The Battle for Wesnoth (Linux)

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Description

Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game. Various races - humans, elves, dwarfs, drakes and undead - and various factions battle for the control of the land of Wesnoth in various eras.

The strategic gameplay is similar to games such as Master of Monsters and Warsong. The players, represented in game as high-level commander units, recruit new units, who then fight, advance in experience and eventually turn to another units.

There's both a multiplayer mode, which typically involves wiping out the enemy (or at least their commander). For single player games, there are several campaigns as well as ability to play multiplayer mode against the computer. Also included is a map editor and a scripting language to construct new campaigns.

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Alternate Titles

• "Battle for Wesnoth HD" -- iPad title

Part of the Following Groups

• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Fantasy Creatures: Elves
• Fantasy Creatures: Goblins
• Fantasy Creatures: Orcs
• Fantasy Creatures: Trolls
• Game feature: Hexagonal map
• Gameplay feature: Day / Night cycle
• Games that include map/level editor
• Games with officially released source code
• Middleware: SDL

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Critic Reviews

Softpedia	Aug 31, 2011		100
neXGam	May, 2011	9 out of 10	90
Abandonia Reloaded	Aug 04, 2005	4.5 out of 5	90
Linux For You	Sep 01, 2009	9 out of 10	90
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	Nov 20, 2004	5 out of 6	83
Cyber Stratege	Mar 11, 2009	7 out of 10	70
Game Tunnel	Apr 15, 2006	7 out of 10	70

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Development

The game was originally designed by David White and a first version was released in July 2003.

Related Web Sites

• The Battle for Wesnoth (official website)