What Is Arx Libertatis, the Project Listed on ds.me?

Arx Libertatis is a cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game, and it is released under the GPL3+ license. It appears as one of two projects on Daniel Scharrer's personal site, ds.me, alongside the installer-unpacking tool innoextract. If you want to understand what the project is before downloading or building it, the key point is that Arx Libertatis is a reimplementation of the game's engine aimed at running Arx Fatalis on modern systems and additional platforms, not a new game or a standalone title.

What the ds.me listing actually tells you

The site is a minimal personal homepage. Its "Projects" section lists exactly two entries:

The page also gives contact routes: an email at the ds.me domain, a second address at constexpr.org, IRC handles on Libera, OFTC, and Rizon, and a PGP key fingerprint. GitHub, OBS, Launchpad, and Open Hub profiles are listed under the handle dscharrer. Nothing on the page describes features, system requirements, download sizes, or pricing, so treat the listing as an index entry rather than documentation.

How Arx Libertatis relates to the original game

The distinction that matters:

• The original game is Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game. The ds.me listing names it as the subject of the port.
• Arx Libertatis is the port itself — a cross-platform version of that game, licensed GPL3+.

So the project is not a sequel, remake, or separate RPG. It is the same game delivered through a port that targets multiple platforms. The GPL3+ license means the port's source code is free software with copyleft terms; it does not by itself tell you what you need to own or supply to play, and the ds.me page does not address that question.

When this page is enough, and when it isn't

Use the ds.me listing if you only need to confirm what the project is, who maintains it, its license, and where to find the author's code repositories. That is the full extent of what the page supports.

You will need other sources if you want to:

• Check supported platforms or system requirements
• Find build or installation instructions
• Confirm what game data the port expects
• Read release notes or known issues

None of these appear in the ds.me excerpt, and the page carries no pricing or payment information — so do not assume from its silence that anything is free to download or usable without login. Verify those details at the project's own repository or site, reachable through the GitHub profile the page lists.

A quick way to verify you have the right project

If you land on ds.me while searching for "ds.me" and want to confirm the match, check three things in order: the heading "Daniel Scharrer," the "Projects" section containing both Arx Libertatis and innoextract, and the license line "GPL3+." All three appearing together identifies the page. If you arrived looking for the game itself rather than the port, note that the site describes only the port — the original Arx Fatalis is referenced as the thing being ported, not documented here.