The Battle for Wesnoth, the great open source fantasy strategy game is now on Steam Greenlight

Oh yes! This may be my favourite game ever. It deserves more attention!

It's a great game and they could definitely use more expose. Good move.

Voted! It's a great game. I will be happy if I see this un Steam

Cool, a nice way to keep it up to date. The version in the repositories are usually outdated.

Voted!

If this game gets added on Steam officially, it makes me think that a kind of "pay what you want" feature as a way of supporting developers of games like these would be cool. Then again, that would most likely be abused in some way by the pay2win crowd.

Yes, it's in the repos, just like Vulture for Nethack. It'll give the devs a little $$$ to help them, and if any game devs deserve it, it's for Battle for Wesnoth.


Last edited by oldrocker99 on 25 July 2016 at 3:33 pm UTC

I quite like this game. There is one thing that annoys me about it, though. At least when I play it, the chance to hit it tells you is systematically different from what you actually get, which is noticeably lower, to the point where if I calculate roughly what will happen based on expectations from what it claims will happen, I will always find that the results are distinctly off from that, with more enemies surviving than expected, leaving me significantly exposed. If I have a unit with like a 60% chance to hit, I invariably find that in five attacks they will maybe hit twice rather than three times--40% rather than 60%. The only way to get a result approximating what the game tells you should on average be happening is by silly amounts of save-scumming. Otherwise, you have to guesstimate what your real chances are and basically ignore the game's claims except as an idea of who can hit more often.

Some Wesnoth trivia for you. Tiy, of Chucklefish/Starbound fame, actually did some sprite work for Wesnoth once upon a time.

I purchased both TOME and ADOM when they released on steam... I'll support this game too. Voted.