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Satirical console-based political role-playing/strategy game. Version 4.07.4b via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Satirical console-based political role-playing/strategy game
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Commands and aliases
- crimesquad
history
Project history and usage
Liberal Crime Squad is a satirical, console-based political role-playing and strategy game. The Homebrew package installs the open-source continuation as the `crimesquad` executable.
Project history
Bay 12 Games' official page identifies the original game as `v3.09, Copyright (c) 2002-6, Tarn Adams`, with Windows downloads posted in December 2002 and Linux downloads posted in June 2004. The same page says that starting with v3.05 the game was released under the GNU GPL.
Bay 12 also points to a player group continuing LCS as an open-source project on SourceForge. SourceForge records the `lcsgame` project registration date as 2007-06-15, and the repository changelog shows Jonathan Stickles and other contributors maintaining version 3.11.x work in July 2007.
Adoption history
LCS remained a niche package: culturally tied to Bay 12 Games and Dwarf Fortress fandom, technically tied to curses-style console play, and distributed through SourceForge rather than a mainstream game store. Homebrew packaging makes the Unix continuation easy to install as a terminal game.
How it is used
Typical use is simply launching `crimesquad` in a terminal. The SourceForge trunk includes build files, an `init.txt` configuration file, documentation, art assets, and platform-specific notes for Windows and Linux builds.
Why package nerds care
LCS matters to package nerds as a preservation-flavored terminal game package: an early-2000s freeware game became GPL source, moved into community maintenance, and can still be built and distributed as a small command-line game.
It is also a reminder that package managers carry odd cultural artifacts alongside compilers and daemons, including games whose main value is historical, satirical, or community-driven.
Timeline
- 2002-12: Bay 12 Games posted the Windows v3.09 download.
- 2004-06: Bay 12 Games posted the Linux v3.09 download.
- 2004-08: Bay 12 Games page lists v3.09 as last updated in August 2004.
- 2007-06-15: SourceForge `lcsgame` project registered.
- 2007-07-14: SourceForge changelog records version 3.11.4 branch work.
- 2012-09-04: SourceForge files page lists a Windows 4.06 archive release timestamp.
Related projects
- Related projects and communities include Bay 12 Games, Dwarf Fortress, SourceForge-hosted LCS continuations, curses/PDCurses, SDL2 and SDL2_mixer build options, and classic terminal roguelike and strategy-game packaging.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
crimesquad | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version4.07.4b
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:lcs |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.07.4b |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lcs |
| Homepage | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/ |
| Repository | https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lcsgame/code/trunk |
| Upstream docs | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Source archive | https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lcsgame/code/trunk |
| Build dependencies | autoconf, automake |
| Uses from macOS | ncurses |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | lcs |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
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- Nucleus package database
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- curated package history
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