FreeCol Reviews

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I live this game since 2014, and I´m glad to see the game still fun. Would be interesting play as the natives.

Let's start with the obvious. This NEEDS a tutorial, I spent hours just trying to figure out the the basics of playing (getting lumber etc). Next, TAXATION. I tried... I really did. I never made it past the 16th-century without being forced to declare independence by ridiculous tax increases. It's like Gandhi from Civ on steroids, and there's NO WAY to turn it off. Even at the EASIEST level, you WILL get taxed into oblivion or forced to try for independence about 2 centuries too early (seriously, did any of you guys go to history class?). As an example, in the last game I will ever play of this, I hadn't sold anything to Europe, just went back and picked up immigrants. By 1590, my tax rate was 32% and I couldn't trade furs, coats, tools or weapons. Couldn't get the customs house either, since that's tied to a founding father I didn't have yet. This thing was just pure frustration. I think the only enjoyable thing about it will be ripping it out of my system.

I really like this and pretty good overall

i love this game. maybe add slavary.

A simple, but very playable open source remake of the brilliant Sid Meier's Colonization. Many thanks to the developers for continously making it better to play!

Odd, I bought Sid Meyers 5 after learning this, and find I like Freecol a lot better. It's still difficult for me, and yes it takes time. Turning off the feature that animates what other nations are doing each turn speeds things up a bit, but as the game goes on and there are more in each nation to animate it still takes a while. Love the game, would like to see continued development. Disappointed to minor extent that the latest (11.06?) version doesn't continue to allow new members of Congress until candidate run out, would love to see some history changers available (earn irrefutable support from Indian tribes by recapturing their land and returning it to them after foreign countries have reduced it? Perhaps establish permanent diplomatic relations with the other countries, including trade routes? I don't know, but should be possibilities ...)

it's the best strategy game that i have played. i play it since 2014

Always loved the classic Sid Meier's Colonization game, and FreeCol takes it to a whole new level, with a great system for modding, you it's easy to expand the game to try different nations and functionality. Endless hours of fun!

When new version Freecol?

Ok So I Just Downloaded Free Colonization And All I Can Do Is Move My Ship Around, How Do I Unload And Load People Off My Ship? Also How Do I Start A New Colony, There Was No Information With The Game On How To Do Anything.

Great Revitalisation of Colonization. keep it up!

Amazing

looks + feels 20 years old way to frreakin slow to get going and annoying to try and play. dunno why the hell this even has sound its JUST SEAGULLS THE WHOLE FRIGGIN TIME LMAO :D AND YOU CANT EVEN LOWER THAT SOUND IN THE FRIGGIN OPTIONS MENU ROFL :D WTF is with that s*** man and how many years has this s*** been in development dude the hell is this s*** man f***in crazy might as well just play civ, this is not fun imo at least the controls in civ make sense ya know :D

Awesome game! By the way... is there any chance to go on android? Because I really think it will top over most of the strategy games for mobile platforms.

Fantastic game--play it for hours on end! Quite addicting!

Huge fan of the project, but a lot has to be done to smooth out the oh so rough edges, especially when it comes to Mac.

Great game. I can't fix damaged artillery..

Great game, addictive even. Just wish the map was larger. Also, neither the Spanish nor Russian translations are complete, but it's still a lot of fun in any language

It's cool, but not enough. The help items (each third) are not responding to clicks, and the map behaviour in non-fullscreen sometimes is f*dup. And make the trade routes thing more user friendly, 'cause even after reading the manual I can't get it, if I want for ex. only brin ore from one colony to another - I can't

OKEY :D hi all contact me for multi player :D i wanna play whit non Al ppl :l

Great game... but, extremely slow as in it takes a week to complete one game on the easiest level. The refresh rate along with the player response to the UI is very slow... Nonetheless, quite addictive once you get the hang of it

Just amazing. Powerful, fast, easy to use, and from what I can tell, a surprisingly small footprint

Wow!!Thank you for this project! Most of all I like Civilization-like games!

Hello, The website freecol.org seems not available, someone know something about that, is it the end of freecol ?