0 A.D. is a historical real-time strategy open source game focused on the years between 500 BC and 500 AD. 0 A.D, which will remind you of Age of Empires.

0 A.D. was originally a mod concept for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. With limited design capabilities, the team soon turned to trying to create a full independent game based on their ideas.

0 A.D. Pre Alpha 3 finally brings multiplayer support so you can now play 0 A.D. with your friends. They don't even have to use Linux since 0 A.D. also runs on Windows and Mac OSX.

Most of you already know the game called Freeciv, a a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization, inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series. A browser based fork of the Freeciv game has been released, so now you only need a browser to play this great game.

Freeciv.net was released on 13 December and it's Facebook integration came today as a great addition for Facebook fans. There are currently more than 1500 registered players, in less than a month from it's release date. Hopefully, more people will find out about this great game and will start playing!

After several months of development, the FreeCol developers have finally released version 0.9.0.

FreeCol is a clone of Colonization, a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850. However, Freecol has a new set of redesigned graphics and with time, it also incorporated ideas that didn't make the final version of Colonization, as well as requests by fans and original concepts like new European players and race bonuses.

Released under the GNU General Public License, FreeCol is free and open source software, running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.


Improvements in FreeCol 0.9.0:

Commander Stalin is a free, open source real-time strategy based on Boswars game for Windows and Linux.

In a RTS game, the player has to combat its enemies while running his war economy.

Everything run in so called real-time, in opposition to turn based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building the economy and building and army to defend an attack the enemies.

FreeOrion is a turn-based, futuristic science fiction computer strategy game for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. The purpose of the game is to lead one of a number of races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring and colonizing star systems. The game uses a point-and-click interface as well as keyboard shortcuts to control the management of colonies, technology, ship construction, diplomacy and combat and comes with both single and multi player game modes.

FreeOrion, inspired by Master of Orion games (but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game), incorporates the nation-building elements of games such as Europa Universalis 2 and a versatile tactical combat engine. While its modular design allows for a significant degree of customization of the game engine and the story elements by the community, the development team is dedicated to the construction of a living, breathing universe in a 'grand campaign' model.

Unknown Horizons is a FREE and open-source, real-time 2D strategy game for Windows and Linux. The game emphasis on economy and city building:

Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

Unknown Horizons is loosely oriented on Sunflowers Anno series however not a clone of these comercial games nor an engine to play the original content.