Widelands was selected in September 2010 as "HotPick" by Linux Format magazine. We quickly found the happiness of the old Settlers series with the management of different sized sites, the positioning of the roads which bring resources and advancing your zone of influence with different military buildings. This 2d game with a top-down view is a classic RTS remake, with simple graphics, although functional and efficient. The French free software website Framasoft remarked: The German c’t magazin wrote a short review of Widelands in their 4/2008 issue and included a Windows version of Widelands Build 11 on their magazin DVD. The German LinuxUser magazine reviewed Widelands in issue 4/2008 in a three A4-paged article. This game lets you keep building, and places serious emphasis on how you do it. I always want to get back to building my base when playing most RTS games, but I'm constantly drawn away by fire fights. But, it's the complete reversal of hyperspeed in its gameplay that I really love. It has simple things that please, like how the in-game menus are very sophisticated and solid, with none of the bugginess you get in many amateur games. The game was reviewed by Linux Journal which noted:ĭelve into this game, and there's much that lies beneath the surface. The latest release of Widelands as of October 2022 is version 1.1. Widelands 1.0, the first stable version, was released 19 years later in June 2021. The first version of Widelands was published in August 2002. It is also possible to import and play original Settlers II maps. Advanced players can create their own maps with the included map editor. The game provides four basic tutorials and four tutorial campaigns. Players may select one of five different tribes: the human-like "Empire", the " Barbarians", the " Atlanteans", the " Frisians", and the " Amazons". Widelands has single-player, local network and internet multiplayer modes, single-player campaign missions, and an internationalisation system with translations for British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Low German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. The game runs on several operating systems such as AmigaOS 4, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. It remains a work-in-progress game, with development still required in graphics and bug-fixing. Widelands takes many ideas from and is quite similar to The Settlers and The Settlers II. Widelands is a free and open-source, slow-paced real-time strategy video game under the GNU General Public License. Screenshot of the "Dolomites" map in Widelands Build 19
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