The Sid Meiers Civilization IV game re-imagined

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a re-imagining of Civ IV where you are placed in the new world and have to colonize it while competing with people from different races. Build your technology, expand your civilization and conquer the new world.

Build cities and forts to dominate the new world

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is part of the Civilization saga, and features a world where you progress through the European colonization of the new world. Build cities, research your way through history’s technology, develop your land, and crush your enemies. It starts with a historically accurate setting, but races, technology, and city locations are dictated by the actions of the player and the computer opponents. In other words, you may create an America with the Native Americans or Spanish rule every scrap of land. Sidenote – Check before buying, but unlike other games with semi-colons in their name, there is no need to buy the original Civilization IV in order to play Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization. Colonization is a re-imagining of Civilization and not an add-on or DLC.

The almost perfect civilization-building game

Sid Meier has been making Civilization games since 1991, and he has become very good at it. After over 200 hours of play, the flaw that will eventually scare you away is that you cannot bottleneck your enemies. They are going to creep over your boarders and muck up the territory, fixtures and fittings you just spent hour developing. Oddly enough, the underrated 2016 game Master Of Orion solved this problem by making a Civilization game in space where things such as farms, roads, workshops, and all the rest cannot be built outside of a planet; planets in MOO are the same as cities in Civ. After hours of turning your land into the most productive area possible, it is annoying to see a single unit crawl over and start destroying it.

  • Pros

    • A brilliantly conceived city and civilization-building game
    • Limited technology forces you to play diplomatically
  • Cons

    • Some gamers will find progression much too slow
    • The longer the game
    • the longer the lag between turns
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App specs

  • License

    Full

  • Version

    3.18

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Mac

  • Language

    English

    Available languages

    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
  • Downloads

    533

    Last month's downloads

    • 13
  • Developer

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