Open source re-implementation of Caesar III levels up in the new release

They don’t make them like they used to right? Caesar III is a classic and you can play it with plenty of enhancements with Julius. What is it? a fully working open-source version of Caesar 3, with the same logic as the original, but with some UI enhancements, that can be played on multiple platforms.

Pictured – Caesar III with Julius on Linux

The full list of what’s new and improved:

General improvements

The game now enters military mode when going to a legion with hotkey

Water range is always shown when building a reservoir, even when it cannot be placed

Added on-screen notice when a screenshot is saved

Editor: allowed map editors to set player rank to “Caesar”

Campaign: Brundisium can now be played for 2 years after winning the mission

Added option to invert direction of right-click-to-drag-map

Added command line options:

--fullscreen starts the game fullscreen

--display ID start the game on the specified display; ID starts counting from 0

Android: enabled setting display scale on tablets

Windows: improved fullscreen handling: the game no longer scrolls when the mouse moves out of the window on Alt-Tab

Language improvements

Added support for Czech, Greek and Japanese

Added support for Russian editor files

Bugfixes

Fixed clone building hotkey not honoring disallowed buildings

Fixed crash when Caesar 3 settings contain an invalid advisor

Fixed sounds in videos on big endian systems

Fixed multiple horn sounds on large invasions

Fixed water buildings sometimes getting corrupted

Fixed trees not forming forest on elevation

Fixed visual inconsistencies on some building animations

Fixed Android app not honoring rotation lock

Technical improvements

Upgraded SDL to 2.32.8, SDL_mixer to 2.8.1

Android: upgraded build tools and SDK version