Category: Strategy

The first of what Paradox is calling an “immersion pack” has been released for the sprawling grand strategy game. I gave it a go, exploring just what they changed for the Russian region and powers.

Tropico 6 has been announced and the really good news is that Linux is going to be supported just like the previous title.

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is the huge new expansion coming to XCOM 2 and Feral Interactive have confirmed they will be porting it. The press emails to me specifically mentioned Windows, but Linux wasn't mentioned. Glad to see it cleared up.

The Underground King was one of the last games submitted to Steam Greenlight before being quickly Greenlit by Valve. The promising mix of racing strategy and RPG mechanics is currently on Kickstarter, complete with Linux support.

Solving mysteries, traveling to faraway lands and making a name for yourself is all in a good day’s work in this adventure game that combines strategy elements with plenty of charm. I gave the game and its expansion a look and have a few thoughts on it.

Hey you humies! Time to die! Feral Interactive have done it once again! We now have a native Linux port of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III and here’s my port report. Waaagh!

Colony Survival is a new voxel RTS coming to Linux sometime this summer and the developers are asking for Linux testers.

Paradox Development Studios have decided to mark the occasion by giving all owners of the World War 2 grand strategy game a few free goodies.

In an impressive show of support, the post from the Stardock CEO asking for Ashes of the Singularity Linux version requests has more posts than reviews on Steam.

Ash of Gods is a mix of tactical combat RPG and visual novel being developed by Russian studio Aurum Dust and currently on Kickstarter. It uses Unity and should release on Win/Mac/Linux simultaneously at the end of 2017.

I briefly wrote about Bionic Attack back in 2014 as I was excited by the style and the fact that it's developed on Linux, now years later it's out and here's what I think.

I've been playing Stardrift Nomads, a twin-stick space shooter with Tower Defence elements and it holds up pretty well.

Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation will come to Linux if Stardock see enough requests for it. The CEO of Stardock has requested to see how much interest there is.

With detailed equipment and management aspects, Bounty Train also has plenty of thrills and chaotic fighting. It’s being ported to Linux and should be coming out sometime soon.

Feral Interactive have just announced some exciting news! The Linux port of Dawn of War III will come with OpenGL as the default, but like with Mad Max you will be able to check a box to enable Vulkan!

Hyper Knights is one of those titles I previously picked up thinking nothing of it, but it turned out to be a very fun experience.

The Linux ports of Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of the Samurai have now been shipped by Feral Interactive. Here's a port report and a review based on gameplay of Shogun 2 itself.

It seems there's an annoying bug in Unity right now, that a bunch of developers are hitting. It seems Faeria has the same bug that hit White Noise 2 and Ballistic Overkill recently. Here's a quick fix.

Reus landed on Linux in some form of Beta quite some time ago, but the game has been updated today to bring it in line with the Windows version with official support.