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The free pixel-art Bronze Age RTS The Fertile Crescent continues evolving

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

If you enjoy a good traditional real-time strategy game and you haven't already tried The Fertile Crescent, you're really missing out on a wonderful title that keeps getting better.

War Selection is a free to play Early Access RTS now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jul 2020

Currently in Early Access, War Selection from Glyph Worlds is a somewhat promising looking real-time strategy game and they just released it for Linux officially.

Inspired by Settlers II, the open source Widelands has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2020

Settlers II is an absolute classic and Widelands does a pretty good job of carrying the torch. Recently, a huge new update went out in the form of a Release Candidate.

Northgard custom maps can now be played online

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2020

After Shiro Games recently expanded their real-time strategy game Northgard to include a map editor, they've just made that feature even more fun.

Fragment's Moonrise is a free Early Access open-world strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2020

With some promising ideas that could be great when further developed, Fragment's Moonrise is a new open-world real-time strategy game out now in Early Access.

Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2020

SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.

OpenRA working to support C&C Remastered assets, Tiberian Sun work continues

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2020

The team behind OpenRA have confirmed their continued commitment to working on the game engine to support Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern platforms.

Shallow Space development resumes, moved to Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2020

Shallow Space, a 3D sci-fi RTS from 2015 that was initially very promising but ultimately ended up in development hell appears to be alive again.

Be super evil in the Dungeons 3 Complete Collection out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Realmforge Studios and Kalypso Media are finally finished updating and expanding Dungeons 3 and so it now has a proper Complete Collection available.

You can now be a majestic Unicorn commander in Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is real-time strategy game about war on a massive interplanetary scale and you can pick different commander units to control like the new majestic Unicorn.

Classic and open source RTS 'Warzone 2100' has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Now this is a true classic I thoroughly enjoy seeing have a new life with open source! Warzone 2100, originally a commercial titles continues to evolve with a new release out now.

Retro Commander is an upcoming classic RTS that looks promising

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2020

Noble Master Games, developer of Age of Conquest IV and Demise of Nations will be releasing a new classic RTS with Retro Commander.

Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai mixes town building, exploration and an RTS

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2020

Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai from MythEgg Studios has pulled my interest in recently, mixing in a number of different genres set in Feudal Japan.

EA open sources code from Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2020

As they said they would late last month, it appears Electronic Arts have gone ahead and uploaded some of the source code for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.

Viking strategy game Northgard gets a map editor, Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2020

Northgard, the excellent real-time strategy game about warring viking tribes from Shiro Games just got another huge free update to expand what's possible with it.

Viking strategy game Northgard arrives on GOG with a discount

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2020

In Northgard you take control of a clan, trying to try to settle new lands while dealing with all the other clans also wanting riches. There's a major caveat for Linux though.

EA to open source part of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2020

With the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection releasing next month for Windows, EA had a bit of an announcement to make today in regards to open source.

Dungeons 3 is getting a 'Complete Collection' in June

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2020

Dungeons 3, the delightfully evil strategy game from Realmforge Studios and Kalypso Media is finally complete.

The Fertile Crescent, a Bronze Age RTS gets a tutorial and more improvements

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2020

Continuing to be a favourite indie game I keep a close eye on, The Fertile Crescent is a Bronze Age real-time strategy game that's currently entirely free to play.