You can also build a town hall to begin getting victory points (which win you the game, and as a cost when attacking).Ĭontiguous areas of captured land of the same type will earn bonus victory points when they have a town hall or greater structure on them. These are pretty standard – a mine gives you more stone, sawmill gives you more wood etc. They are some upgrades available for each tile, obviously at cost. Basic tiles provides 5 resources per turn. You can only capture land next to you by expansion, and it costs 20 food and 20 wood to capture. Finally there are water tiles, which assuming you have built a harbor allow you to get a random amount of food and gold per turn. Each land type also has a more rare version which only occur as single hexes, but provide some additional bonus – for instance, gold from a special mountain as well as the usual stone. There are 3 basic hex/land types in the game that are the most prevalent – forest, fields, and mountains – each producing the basic wood, food and stone resources. The premise sounds similar to Catan at first – build towns and capture lands, gather resources, and then upgrade to get more resources – until finally you get enough victory points to win the game. New World Colony doesn’t break any fundamentally new grounds when it comes to gameplay concepts or graphics, or interface – but it does pull everything it has together in one incredible package that’s hard to put down. Described by one player as a “strategic improvement over Catan” – it’s easy to see why. Surprising for a game of this type, it’s addictive too. The review text below has been rewritten to reflect the updates.Īn impressive new game from a bedroom coder, New World Colony has shown me how incredible one-man production teams can actually be. New World Colony has recently been updated with various rule tweaks and balancing, much improved graphics, and is now a universal app available for the iPhone as well.
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