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Sid Meier's Colonization

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4.4/5

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4.4

336 Reviews

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Sid Meier's Colonization
Description
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...
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Managerial
Tags:
Strategy, Turn-Based, Classic, Pixel Graphics, Historical, show 2 more... Managerial, 4X
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4.4/5

( 336 Reviews )

4.4

336 Reviews

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Product details
1994, MicroProse Software, Inc., ...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 7, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatibl...
Time to beat
18.5 hMain
34.5 h Main + Sides
59.5 h Completionist
23 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
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!
  • 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!
Goodies
manual quick reference card soundtrack
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
18.5 hMain
34.5 h Main + Sides
59.5 h Completionist
23 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Managerial
Tags:
Strategy, Turn-Based, Classic, Pixel Graphics, Historical, show 2 more... Managerial, 4X
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Release date:
{{'1994-05-14T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
MicroProse Software, Inc. / Atari
Size:
51 MB
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English
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Deutsch
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español
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français
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Posted on: January 11, 2018

JMLarrance

Verified owner

Games: 48 Reviews: 4

Cruelty-free Conquest

I got tired of that depressing image, of the native kids waving at the cannons rolling in to kill them. And the game's more interesting without it. On medium difficulty, it's not easy to find free territory but it is possible. (This part actually reminds me of Machiavelli: The Prince, where the initial fun is simply scooting around the map, lighting it up.) It's more challenging to develop resource chains without driving out the natives, and at revolution-time, you can shut down all your temporary, raw-material cities and force the King to conquer one or two superforts. Plays faster, too.

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Posted on: July 29, 2023

Christmas_One

Verified owner

Games: 43 Reviews: 9

A great all-in one strategy-game.

Great game when fully set in. You can buy it here at gog.com or buy it cheap of Amazon. Nevertheless the key is Magic DosBox or just DosBox. The mouse can be finicy to dial in but when adjusted (dont forget to middleclick and use the wheel). -Voila! But the mechanics are wonderfully crafted and a 20 year dated eloge should be granted to the Microprose-game. Its their masterpiece the piece tha resistance in my meaning. Not to long to get in to but a couple of weeks to master. Not for the faint of hearted, but names.txt can be edited to mod it into a slightly less worrying matter. You think the slaves and the peasants are to costly? Edit their values in names.txt for a value more historically accurate. Surpassing many if not all strategy-games. Not because its graphics but because its game-mechanics and focusing on... Colonization...

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Posted on: October 11, 2024

kurt_dox

Verified owner

Games: 26 Reviews: 3

Old favourite

My father bought my first PC second hand from a friend. The machine came with this game installed on it and I am playing it ever since. My first SM turned-based strategy game ever; as up until then I had experience only with real-time strategy games, it took me a while (like 20 new games over a period of a couple of months) to find out how that strange white and brown blop (the caravel, never recognized it as a ship until I managed to move it) move. But I never quit trying and once it occured to me that the keyboard might be somehow involved in putting commands in a computer, it was a love of (twenty-ish)first sight!

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Posted on: February 1, 2025

Malcatraz9

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Games: 5 Reviews: 1

Colonization

I know this game is very old school but I played it when it came out. and loved it . I also have Civ III & Civ IV

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Posted on: March 28, 2025

mdwt45

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Games: 91 Reviews: 1

Classic Sid M

Still haven't beaten it after 30 years of trying, but love it all the same

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