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Signus: The Artefact Wars

Signus: The Artefact Wars is a turn-based strategy game, available on Linux: turn-based play.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Signus: The Artefact Wars is a turn-based strategy game, available on Linux.

Gameplay elements described in its Flathub listing: turn-based play.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Turn-based strategy game” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Turn-based strategy game” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Signus: The Artefact Wars is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Signus is a Czech turn-based strategy game from 1998, developed by Valacirca and released by Zima Software. Since 2002 it is free and open source software with both code and assets. The game features 40 units: scout vehicles, tanks, artillery, helicopters, planes, ships, and support units providing repairs, refuels and ammo. There are also nine buildings and five defense towers in the game.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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