Three years after the last release signifying, recently the release of the new version of Battle for Wesnoth 1.16 was announced, which is a turn-based multiplatform fantasy strategy game that supports single-player and multiplayer campaigns online or on a single computer.
Battle for Wesnoth is one of the most popular open source strategy games that you can play right now. Not only has this game been in development for a long time, but it has stellar gameplay, lots of unique mechanics, and it's just a pleasure to explore the way you play it.
If you've ever played Dungeons and Dragons, you'll be familiar withare the type of territory that The Battle for Wesnoth. It's surprisingly complex and not a fantasy game you can jump into right away, but The Battle for Wesnoth has plenty of goodies hidden deep within it.
This game has 3 areas, They include the northern lands, the domain of the Southwest Elves, as well as the kingdom of Westnoth. Some regions like the kingdom are more civilized, while others like the north, for example, are full of orcs, barbarians, and dwarves.
About Battle for Wesnoth
Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme in which your task is to form a great army to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth.
To begin with, the amount of roles you can play gives the game a lot of variation. Regaining the throne is nothing more than a scenario - you can also guard an outpost, take on a host of undead warriors, and lead the elves to create a new home in the kingdom.
There are over 200 units to take control with 16 different tribes and six main factions. And if that's not enough, you can even create your own maps, scenarios, and unit types.
This ability to create your own style of play is really impressive for an open source RPG. Battle for Wesnoth is also a highly tactical game, requiring you to move units to defeat your enemies, which requires some work with multiple units moving at once.
When it comes to open source fantasy RPG games, The Battle for Wesnoth is an excellent endeavor. However, the show includes more than enough campaigns to keep your interest, each with its own story.
As a beginner you can start with something short, maybe where you only have to find one person, maybe fight a little battle; more complex campaigns can give you the responsibility to protect your homeland against a defending army; and the longest will guide you through 20 or more scenarios, covering every aspect of the game and seriously testing your strategic skills.
If that's not enough, there are plenty of user-created campaigns that you can download and try, or you can work with its map editor and programming language and create new scenarios of your own. And of course there is always the multiplayer option, allowing you to challenge up to 8 friends for battlefield supremacy.
What's new in Battle for Wesnoth 1.16?
The new version has improved the game campaigns, has added new multiplayer campaigns (Isle of Mists and World Conquest), has introducedor new game units, improved the graphics of existing units, completely redesigned, and rebalanced the Dunefolk faction. Extended API for plugin developers.
In addition, add-on isolation has been provided, which are now divided into different processes when starting the game, and the ability to set bans by participant name, and not just by IP address, has also been added.
The artificial intelligence engine has also been updated, for example, the behavior related to withdrawal and healing has been improved.
How to install Battle for Wesnoth on Linux?
In order to install this excellent game on any of the current Linux distributions, just we must have the support for Flatpak.
And they must execute the following command in a terminal to install the game.
flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth.flatpakref
It is also worth mentioning that the game is in the Steam catalog, so if you have the application you can get this game from there. Or you can choose to add it to your library from the link below.