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What's the best way to play Settlers II as of 2025 on a PC or macOS? Is there a GOG-style version that still works as of today? It's unclear how well this version still does: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_settlers_2_gold_edition

Actually same for Settlers III, I remember that one fondly as well. They lost me a bunch around the switch-to-3D era.

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https://www.siedler25.org/index.php?lang=en

Yeah this, although it seems to have slowed down I development. Last time I checked, scrolling was really laggy on Linux, and the according bug report was quite old. Man I wish I had more free time to dig into stuff like that.

I can confirm that this will play game files as they were from the 1998 or so "total heaven" triple pack of settlers 2, sim city 2000, and civilization 2.

As an aside: what an incredible era.

Yes I was playing sim city 2000 the other day. What surprised me the most is how it’s so focused on simply letting you create the different systems and letting them interact. Like it’s almost not a game as much as it is a simulation that lets you participate in decision making.

I played the gog version about two years ago; worked fine. It uses dosbox.

Settlers 3 also worked fine on wine by the way, although personally I don't care much for it and much prefer 2 (the original, not the "10th Anniversary" remake, which is pretty bad IMO).

GOG games that use DOSBox I just run the installer and then copy the game files to run in my own DOSBox-X installation. They will run forever even if GOG stopped supporting the games on some new OS.

Sometimes launching a game is a bit tricky, buy it usually just comes down to looking in the GOG DOSBox conf file and see what they do.

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