Build your kingdom with the help of hunters, soldiers, shipbuilders and more at your command. Develop elaborate settlements from a variety of over 25 different building types. Face the challenge of 49 different maps or use the easy-to-use map editor to create your own additional new worlds with dens...
Build your kingdom with the help of hunters, soldiers, shipbuilders and more at your command. Develop elaborate settlements from a variety of over 25 different building types. Face the challenge of 49 different maps or use the easy-to-use map editor to create your own additional new worlds with dense forests, mighty volcanoes, vast mountains and more. Construct a fleet of ships, to explore uncharted waters and supply provisions to new islands.
Try now and learn how creation and control can become an addiction!
Includes the original The Settlers® II: Veni, Vidi, Vici and the Mission CD expansion
Considered by most fans to be the best part of the Settlers® series
Complex, yet intuitive economics make this one of the most addictive games of all time
I played a lot in 96. It's a great game, almost like a meditation. You do simple things and then your mind relaxes with approval. People nowadays what "results", we had fun in 96 with games. We were glad we could just play and think through the economy. Nowadays it's all "kill, kill, kill", "faster, faster, faster". Where are they all running?
I miss myself from 96. I feel I was more myself than now.
The demo for this game wasted so much of my time...
Settlers 2 is one of the games that I've been hoping was going to come to GOG.com since the site launched. I found the demo years back and played it a lot, but was never able to find the full game in stores.
It is a real-time strategy game, only in the strictest sense of the words. Its focus is much different than most RTSes out there: you don't have any direct control over your units. You give build orders and create paths for the helpers to walk along. For the military units, your only command is a generic "attack enemy military structure" order---you can specify the strength of your attack, but the game resolves the combat with any nearby units.
The true focus of the game is building your economy to create and sustain a large enough army to survive and attack your opposing players. There are dozens of different resources, some of which are used to build buildings, some used as food or in the process of making food to feed your miners, some used to make tools and weapons, etc.. Keeping your entire resource hierarchy producing efficiently can be difficult, especially when you don't have enough space for what you would like to build.
The game is generally pretty slow-paced. The V key will double the speed, and I tend to use that for most of the game, except at the beginning and when attacking. Even so, the game can often feel slow to develop. The storyline isn't too well-developed, but that really isn't my first concern.
The art looks nice, though the sprites are a bit small in modern-day comparison. It's overall a pretty cartoony feel. I can't really blame them for that with the game being this old.
The main (Roman) campaign starts off pretty easy, but gets pretty hard after the first few missions. In general, the missions are pretty fun, though it is a challenging game. I haven't had the chance yet to try the world campaign.
All-in-all, this is a pretty unique, yet very fun strategy game. I'm sure that it will waste plenty more of my time in the future.
I rate the game 5 /5. I'm not going into details, about the game - this is a timeless classic that I am going to return to in 2025 and beyond.
I rate the GOG implementation 4/5, as I had to upgrade the DosBox app manually. I had to download the latest dosbox installer, extract the gog version and run it manually, but everytghing works flawlessly. BTW I play the game on macOS, using the official DosBox for intel mac : )
As others said, this game is a solid 5/5 the first few levels, and has aged really well in that way. The graphics and animations are simply the best! I love watching the wheat grow, feeding the pigs, and when I need to, butcher them and slay my enemies. With the soothing background music and a nice learning curve of challenges, It's a pleasure for every part of my mind.
However. The late stages of the campaign, and "advanced" tactics simply isn't up to scratch. You will soon be deadlocked, where you almost can't reach your opponents (it's worse then you would expect), or the AI can't reach you, and you resort to building catapults (again: it's fun the first times, but a mind-numbingly boring strategy to win challenges that are otherwise impossible).
So. that's 5/5 for the first 7 or so levels., 3/5 for the rest. Is 4/5 fair? Idk. I grew up with this game, and want to rate it 5/5, but I think that wouldn't actually be fair to real 5/5 games.
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