Jagged Alliance 2 (JA2 Stracciatella)
Game: Jagged Alliance 2 (Windows, 1999)
JA2 Stracciatella: a port of Jagged Alliance 2, the 1999 tactical game, to more platforms, improving its stability, fixing bugs, and providing a platform for mod development. It builds on the source code Strategy First released in 2004 under its own license, and continues the project Tron started in 2006 to clean up that code and make it portable, with over 7,000 commits in its original repository; today it’s written in C++ and Rust, with some Lua, and in 2021 it had 30% less code than the original. The name is a nod to the ice cream: it keeps the “vanilla” game with improvements mixed in like the chocolate pieces. It adds a launcher, high resolutions, new hotkeys, touch controls, a “Dead is Dead” mode that saves for you in a single slot, unlimited named saves, the built-in map editor, debug screens, and support for the Wildfire maps through a mod. Much of the game data lives in external JSON files that are easy to edit. It supports the Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Polish releases and both Russian ones. Version 0.22.0 (September 28, 2025) added JSON patches for mods and moved armor, explosives, and NPC script records to external files, with at least 38 bugs fixed, 19 of them from the original game; 0.22.1, from October 2025, fixed one bug. There are builds for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux (AppImage and Flatpak), macOS, and Android, plus nightly builds. 8 of its last 100 commits, from September 2026, list Claude as a co-author. The repository also includes, as a mod, the Simplified Chinese localization: the game’s text and fonts in that language.
You needA full, clean install of your own copy of Jagged Alliance 2 (not one with the 1.13 mod), for example from GOG or Steam’s Jagged Alliance 2 Gold, whose files are in the JA2Classic subfolder; in the launcher you pick the folder and the language version. For the Wildfire maps, Wildfire and the conversion mod too. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.
- How it gets to PC
- Port of the released source code
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Sir-Tech Canada
- Year
- 1999
- Author
- ja2-stracciatella
- Stars
- 549
- Last activity
- 2026-11-09 · 2 days ago
- Latest version
- v0.22.1 · 2025-10-05
- Language
- C++
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