# Sid Meier's Colonization

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Sid Meier's Colonization and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Replayable strategy game in the Civilization mold, recommended by players who keep returning to it. Critics note the remake and open-source versions lost its memorable quotes.

## Why people recommend it

- Highly replayable (1 comments): "Colonization is super replayable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058058))
- Played alongside Civ games (1 comments): "I played a lot of Civ1, Colonization and Civ 2." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564093))
- Similar to Civ, quite good (1 comments): "similar with colonization, first one was quite good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022031))

## What people warn about

- Remake and open source lost quotes (1 comments): "I was really disappointed when the both the remake and the open source versions lost those memorable quotes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058836))
- Mouse edge causes graphics glitches (1 comments): "you were not allowed to move the mouse beyond the right edge of the screen or the graphics messed up" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223569))
- Too focused on the revolution (1 comments): "Colonization had a similar problem as pirates had in that it was too focused on the revolution" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385261))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Battle for Wesnoth](https://hackerapproved.com/p/battle-for-wesnoth.md): 39 recommend
- [Sid Meier's Civilization](https://hackerapproved.com/p/civilization.md): 25 recommend
- [Sid Meier's Civilization III](https://hackerapproved.com/p/civilization-iii.md): 20 recommend
- [Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri](https://hackerapproved.com/p/alpha-centauri.md): 16 recommend
- [Heroes of Might and Magic III](https://hackerapproved.com/p/heroes-of-might-and-magic-iii.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sid Meier's Colonization", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sid-meier-s-colonization/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).