Are there any opensource turn-based strategy games of note?

[Kyriakos]

Do you know of any free/community-based turn-based strategy games that are good? Eg freeciv could be one. Mostly looking for something in either the ancient or the medieval era, with reasonably heavy-strategy and not cartoony gfx. Preferably not full 3d either

 

[Groff]

https://www.wesnoth.org/

Never tried it so I can't comment if it's any good.

 

[Kyriakos]

^I know of that one, but it is looking like a japanese rpg game ^^

 

[Arakhor]

There's the classic King of Dragon Pass, which is well worth the money, and Ultima Ratio Regum, a historical investigative rogue-like game.

 

[Kyriakos]

The second one looks dodgy And a bit like ascii Dwarf fortress...

The first one looks like it is more rpg oriented than strategy (?). Essentially i am looking for a strategy game, eg Imperialism/old Civ typed games

 

[Arakhor]

KoDP is a game about managing a small kingdom, making hard decisions, managing your councillors and so on. It's turn-based and it's strategic, but it's not a god-type game, no.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I found a couple of places where they have open source strategy games, but here is a little wiki with a bunch of them listed (and a couple of other sites). I haven't tried any of them, but they may be OK. You might find something that piques your interest.

https://libregamewiki.org/Turn-based_strategy_games

https://www.slant.co/topics/1933/~open-source-games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games

 

[cardgame]

Imperialism was such a cool concept. I wish they'd remake that one.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Apparently Koei's (or tied to Koei) Genghis Khan 4 is sort of like Imperialism+EU1.

Only played GK2, which was a very cool game, although very outdated.

 

[Takhisis]

https://www.wesnoth.org/

Never tried it so I can't comment if it's any good.

^I know of that one, but it is looking like a japanese rpg game ^^

Well, besides the fact that you can mod the graphics, it's quite immersive. They grow on you.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

There's a Colonization clone called FreeMars. Playable, but slow and not that fun.

The second one looks dodgy And a bit like ascii Dwarf fortress...

The first one looks like it is more rpg oriented than strategy (?). Essentially i am looking for a strategy game, eg Imperialism/old Civ typed games

King of Dragon Pass is exactly turn-based strategy (an excellent one!), but through adventure/roleplaying-like texts/dialogues.

 

[Zelig]

EXCLOM is a pretty amazing open source turn-based strategy game.

 

[Takhisis]

EXCLOM is a pretty amazing open source turn-based strategy game.

Yes, but as Baron Kyriakos says…

Do you know of any free/community-based turn-based strategy games that are good?

One would think the Baron is facing a scarcity of funds, as am I. I am also unsure as to whether His Little Lordship has access to the Windows operating system at present.

 

[Zelig]

I don't recognize free as a legitimate requirement for software. If a $5 game is going to occupy you for 10 hours, just add 5% of that time as time spent working at roughly minimum wage to make that $5.

And Excel works great on macOS.

 

[Perfection]

Chess?

 

[Kyriakos]

@Takhi: i do have xp as well.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Chess?

The AI is pretty good I hear.

 

[Zelig]

@Takhi: i do have xp as well.

Modern games aren't going to work on that.

 

[Takhisis]

I don't recognize free as a legitimate requirement for software. If a $5 game is going to occupy you for 10 hours, just add 5% of that time as time spent working at roughly minimum wage to make that $5.

Oh, well, I was telling you in advance why His Little Lordship would have shot it down.

And Excel works great on macOS.

Well, I don't have a Mac, so I didn't know that. Huzzah, one lives and learns.

 

[VicRatlhead5199]

Battle for Wesnoth is actually pretty solid for a free game. Don't let the cheesy anime graphics fool you. I had fun with it for a few weeks.

One warning though, some of the late campaign battles are rough. You need to cultivate a pretty solid high level army over time or you'll have a tough run with the end game. Losses are permanent once you win a battle so you won't get any dead back for the next run.