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It's a human ant colony!

The Settlers 4: Gold Edition, a charming civilization-building strategy classic true to its roots and full of micro-managing goodness, is available on GOG.com for only $9.99.

Looking at an anthill one can't help to admire the excellent workflow managment the little insects so effortlessly achieve. Something that's entirely out of reach for any human corporation, community, nor army comes absolutely natural to them. Every ant seems to know its exact place in the big scheme and in any given moment it does exactly what it's supposed to be doing. Now imagine, that it's not an anthill you're looking at, but a human settlement, and it's not the insect hive mind in control but you. Kind of makes you drunk with power, right? Well snap out of it, cause the ominous Dark Tribe is coming to obliterate everything that's good in your realm and it's up to you to lead the Romans, Mayans, Vikings, and Trojans in the struggle against the invader.

The Settlers 4: Gold Edition is everything you would expect from a Settlers game and more! The brilliant mechanics of managing and expanding your settlements by the hands of little virtual villagers are still there, as enjoyable as ever. This time, however, the game comes with a number of useful tweaks such as a seamless zoom feature giving you better overview of your realm. This installment offers higher resolution support so that game can be more detailed than ever. The Gold Edition comes with two expansions: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power, adding another playable nation and its campaign, and a Mission CD with a great selection of scenarios and a random map generator. With this edition, there can be no end to your fun with your tiny obedient subjects.

If you like the Settlers series you simply can't miss this title. If you're not familiar with it, The Settlers 4: Gold Edition is a perfect entry point to the Settlers universe, available for only $9.99 on GOG.com.
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Alfie3000: I should probably insta-buy this.

But does the multiplayer still work? Says single-player on the gamecard.
You can play multiplayer over LAN as the official servers are down.
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JudasIscariot: You can play multiplayer over LAN as the official servers are down.
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F4LL0UT: In that case the card should list multi-player as well, shouldn't it?
I don't know should it? :D

I mean, editing a game card involves a lot of work... I might have to use ancient esoteric HTML code to do this kind of major edit...


(in all seriousness, it's been changed :D)
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Tranquil.Suit: Full list of Add-ons and Expansions of The Settlers IV:

Add-on: The Settlers IV Mission CD
Expansion: The Settlers IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power
Add-on: Die Siedler IV: Die Neue Welt (The Settlers IV: The New World - only German language)
Add-on: Die Siedler IV: Große Feldzüge (The Settlers IV: Community Pack - only German language)


HINT HINT
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keeveek: They did it again? Why on earth Settlers games have expansions only in foreign languages... Settlers 2 10th anniversary also had an expansion but it was released only in Polish and Russian, or something like that.
I am no expert but maybe those countries were the best markets for expansions? Money would be the logical explanation, in my humble opinion.
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JudasIscariot: I am no expert but maybe those countries were the best markets for expansions? Money would be the logical explanation, in my humble opinion.
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Wishbone: I would think that the one language you'd be able to sell the most expansions for would be English. But then my perception is probably skewed by the fact that I'm Scandinavian.
Language alone might not make the difference. There's the genre to take into consideration. For example, look how popular adventure games are in Germany or how popular the original Fallouts are in Russia. Those are just some of the factors that could possibly account for why some countries get expansions and others don't. Again, I am just speaking from basic observation so I could be totally wrong :D.