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The goal of the game is to build a pros-perous, well-organized city and gain control of the enemy cities. This sounds simple to do, but in reality it is com-plex. If you consider all the game's challenges inversely, that is from the end of the game first, you may better understand the game. Serf City: Life is Feudal is a RTS title from blue byte studios. The stand out aspect of the title was its slow, almost peaceful pace. The game featured very little combat and focused on setting up and establishing a thriving settlement.

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1. Serf City: Life is Feudal

• In SERF CITY: LIFE IS FEUDAL! The player is cast as the leader of a serfdom and its many serfs. There are 21 occupations for the serfs to fill and 24 types of buildings they can construct and occupy. The business of the game is organizing the possible serf trades and their buildings into a prosperous and growing serfdom.
• Serf City: Life is Feudal (a.k.a. The Settlers) is an old abandoware DOS game. Download and play game for free. You can play this game using DOSBox utility.

Serf City: Life is Feudal

DOS - 1995

Also available on: Amiga

Description of Serf City: Life is Feudal

A great start to a great series, The Settlers (published by SSI in the USA as Serf City) is a fun micromanagement game that is based on a tried-and-true 4X idea, but executed in an innovative way: by letting you control the smallest units possible in a game.

Similar to Populous, The Settlers lets you control little computer people and lead them to control the entire world. You do this by giving one of 21 possible occupations to each of your 'serfs,' and building 24 types of buildings. One of the best things about the game, and one of the first things you will notice, is the great cartoony animations of all the units. You will spend a lot more time looking at the various serfs as they go about their business than concentrating on the game ;) They are bigger than Populous people, which makes them more detailed and easier to notice the various jobs - especially in SVGA mode.

The second best thing in my opinion is the wonderful interplay of various variables in the game, which combine to create a fun and reasonably realistic economic model that is far from boring. As William Criswell said in his (too harsh) review of the game for Game Bytes, '..Probably the best way to describe gameplay is to walk through one of the production systems. Keep in mind that what I describe happening is animated and actually happens in real Serf City time, i.e., buildings are constructed by a serf they do not just appear on the screen when ready.

A good point to start with is the lumberjack. Your serfs need wood to construct new buildings and tools and it is your lumberjacks' job to provide it. The lumberjack roams the countryside until he finds a suitable tree. He then proceeds to chop it down, removes the limbs and carries it back to his hut. At the hut a transporter (this type of serf is responsible for transporting all merchandise between buildings) picks up the log and takes it to the sawmill where another serf cuts the log into lumber. The lumber is picked up by another transporter and depending on the current demand for wood takes it either to a building construction site where a construction serf uses it or to the toolmaker. Or it might be stored in the castle or a warehouse.

Other systems involve mining, food production, gold production, tool making and weapon making. All the systems are interdependent in some way and keeping all these systems flowing smoothly is the heart of the game and proves to be very addictive and challenging. If you fail to keep good control of these systems your roads quickly become clogged with merchandise thus slowing delivery of everything down.

Although you are given various methods of controlling supply and demand of merchandise it is only to a certain degree. Contrary to what the game manual states, you are not omnipotent. For example, if you decide that for the moment you have plenty of wood you can not instruct you lumberjacks to cease cutting down trees. If you want them to immediately stop the only choice you have is to demolish their huts which sends them back to the castle to wait for reemployment. Of course, this means you have to rebuild their huts when their services are needed again. This is definitely not an efficient or easy way of dealing with wood production. This method of production management does not apply to all the trades but to enough of them to be irritating. Control of individual buildings should have been included to allow finer control of production.

In addition to keeping your serfdom running smoothly the player also needs to build his or her military. The military is used to expand your borders, either by the taking of unclaimed land or the capture of enemy buildings, and to defend your serfdom. The military consists solely of variously ranked knights (advanced rank is achieved through training). Knights can only attack enemy military buildings, castles and knights. Civilian serfs can not be attacked but if a serf's building is located in territory lost to an enemy the building is immediately burned down and the serf returns to his castle. Combat is strictly knight versus knight and all knights carry only sword and shield. The only factors affecting combat are rank and morale (which is largely based on the amount of gold the knights' serfdom possesses). Warlords this is not.'

Simplistic combat mechanics and weak military aspect in general make The Settlers too easy, especially because the AI is quite bad. Once you master the economics of your own empire, it is only a matter of time before you can conquer the other tribes and win the game. The game does include a two-player mode, but it is only playable via an awkward split-screen interface - no modem support here. There is a number of 'missions' to choose from, although they are simply preset games.

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Despite a weak AI and far too simple combat mechanics, The Settlers deserves our Top Dog tag because building your economy is so much fun. Think of the the game more as an extended version of a 'software toy' like SimCity rather than a challenging strategy masterpiece like Civilization, and you will have a great time. Two thumbs up!

