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A turn based tactics game. Completely free, open source, but excellent quality. Lovely music, and really surprisingly great campaigns. There's also online multiplayer.
Nope @ SC2. Only the Terran campaign (Wings of Liberty) is included in the free version. Have to pay for the Zerg and Protoss campaigns. Still pretty generous by Blizzard standards.
Some worthwhile choices:
Well, let's start with above the radar.
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when you said this was the Fire Emblem series. They're turn-based tactical games in a fantasy world where your squads tend to be between 10-30 units instead of 4-5. I'm a fan of the DS remake of the original myself, but the series is vast and varied.
There's also the niche-but-well-known-in-that-niche Battle for Wesnoth which is Open Source.
Two indie games I didn't see mentioned:
Battle for Wesnoth: hex-map turn-based playstyle, recruit troops to complete objectives, lots of on-board campaigns as well as lots of mods and user-content to go through. I've spent years on this game.
Transcendence: space-sim rogue-like with top-down, asteroid-style controls
Since you are interested in games, install some games! Even better, find some FOSS games, get the source code, and compile it yourself. You will learn about the build process. Then you can peak under the hood and see what framework the game runs on, and dive as deep as you want. Since it is a FOSS game, you could work your way into contributing back.
Battle of Wesnoth is my favorite game on Linux, and there is a lot of documentation about it. You could start there if that style of game play interests you.
- Door Kickers - SWAT simulator with missions, no management
- Blackguards 1/2 - Has little to no management, you go from mission to mission basically
- Battle for Wesnoth free/open source, no management, just campaign/missions
If you're OK with older graphics, check out Battle for Wesnoth which is free and well reviewed.
I also like it. :-)
The western Touhou fanbase created a fangame that is heavily inspired by Fire Emblem, Story of a Lost Sky that you can download for free at that link.
Now that I think about it, I remembered another TBS game that's been in development for a long time called Battle for Wesnoth. I haven't played it for a good couple years but I recall it has single-player campaigns that play a lot like FE, and it also has multiplayer in it as well.
- You could try the first Divine Divinity (2002) It's an action role-playing game
- As already mentioned Civilization 3-4 are pretty chill.
- Anno 1602 - 1998
- Anno 1503 - 2003
- Anno 1701 - 2006
- Anno is business simulation with city building elements. But real time strategy. Maybe not so chill.
- Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe - open source - business simulation
- The Battle for Wesnoth - open source - Turn based strategy with rpg elements
*sigh* And now I am playing HoMM 3 again... one of those games I bought several times. Still have the original boxes on the shelve – complete with the thick, printed manual, which actually contained important information. But I also have a digital copy now from GOG. (For the fellow Linux users: works through Wine as well)
If anybody wants a similar game, completely free and open source, I recommend The Battle for Wesnoth
Turn-based strategy games are alive and well and you'll find countless games on every platform including mobile. A decent place to start on PC is Battle of Wesnoth, free on Steam or standalone. Turn-based, hex grid with a fantasy theme and a true opensource classic (15 years and still actively developed).
Real-Time Strategy games on the other hand have fallen off almost completely in popularity. If you want something current, Starcraft 2 is (partially) free to play. But the essential titles on PC are the Westwood games Red Alert and Command & Conquer, Blizzard's Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, and Age of Empires. Westwood games and Age of Empires are relatively more forgiving for beginners, with more abundant resources and units to throw around, while the Blizzard games are smaller scale and require a little more management.
Then there's Tactics games, which have less/no resource management and focus on combat with a smaller squad. The modern XCOMs are great though it's a series known for some frustratingly difficult quirks. If you want a little more RPG in your tactics game, the modern Shadowrun games are amazing. On console one of the classics is Final Fantasy Tactics, which has a decent mobile port. If you have a Switch, try Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
I don't personally like the larger scale grand strategy or 4X games so can't comment on that.
Whatever game you try, don't be afraid to start on the easiest setting and ramp it up later.
