A Search and Destroy round in the Coliseum, a channeler standing in the sand by the arena wall

A new engine for The Wheel of Time

Runs the 1999 game on Windows 10 and 11. Requires your own copy.

Download for Windows What you need

Version 0.1.3, 42.6 MB, released 30 October 2026

A new engine, written in C++

The 1999 game on new code, running on your graphics card as fast as it will go.

DirectX 12: The game draws on your GPU, with ray-traced lighting and shadows.
Frame rate: Set your own limit, or switch the limit off. VSync is optional.
Your copy, unchanged: It plays the game from your own install and changes nothing in it.

A fireball bursting in a doorway of the Coliseum during a round

Arena modes

Team Deathmatch and Search and Destroy, against bots or other players.

The killcam replaying the round’s winning kill, with the killer’s name card on screen — **Killcam.** The round’s winning kill, replayed for everyone.

A Team Deathmatch round with the scoreboard open and the team scores at the top — **Team Deathmatch.** You respawn out of the enemy’s sight, so nobody camps a spawn.

Search and Destroy after dying: watching a teammate, with the living players listed on the left — **Search and Destroy.** Rounds without respawns. The dead watch, and the sides swap ends at half time.

Updated graphics

Each effect has its own switch, and the original 1999 graphics are still available. Drag to compare.

The corridor with ray-traced lighting: the ceiling falls into shadow — Ray-traced lighting and shadows.

The same corridor with the original 1999 lighting — Ray-traced lighting and shadows.

The corridor with ambient occlusion: corners and the ceiling’s underside darken — Ambient occlusion darkens corners and creases where light can’t reach.

The same corridor without ambient occlusion — Ambient occlusion darkens corners and creases where light can’t reach.

Brick and stone walls with displacement: the mortar sinks and the blocks stand out — Displacement gives flat brick and stone real depth.

The same walls flat, without displacement — Displacement gives flat brick and stone real depth.

Insane bots trading balefire, the room behind them softened by depth of field — Depth of field softens what you aren’t looking at, if you want it.

Weather

Clear skies, cloud, storms, sandstorms and snow.

Clear
Cloudy
Storm
Sandstorm
Snow

Bots and characters

Insane bots firing balefire across a brick arena — **Better bots, up to Insane.** Set their skill, mix it, or leave it on Auto to keep the teams even.

The character menu beside a Forsaken in a green coat, with colours for hair, coat, clothing and boots — **Your own look.** Aes Sedai, Forsaken, Hound or Whitecloak, with eight colours for each of four parts of the outfit.

Sign in with a free WoTReborn account and play on the official servers, and your matches, wins and K/D go on the leaderboard.

What you need

The Wheel of Time: Your own copy: the GOG release, or the CD version patched to 333.
Windows 10 or 11: 64-bit, with a graphics card that runs DirectX 12.

WoTReborn includes none of the original game’s files. On first run it asks where your copy is installed and plays it from there.

The WoTReborn first-run window listing the game’s system, maps, textures, sounds and music as found — The first-run window, having found the game.

Releases

Installed copies update themselves.

All releases on GitHub

0.1.330 October 2026
Server browser works and lists your server. Sign-in finishes as soon as your browser confirms. Smoother frames: animated textures update off the main thread and ray-traced shadows cost less.
0.1.229 October 2026
Finds servers through the WoTReborn master server, and no longer needs the Visual C++ runtime installed. Faster dedicated servers.
0.1.129 October 2026
Test release. Unzips to a WoTReborn folder.

Download WoTReborn

Free, for Windows 10 and 11.

Download for Windows

WoTReborn isn’t code-signed yet, so Windows may say it protected your PC. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Every release is scanned with VirusTotal before it is published.