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Multiplayer notice: The game's multiplayer servers have been taken offline, however, multiplayer over LAN is still available.
Multiplayer notice: The game's multiplayer servers have been taken offline, however, multiplayer over LAN is still available.
Posted on: October 24, 2022
AdmiralsJack
Verified ownerGames: 16 Reviews: 1
Sadly not working on win10
Worked well on my windows 7 laptop but after the update to windows 10 it stopped working
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Posted on: June 28, 2024
EdouardIV
Verified ownerGames: 97 Reviews: 1
Still Lots of Play Value in This One
I bought this when it first came out, and re-purchased the game on Gog to avoid having to hunt for the CD every time I played it. Years later, it remains a favorite. I tend to cycle through games, playing the best intensively for a couple weeks and then moving to another. The Settlers IV is always in the rotation. Even today, a well-designed game with 2d graphics and a small set of resources can be very addictive--and just watching the little characters carrying out their tasks can be entertaining! The maps (see below) vary greatly in difficulty. Some let you focus on building up a strong settlement (or several outposts); others require you to fortify as quickly as possible. Some games are over after a couple hours; others take days. My preference is for a build-before-fighting long game, but with over 2000 maps available, it's possible to find whatever balance you prefer. Ah yes--the maps. The built-in maps are OK, but the treasures are to be found in the Settlers mapbase at https://www.siedler-maps.de/s4maps/. There are over 400 pages of maps available for download there, and it's that mapbase that keeps the game fresh. Over the years, many users have complained here and in the forums about problems with running the game under Win 10 & 11. As TerraTi suggested years ago, search for DXGL settler 4 OR elishacloud/dxwrapper on github for an easy fix. I'm playing it with Win11 and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 card and running it at its max resolution (1280x1024), with the landscape engine set on hardware and texture quality on high. The game is running with no problems, and all the characters that should be selectable (pioneers, geologists, thieves, etc.) can be selected with no issues. I'm not using any compatibility settings. To those who cannot get it to run--the zipped package you download from github has 3 files. These need to go into the directory that has the S4_Main.exe program, not the directory with S4.exe. That may be the source of the problem.
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Posted on: August 23, 2024
Ian_Drakes
Verified ownerGames: 25 Reviews: 2
Settlers 4: Gol d edition
For a 20 year old game it is still huge fun to play and with the thousands of maps written by enthusiastic fans it never gets old!! Just brilliant!!
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Posted on: August 26, 2024
anthonychar
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
me
i love this game it brings me back to my younger years when i had no worries in the world. i use to come home from school and no matter how good or bad my day was i would switch on this game and just forget everything. that was 30 years ago, now i have a mortgae, kids, wife, work and i feel more stressed than anytime in my life. i switch on this game now and play for a few hours every month and just reminisce of when i use to first play this game long ago almost wishing i could go back and be a kid forever
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Posted on: February 4, 2025
DrRevert
Verified ownerGames: 331 Reviews: 2
Multiple islands missions are a pain
For most part the game is solid, except when water transport get introduced, because then game becomes a lottery when (not if) it will crash. Whatever you do do not allow your transport ship to ever get destroyed, it will permamently stop the trading and any attempt to pause/resume, rebuilding an harbour will result in 100% crash.
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