I'm an avid Linux user and one of the best strategy games available in many different software catalogues across distros is 'Battle for Wesnoth'. An added bonus you get when you install this game is the handy map editor. Granted, it won't create a super high resolution map for your game, as BfW itself is pretty low spec, it offers all of the tools you would need to create something like what you see above.
Even though this game was produced in 2003, it is still very lively with an extensive community providing mods and additional assets.
This game is available on STEAM or from https://www.wesnoth.org/ and available for PC/Linux/Mac. If you are looking for a quick and dirty hex mapper, this might be just for you!
Battle For Wesnoth feels more akin to a Fire Emblem game. It doesn't have that same depth of character customization that makes Final Fantasy Tactics so great.
It's still a great game in its own right.
Edit: Added in a link to the game, it's free so there's really no excuse not to try it.
It you are interested in a turn-based military campaign game, then the Battle for Wesnoth should be high on your list. It's free to play an a legitimately great game. The un-roguelike qualities of the game are that the maps are not randomly generated and that you control multiple players. If you are ok with scripted campaigns and are ok with broader military campaigns rather than individual tactical combat, then there is no better game.
Back in the day, this was THE linux game (and it holds up nicely still). Which also meant that it was the only game you were getting to play if your computer was one of those netbooks that came with windows XP.
It almost feels like playing BfW all over again. People are really bad at understanding how probabilities work. In human mind 87+% == 100% and 15-% == 0%. But then reality ensures and people loose their shit.
Im always a fan of hex based tactics games like battle for wesnoth
RPG's have there fun place, western RPG's tended to always be more tactical with games like fallout tactics and KOTOR 1/2 etc.
Games where unit placement etc matters
Just picked up battle brothers in the steam sales, been crushed every game XD.
Then you have the pardox like games for the larger scale games.
Elevator Saga, a programming/engineering sim about transporting people efficiently.
Battle for Wesnoth, a community-crafted game in the vein of Fire Emblem and Banner Saga.
TIMEframe is an atmospheric game that you shouldn't research before you play. While technically a premium version exists on Steam, it was initially released as a free version, which can be found in the link.
This sounds a lot like Battle of Wesnoth
This game probably made up 50% of my childhood gaming beside Civ 2 and 3.
Over the years it also improved quite a lot in graphics and saw afaik 2 major redesigns since I played it the first time.
> i3-4030U
That's the Intel HD Graphics 4400 (to help with recommendations).
Have you tried The Battle for Wesnoth? It's a turn based hex grid strategy game (think Panzer General) in a fantasy setting. Pretty decent.
Edit
Intel's playable game list for the 4400. Not all encompassing but a good place to look for ideas too.
Some free low-end friendly games:
> I want to modify an existing source code.
Maybe look into modding some game first and see how that goes?
Quake has been open source for a while so as a next step you could try tinkering with that: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source strategy game so you could download the source of that and tinker with that too: https://www.wesnoth.org/
Battle for Wesnoth is free and bursting with of content. Sometimes it is called strategy, but to me it always felt more like an RPG since there really isn't much management to it, but it's certainly somewhere in between.
An old but decent game is Battle for Wesnoth:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/599390/Battle_for_Wesnoth/
It's a turn based fantasy wargame similar to the heroes of might and magic series.
Battle for Wesnoth
Its free. Its on steam. You can download it without steam. Its turn based. It has thousands of mods. It has a built in Mod browser. It has great single player and multiplayer content. It is a strong contender for best tactics game of all time. Only downside is that the story isn't very interesting.
Most importantly it's 2D and runs on anything.
Runner up: <strong>Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup</strong>
It is the King of Rougelikes.
Can play in browser or you can download it. Has a steep learning curve, but easier to learn compared to other hardcore rougelikes. Its also 2D and runs on anything.
Just to explain why I was reminded of Wesnoth, here's a link to one partial map of the main continent, on the left there are the Three Sisters and here is how it looks ingame. There you can see Wesnoth's typical hexagonal pattern. The combination just made me think of it immediately. :D
It's open-source and therefore legitimately free. It's also available for Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, so take your pick.
