FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. You start with only a few colonists defying the stormy seas in their search for new land. Will you guide them on the Colonization of a New World?
The last stable version release can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/files/latest/download
The latest test pre-release of the next version can be found here:
https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol/releases
If you want to contribute to Freecol please visit our welcome information thread to see how here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/2d0063a3bc/
Features
- Play classic Colonization games
- Play new expanded Colonization games
- Huge 8 player games (plus even more players with mods)
- Multiplayer support
- More European nations to choose from (plus even more with mods)
- More native tribes to meet (plus even more with mods)
- Huge maps of America, Africa, Australia, and many more!
- Map Editor to create your own maps to share
- Easily modifiable for custom graphics & gameplay changes
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I really like this and pretty good overall
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i love this game. maybe add slavary.
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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!
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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 ...)