Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps

By Liam Dawe - 22 Dec 2025 at 12:05 pm UTC

Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now. It's fun seeing projects like this continue on for so long, especially as I grew up playing the likes of The Settlers on the Amiga and later Settlers 2 on PC. Good times, absolute classics.

The game has singleplayer and multiplayer support, with the developers noting it was originally inspired by Settlers 2 but has "significantly more variety and depth to it".

The main highlights of the release include:

Market trading.

Six new maps added and three old maps removed.

Economy districts.

Many improvements to the in-game Encyclopedia.

Download website maps as add-ons.

New visualisation modes in the editor.

Many new capabilities for add-on developers.

It's available for Linux as an AppImage from the official site, or on Flathub (not up to date at time of writing).

Widelands | Release Date: 1st October 2006
Platform: Native Linux

Official links:

Official Website

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Free Game, New Release, Open Source, Strategy | Apps: Widelands

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Keksus 2 hours ago

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The game is cool. But I wish they would take the time to unify their art style. It's kinda weird that many factions follow a completely different art direction.

Last edited by Keksus on 22 Dec 2025 at 12:34 pm UTC

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