Hedgewars, an open source turn-based strategy game

In the next article we are going to take a look at Hedgewars. It's about a free strategy game turn-based. It is open source and we can find it available for Windows, macOS, Gnu / Linux, FreeBSD and iOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

This is a simple game, you have to control your hedgehogs and use available weapons and tools to attack opposing hedgehogs. It comes with more than 57 weapons, single and multiplayer modes, solo missions, randomly generated maps, and training missions. In this strategy game, each turn has a limited time. Without a doubt this is a really fun and addictive game.

Each player will control a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, the players will be able to use any weapon or tool at our disposal to attack and kill enemy hedgehogs, thus winning the game. Hedgehogs will be able to move around the terrain in different ways, usually by walking and jumping, but also using special tools such as the «Rope" or the "Parachute»To reach areas inaccessible in other ways. Each turn has a limited duration, to ensure that players do not delay the game by thinking or moving excessively.

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Between all of them, we will have a great variety of weapons and tools. Available in the game are: Grenades, Frag Grenades, Bazookas, UFO, Shotguns, Desert Eagle, Fire Fist, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mines, Rope, Air Drill and Parachute, among others. Most weapons cause ground-warping explosions when used, destroying circular portions of it.

The map is an island floating in water or a cave, with water in the background. A hedgehog dies when it falls into the water, is thrown off the map through any of its limits, or when its health meter drops to 0.

General characteristics of the game

game options

  • Turn-based combat for up to 8 players. Local and network multiplayer, with optional AI opponents.
  • We will have around 58 devastating weapons and utilities.
  • We will find more than 25 individual missions available to learn to play or practice goals.
  • Fight in a large number of randomly generated maps with 37 environments, or choose from 44 set image maps.
  • Huge battles with up to 64 hedgehogs.
  • We will be able save our game settings favorite.
  • Users can customize our team with over 280 hats / costumes, 32 graves, 13 forts, hundreds of flags, and 13 voice packs.

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  • We can download a good number of community content packs directly through the game or even add our own custom graves, maps, hats or costumes, and many other works of art. You can consult the HWKB for more information.
  • Hedgewars has been developed using various programming languages, such as Pascal, C ++, Haskell and Lua.

These are just some of the features of Hedgewars. They can consult all of them in the project website.

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Install Hedgewars on Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, we will be able to install this game through snap and flatpak.

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Using snap

For install this game using the snap pack, we must open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:

game snap installation

sudo snap install hedgewars

After successful installation of the game, we can now start it from terminal executing the following command:

hedgewars

Another option to open the game will be to search for the launcher in our system.

game launcher

Using flatpak

Turn-based strategy game can also be installed Hedgewars to via flatpak. First we need install and configure flatpak.

After installing flatpak, just run the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) to install the game:

flatpak install flathub org.hedgewars.Hedgewars

After the installation, we can run the Hedgewars game launching in the terminal the command:

flatpak run org.hedgewars.Hedgewars

Uninstall Hedgewars

If you have chosen to install the game using snap, we can remove it from our system with the command:

sudo snap remove hedgewars

If you have used the flatpak option and want to uninstall it, run the command:

flatpak uninstall org.hedgewars.Hedgewars

For more information about this game, you can consult the project website.


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