FreeCol
Turn-based strategy game modelled on Colonization, in Java.
Rewrite Human-led releasedFacts
- Original
- Sid Meier's Colonization (1994)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2017, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- FreeCol
- Started
- 2017-08
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt by FreeCol. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction
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