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.

Build21 First Snow Feature Freeze

… is now in place.

A late first snow is falling in April… On Wednesday evening, the 22nd of April 2020, at 22.00 CEST, the First Snow Feature Freeze for build 21 has taken place.

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 permitted.
When all remaining critical bugs are fixed, we will wait another two 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 Build 21. 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. Build 21 should be a rock solid release like all the others before it. Let's make it so.

Build21 Screenshots Competition

As build21 is drawing closer, let's sweeten the waiting time until the last bugs are fixed by topping each other who can produce the most beautiful screenshots showing off the latest goodies.

The rules are similar to the previous competition:

• Install a recent development build (or a pull request branch targeted for b21). Do not use amazons builds since we can't be certain yet they will make it into b21.

• Create a beautiful fogless game, or a nice screenshot that well illustrates a new feature

• Use Ctrl-F11 to take a screenshot. See the Technical FAQ on where to find the file.

• The screenshot should have a 16:9 aspect ratio, and should have a width that is no smaller than 620px. For more information on the format and further guidelines, visit freedesktop.org and search the page for screenshots/.

• Upload the screenshot and a savegame as an attachment to a post under this topic. Add a title and description for the image to the post.

All screenshots that are of sufficient quality will be published in our Screenshots section on the homepage.

Tempo Training Tournament

The Tempo Training Tournament is about training one soldier as soon as possible to the highest level. (for each tribe including amazons). One doesn't have to participate with each tribe.

Basic rules

• Results over 2 hours will be neglected.
• Allowed versions of Widelands are build19, build20, bzr9220 , master5937, master6226, master6448, master6646, amazons5970, amazons5953 , amazons6086, amazons6762 or any other official version which is replay-compatible to the others. Recommend version is amazons6762.

• You should start the single-player game(s) with:

  1. Map: Escher Goose Fish
  2. Starting position: free choice, other positions set to empty,
  3. Starting condition: headquarters, tribe of your choice
  4. Type of game: Free choice, endless game (no fog) recommended

• If you want to participate with any tribe, you just start your game, train one soldier to the highest level and save immediately. Answer [the forum topic] with your results and upload the replay(s) plus this savegame. In case you use a version which is not listed above, notify which version of the list is replay-compatible.

• There is no limit for participants to upload their games. You can try to build better a better settlement and reach an even better time.
• Reaching the fastest time gives a point - for each tribe. Who reaches most points wins the tournament. If there is a tie, the player with the fastest result in total wins.

The tournament will end 26st of April 2020, 6pm CEST.

More information and current rankings are available on the forum.

Many thanks to WorldSavior for organizing this tournament!