![]() 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. In the end, Widelands will be extensible, so that you can create your own tribe with their own set of buildings, create new worlds to play in, and even create new types of worlds (who says you can't build a settlement on the moon?).Screenshot of the "Dolomites" map in Widelands Build 19 Widelands also offers an Artificial Intelligence to challenge you. Widelands offers single-player mode with different campaigns the campaigns all tell stories of tribes and their struggle in the Widelands universe! However, settling really starts when you unite with friends over the Internet or LAN to build up new empires together - or to crush each other in the dusts of war. You're really a ruler: You delegate in times of war and in times of peace! ![]() Similarly, whenever you want to attack an enemy, just place an order to attack one of their barracks, and your soldiers will march to fight. There is no need to tell every single one of your subjects what to do - that would be impossible, because there can be thousands of them! Instead, all you need to do is order them to build a building somewhere, and the builders will come. It is your job to lay out the roads as efficiently as possible.Īnother refreshing aspect of the game is the way you command your clan. This is done by carriers, and those carriers always walk along the roads. For example, a system of roads plays a central role in your economy: all the goods that are harvested and processed by the tribe must be transported from one building to the next. However, if you want to rule the world, you will have to train soldiers and fight. Some of them may be friendly and you may eventually trade with them. The economic network is complex and different in the three tribes (Barbarians, Imperials, and Atlanteans).Īs you are not alone in the world, you will meet other clans sooner or later. Every member of your clan will do his or her part to produce more resources - wood, food, iron, gold and more - to further this growth. ![]() In the course of the game, you will build an ever growing settlement. You start out with nothing but your headquarters, where all your resources are stored. ![]() In Widelands, you are the regent of a small clan. ![]()
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