diff --git a/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/allow-root-S3_1.patch b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/allow-root-S3_1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff3b794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/allow-root-S3_1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 4fa608e29b..7f4b94166b 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -793,6 +793,8 @@ if test "x$emscripten" = "xyes" ; then
+   AC_DEFINE([ALWAYS_ROOT], [1], [Can execute program as root - emscripten])
+ fi
+ 
++AC_DEFINE([ALWAYS_ROOT], [1], [Can execute program as root - OpenEmbedded])
++
+ dnl Settings specific to host OS
+ case "$host_os" in
+ 
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index f746126902..7f50fc258e 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ else
+     priv_conf_data.set('ALWAYS_ROOT', 1)
+   else
+     pub_conf_data.set('FREECIV_HAVE_PTHREAD', 1)
++    priv_conf_data.set('ALWAYS_ROOT', 1)
+     net_dep = []
+   endif
+ endif
diff --git a/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_S3-1-git.bb b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_S3-1-git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b02b77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_S3-1-git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+require freeciv-qt5.inc
+
+DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-2"
+
+DEPENDS += "tolua-native lua gtk4"
+
+SRC_URI += "\
+git://github.com/freeciv/freeciv.git;protocol=https;branch=S3_1 \
+file://allow-root-S3_1.patch \
+"
+
+SRCREV="8d7cdf503164f296990c68e27a4fe3e2a87eb909"
+PN = "freeciv"
+PV = "3.1.0-alpha5"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+FREECIV_GUI += "gtk4"
+
+PACKAGES += "${PN}-gtk4"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-gtk4 = "freeciv-common freeciv-client-common"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-gtk4 = "freeciv-client"
+FILES:${PN}-gtk4 = "\
+${bindir}/freeciv-gtk4 \
+${datadir}/freeciv/themes/gtk4 \
+"