simplistic space strategy game??

tlmiller · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2025 1:46 am Post subject: simplistic space strategy game??

I was going through some old cd's I have, and found my forces of corruption expansion disc for Star Wars: Empire at War. I was wondering if anyone knows of a linux game that is similar in scope to this. Easy to learn strategy game where you build your fleets and research things to make your fleets better. Unfortunately, I long since lost my EAW cd's, and my keys, so I can't even attempt a wine install of EaW: FOC...

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pbharris · Member Joined: 02 Jul 2025 Posts: 320 Location: chicago

i have looked and not found anything either

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mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2025 Posts: 7224

I hear Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is available... that is the old DOS warcraft, BTW.

Me, I'm stuck on playing Roller Coaster Tycoon (original version) under wine.

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mr_ed · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2025 2:28 pm Post subject:

Well, if you want partially complete, there's freeorion.org Smile

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jester · Sr. Member Joined: 19 Apr 2025 Posts: 1166

Would X2: The Threat fit the bill?

Granted you'd only get the demo for free - I found it in portage for gentoo so I expect the demo is probably available in the repos of other distros too.

I gave up after about 5 minutes - drove me crazy Smile

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nukes · Linux Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2025 Posts: 4558

I played x2 many years ago on windows - however on my previous system under Gentoo it performed very badly; sound was garbled, skipped frames etc.

Not tried it on my new one though.

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tlmiller · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2025 6:43 pm Post subject:

I played x2 on windows also, seem to recall I didn't enjoy it very much.

Freeorion looks awesome.

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