A fan reverse-engineering project has disassembled Sid Meier’s Colonization for Windows and started patching the original game — including the river and coastline water animation MicroProse never finished, 30+ years on — plus a modern-OS runtime, documentation, asset tools and rescued fan maps.
Edgar Arakelyan’s OpenCiv3 plugin lets AI agents compete, negotiate, and play alongside humans—with live viewing, replays, and two AI commentators.
Civilization VII’s new 1.5.0 hotfix focuses on stability, late-game crashes, missing Treasure and Factory Resources, multiplayer softlocks, and several True Start Location Earth issues. Switch versions are coming later.
A little detour from Civilization 🚂 I’ve been building Wonder Rails, a cozy model railway you can watch, ride, or drive in your browser. The first world is free – no download or account needed.
Happy Civtember, everyone! Sid Meier’s Civilization turns 35 this month. The first game came out in September 1991, and we’ve all been saying “just one more turn” ever since. To celebrate, we made a short video that covers the entire series, from a single settler in 4000 BC to Civilization VII, in about two minutes. This is an… Read More »
A fan project called WonderForge has rebuilt Civ6’s wonder construction movies as longer, scrubbable films — four are done, six more are in production, and the source is open under the MIT licence.
Firaxis has detailed Civilization VII’s upcoming True Start Location Earth map: a Huge, hand-crafted world map with historical starts, navigable rivers, hand-placed resources, and random Natural Wonders. It arrives in free Update 1.5.0 during the week of September 14.
Partner content. A guest article from our sponsor, World History Encyclopedia — written by its founder & chairman, Jan van der Crabben, known on CivFanatics as thamis (creator of The Ancient Mediterranean mod). Without these four 30-year-old diskettes containing Civilization I, World History Encyclopedia would probably not exist. Thousands of schools would be missing a trustworthy and free… Read More »
