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The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
101 months, May 2018 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 438 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 280 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Battle for Wesnoth was released on 1 May, 2018.
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50 developer announcements, May 2023 to Aug 2026 · times in UTC
IMPORTANT This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of…
Wesnoth Inc.IMPORTANT This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Of Pearls and Pirates Don’t show the tutorial hint about save-loading when Biased RNG is active S05 "Lady Maudie": fixed Fireships being healable. The Deceivers Gambit Fix missing siphon attack sound, which would cause a crash…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Heir to the Throne S01 "The Elves Besieged": reduced starting gold, but added gold pickups near enemy keeps. Added more swamp hexes. S03 "Blackwater Port": added a secondary, coastal entry point for this scenario, so Konrad can…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns The South Guard S04 "Choice in the Fog": both choices should now be more similar in difficulty S06a "Vengeance": increased the survival turns, but decreased initial enemy gold/units. Heir to the Throne S07 "Muff Malal's…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Heir to the Throne Granite Golem: added "regenerates +4" ability, cost reduced from 35 -> 30, damage reduced from 35 -> 32 Fix Elrian's Tath event triggering even if you hadn't yet completed Isle of Alduin. Fix Elrian's Tath event…
Wesnoth Inc.Translations Updated translations: Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil) Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes Fix time of day sounds not playing.
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Heir to the Throne S22 "Glamdrol": fixed a lua error that would occur if Konrad completed the scenario without pledging any gold to the Stoneskins. Liberty S04 "Unlawful Orders": Kestrel's keep no longer gets blocked by his…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns A Tale of Two Brothers Add achievements and relevant code. Dead Water S05 "Tirigaz": the orcs now use real ship units, instead of static images. Orcish gold reduced to compensate. Dusk of Dawn S02 "A Dream": remove "fearless"…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Dusk of Dawn Remove custom "Troll Earth-Shaker" Rocklobber advancement to avoid confusing beginners. Eastern Invasion Add weather effects to several scenarios. The Deceivers Gambit S13 "Revelry, Revisited": fixed way too many…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Heir to the Throne The finale's farm burning difficulty option now explains which option is the standard and which option is especially challenging. The finale's farm burning difficulty option will now trigger automatically if you…
Wesnoth Inc.Multiplayer 5p - The Wilderlands: Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419) Translations Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Dusk of Dawn Added to mainline. This is a new troll campaign. 4 scenarios, novice level. Heir to the Throne Add new "Heir to the Throne" revision to mainline. Rename existing HttT campaign to "Heir to the Throne, Classic" Merge…
Patch notesEditor Move items/unit/labels when map is resized Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Polish, Spanish Units Sergeant: Crossbow damage changed from 4-3 to 6-2 Lieutenant: Crossbow damage changed from 5-3 to…
Patch notesCampaigns Liberty Changed some of Maddock's dialogue to stay consistent with The Deceiver's Gambit. Difficulty scaling now follows the same pattern as the other beginner campaigns: 1x enemies, 2x enemies, 3x enemies. Use the new Elensefar…
Patch notesLua API Toggle panel now have the event handler `on_double_click`. If set, it will be fired when the user left double clicks on that widget. For other widgets, they can be wrapped inside a toggle panel for this to work. Translations Updated…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion Terraent arcane resistance from 30% to 40%, melee arcane 9-5 to 8-5, cost: 82 -> 80 Editor Fixed side default income getting incremented to 2 each time a scenario is saved Multiplayer Add presets to allow saving…
Wesnoth Inc.Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Italian Units Added Dune Rover attack, defend, and standing animations User interface Fixed sidebar unit tooltip no longer taking damage resistances into account Fixed the…
Patch notesAdd-ons client Fixed downloading an add-on causing a crash. Campaigns Son of the Black Eye S15: improved AI behavior. The Deceiver’s Gambit Easy and Normal difficulties are now more challenging Delfador now references Elende's prophecy much…
Patch notesEditor Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115). Networking Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139). Terrain Fix…
Patch notesCampaigns The Deceiver's Gambit Spells: clarified "Counterspell" description S05: the allied AIs now attack at Dawn instead of Second Watch S08: changed Trappers' dialogue to be less overtly hostile S14: the final boss now heals less on…
Patch notesCampaigns Fixed campaigns not using the correct map settings Editor `Convert To Scenario` menu item added to `File` menu that allows converting an already opened map to a scenario. Multiplayer Added the foundation for multiplayer queueing…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits…
Patch notesCampaigns Delfador’s Memoirs Campaign removed! Replaced with “The Deceiver’s Gambit” The Deceiver’s Gambit New campaign, replacing “Delfador’s Memoirs”! _Yearning for adventure, a newly-trained apprentice from the magic academy at Alduin…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion S04c: give Mal-Ravanal gold to recruit more units when their army becomes too small forbid all Dunefolk units to take the Plague Staff fix minor bugs with dialogues The South Guard Major rewrite of the campaign…
Patch notesMultiplayer Implemented an attempt to fix the multiplayer server crashing if someone requested game history and then disconnected before receiving the results Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese…