The game is very well-made and delivers a solid turn-based RPG experience. There are also several campaigns, so it should last you a while.
A decent chunk of my Steam library is Linux compatible, including Necrodancer, Civ V, Terraria, ToME, and a bunch of lunch-break puzzle games. And then of course there's always Wesnoth.
> if I game on PC using mouse and keyboard, it's kind of torture as well.
I can do single player but my brain damage from a burst brain aneurysm makes it so I cannot think and act fast enough to do multi player.
Just to be a buddy try Battle for Wesnoth. A open source,free single player game with an option for multi but I am never going there. NO premium bullshit just an enjoyable strategy game created for the hell of it. I have played more of it than games that cost 70 dollars like CIV V.
Check out Battle for Wesnoth, it's a grid based tbs, and it's definitely at least worth a try as it's completely free. https://www.wesnoth.org
Fire Emblem is my favourite series and I find it pretty enjoyable.
Try Angband? It's a rogue-like dungeon crawler in the vein of Nethack, etc.
The The Battle for Wesnoth if you like turn-based strategy game. This one's based in a fantasy realm.
Battle for Wesnoth might be right up your alley. Pretty great and totally free. And if you are simply looking for some good strategy, take a look at Duelyst. F2P on Steam, it's a card based battler played out on a board. Excellent stuff. Faeria is another good one, too.
The music for Battle for Wesnoth is very good, often orchestral in style. So far I have only heard the music for the mainline campaigns, but the add-on content also includes lots of additional music. It's all in Ogg format, I believe.
> I realize this is a difficult combination to find in a game
Indeed. The only suggestion I have is Battle for Wesnoth. It's very polished but not for everyone.. I personally don't enjoy it very much but even then I have to admit it's a pretty good game, just not my style. Also it's 100% free, which is always a plus! https://www.wesnoth.org
You know that it would just end in drama and toady getting fed up with the community or even halting the development to do something completely different.
I would love to tell you that I knew of a original open source game that showed me different but all games I can remember are just reimplementations of a game a publisher has abandoned (OTT for example)
You could argue that Battle for Wesnoth is "original" but I would say it's a (albeit very excellent) reimagination of Heroes of Might & Magic .
On the other hand - there would be a open source version of DF already if there were enough developers who could agree on a hierarchy, a scope and a plan. And then would be the problem that people would only play it if it had everything from the current version plus better stability and a smaller hunger for resources.
TL;DR: There would be only Drama; original open source games are a farce (as far as I am concerned); there would be a openDF already if open source didn't meant "i do what I want, when I want" for so many people
Try Valyria Tear, a JRPG type game. You can also try Battle for Wesnoth a nice turn based strategy game, considered a classic by many. Both are free.
Starcraft 2, handsdown. Before that, it was Starcraft: Broodwar.
Used to play a lot of RTS at LANs I used to go to, good times.
Protip: do not play Wesnoth while or with someone stoned. We had a game last ~16 hours - don't even remember who one, just that it took a really long time.
Some classics:
And, I'll never fail to plug /r/openttd
Yes, these are all old games. But, they are all still in active development, fully-playable on a modern PC and by modern players. And, unlike every AAA game you have ever played, these have literally decades of polish and patches and bugfixes by their respective communities.
Battle for Wesnoth is light on pc requirements it's also free!
evanh33234 already mentioned getting classic games on GoG, if I I could recommend a few more that are potato pc friendly:
Telepath Tactics - plays like FE
Age of Wonders 1 and Shadow Magic - fantasy 4x
Banner Saga series - I think you only need 2-4gb worth of ram to play the entire trilogy
A turnbased strategy games with a lot of campaigns and skirmish matches to chew through on the Singleplayer side of things. Also quite a great Multiplayer let it be online or Lan.
Last time I've played this on a Samsung n410. A netbook from 2009 with 2 GB ram (upgraded) and an Intel n450. Runs also on pretty much anything
It's also on Steam!
Oh, and it's free.
