As a final challenge to a FreeCol game, you will need to stave off your nation's expeditionary forces and prevent it from conquering all of your port cities.

Slowly, you will need to balance the act of becoming self-sufficient, while further instilling the sentiment of liberty into the hearts of your subjects.Īs you play, your European root country will begin tightening its control over you by increasing your taxes and growing its expeditionary force. Conversely, local tribes can also reward you goods and training if you provide them with novel things. Europe is your initial source for tradesmen, horses and, weapons as well as being the engine the grows your colonies.

You will have to orient yourself and produce the type of goods that your nation would pay handsomely. Once you begin a game, you will soon realize that your would-be-nation is helpless without further goods, people, and expertise from beyond the ocean. The fact that you start with a ship that can traverse the Atlantic and that you can deal in goods that are valued either by your friendly local natives or by mother Europe makes you experience being a part of an extended game world. However, there are many differences which make FreeCol a different game. The gameplay in FreeCol is very similar to other Civilization games regarding unit movement, natural resource distribution and functionality of cities. You win in FreeCol by defying Europe, claiming independence and proving it on the field of battle.

Here, instead of being a fledgling new culture, you will be haunted by the shadow of your home nation. The game of Colonization is a theme spinoff of Civilization. Borrowing almost everything from the 1994 classic Sid Meier's Colonization, FreeCol puts you in control of a settler ship which can become the seed of a new nation or the mistake of the century. Be that as it may, FreeCol is thoroughly playable. FreeCol is one of those open source game projects that seem to be in a perpetual development state.

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