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Curse of War

Fast-paced real-time strategy game for the Linux terminal

Game Servers ★ 366 stars Easy setup GPL-3.0

Curse of War is a free, open-source real-time strategy game played in the Linux terminal, where players grow armies and capture territory on a procedurally generated map. It is lightweight and runs over SSH.

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Key features

  • Terminal-based RTS
  • Procedural maps
  • Extremely lightweight
  • Playable over SSH

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 32 MB RAM

Is Curse of War secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Curse of War's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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