A good free option is Battle for Wesnoth.
Note that it is free. Not Freemium. You don't pay a damn cent. It's just boiled down to combat, but it is a truckload of fun. I've dumped hundreds of hours into it, solo and in multiplayer.
It's also on Steam.
Wesnoth is one such an example. While you can improve accuracy and hit chances a bit, luck plays a much greater role in it, so you have to plan around units missing frequently.
There's a more extensive talk about it here: https://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21317&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
My recommendation is to find other, legal forms of entertainment that don't cost money like this. Perhaps download one of the many incredible games created and distributed for free (I particularly like <em>The Battle for Wesnoth</em>, although I known turn-based tactics aren't everyone's cup of tea). Or maybe even read a book that would be spiritually edifying, like Augustine's Confessions.
I don't know the full extent of your country's situation, but I don't think it makes it moral to pirate video games. However, it sounds like you've already made up your mind on the matter. At the very least, I encourage you to talk about it with your priest or spiritual director who understands your country's situation better than random people on Reddit like me.
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free multiplayer strategy game somewhere in-between Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. It has multiple factions with their own units and strategies along with official campaigns for most of them. A very robust modding scene with a ton of custom campaigns and resource packs and online multiplayer hosting up to 12 people in a single match. Its been around for years and I grew up with it so there is a history it just never hit the mainstream for whatever reason.
Current art is from opengameart.org (Denzi, AngbandTK, Dungeon Crawl, Project Utumno) and from https://www.wesnoth.org/ (giants and dinos). These are free even for commercial projects.
Some of these are pretty good (the giant is awesome) but some have style/perspective differences.
Go for Battle for Wesnoth, it's really good and it's also free. You can also get it on Steam.
If you have some money to spare you can grab The Banner Saga trilogy on sale right now on Gog.
Hope you get better!
Definitely try Battle for Wesnoth it's opensource so it's free. The Banner Saga Trilogy is also good, it's got beautiful art and an engaging story. You can get it for cheap when it goes on sale, the first part went for 5$ the last time I saw it.
I'm currently running a TTRPG fantasy game (using Genesys) that takes its setting from the computer game Battle for Wesnoth. I suppose it might also be considered "generic medieval fantasy" but I haven't come across anyone else playing in that space. It has been an interesting exercise, taking the established units from the turn-based strategy game and fleshing them out into NPCs. Or looking at what types of attacks certain units have and figuring out what type of spells that corresponds to in Genesys.
I think I used to run PCSX2 & Dolphin off of a usb stick - the game was always on an actual hard disk (I haven't run into issues having them be portable ever) though.
GBA/NDS/PSP/older console emulators should all work perfectly, with both emulator and game on the usb.
Older games generally work fine if you're into that: I have Divinity (the very first one), Red Alert 2, and a variety of older things on a portable hard disk.
I've also always been partial to this: https://www.wesnoth.org/
I haven't played Stars! enough to know the technical details, but enough to know that a modern re-implementation would be a godsend.
Can you please publish the game under an open source license on a platform like Gitlab?
As you probably know, Remnants of the Precursors and [Battle for Wesnoth[(https://www.wesnoth.org/) are famous examples of successful open source games that are very popular.
I'm sure there will be an avid community to help (such as improving the AI for Remnants of the Precursors) and I'd happily pay for binaries of the game if you publish it on a place like Itch.io or GoG.
And of course, if you finally figure out the underlying mechanics and numbers, it would be a great shame if that vast knowledge is locked up, just as it has happened with the original Stars!
Battle for wesnoth A kickass shining force ESC strategy game with some kickass music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfAE3GqhFz4 and a pretty alright story. It has an incredibly active community and several fan-made campaigns to go along with it
There's lots to be learned from a 2D game engine. If nothing else, 3D engines have 2D engines built-in for the 2D bits of 3D games (in a sci-fi game you'll see starships with working control panels and stuff).
