The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is an Open Source, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
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Still maintained? Yes: 315 commits in the last 90 days.
At a glance
The Battle for Wesnoth quick facts
- Health score
- 60/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 6,968
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
The Battle for Wesnoth scores 60/100, #10 of 20 in Games: 315 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 6,968 stars add 15.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
315 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 15.4 / 20
7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 315
- Last 90 days
- 1,719
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Lila (#9) and Scribble.rs (#11) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | C++, deb |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 6,968 |
| Open issues | 1,375 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | wesnoth/wesnoth ↗ |
The Battle for Wesnoth vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with The Battle for Wesnoth (Games), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanti | 87 | 14k | LGPL-2.1 | yesterday |
| Veloren | 79 | 2.4k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 0 A.D. | 74 | 69 | MIT | yesterday |
| The Battle for Wesnoth (this tool) | 60 | 7k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| DDraceNetwork | 57 | 858 | Zlib | today |
| Zero-K | 57 | 879 | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
The Battle for Wesnoth: common questions
Is The Battle for Wesnoth still maintained?
The Battle for Wesnoth had 315 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.