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v0.1.0-dev.50, built October 23, 2026. The editor comes with the engine, a demo project and prebuilt players: games without scripts play and export with nothing else installed. What's in this build.

These are development builds: everything here works, but things change between builds, and project files may move to a newer format. Version 1.0 will be the first stable release.

Your system

Linux

x86_64

AppImage 56 MB tar.gz 62 MB

AppImage: Runs on most distributions: make it executable and run it.
tar.gz: Unpack anywhere and run crossfire-editor.
Needs: A Vulkan driver. glibc 2.31 or newer (Ubuntu 20.04+, Fedora, Arch, Steam Deck).

Install on Linux →

Your system

Windows

x86_64

Installer 24 MB Zip 34 MB

Installer: Installs for you, with a Start menu entry.
Zip: Unzip anywhere and run crossfire-editor.exe.
Needs: Windows 10 or 11 with a Vulkan driver (any recent GPU driver has one).

Install on Windows →

Your system

macOS

Apple Silicon

Disk image 38 MB

Disk image: Apple Silicon. Drag to Applications; the first time, right-click > Open.
Needs: macOS 15 or newer. Vulkan comes bundled (MoltenVK).

Install on macOS →

Writing scripts

Games with scripts are compiled with Odin. The editor installs the right version for you (Settings › Toolchain › Install Odin); you also need your system's linker: clang on Linux, the Xcode command line tools on macOS (xcode-select --install), or the Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows. The getting started pages walk through it.

Older builds and the source

Every build is on GitHub's releases page, with its notes. The editor, the engine and this site are open source under the MIT license: crossfire-editor, crossfire-engine. To build them yourself, see building from source.