Free/F2P Single-player RTS Games for Linux

List of free-to-play or free single-player RTS (real-time strategy) games for Linux including online / offline, browser or desktop, ordered by (full) release date. This list may also include multiplayer games which have a major single player PVE component (a single-player campaign or a substantial single-player mode).

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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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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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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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CaesarIA is a remake of an old-school economic strategy game, Caesar III which is a masterpiece among the games of this genre, to many fans. There are different economic strategy games and they can be broken down to subtypes but from […]

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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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The Settlers Online is a free-to-play browser-based MMORTS, based on the popular PC game series The Settlers by Ubisoft. Build your city from the first brick up and lead it to glorious prosperity! Join thousands of gamers already online […]

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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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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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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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