The Settlers

[McKracken]

#4517

Hey,

I’d like to suggest the “The Settlers” series. “The Settlers” was released in 1993, “The Settlers 2” in 1996.

I mainly played “The Settlers 2” at the time and it was the very first, real-time city-building / economics game for me. It had great, cute graphics and animations for the time and it was super fun building up your own little economy while avoiding to get overrun by your enemies.

Settlers 1 and 2 were released for MS-DOS. The full series consists now of eight or nine games.

Heres a link to mobygames.com:
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/settlers-series

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[rnlf]

#4530

He, I remember playing Settlers 2 with a friend and two mice on one PC. It was blowing my mind to find out that would work!

[McKracken]

#4533

Didn’t know that was possible in Settlers 2. I always played alone.

How did that work though? Was it a split screen game? Must have been weird with the low resolution at the time.

[rnlf]

#4534

Yep! Vertically split screen. Resolution wasn’t too bad, settlers supported at least 640×480, maybe even more, I don’t remember exactly.

[Da9]

#5744

I support this suggestion. Played Settlers 2 as a kid and still do. I recommend taking a look at http://www.siedler25.org so that you can adjust to a bigger resolution and even play online and keep the whole screen for yourself.
Love this game

[secretchief]

#5777

Settlers 1 had amazing gameplay music!

[pointer]

#5786

Settlers 1 seems quaint now, but its “economic dependency tree” was really exceptional back then.

It was also very fun and satisfying to observe the little people perform activities specific to their role as they transformed resources into useful products.

Settlers 2 then improved on pretty much all aspects.

[Evil Taco]

#6258

Settlers 1 also had that split-screen multiplayer and I played that with a friend, it was pretty special!

[killershrew]

#7137

Yes. I am shocked The Settlers hasnt been played yet! We need to butcher those little piggies!

[fastwinstondoom]

#7403

Here’s another bump for Settlers, preferably the second game. Some people prefer the third game, there might be some real old school dudes that swear by the first… but to me Settlers II is the when the series peaked!

[Cas]

#7658

Hey! I would really love to see this one discussed in the podcast! I just posted a suggestion for it and didn’t realise it was already here!

[fastwinstondoom]

#7786

Give us Settlers! Give us Settlers! Woooh! Wooooh!

[nevice]

#8587

Another necro/bump for the Settlers! I actually recent re-played the 10th anniversary edition of Settlers 2, which is quite a nice remake. I remember buying the Gold Edition of Settlers 2 in the 90s, it had a pretty neat cut-out on the box art.

[Laura B]

#8694

Oh…
What the days were those!

[DosDude]

#8873

One of my favorite games ever! But so slow sometimes.

[McKracken]

#8893

Already three years since my original post and suggestion. Still would like to play this game again and listen to a podcast Episode from you guys.

[bedivere]

#9028

I played settlers 1 (or sometimes called serf city?) I played it with a friend, splitscreen on 320×200 (?). I have no idea how we managed to get anything done in this tiny screens.
Best city builder. It looks cute and child friendly. But the only goal is to exploid all the resources, build up an economy with mindless slaves and build a huge war mashine to exterminate all of your opponents.