The ultimate objective is to become powerful enough to declare your independence from Europe. Will you become their friends, learn new skills and trade with them? Or attack their villages and take what they have by force? It's your call. War can't be too far away.Īnd then there are the native Americans. Other European powers are building colonies of their own, expanding their borders and becoming all too powerful. And there's another complication: you're not alone. There are cities to build and manage, and new technologies to learn. You'll need to earn money by producing goods and sending them back to Europe. You lead a tiny band of settlers who've just arrived in America, with just one goal: to make the country your own. The game is released under GPL license and ready to download at the website.FreeCol is an open source clone of Sid Meier's excellent turn-based strategy game, Colonization. Victory in the revolutionary war means winning the game.įreeCol is a turn-based strategy game written in Java, so it is available for every major platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). He or she will have to take care to build up resources and population so that the colony will be strong enough to The player will have to declare independence and fight off the armies of the mother country. The object of the game is to colonize the New World, survive and grow strong enough to declare independence from the European mother country.Įventually the player were come into contact with colonies from other European countries, he or she can either opt for diplomacy and try to make trade agreements or go to war in hopes of conquering the other colonies.

The game starts in 1492 with the player being provided with a ship and two colonists.

The first version was a clone of the old game, but work is being done to provide enhancements to make game-play more interesting and complex.

FreeCol is a project being undertaken to create an open source version of the 1994 Microprose Game Colonization.

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