Best Free/F2P RTS Games for Linux

List of free-to-play or free RTS games (real-time strategy) for Linux, including free or F2P MMO, multiplayer or single-player, online / offline, browser or desktop Linux games, ordered from best to worst by user rating.

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Zero-K is a free, multiplatform, open-source MORTS game where massive robot armies fight an endless conflict. It has a powerful interface allowing players precision control over high level economic, strategic and tactical decisions. Units interact intuitively using real projectile and movement […]

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Beyond All Reason (BAR) is a free, open source multiplayer RTS (real-time strategy) game for PC (Windows, Linux) running on the open source engine SpringRTS, which was built to reproduce and enhance the Total Annihilation game series. In BAR, all units […]

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Crusader Kings II is a free-to-play strategy game for Windows, Max and Linux PCs by Paradox Interactive. The game is set in the Dark Ages and features both single-player and multiplayer modes. Crusader Kings II became free-to-play on October 17, 2019 […]

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0 A.D. is a free real-time strategy game under continuous development by Wildfire Games (currently in alpha). Originally a mod concept for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, 0 A.D. has become an ambitious and very promising project, now […]

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MegaGlest is a free, open source cross-platform 3D real-time strategy (RTS) game with both single-player and multiplayer game modes, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egypt, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. The game is […]

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Unknown Horizons is a free, open source 2D real-time strategy (RTS) game or city/colony building simulation for PC (Windows & Linux). Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase […]

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Istrolid is a free-to-play multiplayer and singleplayer RTS game set in space. In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are […]

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Galcon 2 is a colorful free-to-play multiplayer real-time strategy game, best described as “a demolition derby in space”. Send swarms of ships from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy in this fast paced, solid, and rewarding multiplayer strategy game. Galcon […]

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Supremacy 1914 is a real-time strategy browser game in which the player manages one of the countries in the world during World War I. The player competes with countries controlled by other players playing the same game, and with countries controlled […]

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Asterix & Friends is a free-to-play browser based strategy game. Build your own Gaulish village with Asterix, Obelix, Dogmatix, and other new and classic characters, and with your friends, resist the might of Rome! At first you will have to rebuild […]

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War Commander is a free-to-play browser MORTS game (multiplayer online real-time strategy). Civilization has collapsed and you’re one of the last surviving Commanders. You’ll need to battle rogue warbands, evil syndicates, and other Commanders to survive in this post-apocalyptic world. Build […]

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OGame is a free-to-play MMORTS real-time strategy game set in space and playable through a browser. Thousands of players across the world compete at the same time. You start out with just one undeveloped world and turn that into a mighty […]

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Alliance Warfare is a free-to-play MMORTS strategy game where you build mighty cities, train massive armies and conquer the world. Set in the richly detailed Land of Endless War, Alliance Warfare offers fun and excitement by completing quests, attacking rival or […]

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Tiberian Sun Online is a server relaunch of turn-of-century classic 90s game, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1999. The main storyline is a follow-up to the original game Command […]

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Red Alert Online is a server relaunch of Command & Conquer: Red Alert, a real-time strategy video game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released in 1996. The second game in the C&C franchise, Red Alert […]

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Command & Conquer Online is a server relaunch of turn-of-century classic, Command & Conquer, developed by Westwood Studios and released worldwide in 1995, and is one of the earliest RTS in the history of gaming. The sci-fi plot is set sometime […]

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Bang! Howdy is an online free-to-play real-time and turn-based hybrid strategy game. The setting mixes elements from a variety of related genres, such as steampunk or Native American myth. Several of the players’ available units are entirely mechanical, including artillery and […]

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Evony (formerly known as Civony) is an Adobe Flash-based multiplayer online game with graphic elements reminiscent of Civilization, however there is no cultural diversity and the buildings and units are very limited. The game is set in medieval times, where a […]

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VEGA Conflict is a free-to-play space MMORTS set in a vast, persistent universe, and which popularity was renewed and much increased with its recent release on mobile devices. Conquer the void in VEGA Conflict, by building your fleets and attacking other […]

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Battle Dawn is a free-to-play strategy MMO featuring three types of worlds with thousands of other real players. You begin as the leader of a small colony and through diplomacy, strategy and skill you’ll expand your rule over the entire world. […]

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Vikings: War of Clans is a phenomenal free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Real Time Strategy game that takes the player to the grim Northern lands, where Viking warlords fight over every piece of precious territory. Let your beard grow wild, sharpen your axe […]

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