It contains additional improvements to the web-based client such as borderless windowed mode, additional hotkeys, not being tied to your web browser to play and cursor lock to window not lagging.
The client also supports the Steam overlay, as well as multiple profiles.
This project is completely open source. Feel free to fork and make pull requests, additionally please report any issues here.
If updating from versions below 0.4.0:
Versions 0.4.0+ are not compatible with previous versions. Extract to an empty folder. Do not simply replace files with updated files. Unfortunately this means that saved data from previous version cannot be carried over. Make sure to backup your data, e.g. downloaded replays
Grab the lwg_clientx64.zip file from the latest release. Click here for easier access to the download.
To run with a certain profile add the command line argument -profile and the name you want the profile to have:
LittleWarGameClient.exe -profile name
This will also let you run multiple instance of the game at the same time.