Sid Meier's Colonization

Colonization
Sid Meier's Colonization	1994
FreeCol (unofficial)	2003
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization	2008

Warnings

The Windows 3.x release of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).

Sid Meier's Colonization is a singleplayer top-down view 4X and TBS game in the Colonization series.

General information

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Availability

System	Location
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)
Windows	<path-to-game>\MPS\COLONIZE^{[Note 1]}<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 2]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 2]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

System	Location
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)
Windows	<path-to-game>\MPS\COLONIZE\COLONY0.SAV^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)*^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 2]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Windows 3.x version is always windowed. Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` for DOSBox.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
WinG		^[5]
DOS video modes	VGA

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

Developers

	MPS Labs
Publishers
Retail	MicroProse
Digital (original)	Night Dive Studios
Digital (original)	Retroism
Digital (current)	Atari
Release dates
DOS	1994
Windows 3.x	May 24, 1995
Mac OS (Classic)	1995
Windows (DOSBox)	May 30, 2012
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	January 24, 2013^[1]
Linux (DOSBox)	July 24, 2014^[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	4X, TBS
Themes	Historical, Europe, North America, South America
Series	Colonization