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Widelands

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Widelands
Widelands cover
Developers
Widelands Development Team
Release dates
Windows August 27, 2002
Linux August 27, 2002
macOS (OS X) August 6, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Art styles Pixel art
Widelands on MobyGames
Widelands on Wikipedia

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Publisher website
DRM-free
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\.widelands\
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME\widelands\


This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\.widelands\save\
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME\widelands\

Video

In-game video settings
In-game video settings

Frame rate (FPS)

Set FPS to higher values
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.
  3. Set maxfps=XX line value to the desirable one.
  4. Save your changes.

Input

Audio

In-game audio settings
In-game audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Localization is done by the community via Transifex. An up-to-date page of all supported languages can be found here
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
English
United Kingdom version. Translated by 42%
Arabic
Translated by 14%
Breton
Translated by 12%
Bulgarian
Translated by 41%
Catalan
Simplified Chinese
Translated by 35%
Croatian
Translated by 14%
Czech
Danish
Translated by 57%
Dutch
Esperanto
Translated by 20%
Finnish
Translated by 84%
French
Translated by 97%
Frisian
Western Frisian. Translated by 11%
Scottish Gaelic
Translated by 67%
Galician
Translated by 11%
German
Available in variants: standart German and Low German
Greek
Translated by 41%
Hungarian
Translated by 99%
Italian
Translated by 60%
Japanese
Translated by 46%
Korean
Translated by 69%
Latin
Translated by 10%
Lithuanian
Translated by 10%
Malay
Translated by 13%
Norwegian
Available in variants:
Nynorsk. Translated by 8%
Bokmål. Translated by 21%
Polish
Translated by 79%
Portuguese
Translated by 41%
Brazilian Portuguese
Translated by 28%
Romanian
Translated by 5%
Russian
Slovak
Translated by 53%
Slovenian
Translated by 13%
Spanish
Translated by 87%
Swedish
Translated by 66%
Turkish
Translated by 8%
Ukrainian
Translated by 10%

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
ARM support for macOS ≥12 was added in late 2021.
Linux

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 300 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 426 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 2.1 compatible
macOS (OS X)
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 300 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 426 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 2.1 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 300 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 426 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 2.1 compatible


References