Moreover plenty of good games can be made with SDL, especially for hobbyist purposes. My favorite is: https://www.wesnoth.org/ (SDL2 though)
There's plenty of open source game projects. Few have been mentioned already, Batlle for Wesnoth hasn't so I'll add that here.
Fairly easy way to find more is to look into LInux gaming (not surprisingly thatt community ha sopensourced most of the projects).
However, I haven't ran into interesting open-source Unity game projects, if that's what you are after. Probaly because that would be slightly pointless as the engine itself isn't open-source so your game wouldn't really be either (you woudln't be able to take the open-source part of the project and compile that into a workign game).
Here's two suggestions:
Battle for Wesnoth: A free, open-source RTS game. Imagine a bastard child between Advance Wars and Fire Emblem in a fantasy setting. Worth checking out
DraStic DS emulator (~$5): Imo the best NDS emulator available in a phone. Your gateway into playing pretty much any NDS game on your phone (ROMs need to be downloaded in the se en seas), and there's years of high-quality gems to choose from
So for some FOSS love:
OpenTTD, an open source community fork of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a business and logistics sim.
Battle for Wesnoth, a 2d hex based turn based strategy game where your units carry experience between missions and level up/evolve classes.
Marathon, what Bungie did before Halo, originally released Mac only, Marathon 2 had a Windows release which was effectively open sourced (along with all the content of the three games) by them back in 2005, and developed to be able to play the other two as well. This would be an interesting comparison piece to the original Doom games as they were both early FPS attempts. Plus it kinda laid out the archetypes and tropes Bungie would later continue to use.
So there game called battle for wesnoth. Game is completely free, or at least the last time I played it it was. It's very much like wargroove, and has a campaign and battle editor like wargroove. It's only for PC, but it was great when I was in high school. https://www.wesnoth.org
> But my girlfriend can only draw cute stuff:(
I don't think I have a problem with cute per se, and at least the artwork is well done, whatever it is. I am having some problem differentiating units though, looking at your videos at a glance. I have a Battle for Wesnoth background. Factions mostly tend to look pretty different from each other, like (mostly) Humans vs. Undead or whatnot. Whereas, opposing sides in your video all look pretty similar to each other. Cutesy adventure humans.
If they're leveling up gear, as some of your video seems to indicate, then that compounds the problem. How do I tell a really buffed up unit from one that isn't leveled so much? Maybe in your game, you don't, and that's part of the play mechanics. In Wesnoth, most units are kept at low level, either 1, 2, or 3. Units at the different levels have distinct artwork. So if you have experience with the game, you always know what level something is just by looking at the unit. The cue of a unit looking "bigger or beefier" is also usually a guide to its level. Leveled up units look more imposing, that's a style canon.
Very cool. Some additions that I would like to recommend based on playing on a 2011 MBP:
Civ V - runs the fan but it runs. Watch Steam and you can get it on sale with all the DLC in the $15 range. (Note - I believe this would be too much for the 2008 MB)
Civ IV: Colonization - Originally just Colonization it was re-released as a Civ game. I suck at it but it runs fine. (Note - I believe this would be too much for the 2008 MB)
Starcraft - Runs fine and is free. Warning - 9GB HD requirement. So as of 30 seconds ago I looked on Blizzard and they seem to have removed Mac system requirements for the game and list it as Windows only. Im about to fire it up on my mac and see what happens. Strange.
Battle for Wesnoth - Free open source turn based game. "Old school" with a top down 2D style. Easy to get into but with lots of depth because of early decisions carrying over later.
Free Orion - Free open source take on the classic Masters of Orion series.
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - low system requirements but 2GB+ space
Hi, the images were exactly the same. The other commenter found the game.
In case you're curious: I found out that basically the mobile game dev took the actual assets, specifically the images, from the PC game. They might have taken it without permission too, but because its open source, no legal actions where invoked and issue was later settled when they credited the original source.
I'm an avid Linux user and one of the best strategy games available in many different software catalogues across distros is 'Battle for Wesnoth'. An added bonus you get when you install this game is the handy map editor. Granted, it won't create a super high resolution map for your game, as BfW itself is pretty low spec, it offers all of the tools you would need to create something like what you see above.
