Posted on: June 19, 2016
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Sid Meier's Colonization
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Discover the New World and fulfill your Manifest Destiny!
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence.
Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges. Overseeing economic, military, and political growth, you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World.
Plant a foothold in the New World and establish your independence in Sid Meier’s Colonization!
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence.
Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges. Overseeing economic, military, and political growth, you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World.
Plant a foothold in the New World and establish your independence in Sid Meier’s Colonization!
- Play either the French, English, Dutch, or Spanish colonial powers, each with distinct characteristics and political situations.
- Customize your games and choose your own level of difficulty so you never play the same game twice.
- Designed by Sid Meier, who brought you Alpha Centauri and Civilization!
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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18.5 hMain
34.5 h Main + Sides
59.5 h Completionist
23 h All Styles
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Posted on: March 21, 2020
jomigaru
Verified ownerGames: 144 Reviews: 13
One of the best oldies out there, but...
...nostalgia plays indeed a major role. This game was so great despite its obvious limits. Let me say that the biggest flaw is the scarce AI of the opponents (three that sonn will be two after an ingame event). If you are an experimented player you will find yourself toying with the AI opponents. That said, the game is great for a gentle, nice playing experience, not as time consuming as the Civ games. I have been playing this game almost since it came out and it still gives me good times. A lot of exploring, many Indian tribes, trade, lot of buildings, founding fathers that will provide bonus or traits, military units (mounted or not) that can be promoted like this: petty criminal-indentured servant-free colonist-veteran, missionaries intriguing with indians or just doing gods work and a king taxing you more and more, ultimately pushing the player into the ultimate goal: independence. And that is not as easy as toyng with your fellow europeans. Also, a rating sistem of your performance rather interesting considering the time: score plus something your name is given to, might be a serpent, a continent,... The sistem goes if I recall correctly from my younger days until 200% score: getting there IS a challenge. I dare you.
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Posted on: January 1, 2022
Micelius
Verified ownerGames: 1675 Reviews: 1
A Gem That Stood the Test of Time
As many people mentioned here; the game requires multi-level thinking. It also has incredible atmosphere. I might be biased (though not a die-hard maniac of old games), but it aged well - even drum-and-pie miliary tunes sound better in this ancient version... I also played the remaster, which, apart from graphics, is worse in every aspect; especially AI. The only reproach against Colonization is that starts can ne uneven; sometimes you have a very small chance to survive whatever you do, sometimes it gets incredibly lucky and you snowball... An experienced player can recognise an overly (un)lucky game and start a new one to get a properly thrilling experience. Otherwise, it's a real treat.
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Posted on: May 19, 2024
stassix
Verified ownerGames: 56 Reviews: 4
Epic
As in the title- a timeless classic. The only thing that should be changed is the highest difficulty scalling (my personal opinion) and maybe penalty at higher difficulties. The reason is it plain and simple derives you from sim builder's fun= the best tactic is to keep majority cities low developed. Otherwise- a pinnacle of gaming.
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Posted on: August 27, 2024
goldeneagle25
Verified ownerGames: 5 Reviews: 1
Fun Strategy Game
Sid Meier's Colonization is a very fun turn based strategy game from approx 1995. Though the graphics are old and pixellated, the gameplay and interface is really good. It's all about building an empire in the new world by producing goods, selling the goods, and getting the resources to eventually fight the war for independence. Highly recommend this game!
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