Translations by Nick Ellery

Strategy games require you to use careful tactics to plan the next move; simulation games let you explore and manage realistic models of such things as cities and vehicles. Strategy and simulation games can be quite addictive and many people happily spend hours playing their game of choice! A small selection of strategy and simulation games available with Ubuntu is given below.

<application>KBattleship</application> is an implementation of the popular game where your goal is to sink your opponent's ships by guessing where they are on a grid. Play against the computer or against others over the Internet. "<emphasis>You sunk my battleship!</emphasis>"

<application>KJumpingcube</application> is a tactical one or two-player game in which the playing field consists of squares that contains points which can be increased. The object is to gain as many fields as possible, finally winning the board over.

<application>Klickety</application> is an adaption of the <emphasis>Clickomania</emphasis> game, which has rules that are similar to those of the <application>Same Game</application>. The goal is to clear the board by clicking on groups to destroy them.

<application>KMines</application> is a clone of the classical <emphasis>Minesweeper</emphasis> game, where you have to find hidden mines by logical deduction.

<application>Kolor Lines</application>, or <application>KLines</application>, is the KDE version of the Russian game <emphasis>Lines</emphasis>, where you have to align five game pieces of the same color in one line to remove them from the gameboard.

<application>Konquest</application>, the KDE version of <emphasis>Gnu-Lactic Konquest</emphasis>, is a multiplayer strategy game with the goal of expanding your interstellar empire across the galaxy and of course to crush your rivals.

<application>KSokoban</application> is a logic game where you are a warehouse keeper trying to push crates to their proper locations in a warehouse.

<application>KSame</application>, inspired by <emphasis>Same Game</emphasis>, is a simple game played for a high score. The object is to remove as many of the same pieces that are touching for the most points. Speed, the amount of pieces removed at once and the movement of the mouse over possible pieces are taken into account for the final score.

Windows Games

Many games which are available for Windows can be run on Linux by using an emulator, such as <application>Wine</application> or <application>Cedega</application>.

These emulators only work on <emphasis>x86</emphasis> (Intel-based) computers, and will not function on <emphasis>AMD64</emphasis> or <emphasis>PowerPC</emphasis> computers.

Wine (free)

<application>Wine</application> is free software, and is able to run several popular games, such as <application>World of Warcraft</application> and <application>Unreal Tournament</application>. For information about Wine, see <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine">the Ubuntu wiki</ulink>.

Cedega (commercial)

<application>Cedega</application> is based on Wine, but is optimized for running Windows games. Cedega is commercial software and so is not free, but it is able to run more games than Wine. For information about Cedega, see <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cedega">the Ubuntu wiki</ulink>.

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