Even though this game was produced in 2003, it is still very lively with an extensive community providing mods and additional assets.
This game is available on STEAM or from https://www.wesnoth.org/. If you are looking for a quick and dirty hex mapper, this might be just for you!
Edit: It is also available on Mac/PC!
Is anything about your stories randomized, or requiring an exhibit of skill apart from the story itself? I've played a lot of Battle for Wesnoth and spent 4 person months polishing up a campaign once. The campaign and the story are pretty much "on rails", with little to no choice about whether you're going to proceed to A or B. Usually there's just A, in rare instances a B is available. However it's replayable because your task as a player, is to create and command an army in the field. So you replay this task and get fed a story while you're at it.
There were different space mods for Wesnoth in the past. The best one (in my opinion) was the Galactic Empires Era. Luckily it was ported to 1.14 and is still updated infrequently.
Too much Battle for Wesnoth back in the day, has me thinking I'm supposed to conquer this. Each of those squares gives me a little bit more gold. The scale does feel like that of a campaign map with a limited objective, and not a complete world.
Battle for Wesnoth - open source turn-based strategy that recently hit steam, very high quality for a free game thanks to many years of continued development. Not recommended for people who get easily angered by RNG shenanigans.
Tales of Maj'Eyal - turn-based roguelike with a focus on character building and a lot of character classes to choose from, including some unorthodox ones like a Temporal Warden summoning his clones from alternate timelines or a Solipsist drawing his powers from disbelief in reality. There are some paid expansions, but the base game is free and a lot of fun.
Path of Exile - action RPG and the true successor to Diablo 2.
I think you may need to narrow down the catagory a bit, as in what type of game(s) do you like?
Anywho's, you can comb through PCGamer's Free Games of the Week articles. Most of them will work with pretty minimal systems. Another place to look is GoG's Free Games, there are some great games there that will play on your system as well.
If you like hex grid turn-based strategy games I would recommend The Battle for Wesnoth, you would have no problems running that one.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is an old but gold game. It was the first game I played on my first PC and I still play it from time to time. The game has a nice learning curve, the soundtrack is amazing and in my opinion the 2D art aged very well.
Battle for Wesnoth is a free to play (no microtransations or DLCs either) turn-based game. You should check it out too.
There is Battle for Wesnoth. I briefly looked into it once and found the code base well-written (even documented!) but large and with quite a few dependencies.
The Battle for Wesnoth. Free, open source fantasy tactical turn-based strategy game. Multiplayer? Check. Hotseat? Check. Moddable? Check. Free? Check! Continually gets better, year after year. (And now on Steam Greenlight!)
The Battle for Wesnoth - it's a turn-based tactical strategy game (fantasy setting) that's been under development for 12+ years. There's loads of user generated campaigns to play in addition to the built-in missions. There are several different factions with unique unit blends and terrain benefits; every one feels different to play. I keep coming back to it every few years.
Something turn-based, maybe Battle for Wesnoth. It doesn't look much, but it's a great wargame. Also, open source and runs on just about any computer that can run a recent enough version of Windows.
Hey there!
A strategy recommendation for you guys: The Battle for Wesnoth
I found this game when I was much younger, about 8 years ago, and it continues to be a delight to this day. It is a free strategy game which frankly I was surprised ran on my old Windows XP computer with a Pentium D processor. Of course, since then I have moved on, but I might recommend giving it a shot if you really love stomping some enemies as a team!
On a sidenote, be careful when clicking the download link for your OS. While Sourceforge is completely trustworthy, it will tell you to wait a few seconds before the download begins. Do not click any of the buttons on the page which say download.
this sounds like a really cool idea... In my mind I am imagining something like a turn based MOBA like DOTA or LOL. but on a smaller scale with the turn based mechanism. Wesnoth is a turn based strategy game that has some good mechanics. might be worth checking out. Can see the game your describing fitting somewhere between a MOBA and Wesnoth.