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 Xubuntu is given below.
KBattleship 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. "You sunk my battleship!"
KJumpingcube 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.
Klickety is an adaption of the Clickomania game, which has rules that are similar to those of the Same Game. The goal is to clear the board by clicking on groups to destroy them.
KMines is a clone of the classical Minesweeper game, where you have to find hidden mines by logical deduction.
Kolor Lines, or KLines, is the KDE version of the Russian game Lines, where you have to align five game pieces of the same color in one line to remove them from the gameboard.
Konquest, the KDE version of Gnu-Lactic Konquest, is a multiplayer strategy game with the goal of expanding your interstellar empire across the galaxy and of course to crush your rivals.
KSokoban is a logic game where you are a warehouse keeper trying to push crates to their proper locations in a warehouse.
KSame, inspired by Same Game, 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.