Patch notesAdd-ons client The Add-ons client now supports UI Theme type add-ons (id 'theme'). Campaigns Son of the Black-Eye Allowed Saurian Skirmishers to advance into Saurian Spearthrower. The Hammer of Thursagan Added Achievements. Multiplayer…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion: "Drowned Plains" drastically shortened in length. Objective now involves gathering gold, not killing enemy leaders. Editor Fixed a crash in some cases after setting which direction a unit is facing. Lua API Added…
Patch notesLua API Added new function gui.switch_theme() to allow switching to another gui2 theme from inside a scenario. Updated to lua 5.4.7 Translations Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian…
Patch notesCampaigns Under the Burnings Suns S04: added sprite for the Cold Dagger item (PR #9189) Editor Added Show Tool Information toggle option in the menus and toolbar to allow hiding the informational tooltip on the edge of the screen that shows…
Patch notesTranslations Updated translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Ukrainian WML Engine Fixed out of sync errors due to bad undo/redo handling. Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes Server-side fix for the "Something is wrong with the addon version…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion fixed Gweddry having the wrong HP values fixed the king being neutral instead of lawful fixed "Dark Shape" from being neutral instead of chaotic the king can no longer wield the plague staff the king and generals…
Wesnoth Inc.Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Japanese, Ukrainian Units Added a melee animation for the Dragoon and Cavalier. Added a wounded bob animation for the Cavalier. WML Engine…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion Prevent Dacyn from picking up a different staff (issue #8885) Reduce Barrow/Pyre Wight vulnerability to arcane Many minor bugfixes Heir to the Throne Li'sar is no longer renameable. Sceptre of Fire S7: Fewer and…
Patch notesAdd-ons client Show the server ID in the Add-ons Manager The add-ons server identifier (e.g. 1.18) is now displayed on the bottom left after the server address. If debug mode is enabled the server software version is also shown. Campaigns…
Patch notesAfter two and a half years of development and thousands of commits made by dozens of contributors, the Battle for Wesnoth development team is proud to announce the availability of version 1.18.0 on Windows, macOS, and Linux! This release…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Eastern Invasion Many minor bugfixes Heir to the Throne Fix S17 to ensure the starting castle always has 6 hexes for recruiting (PR #8314) Clarify S11's objectives by editing the map (no string changes) (PR #8326) Add decorations…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion Fix S04b’s time limit, which extends by 10 turns if a bonus objective is completed. Fix macros in translatable strings, because they prevent translation. (issue #8225) Winds of Fate Made the epilogue more vague…
Patch notesTranslations Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, Welsh Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes Fix a crash in the `:inspect` window when pagination is used (issue…
Patch notesCampaigns Winds of Fate Fix macro argument in translatable string Eastern Invasion Change S04b’s `scenario_id` to `en_US` spelling (issue #7994) S04b start-of-scenario saves since 1.17.21 will be broken S03 mid-scenario saves since 1.17.21…
Patch notesCampaigns Under the Burning Suns All sand terrian now correctly applies the dehydrated effect Translations Updated translations: British English, Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Welsh Units Drakes: Saurian Seer - modify the unit to…
Patch notesFeature Freeze With this release the feature freeze has (mostly) begun, meaning that if you've authored an add-on for 1.16 then this is the point at which you can start testing to see what issues there might be in preparation for 1.18.0…
Patch notesCampaigns Eastern Invasion Revise entire campaign (Dalas version) Descent into Darkness Buff soul rend Liberty Make Harper a girl and revise some dialogue Legend of Wesmere Replace lingering instances of ‘old’ style gold carry over for S9…
Patch notesCampaigns A Tale of Two Brothers Remove the magic communication amulets from the story. Under the Burning Suns S3: Ensure all of Garak’s attacks are changed to fire type (#7774). Editor Added the ability to create a basic add-on - the…
Patch notesCampaigns Heir to the Throne S03: Rewrite intro text, including a hint about training troops (PR #7291) Editor Scrolling the map north or south can move the text that overlays the map, so it doesn't always obscure the southmost hexes of the…
Patch notesCampaigns Descent into Darkness S3: Resolved Darken Volk speaking from the darkness at the end of the scenario (#7758). Liberty S4: Resolved nameless enemies gaining names at day-break (#7748). S5: Make the loss of Hans a lose-condition…
Patch notesI'm proud to announce that a few days ago Wesnoth turned 20 years old! Starting with version 0.1 tagged on June 18th 2003, Wesnoth has grown with the help of hundreds of volunteers continually improving all aspects of the game from its…
Wesnoth Inc.Campaigns Heir to the Throne S19c and S20b: Improve rewards by giving a Lieutenant instead of a Sergeant. Northern Rebirth Large grammar correction to the English text. (PRs #7643, #7663, #7676, #7680, #7682, #7683) UtBS Make the name of…
Patch notesTranslations Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish User interface Fixed main menu Language button and Version label not being refreshed after switching languages without relaunching the game…
Patch notesWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | wesnoth.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | start.sh | linux 64 | ||
| Launch | The Battle for Wesnoth.app/Contents/MacOS/The Battle for Wesnoth | macos |
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WinMyDocuments | My Games/Wesnoth1.18/saves | * and below |
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