The Settlers (1993) was a popular city-building real-time strategy game, originally released in the twilight years of the Amiga’s reign as the king of home computers. Perhaps understandably, then, when the sequel was being prepared to be published, the Amiga was overlooked. The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici saw a PC/DOS-only launch in 1996. Now this historic ‘wrong’ – from the dedicated Amigan point of view - has been righted, with The Settlers 2 Gold Edition being primed for release by German dev team Look Behind You (h/t Golem.de) (machine translation). The release comes 32 years after the original, and 29 years after the sequel’s DOS debut.
Some assert that the original Settlers pioneered the city-building real-time strategy game genre. Indeed, at the time, many great RTS treasures seemed to have popped up. Notably, Dune II from Westwood Studios (which went on to release the Command & Conquer series), was another twilight highlight of the Amiga titles. Also worth mentioning are Mega-lo-Mania, Syndicate, and Powermonger.
