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!
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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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Posted on: May 30, 2012
OriginalGamerW
Verified ownerGames: 25 Reviews: 6
Better than the remake
Music, gameplay, was way better than that re release that came out as a branch off of civ4
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Posted on: January 27, 2013
AndrewKolb
Verified ownerGames: 119 Reviews: 1
I truley good old game
I used to love this game and I would still enjoy it but it seems much harder now on the easiest setting I had 20 Veteran Dragoons, 6 colonists Dragoons, 10 artillery in my bid for independence I lost every military unit I had and all my cities and only managed to destroy one Tory artillery and one Tory Dragoon, well I got it demoted to a regular Tory soldier actually. That was on the easiest setting. I'm not sorry I bought it but I probably will not play it again for a long time.
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Posted on: May 4, 2013
Vandirac
Games: 145 Reviews: 12
Get a shot a Freeciv!
Great masterpiece by Sid Meyer, but it didn't age well... Try Freeciv, the open source (and free) spinoff of this game. Same mechanics, improved options and graphic.
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Posted on: May 30, 2012
sd1612
Verified ownerGames: 132 Reviews: 1
Clever!
Great game, but that aside, if you check out the names of the colonies in the screenshots, we have System Shock 2, Wasteland, Loom and Diablo coming our way. Yay!
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