The Settlers
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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
rnlfKeymaster
Podcaster
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!
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.
rnlfKeymaster
Podcaster
Yep! Vertically split screen. Resolution wasn’t too bad, settlers supported at least 640×480, maybe even more, I don’t remember exactly.
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
Settlers 1 had amazing gameplay music!
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.
Settlers 1 also had that split-screen multiplayer and I played that with a friend, it was pretty special!
Yes. I am shocked The Settlers hasnt been played yet! We need to butcher those little piggies!
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!
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!
Give us Settlers! Give us Settlers! Woooh! Wooooh!
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.
Oh…
What the days were those!
One of my favorite games ever! But so slow sometimes.
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.
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.
Don’t mind me, just putting Settlers back on top where it belongs!
Absolutely loved Settlers II as a kid, and still enjoy it a lot as an adult although it gets very slow and you can get soft-locked sometimes. Still would be great to play and discuss in the club. Would be good to hear some tips and stuff!
I’m curious about the other entries in the series. Is the original as fun? Do any later ones recapture that magic? I can’t say I was a big fan of the graphics in the later ones, although we had the 10th Anniversary edition and played that a bit.
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