Widelands is a Settlers II inspired RTS with single and multiplayer modes. It has Windows, Mac and Linux builds.
Release highlights:
- UI Plugins support
- Naval Warfare preview
- Soldier garrisons for ports and headquarters
- Balancing changes to the Amazon economy
- Fifth scenario for the Frisian campaign
- More settings in the game setup screen
- Diplomacy handling for the computer players
- Stick pinned notes onto map fields to mark important points
- Hyperlinks let you navigate within the encyclopedia and to the online help
- Easy maps publishing inside the editor
- High-resolution images for many more units
- Accessibility enhancements for many user interface components
- Expose more functionality to the add-ons and scenario scripting interface
- Fixed many crashes and hangs and enhanced error handling
Dang, I haven’t heard of this before and I still play Settlers II via Return to the Roots. Genuine thanks for sharing.
That’s exactly why I posted this! There are so many open source and decompilation projects it’s impossible to know about all of them.