Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) is a simulation, adventure and turn-based strategy game developed by MicroProse Software and Inc and published by Atari and Nightdive Studios.
Released on October 09th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 4 languages: English, French, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 987 reviews of which 945 were positive and 42 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9 out of 10. šŸ˜

The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7
  • Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 100% DirectX compatible graphics
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
  • Sound Card: 100% DirectX compatible card or onboard sound
MacOS
  • OS: OS X Leopard 10.7
  • Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
  • Memory: 256 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 3D graphics card or onboard graphics compatible with OpenGL
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: 100% CoreAudio compatible card or onboard sound
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 100% OpenGL accelerated card or onboard graphics
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Any ALSA supported card on onboard audio

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Feb. 2025
It's so remarkable how such an old game with so simple mechanics stood tbe test of time. I come back to this game quite often to play. Usually when I'm fed up in more modern civ builder games of their overcomplex mechanics and attempts to mirror real life. Colonization is simple, has depth, you understand at all times exactly how you're doing and is just SO MUCH FUN!
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Feb. 2025
They say you can't go home again. But playing this after nearly 30 years from when I originally booted it up in DOS on our first 386 PC, hearing the MIDI soundtrack that will live rent free in my brain forever, and happily exploiting the New World without the slightest pretense of morality or not committing crimes against humanity or ignoring slavery....this felt pretty close to coming home. As basic as the experience ultimately becomes, as broken and cheating as the AI can be, this game is foundational for a whole genre of 4x and did survival strategy and trading games well before Banished or Anno. I wouldn't really recommend this to anyone that doesn't already have fnd memories of it, but this DOSbox version---though not perfect---runs pretty well. I probably won't return to it for another decade, but it sure was a good reunion.
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Jan. 2025
One of the greatest games of all time. You can pick it up for free as abandonware, and it would be amazing if the dev would release the source code so we could fix the few problems it does have, but this is seriously one of the most fun strategy games ever made.
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Dec. 2024
Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but I still really enjoy this game. I loved Civ II when I was young and discovered this at a friend's house and we would stay up all night building our colonies. Much less combat focused than Civilization, you instead focus on trade and building cities. It gets somewhat tedious when you have a machine going, as it was mostly me trying to remember where all my wagon trains were supposed to go with different resources so my manufacturing towns had enough supplies. It's extremely euro-centric, which is what you would expect in a game named Colonization but the depiction of Native Americans isn't as terrible as I would have expected in a game of this age.
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Aug. 2024
I was about 20 when this game came out and I am 51 now. The gameplay has stood the test of time, Easy to while away the hours pressing your matters in the new world.
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Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
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945
42
Online players
130
Developer
MicroProse Software, Inc
Publisher
Atari, Nightdive Studios
Release 09 Oct 2014
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