Sid Meier's Colonization

Played the civilization games for many years and had a particular fondness for this game for the setting, time period, technology and so on. But like the Civilization games, I no longer have the patience or interest in these types of experiences. Civ games boil down to building cities, improving the area around it with workers, building some improvements, military units and a bit of diplomacy. That's the components. The actual gameplay though is pushing units across a screen, turning black squares into green and blue while you wait for cities to produce enough hammers to construct a new building. Then on enemy turns, you can watch a lot of enemy units just loiter aimlessly around the area, sometimes squatting in your area to screw you, sometimes just moving around with little purpose or aim. What colonization adds to this is a ton of boring logistics. Move a ship from Europe to America, unload supplies and colonists, load up the ship with "new world goods" and move it back to Europe for a profit. On top of this you can add building Wagons, moving these wagons between your cities to distribute supplies either for manufacture or selling. And then proceed to move these units around for literally hundreds of turns while you wait for stuff to happen. I know these games are revered and loved, and I still have a fondness for this game despite this review- but while these games are addicting, getting you to click that next turn button- the actual gameplay loop, the stuff you're doing on any given turn is not interesting. Can't recommend it.

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Its okay game but for me atleast time has golden this game. Its repetative, I wouldnt say it has much tactics. Was really good back in the day but unfortunatly I dont find so much out of this anymore.

ok

Memory said this was a great game, and it could have been. All it needed was little effort towards balance. Real diplomacy with the natives instead of Genocide. Maybe use the entire map instead of putting everyone 8 squares apart. So close and so Bad.