Includes the original The Settlers® IV and its two expansions: The Settlers® IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power and The Settlers® IV Mission CD along with a random map generator.
Just because of a little uprising, Morbus has been banished to Earth by HIM, the highest god of all. It really coul...
Includes the original The Settlers® IV and its two expansions: The Settlers® IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power and The Settlers® IV Mission CD along with a random map generator.
Just because of a little uprising, Morbus has been banished to Earth by HIM, the highest god of all. It really could not have been worse for this particular villain, as Morbus cannot bear the sight of anything green. He definitely doesn’t plan on letting it stay that way – his Dark Tribe will soon be waging war on the Earth’s flora and fauna.
The Romans, the Mayans, the Vikings, and the Trojans are the four industrious little races you’ll be settling with. The seamless zoom function allows you to take a close-up peek as your settlers go about their daily business, or to zoom out for a bird’s-eye view of how your very own empire is coming along. Put your settling skills to the test as you gather resources, establish and manage trade routes, manufacture goods, or wage war. It’s up to you to lead your tiny settlers to victory! Are you up to the task?
Iron supplies at an end? Maybe you can get your hands on some of your neighbor’s surplus metal by trading in some of those coal reserves!
Four races with their own campaigns: the Romans, the Mayans, the Vikings, and the Trojans. Each has their own individual style in dress, weapons, alcohol, and magic!
Show off your tactical genius and steel your defenses by appointing Squad Leaders and deploying your soldiers with more precision than ever before!
For it to run on Windows 10 without DXGL. You just have to install it and run it through GoG Galaxy. The launcher will fix all the settings and files for you.
I've always held this game close to my heart when i was little. I've spent countless of hours on this game and i am still not bored of it. The atmosphere and building/planning in this game is extraordinary. That combined with charming old graphics its really a gem. Any poor potato of a PC can run this game without problem.
10/10, Would love a remaster.
I tried to run it with DXGL as some forum threads/reviews said but I still had tons of issues and the game is unplayable. The widescreen fix didn't do anything for me. The game technically runs to the main menu but at low resolution and trying to start a mission just makes the game crash anyway.
I had fond memories of the game that I wanted to revisit but as it is being sold right now, the game just doesn't work and I have no idea how much effort I'd need to put in to get it to work, if it's even possible.
The Settlers IV is a great game in which I have spent a lot of hours. I remember trying to reinstall my CD version many times with hopes that it would eventually work on my modern computer. Naturally it didn't, but I was very satisfied when I came across the game here at GOG. Sadly, the game, as it is here at GOG, is again starting to get old as the game will not work on windows OS 8 and 10. Hopefully this will be updated in the future, but don't get your hopes up.
I'll give this game 5 stars, because the game is a 5 star game. _The maintainance of the game's re-release, however, does not deserve 5 stars._
The GOG version was patched for compatibility with Windows 10. I managed to run it, yet the game lagged so hard it was unplayable. I had to use DXGL, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to play. As far as the game itself goes—unless you’re already familiar with the title you may have a hard time with it. The biggest problem I have are the combat mechanics (which lie at the core of the game). Once a specific period of time passes the AI begins to send troops to attack you. The enemy will attempt to storm your fortifications. This can be easily countered by building a lot of big towers close to each other, each fully manned by third level soldiers. There are several issues with this. First of all the enemy archers cannot shoot the archers on the towers. They just stand and get shot, since only swordsmen can storm the tower. Secondly, the AI doesn’t use siege engines which hardly makes sense and isn’t challenging. Attacking is even worse than defending. Once you capture an enemy tower (or recapture your own) the AI sends all of its troops after you, literally swarms your land with soldiers, which is ridiculous. You practically cannot command your army, only point them in desired direction. Once they see the enemies they become fixated on them, and cannot be called off. This most often results in the army being decimated since they don’t follow your orders. Among other things to mention is the fact that the game doesn’t tell about the possibility to speed up gameplay with numpad keys in the tutorial or anywhere else (only about the 1-minute time jump, which is useless anyway since it makes you vulnerable to enemy attack).
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