Sid Meier's Colonization

Still playing this 30 years later.

I've enjoyed this game since it came out years ago. I still enjoy playing after all these years.

Despite starting to play Civilization almost as soon as it came out, and playing it often, I've poured several more hours into Colonization. It's something about the more accurate historical setting. The fact that this one has soundtrack. The thing about savescumming while owning the other europeans. This is so much fun.

I actually already owned this game before picking it up here on GOG, because a copy of it was given free with a CD Sampler disc from PCGamer back in the day. So I knew this game was right up my alley as far back as a decade ago, though I never played or heard of it before then. Of course I was familiar with some of the games in the Sid Meier's Civilization series (Revolution back on PS3, mainly), but I've had a steady disinterest in those games for a while now. Colonization, though, I don't know what it is about it but I always have to come back for more, so I picked up a GOG copy so I'd always have a digital version I could access without worrying about where I put that old magazine disc. I say I don't know what it is about the game that I love, but that isn't really true. I know exactly what I love about it. It's just so friggin' charming. I mean the sprite work is nice, and sprite art in general is something I honestly feel is timeless, and the music is fun to listen to on repeat and you really get a sense that you're conquering the new world. Colonization might be a dirty word, but I dare anyone to play this game and not love it a little bit.

Lots of fun, old but good! I've been playing for years.