Any other games like wesnoth?

[Gamz]

Hi all!

I just wanted to know if any of you know of any games similar to wesnoth.

[Tux2B]

There are, if you mean turn-based games.

But not that much if you mean good free strategy game.
If you mean good free strategy game, there is glest (http://www.glest.org) but there are only 2 factions and you can't even save games.

[dogscoff]

Hi all!

I just wanted to know if any of you know of any games similar to wesnoth.

try http://www.nethack.org

It is similar to wesnoth in that:
1 - It's free.
2 - It's turn-based.
3 - It's fantasy genre.
4 - It's bloody good.
In almost every other way it's totally unlike wesnoth.

[turin]

There aren't that many good free strategy games, unfortunately. There's FreeCiv (which I've heard is good, but don't like myself), and then some stuff like FreeCraft and Globulation, but nothing all that impressive...


I'll have to try out Glest sometime soon. [edit]: Evil! Glest is M$ only! >(

[Eleazar]

Actually there are a lot of Free Open Source game projects out there-- mostly remakes of popular types of games.

Wesnoth's major distinction is that it is:
* Playable and Complete
* an Original concept.

Did i mention most of these games weren't playable?

[Dave]

I just wanted to know if any of you know of any games similar to wesnoth.

Do you mean games similar in that their style is similar, or games that are Free like Wesnoth?

David

[turin]

Actually there are a lot of Free Open Source game projects out there-- mostly remakes of popular types of games.

Wesnoth's major distinction is that it is:
* Playable and Complete
* an Original concept.

Did i mention most of these games weren't playable?

Also, most tend to be arcade games. And those that are not arcade games are usually unplayable.

There are some 688 Debian game packages, and many FLOSS games that don't have debian packages, but most are either completely or nearly unplayable - and almost all of the playable ones are arcade games.

Not that there's anything wrong with arcade games, per se - but other genres need good games too...

[romnajin]

If you are a mac user you can try http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games
a few free games can be found there(actually where I found Wesnoth)

[Tux2B]

Galaxymage looks also like a good project. I think it's Pygame's best till now.

Glest is a remake of AoE, but it's not that bad... except you can't save the game yet.

[freim]

:P


There aren't that many good free strategy games, unfortunately. There's FreeCiv (which I've heard is good, but don't like myself), and then some stuff like FreeCraft and Globulation, but nothing all that impressive...


I'll have to try out Glest sometime soon. [edit]: Evil! Glest is M$ only! >(

Glest isn't win only.

Get the source and data here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=127297

[martenzo]

I also know Warzone:2100 and Dark Oberon. Both RTS though. The former is kind of like C&C, the latter is like Warcraft.

[HaJo]

There are, if you mean turn-based games.
But not that much if you mean good free strategy game.

There are some turnbased games I know:

* C-Evo http://www.c-evo.org/ Civilisation-like, single player vs. AI
* ASC http://www.asc-hq.org/ "Advanced Strategic Command", inspired by Battle-Isle, SP-campaign as well as Multi-Player
* UFO2000 http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/ tactical squad simulation, Multi-Player only ( as in 1-vs-1 :)

If you like Nethack, have a look at ADOM http://www.adom.de - "Ancient Scroll of Mystery" (Freeware/Postcardware)

[OgreMage]

Go to http://www.the-underdogs.org and look up Fantasy General or the Panzer General series, which you can download for free from the site. These are classics of the turn-based strategy genre, and have pretty much perfected (In my opinion, at least) the type of gameplay that Wesnoth has.

[Redeth]

The following are two very old but fantastic TBS games series that Wesnoth reminds me of:

-the Shining Force series (sega genesis)
-the Fire Emblem series (snes)

They are obviously NOT open source games, but if you like Wesnoth, you'll love them. Heck I remember playing some of these in JAPANESE and still enjoying them even though I couldn't understand a thing of what was going on. That's what good gameplay means.

I think they've made new versions for the gba but I haven't played them.

[Eleazar]

...look up Fantasy General or the Panzer General series, which you can download for free from the site. These are classics of the turn-based strategy genre, and have pretty much perfected (In my opinion, at least) the type of gameplay that Wesnoth has.

I checked out Fantasy General, and enjoyed a few hours of it. Superficially the resemblance is very strong. I can see (re your other post) why you would expect Wesnoth to follow FG conventions if that's what you are used to. On the flip side, some thing that i can do with Wesnoth and not FG really annoyed me. I really miss being able to possition lots of units, and then attack.


I take exception to the idea that Wesnoth is an inferior example of a FG-type game. Wesnoth has some different goals that FG (apparently) has. FG seems to be more about the mechanics of warfare/magic, while Wesnoth is more about fighting and/or storytelling. FG has a lot more statistics per unit.

One goal is extreme simplicity in the UI. Did you notice that everything you can do with a unit is done with only one mouse button? And i think we've definitely surpassed it in putting more gameplay information right on the main screen rather than in a manual or a secondary screen. ('course, they didn't have tooltips back then) I get the feeling that serious FG players mostly memorize all those charts in FG's manual. (shudder)

I can't decide if i like FG's implementation of flight better or not. It's more comprehensive, but it's also more awkward.

Finally, with the exception of some nice portraits it's art is distincly inferior to Wesnoth's. But if you like Wesnoth, you'll probably find FG fun, once you get the feel for it.