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Dominions 3: The Awakening, is the follow up to the acclaimed fantasy strategy game, Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars. While that game set the bar for rich, engrossing turn-based fantasy strategy gaming, Dominions 3: The Awakening seeks to raise it once more.

Leading one of over fifty possible nations in three different Ages, it is your goal to ascend to true godhood using all the power at your disposal. In a world of magic and steel the options to attain victory are as numerous as the cries of mercy from your vanquished foes. Whether you use military might, eldritch power, or subterfuge (or more likely, a combination of all three) every turn is about options. Recruit troops (more than 1500 units found in the game), assassinate the enemy, scout territory, research magic (600+ spells and 300+ magic items), perform rituals, do a blood hunt, storm a castle, construct, pray, forge - the list goes on.

New pop-ups, an in-depth manual written by industry veteran Bruce Geryk, and less micromanagement all makes Dominions 3: The Awakening easy to get into. Lush maps, vividly depicted battles, and an ethereal musical score by Erik Ask Uppmark and Anna Rynefors, both awarded the title of Musicians of the Realm by the Swedish Zornmärkeskommité, contribute to turning the fantasy on the screen into your reality. Up to twenty-one players can participate in a single game, and with a simultaneous turn structure even a large game never gets unwieldy.

License: commercial ($54.95)

Additional System Requirements:

• 600 MHz Pentium II or Power PC processor
• Libc > = 2.1.92
• X-windows with OpenGL support

Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a turn-based fantasy strategy title and the direct sequel to the sleeper hit, Dominions: Priests, Prophets, and Pretenders. Designed and developed by Illwinter Game Design of Sweden, Dominions II is a game of godhood that is as massive in scope as the heavens themselves. Rich in detail and options, the highly addictive gameplay will suck you into the realm of 3 A.M. gaming and not let you go. Play solo or against sixteen human opponents and create your own Gotterdammerung!
Here's Shrapnel's official Press release.

License: commercial (~$40)

Additional System Requirements: OpenGL / 3D acceleration

Dopewars is a game simulating the life of a drug dealer in 1984 New York, based upon the MS-DOS game of the same name, in turn derived from "Drug Wars" by John E. Dell. The aim of the game is to make lots and lots of money, but unfortunately you start the game with a hefty debt to the loan shark (who charges equally hefty interest) and the cops take a rather dim view of drug dealing. Dopewars expands upon the MS-DOS version by introducing multiplayer functions. With the aid of dopewars servers, several players (computer or human) can roam New York (or some other city, chosen by the operator of the server) and attempt to shoot other players and steal their lucrative drugs.

License: free

From the homepage:

DropTeam is a multiplayer capable, real-time, tactical simulation of armored ground combat in the far future. You’ll battle for control of objectives on a broad variety of planets ranging from verdant Earth-like worlds to desolate, radioactive wastelands. You will use Dropship's (see unit list) to land fighting vehicles and other deployable assets like sensors, mines and automated turrets on planetary surfaces. You will take direct control of various types of armored fighting vehicles while also coordinating your team, including AI, other human players, artillery support and more. Vast, exotic landscapes rendered in real-time with detailed, accurate physics and ballistics systems and true line-of-sight provide realistic combat. There are no “hit points”, limited view distances, unrealistically short weapon ranges, or other gross simplifications that are typical of many other sci-fi games. DropTeam can be played online on a public server with up to 16 players, or it can be played privately with as few as 2 players, as well as single-player vs. AI opponents. AI opponents can also be mixed in with human players in order to make the teams any size you like.

DropTeam runs on Mac OS-X, Linux, and Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

License: commercial

Additional System Requirements:

• GLIBC version 2.3.4 or higher
• X Windows with working OpenGL acceleration
• ALSA audio

Updated clone of Westood Studios' dune2. Uses original dune2 data files (not included) to provide original dune2 graphics and sounds. New features include multiple unit selection/control, high resolution support, multiplayer gaming via tcp/ip, in game

License: free

Additional System Requirements: dune2 data files

In this game you are a warehousekeeper which has to push objects on their proper positions. This is complicated by the fact, that the keeper and objects are restricted by walls and that you can only push one object a time.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• KDE-3 (www.kde.org)
• libmng (optional, www.libpng.org/pub/mng/)