Master of Orion inspired open source 4x strategy FreeOrion has a new release

Inspired originally by Master of Orion, the free and open source FreeOrion project has a brand new release.

For the FreeOrion, this was a reasonably quick release considering they had another release back in February and they don’t usually update too often. For a good reason this time though, as they’ve managed to do a major tech move from Python 2 to 3 to enable FreeOrion to stay up to date with modern code. That wasn’t the only big change though.

Some highlights:

Outside of their highlights, there’s of course plenty more changed you can see in the full log. More AI improvements, quite a lot of bug fixes, scripting optimizations, improved online multiplayer, translation updates and so on.

For Linux specifically, they also now supply a FreeDesktop.org AppStream metainfo file to help integrations.

You can check out more on the official site and install it as a Snap.

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