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.

Naval Tournament 2023

Ahoy,
The long wanted feature of naval warfare is now in a state to be intensively tested by the community.
So I am glad to announce that our tournament of this year will be a naval tournament.

Subscrioptions are open now.

Tournament will start approximatly 1st week of August.

For details about Subscriptions, Terms and Conditions see the Tournament thread

Widelands Naval Battle Royale Events

To prepare for the upcoming Tournament I propose to have regular Naval Battle Royale events on

sunday evenings at 19:30 CET.

See the related thread for details.

If you plan to participate please let us know in the thread for us to be able to selct a proper map.

Everybody interested in participation should maintain his playtime schedule here in order to fix future dates as well.

Changed Users Profile Page

We did a rework on your users profile. Some old entries were removed and some new entries are added. It is recommended to set your operating system and currently used version of widelands. Both will be displayed in the forum below your avatar, so developers don't need to ask for this information in case of questions or bug reports.

If you had filled out the "Website" field, there is now a generic field called "Webservice/Nick" which you can use for this.

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