War Turn Based Strategy Games

FreeLords is a turn-based strategy game in the style of the classical Warlords. In short, you produce armies in cities and use them to conquer more cities and finally defeat the other players. We have already extended the game design at some points, e.g. by introducing hitpoints for the armies or...

FreeOrion is a turn-based game of epic space strategy game witch is inspired by Master of Orion. It builds on the classic 4X model by incorporating the nation-building elements of games such as Europa Universalis 2 and a versatile tactical combat engine. While its modular design allows for a...

phpDiplomacy is an open source, multiplayer, web based strategy game based on the board game by Avalon Hill, in which you have to try and conquer Europe. To win you have to be strategic and diplomatic, making deals and alliances with other players, and stabbing them in the back when it suits...


Platforms: *nix

Apocalypse Game Engine (AGE) is a PHP based framework designed to be moddable. It is geared toward turn-based strategy games, and will allow admins to customize settings.It uses MySQL as the database, although it will be ported to allow virtually every type of database.


Platforms: PHP

Vallheru is a turn-based, fantasy MMORPG written in PHP and MySQL (but may work with many other databases) with Smarty Template Engine, ADOdb, and PHP Mailer. It is based on Gamers-Fusion 2.5 with many modifications in security, speed, and features. Vallheru is currently available only in...


Platforms: *nix

Blue Sea will be a turn based mmorpg set in the underwater. It will be written in PHP and MySql, and use browsers as an interface.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

Apocalypse Game Engine (AGE) is a PHP based framework designed to be moddable. It is geared toward turn-based strategy games, and will allow admins to customize settings. It uses MySQL as the database, although it will be ported to allow virtually every type of database.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

GiGi (aka GG) is a GUI library for OpenGL. It is platform-independent (it runs at least on Linux and Windows, and probably more), compiler-independent (it compiles under at GCC 3.4 or higher and MSVC++ 8.0 SP1 or higher, and probably more), and driver-independent. Reference drivers for SDL and...


Platforms: *nix

PyBEM is a simple project: Python. Play by Email. That's it :) We're providing tools to help people create and run their own turn-based strategy games via email, in a language that's simple to learn, and using a system that's easy to modify.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Sidereal Conquest is a GPL opensource 'engine' for creating 4X turn-based galactic strategy games designed in the grand tradition of 'MOO2', 'Stars!' and 'Space Empires IV'. It is pure Rebol (www.rebol.com) lending to it's platform independence.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The project is about turn-based, networked multiplayer, non-cooperative, zero-sum, abstract strategy board games (e.g. Chess, Go, Reversi variants, etc.) on 3D-visualized polyhedra and related recreational (discrete, computational) mathematics.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Gridlock is a collection of 30 grid-based strategy board games for Linux, including Ataxx, Reversi, Checkers, Gomoku, Connect Four, and more. They are individually described in the "Games" section. After launching the application, the game window will appear. Select the game you want to play...


Platforms: *nix

Empire Online II is a free online multi-player strategy game. In this game, you are a young monarch, must use production, construction, wars, diplomacy and all possible means to protect the country. You will be able to decide the country's destiny: suffers bullying, or gains a prominent...


Platforms: Windows

Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization. Players of the Civilization® series by Microprose® should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to...


Platforms: *nix

In this turn-based war game, ElimiNation puts you in charge as an army commander controlling a wide variety of soldiers and assault vehicles with the ultimate goal of eliminating enemy forces to become the ruler of the empire. Although it takes its basics from the classic turned-based Risk-like...


Platforms: Mac

Our goal is to produce a framework of C++ classes that can be used to make a turn-based war/strategy game at the operational level. Coinciding with the framework development is the making of the first mod about World War II combat on the Eastern Front.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The OTWG is a multi user war game with multi-layer delegation. Logistics, production, tech dev is included. Creation of maps, scenarios, campaigns, Orders of Battle and Tables of Equipment is also included in the scope.


Platforms: PHP

Press Baron is a turn based game of strategy and skill. When playing you bid for a newspaper against three other Press Barons and then you manage, edit and publish your newspaper each week. You are in competition with the other barons who each start off with one newspaper. You must make as much...


Platforms: Windows

Battle for Moscow recreates the German unsuccessfull attempt to capture Moscow in late 1941, followed by the Russian counter-offensive that denied the German any chance to conclude the eastern war that year. To win, the German must march hard towards the Russian capital, capturing it ensuring...


Platforms: Windows

Arianne comprises a multiplayer online games framework and engine to develop turn based and real time games, and the various games which use it. The main subprojects active now are the framework/engine, called Marauroa, and a multiplayer online adventures game called Stendhal. Some of the...


Platforms: Java