware of, I know that PCCs author, Stefan Reuther from Germany, is porting his excellent client to GNU/Linux using the SDL library, this is great! but again, GNOME deserves to have its own client, so I started this project as an excuse to learn how to program for GNOME, and also to polish my C programming skills.
This software is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License, you may copy, modify it and redistribute it under the conditions of this license.
Enhancements:
- this is a major milestone in this projects development because now the player can make some real actions into the game! no more viewing-only! Enjoy!

Spice Trade project is an RPG/strategy/adventure game.

Spice Trade is an RPG/adventure/strategy game in which the main character is a poor man who has lost his parents, inherited some land and a house.

He becomes a trader of spices and herbs in Baghdad at a time when Europeans are starting their "great voyages of exploration".

The game character has to ensure that the Europeans do not take over his country and his culture, while he has to expand the sphere of influence of his own culture.

Really Rather Good Battles In Space is a real time strategy game with fleets of spaceships.
Single player real time strategy game following the fall of the great Argonian empire.
Main features:
- a short but relatively polished single player campaign
- pretty (albeit 2d) graphics
- spaceships
- explosions

Resource Management Game project is a Web-based resource management game.

Resource Management Game is a PHP framework for easily creating resource management and strategy games.

Two playable games are included.

The system uses sessions to store data and should work out of the box with little or no configuration.