Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game.

Never heard of it, definitely will give it a try. Would like to know how can I donate to the dev team!

It's a really good game. Check it out!

I FUCKIN LOVE RTS THIS IS DOPE

anyone interested in RTs also chechout tza.red it's the RTs game Tzar that came out in 2000 but with multiplayer and some good qol stuff. Run by good people and has a little community.

Idk how to make a link on lemmy but type tza.red in your address bar like the your ancestors used to.

"Timber!"

I remember playing this some years ago...it was a lot of fun. Back then the "Atlantis" (I think...not sure, its been some years) campaign wasn't completely finished so maybe time to give it another shot :).

That looks amazing, thanks for sharing sag!

Wargus is a wicked reimplimentation of the Warcraft 2 engine

Sweet! Another RTS to add to my collection!

The Battle for Wesnoth is also a great free turn based strategy game

On a related, is there a list of good open source strategy games? I'm especially interested in grand strategy.

Kinda like civilization?

Ugh, I had written a lengthy post and lost it. I haven't played Widelands itself much, but I have played Settlers 2 a lot. If anything I explain below is different in Widelands, please correct me ;)

Anyway, a TLDR for those that have no idea of what to expect: The Settlers 2 is a lot more about logistics and planning use of space than anything else. It needs very little input most of the time, it's a very slow paced game.

The main things to keep in mind is available space, roads and resources. The game is separated in hex-ish tiles. Depending on how much free space there is, you can build a basic, medium or large building. As a rule of thumb, basic buildings require no resources to function (one exception being mines, which need food); medium buildings receive either 1 or 2 resources and deliver the worked result; large buildings are usually farms or a fortress.

So, imagine Age of Empires 1, but if you had to connect every building with a road network, with every worker and every resource traveling through it, one at a time. Once you set up something to be built, you'll see a worker walking his way there, as well as resources being carried towards it. The busiest roads can receive a donkey that will also haul resources between the connected flags - you cannot manually upgrade roads, even if you have a surplus of donkeys.

Unlike AoE or pretty much every RTS, you don't train units at all. You need a minimal military to garrison military buildings, which will increase your borders. Once any of these is fully built, a number of soldiers will come out of HQ and move to occupy it. HOWEVER, if you are attacked, only the soldiers within that building will protect it. You don't participate in combat at all. The soldiers just line up and fight. When a military building is occupied by the enemy, it and everything that was within the lost border is destroyed.

Cool!

As soon as I saw the screenshot I thought about Age of Empire, anybody else?
How many hours didn't I spend on that fabulous game?!

I misread that and thought Wayland went in a very different direction for a second.