The Settlers IV / The Settlers III (s4-native)

Games: The Settlers IV (Windows, 2001) · The Settlers III (Windows, 1998)

A native Rust port of The Settlers IV Gold and The Settlers III Ultimate Collection (GOG editions) for Linux, without Wine; on macOS with Apple Silicon it builds and runs, but it is experimental. Its own lifter translates every function of the game’s executable and DLLs into Rust, instruction by instruction, on your machine from your copy, and the translated code is not published in the repository. According to the README, The Settlers IV has menus, campaigns and single-player maps, saved games, intro videos, music and effects, and LAN, and was compared against the original under Wine; The Settlers III has menus, scenarios, the intro, music, effects, and LAN. Long-session testing, the original font (it uses Liberation Sans instead of Arial), and other platforms are still missing. It has no published releases. Its only commit lists Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Settlers IV Gold from GOG (version 2.50.1516, the folder that contains S4.exe and Exe/, or the GOG installer, which is unpacked with innoextract) and, for The Settlers III, of The Settlers III Ultimate Collection from GOG (version 1.60, the folder with S3.EXE). Plus Linux, Rust, the SDL3 library, and about 1 GB of memory per parallel build job.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Microsoft Windows

Architecture

x86

Author

rengare

Original studio

Blue Byte

Year

2001