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Comments and reviews

Tofu2020-08-020 point

This and Warlords were probably my two favorite games growing up. What I'd do to get the ol' Amiga back up and running..
Settlers IV was the only sequel I tried, but it didn't have the same magic for me. Warlords III on the other hand was a timeless masterpiece.

EvilBill2019-12-09-1 point

Can i do this with Mac? or am i simple. uh huhuhuh

HAIRY2018-01-130 point Amiga version Chandramukhi doordarshan serial cast.

this was brilliant - please re release it

Guppy2018-01-080 point DOS version

I have this game on CD, the first time in my life I bough a game on CD.
Good old days, no matter how many years passed, I just always like to play again a bit, with the first Settlers.
One of my all time favourite game.

Carillogeddon2016-10-101 point

RUSS: You can't just play DOS-games natively on a modern pc with modern Windows. Use DOSBox. D-Fend Reloaded is a great version with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

RUSS2016-05-31-2 points

MY COMPUTER WONT INSTALL THESE GAMES ANYTHING I CAN DO?

Loni.Chou2016-03-042 points

OMG!!! It's one of my favorites! I bought it two or tree times, because the disk problem. It's really classic, I become a little fan of The Settlers series until The Settlers V, I love city building and resources management, I love plan where to place a farm, a mill, a baker shop, then watch they working and product goods. I like to see geologist hit the mountains and hail.
But The Settlers V bring the Hero come, cause this game-mode of RTS were popular at those years, and I don't like it. Although, I still try to play The Settlers VI and VII, VI is fine but hard to win for me, VII is nightmare.

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Kyle2015-12-222 points

This game was a amazing memory. Played it over and over 1.5-2 decades ago. Please come back.

mon402015-08-02-1 point DOS version

the nice thing is they have made settlers for years up to settlers 7. Now you can play online too.

t-pi2014-06-040 point DOS version

serf city.. is it really abandonware? and not ubisoft

Tornado2013-11-230 point DOS version

Thanks.

glibly2013-07-311 point DOS version

I'm programming a re-make of Serf City - Life is Feudal..
Just search for 'Bits Serf' or have a look on my website 'gliblybits.de' (for english version scroll down and click on 'In English')

James Toon2013-06-220 point DOS version

Please make a updated version of this game. This would be a best selling app.

markegiani2013-04-101 point DOS version

Beautiful game. Spent months of building with these cute little villagers. Never seen such a game like that since.

Shyne2013-02-221 point DOS version

I love dis game where u Been all my life played when i was young and been looking for it every since thanks make a updated 3D version please

Zeljko2012-12-121 point DOS version

Fantastic game.. and good memories ;)

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DOS Version

Amiga ROM

• Year:1993
• Publisher:Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG
• Developer:Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG

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The Settlers (also known as Serf City) is a slow-paced strategy video game.

Making it work

If you require support for general issues, see the performance guide and FAQ.

Testing

• 20 August 2009 by Anonymous:

Runs perfectly, smooth and so on. Saving is possible.

Tested with cracked US-version called 'Serf City', but it doesn't seem to be any different in any kind to the EU-version.

Did not need to customize any settings.

• 30 August 2009 by Anonymous:

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I'm programming a re-make of Serf City - Life is Feudal..
Just search for 'Bits Serf' or have a look on my website 'gliblybits.de' (for english version scroll down and click on 'In English')

James Toon2013-06-220 point DOS version

Please make a updated version of this game. This would be a best selling app.

markegiani2013-04-101 point DOS version

Beautiful game. Spent months of building with these cute little villagers. Never seen such a game like that since.

Shyne2013-02-221 point DOS version

I love dis game where u Been all my life played when i was young and been looking for it every since thanks make a updated 3D version please

Zeljko2012-12-121 point DOS version

Fantastic game.. and good memories ;)

Write a comment

Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Serf City: Life is Feudal, read the abandonware guide first!

Download Serf City: Life is Feudal

We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. Also, we try to upload manuals and extra documentations when possible. If the manual is missing and you own the original manual, please contact us!

Just one click to download at full speed!

DOS Version

Amiga ROM

• Year:1993
• Publisher:Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG
• Developer:Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG

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Similar games

Fellow retro gamers also downloaded these games:

Serf City Pc Game

The Settlers (also known as Serf City) is a slow-paced strategy video game.

Making it work

If you require support for general issues, see the performance guide and FAQ.

Testing

• 20 August 2009 by Anonymous:

Runs perfectly, smooth and so on. Saving is possible.

Tested with cracked US-version called 'Serf City', but it doesn't seem to be any different in any kind to the EU-version.

Did not need to customize any settings.

• 30 August 2009 by Anonymous:

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German Version crashes while DosBox in Background or at switching between fullscreen and windowmode, 'Dos4GW-Stackoverflow', even while usind dos32a

External links

• The Settlers at MobyGames