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PayPalWidelands 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).
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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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
Last edited by Keksus on 22 Dec 2025 at 12:34 pm UTC
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Quoting: KeksusThe 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.. . . Wouldn't it be normal for different factions arguably representing different cultures to have different art? But I expect there's good ways and bad ways to do that.
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