After 20 years of working, a big step has been made: The developers of FreeCol have released the version 1.0.0 of their free Colonization remake! The big release includes updated forest graphics, better AI, adjustments to make it closer to the original Colonization, and more!
This new release has also been covered by PCGamesN.
TurnBasedLovers have taken again a look at one of our beloved classics, Alpha Centauri, and have written now 23 years after its release another review.
They praise the philosophical depth of the story and the versatility of the overall gameplay with all its choices. And as expected, from today’s point of view (and also back at the time) the graphics are the biggest drawback, and in the meantime also the interface.
If you want to read the full review, click here: TurnBasedLovers: Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – Review, and come over to this thread to discuss with us.
Soren Johnson’s talk from the GDC of 2022 has now been released on Youtube.
He talks obviously about Old World, about Civilization and how Old World is similar and different, and about issues of the 4X genre in general.
He also talks about the decision to include characters and a kind of story into the game.
Source: Twitter.
If you want to talk with us about this video, then join us in this thread here.
We wish everyone a devotional and nuke-free Christmas :).
(Credits to Gedemon and Stable Diffusion for the picture)
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, bugfixes, 2 new events, a new map of the Roman Empire and a donut map script. Discuss this update with us here.
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
TurnBasedLovers has released a new article, “Top 10 EXCITING Turn-Based Games to play in 2023!”. The list features upcoming games for the next year (obviously). The most interesting game for the Civ community is “Ara: History Untold“, but also Mahokenshi, Songs of Conquest (already in early access) or Alliance of the Sacred Suns should be interesting for us.
For the whole article please click here, and to discuss with us please click here.
Firaxis has today released the leader cards for the 2nd pack of the Civ6 Leader Pass: The Great Commanders. One of the cards you can see above, for the rest please visit this thread.
