Download Freeciv 3.1.0

Gamers who spent a lot of time with Sid Meier's Civilization, which was released by Microprose for DOS in 1991, should be careful not to become addicted again. Since 1995, a group of developers has been working on creating an open source version based on this turn-based strategy game under the name Freeciv. The players of this game start in the year 4000 BC with a handful of colonists and try to establish a successful civilization. For more information, we refer you to this and this pages. The developers have released version 3.1.0, a so-called bug fix release. Extensive release notes for this edition can be found here this page are found, this is the introduction:

Welcome to Freeciv 3.1.0

Thanks again to all our developers, who continues to work so hard. This release includes lots of changes relative to 3.0.x; the significant ones are outlined below. Bug fixes also included in the 3.0 line are not listed. Those who are interested in seeing the detailed changes should check the ChangeLog file. This release is still in a beta stage, so there are some known issues (see below).

What's changed since 3.0

The major changes in Freeciv 3.1 are new Qt6 and gtk4 clients, improved balance for civ2civ3 ruleset, experimental meson based build system, and a whole lot of extra flexibility to create custom rulesets. As is usual for major releases, 3.1 clients cannot interoperate with pre-3.1 servers, and vice versa. Most pre-3.1 savegames can however be loaded into 3.1, and in most cases, the supplied rulesets have not changed so much as to make it difficult to complete a game started with 3.0.x's rules.