Video game · 2003
FreeCol
Released 2 January 2003 on PC, Mac, Linux and Java virtual machine
- Genre
- Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Themes
- 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
About FreeCol
FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of Sid Meier's Colonization. FreeCol is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v2. FreeCol is mostly programmed in Java and should thus be platform-independent.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| Java virtual machine | 2 January 2003 |
|---|---|
| Linux | 2 January 2003 |
| Mac | 2 January 2003 |
| PC | 2 January 2003 |
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