Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.

For more information read the full description and look at some screenshots. Or you can download the latest release and just try it out for yourself.

This website is the home of the Widelands community. You are invited to visit the forums: discuss strategies, find partners for multiplayer games, help with translations, voice your opinion on graphics, music and much more.

Widelands is currently (and will always be) under development - you can get a feel for what is worked on by looking at the changelog. Everybody is invited to help out too - we need 2D and 3D artists, sound effect creators, composers, map makers, translators, test players, web programmers and C++ coders. All skill levels are welcome - just start working on something or ask in the forums for pointers.

React on a post

A new change has reached the website: One can react on a post in a forum with a thumbs up, thumbs down, and some other images.

You may have to reload the website by pressing CTRL+F5.

Then you may notice a button called "React on this Post" below each post, except for posts written by your self.

Please consider to answer a post anyway, especially if you react with a "thumbs down". It can be very frustrating for a poster if he get dislikes without knowing why.

Widelands 1.3 First Snow Feature Freeze

… is now in place.

The First Snow Feature Freeze for the release of Widelands 1.3 has taken place on the morning of Tuesday, July 1st, 2025.

What does this mean?
From now on, no further features and bugfixes will be accepted except those that have been decided to be critical for the next release. No changes to translatable strings are desired.

When all remaining critical bugs are fixed, we will wait another couple of weeks and then call the Winter Time Feature Freeze.

And what does that mean for you?
You have only a few more weeks to update the translations for Widelands 1.3. Head over to Transifex (instructions can be found in our wiki) and add the missing translations for your language!
And play the current development version as much as you can and report bugs. Widelands 1.3 should be a rock solid release like all the others before it. Let's make it so.

The v1.3 Screenshots Submission is now open.

Website modernization

In the last weeks i spend a lot of time to modernize the html tags of the website. This included also changes to make the website responsive (usable on mobile phones). The look and feel for big displays (desktops) should be like before. If you find the page not looking like before, please

press STRG+F5 to refresh the website in your browsers cache.

Another solution is to clean your browsers cache and reload the website afterwards. If this doesn't solve anything for you, please write a post in this topic and tell us what is wrong, along with your used browser and screen resolution.

Thanks goes to hessenfarmer, tothxa and fuchur who tested the responsive layout!

A very big THANK YOU goes to janus, who gave the website some fine-tuning.