Lila vs The Battle for Wesnoth

Both are self-hosted games projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Lila and The Battle for Wesnoth are closely matched on maintenance health (73 vs 74). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
LilaThe Battle for Wesnoth
Health score 73/100 74/100
Commits (11 mo) 8922 1618
Commits (last 3 mo) 2560 412
Stars 19k 6.9k
Latest release 31 Aug 2017 none tagged
Licence AGPL-3.0 GPL-2.0
Built with Scala C++, deb
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Lila

Ad-less chess server powering lichess.org, with official iOS and Android client apps.

73/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 40/40
Releases 1/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 87%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 1351 commits 2025-11: 572 commits 2025-12: 706 commits 2026-01: 869 commits 2026-02: 1145 commits 2026-03: 713 commits 2026-04: 530 commits 2026-05: 476 commits 2026-06: 629 commits 2026-07: 989 commits 2026-08: 942 commits

The Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is an Open Source, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

74/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 13/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 87% of tracked projects; popularity more than 73%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 88 commits 2025-11: 231 commits 2025-12: 148 commits 2026-01: 163 commits 2026-02: 157 commits 2026-03: 158 commits 2026-04: 105 commits 2026-05: 156 commits 2026-06: 123 commits 2026-07: 156 commits 2026-08: 133 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted games.