Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.
| Tags | Game RTS Strategy |
|---|---|
| Licenses | CC-BY-SA GPLv2 or later |
| Operating Systems | Linux Windows |
| Implementation | Python |
| Translations | Norwegian German French Russian Italian Finnish Dutch Polish Slovenian Spanish Bulgarian Lithuanian Estonian Portuguese (Brazil) Swedish Hungarian English |
Recent releases


Release Notes: A new random map system, trade routes, three new buildings, performance improvements, and support for campaigns. Many new/updated translations to both the interface and tutorial, as well as a vast amount of bugfixes.


Release Notes: A new Settlers increment was added: you can now construct several new buildings and manage new production chains. New soundtracks and unit graphics were included. The project is now completely compatible with DFSG guidelines. The fisher concept was reworked. The tutorial is now available in five languages. There were many smaller fixes, improvements, and changes.


Release Notes: The biggest feature is the new multi-player mode. It allows you to have fun with players all around the globe. The new tutorial is quite detailed and covers the most important parts. It is especially aimed at new players, but players of the former UH versions will also find new information. Performance has been increased by 50-100% for most players. The game now is completely translated into: German, French, Italian, Norwegian, and Estonian. Some other translations record good progress: Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. There is a full translation of the tutorial in German.


Release Notes: Apart from bugfixes and many general improvements, this release features level-ups for your settlers and a brand new campaign system with a tutorial campaign included.


Release Notes: This release has an all-new user interface, gettext-supported multi-language support, a new main music theme, a boatbuilder to build new ships for your fleet, some revamped in-game graphics (like new inhabitants), and some performance improvements for the build process. Previews are now shown much faster. There are many bugfixes. All drop-down widgets have been removed to ensure crash-free setting changing. Saving and loading of games is supported.
Recent comments
07 Jul 2009 17:43
We have made many improvements to our previous release, 2009.0. Here is a list of the most important changes:
* All new user interface.
* Gettext supported muiltlanguage support. This release comes with complete English, French and German translations and mostly complete Norwegian and Portuguese translations.
* New main music theme.
* A boatbuilder to build new ships for your fleet.
* Hunter graphics added. No functionality yet.
* Some revamped ingame graphics, like new inhabitants.
* Some performance improvements for the build process. Previews are now shown much faster.
* Lots of bugfixes.
* Removed all drop down widgets to ensure crashfree setting changing.
* Lots of code refactoring. More to come.
* Saving and loading of games.