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Players of Sid Meier’s Civilization series should feel right at home, as a goal of Freeciv is to have rulesets with compatible rules.

Maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, Freeciv is easily one of the funnest and most addictive online or one-on-one games out there!

It also means that it has very extensive multi-language support, something rare in games.

Characteristics

• Generally comparable to Civilization and Civilization II
• Up to 126 players; Freeciv web supports up to 500 players.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) computerized players
• Internet and LAN multiplayer (TCP/IP)
• Support for a large number of platforms; see Requirements
• Premade maps and scenarios!
• More than 50 playable units and over 550 nations
• Modpack support!
• Internationalization (i18n): translations for many languages ​​available
• In-game help system

A small list of some of the benefits Freeciv has:

• It is free!
• The source code is available.
• You are allowed to copy, redistribute, charge for and modify Freeciv. For more information on this topic, see the license.
• A new release every now and then with new and exciting features!
• You can influence the development of the game dramatically!
• It uses the very (free software developer) friendly GNU General Public License.

What is new

Windows: When it’s time to uninstall this version, it does it cleanly. Previous versions failed to remove any of the registry keys they had written. These keys are harmless, but this failed the expectation that uninstalling removes such things from the user’s machine.

Server / General

• Muted some unused input warnings when loading saved games osdn#47498
• Long ruleset descriptions are no longer truncated on the client end. Both server and client must be of a new version for this fix to take effect osdn#47658

Changes affecting players (included ruleset)

• Fixed loading non-scenario savegame saved by a tex-AI enabled server, to server that does not have tex-AI enabled osdn#47521
• reed1. No gold is given to players at the beginning by default osdn#47454
• civ2. Units in airbase are now shown to their allies, not to the allies of the airbase owner osdn#47655

Changes affecting other rulesets/modders

• Fixed bug with technicians never having as a requirement osdn#46544 osdn#45115 osdn#47574 osdn#47762
• Sanity check ruleset improvements osdn#44613
• Changing tiles via lua scripting now triggers side effects like bounce units osdn#46425
• Clients now receive updated information when the player’s gold reserves are changed by a lua script osdn#47386
• Fixed potential crash with Heal Unit action osdn#47603
• Units hiding inside an extra (base) are now shown to their allies, not to the allies of the extra owner osdn#47655

Changes affecting server operators

• Civil War now respects the maxplayers setting osdn#45587
• Silented spammy “Couldn’t find a cm solution…” message osdn#47570
• Wait for the “interrupt” autosave to finish before exiting the program, when thread saving is enabled osdn#47540

General

• Fixed creating a directory for map images osdn#47550
• Optimizations osdn#46534 osdn#45420 osdn#46417 osdn#45744 osdn#45677 osdn#46436
• Various internal changes that should only affect developers. osdn#46441 osdn#46317 osdn#46313 osdn#46466 osdn#46668 osdn#47308 osdn#47305 osdn#46464 osdn#46420 osdn#46343 osdn#4 osdn#473#4 osdn#473# 7620