It's a different game, but it seems to be in the same genre. The blurb even describes it as "similar to Civilization". It's reasonable to ask for two games in t

It's a different game, but it seems to be in the same genre. The blurb even describes it as "similar to Civilization". It's reasonable to ask for two games in the same genre, and with the primary description of one as being similar to the main influence for another, "what are the differences? Why would I want to play this game over that game?" To answer that, you can click through to the "About" page (http://www.freecol.org/about.html http://www.freecol.org/about.html), which spends most of its time answering exactly this question (which demonstrates that this is a reasonable question to ask): In Civilization the objective was to build a nation that could stand the test of times and that could also do one of the following: conquer the world or be the first to launch a spaceship. In Colonization things are bit different ... A Colonization game starts in 1492 and the objective is to colonize America. You begin the game with one vessel and two colonists.