Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1
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·November 22, 2025YoukaiCountry
I absolutely loved The Settlers 1 and 2 as a kid. I feel like they are responsible for a fascination with distribution logistics that carried into adulthood.
By the way, there is also an open source clone of these games that is very well done: https://www.widelands.org/
jamesu
The Settlers 2 was one of my favorite games growing up - really felt like they polished up the mechanics of the first game and made the UI more tolerable. If anyone is looking for a more modern 3d equivalent but in a slightly different setting, I'd recommend The Colonists.
simonjgreen
Well that’s quite exciting :)
I sank a non-trivial amount of time in my younger years in to both Settlers and Settlers 2. I’m hoping now that it’s not rose tinted memories!
peepee1982
I think my kids might love this. I certainly loved the original as a kid. Not even the second or third installment. The first one has always been my favorite, because it was so god damn punk rock simple.
Currybongos
>I think my kids might love this. I certainly loved the original as a kid.
Right. A sentiment one too often stumbles upon on this site: "I loved my nerdy tinkering indoors so my kids must have their own Linux box by the age of 5" (instead of playing outside)
saubeidl
There's also Widelands [0], which is basically an open source Settlers II with extra features.
ensocode
Anyone runs this on linux?
There is also a modern continuation from the original Creator, called "Pioneers of Pagonia"[1]. It's Early Access at the moment, but v1.0 is planned for release in some weeks (11.12.2025). And so far it looks promising, seems to be a pretty good game for Settler-Fans. As I remember, it's a reaction on the catastrophic fail of the latest official Setter-Game, which is not with Ubisoft, so I guess serving the old fans is one of the goal.
[1] https://pioneersofpagonia.com