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.

Widelands 1.3 First Snow Feature Freeze

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

What does this mean?
From then 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.

Widelands 1.2.1 Released

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the stable point release Widelands 1.2.1.

Windows installer 64 bit · 32 bit
Mac packages (64 bit) MacOS ≥ 12 Intel · MacOS ≥ 14 Arm
Linux (64 bit) AppImage · Flatpak · PPA
Source code as .zip · .tar.gz
Checksums and signatures for all downloads
List of all downloads

This point release fixes several bugs and crashes found in Widelands 1.2, and offers full compatibility between these two releases for multiplayer games and replays.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit and 32-bit), Mac OS X ≥ 12.0 (Intel 64-bit) and Arm (≥ 14.0), Linux (AppImage, 64 bit), and in source code. For Linux users, we also provide a Flatpak package and a Ubuntu PPA and try to make compiling as easy as possible, and most distributions will pick up Widelands 1.2.1 into their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available under the links below and from our Download page.

If you like what you see, have a look around this site. You may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on LiberaChat, to arrange multiplayer games with other players.

We especially welcome every helping hand: Help us find bugs, translate the game, add new scenarios or features! If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can meet us on the forum at https://www.widelands.org/ or subscribe to widelands-public@lists.sf.net on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public. Releases are also announced to widelands-announce@lists.sf.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce).