Open Source Turn Based Strategy Games - Page 2

NetHack is a popular single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.

Scidb is an open-source chess database application for Windows, Unix/Linux. It is a new development inspired by Scid.

The Campaign Simulator is an attempt to statistically model and predict the outcome of an American presidential election; several users assume the roles of competitive candidates and inflict the repercussions of certain decisions on a GSS based dataset.

Pioneers is an emulation of the board game The Settlers of Catan, which can be played over the internet.

MekHQ is a java helper program for the MegaMek game that allows users to load a list of entities from an XML file, perform repairs and customizations, and then save the new entities to another XML file that can be loaded into MegaMek.

ASC is a free, turn based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Its features both single player gameplay against an AI as well as extensive Play-By-Mail multiplayer functionality.

LGeneral is a turn-based strategy game heavily inspired by the classic Panzer General.

Atanks is a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition.

Free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine. SDL is used.

Xconq is an engine for turn-based strategy games. Variety of game genres run under Xconq: historical, sci-fi, fantasy, and modern. AIs. Network games. Multiple UIs and platforms. Easy-to-learn game design language. Large games library available

X-Force is a remake of the classic X-Com-Games.You have to defend earth from alien intruders by intercepting their UFOs, accomplishing tactical ground missions and researching the mystery of the invasion. The game features action, stategy and economic

UFO2000 is a turn based tactical squad simulation game with multiplayer support. It is heavily inspired by the famous X-COM: UFO Defense game and can load graphics resources and maps from it providing X-COM look and feel with multiplayer experience.

CevoMapGen is a map file generator for Cevo that facilitates harsher terrain and climate. It gives greater control than the internal map generator within the game, and allows much faster generation of novel or extreme worlds than using the map editor.

A Civilization style, turn based strategy game, of the Civ II era. In this game, each player becomes the leader of a civilisation. To win, the player's civilization has to be first to build a spaceship. C-evo Distant Horizon (c-evo-dh) is a fork of C-evo New Horizons, which is itself a fork of C-evo http://www.c-evo.org/ There is an excellent in-game manual, see also; https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Strategies_(C-evo)/For_first_few_turns https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Game_mechanics_(C-evo) https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Strategies_(C-evo) http://www.c-evo.org/text.html#design http://www.c-evo.org/faq.html http://www.c-evo.org/bb/index.php External Map Generator for more varied terrain https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/

MegaMekLab is a Mek creator program. Currently it can create Meks, vehicles, battlearmor, and conventional infantry. It can also print PDF record sheets for almost all Battletech units. Created units can also be exported to formatted text or html for posting online.

This is a game of Scotland Yard, which has been coded in Java. The moves of Mr. X are made by the program, while the human player makes the detective moves. The game works fine on both Windows and Linux platforms.

SJCE - Strong Java Chess Engines, free portable cross-platform graphical chess game, 100%-pure Java. Support with including many best free/open-source java xboard/uci chess engines. It is possible to play both White and Black. It is possible to play Human to Human, Human vs Engine, Engine vs Engine. Simple and intuitive GUI - Graphical User Interface. Tested on Windows/Linux. Need jre1.8 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase8-archive-downloads.html. Source - https://github.com/harp077/sjce If you like this - put a star on https://github.com/harp077/sjce/ for support project please.

The Endless Dungeons is an 8-bit style random dungeon game consisting of 10 character classes, hundreds of monster types, and 99 randomly generated dungeon levels. You must level your character from 1 to 99, collect items and equipment to make him or her more powerful, and finally confront the boss of the game, Xantos, on the 99th floor of the dungeon. Don't forget to download the manual if you want more info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/endlessdungeons/files/The%20Endless%20Dungeons.pdf/download There is also an FAQ on the forums here: https://sourceforge.net/p/endlessdungeons/discussion/general/thread/6ba973f6/ This game differs from a lot of other roguelikes in that it's largely GUI- and menu based (similar to old console RPGs) and has turn-based battles.

S.C.O.U.R.G.E. is a roguelike game with a 3D user interface. The game allows a group of four characters to search for treasure, kill enemies, gain levels, etc. The code is C++ using SDL, OpenGL and freetype. The game uses Squirrel for scripting.

VGA Planets Assistant (VPA) is a client program for VGA Planets PBEM game. Requires: Dosbox from https://www.dosbox.com It works with original host (THOST: www.vgaplanets.com) and Portable Host (PHost: www.phost.de, phost-contrib.sf.net, hosted by https://planetscentral.com) and the new web-based NU-Host (https://www.planets.nu) by using additional tool streu's c2nu.pl (https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2nu). Maintained by sfplanets.

FreeLords is a turn-based-strategy game. Explore, occupy, produce armies in cities and kill your enemies.

This is a mod for the game Civilization IV - Beyond the Sword. More information on Civfanatics forum: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=493730

Stars! Nova is a clone of the classic 4X space strategy game Stars!. While nowhere near the functionality of Stars! quite a few features have been implemented so far. See the Nova web page for details.

Planet M.U.L.E. is a free remake of the original game M.U.L.E. and a tribute to its original designers of Ozark Softscape.

Colossus is a Java clone of the boardgame Titan, a turn-based fantasy wargame for 2-6 players. Each player moves stacks of creatures around a strategic board, recruiting more creatures and fighting enemy stacks on tactical maps.