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"Return to the Roots" is a faithful remake/modification of The Settlers II for modern computers, with multiplayer support!

https://www.siedler25.org/

Watching this project eagerly but it's still missing some functionality at the moment.

It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?

The campaign. It doesn't work, and loading these maps in unlimited play hangs the game completely.

The way I see it, S2 was pretty lazy. They took a system that was fairly polished already and tinkered with it without understanding how it would impact the whole, like how they made a level-up system that heavily incentivizes a degree of micromanagement the UI isn't built to support.

Or take the pig farm: Clear pros and cons in S1; in S2 it's just a bad bakery. Or the perpetually broken ship navigation, and no way to do naval invasions.

The 20th anniversary edition was a nice recreation of the game in 3D