Gameloft's 'The Settlers' Already Released
posted by arn on November 7th, 2009 12:53 AM EST in $4.99, Strategy, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Gameloft's iPhone adaptation of The Settlers has already appeared in the App Store. The $4.99 real time strategy simulation game started out as an Amiga game back in 1993 and has since evolved through multiple iterations.
You’ve arrived in a wondrous place populated by Romans, Vikings and Mayans competing or cooperating to reach a variety of goals. These goals include occupying land, ensuring the supply of raw materials, or simply trying to create the most beautiful settlement. There is more than one path which leads to success – you can engage in trade, forge alliances, or lead your army into battle.
Gameplay is described by Gameloft:
- Gather resources and build a lively and bustling town in an ancient world. Your decisions and skill in managing and protecting your settlement will determine its fate.
- The strength of your units depends on how effectively you have built up your settlement and paid attention to the economic relationships within it.
- Three nations to govern: Conquer new territories, defeat rival armies, and establish an empire with your warriors that encompasses lands and continents.
- A huge number of parameters to manage: Dozens of building’s types, settlements, soldiers, raw materials, and much more.
- An accessible game for everybody, thanks to extensive tutorial missions and multi-touch gameplay, ideal for strategy games.
Early impressions are starting to trickle into the discussion thread on our forums with some positive first impressions. One forum member mrbass posted an extensive gallery of screenshots of the gameplay and tutorial screens. We'll provide a more in depth look of the game in time.
App Store Link: The Settlers, $4.99
That was fast…
Definitely! I was anticipating it a little later from that recent post here, I didn't expect it to be here yet.
I love this game but theres this one part i cant get passed when we're suppose to "train 8 Pioneers- these specialists can expand the borders of our settlement and establish new colonies." I've taken those 'pioneers' with the shovels and dragged them allover the borders and they keep wanting to go back to the Vehical Hall. its been bothering me for days cause I cant figure out what to do? please help mee!!!
I need help on this aswell, sum1 pls help
ok u dont want to expand the borders u want to let them go to the vehicle hall… u are building a migration cart i believe just let them go to the vehicle hall and then u need 4 wood planks and a donkey and lastly a cart from the vehicle hall it should help u out
how do u get a donkey???????????, and i sent them into the vechicle hall and nothing happens, they just stand there waiting. I made a cart like they asked me to do, but its just standing right outside the vechicle hall. i nid help, im getting frustrated, pls answer
Agreed, please post any reviews… I might have to buy this one this or next month!
Love the idea, but I've got two quick questions for early adopters:
Is it compatible with 1G iPod Touches?
and
Is there a "free play" or skirmish mode with selectable parameters and difficulty levels?
I was really overjoyed at the release of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and I'm glad to see more developers releasing strategy games and not being afraid of reasonable pricing.
No played long enough to give a final judgment but my initial take is very positive. Gameplay is smooth on my 3G (unlike C&C: Red Alert) and the graphics are lush and colorful. The interface is intuitive and works smoothly. The tutorial also makes quick sense of what might otherwise be overwhelming options for first time Settlers players.
I just love this game. They basically brought The Settlers known from PC to iPhone. And they did that very well! I'm into Settlers universe for once again. It feels that good!
I can confirm this not the crappy DS port. This game is just great.
However, it IS missing a freeplay / skirmish mode.
omg… will I resist…?
I want it T_T
The consensus on the forums is that this version is nothing like the Settlers most people know and love (I or II).
I bought it, and I'm TRYING to enjoy it, but I don't know. As far as I'm concerned this is NOT The Settlers. Ubisoft dropped the ball with these new versions.
This looks very much like The Settlers 3. Number 3 being my favourite game out of the Settlers Series, this will be a instant buy as soon as i get home, i suppose. Is there anybody out there having played Settler 3 who can confirm that the iPhone port not only looks likte Settlers 3 but also plays alike?
It actually appears to be a port of #4. I wasn't familiar with either 3 or 4, but I'm thoroughly enjoying this game. I like how some of the annoying restrictions from the original two have been done away with. Great little game that is definitely worth 5 bucks.
Why isn't there FREESTAGE
Does this game have the same "cuteness factor" as The Settlers 1? I really, really enjoyed that game, all the sounds and music and sights … it was very immersive.
Sweet..
I think i will vuy this, cuz the price is resobable.. So i buy this instead of c&c…
But i also want the Catan game….
Man its hard to choose…. :p
i almost miss when it was long time between good and big games… Now there is big games all the time:p
Great game.
Unfortunately I can't figure out, how to conquer a village… my soldiers only attack SOME towers (that seems to destroy enemy-buildings nearby). Anyone? much appreciated.
I've exactly the same problem. Stuck on mission 3 of the romans. My soldiers only attack some of the enemy towers, not all.
I cant get the catapult to attack the enemy, too.
I think, i need a manual of this game or it's a bug.
just use the soldiers with the sword, not the whole army … they will attack the towers in the richt way …. if u zoom in u can see a little sword on top of the towers … thats how i could find out
cheers
Ah, thx
This works.
Yeah, I'm also stuck on mission 3 of the Romans, but my problem is with the Pioneers, for some reason they can't stand prosperity! they don't want to explore new lands, they always come back to their original spot as if they were mutinous and humbled for what they already have. Has this ever happened to somebody?
or is it a bug of some sorts?
I had same problem, it was caused by where I put the water workshop the beginning, I had it by the sea not by river, no water means everything else came to a halt. Just check every single building is working and producing before you move on. If the settlers ain't moving sonethings wrong. In thiscase there was no wood being produced to make Cart which you put the pioneers in, goodluck!
Yeah, those 8 pioneers are giving also me some headache and it sure feels like a bug in the game. I have tried that several times and it's always the same: right when you have completed your order for 8 pioneers, screen kind of flickers and then you can only move those pioneers around, but nothing really allows you to proceed with the mission. Hopefully they will fix this asap as the game sure feels promising.
Stuck on this part as well. I got my pioneers to expand a small portion of the border here and there, but nothing else has happened. I'm totally stuck. Who'd of thought we would ever need a walkthrough for a cell phone game?!? ( but if you were to run across a walkthrough for the settlers, please post a link here for me! LOL )
build small towers, they expand land without having to use pioneers,
also destroy all your towers leaving one because then you can concentrate your troops around this tower which the enemy will attack
Oh, I got it! I had my waterworkers shack next to the coast and not the river. For whatever reason that kept my people from being able to get water. I restarted the mission and moved my waterworkers shack and viola! Now I'm many missions past that one and REALLY loving the game!
Jamie,
thanks for the tip, it sure did work. Just can't understand how you did figure that out as it's not too obvious
Sure would be nice if the game didn't randomly corrupt your saves
My soldier with a sword tried attacking the enemy towers but its still not working !! Iam not able to get past this 3rd roman mission pls help !!!
I have exatly the same problem… They cant attack any of the buildings, only my catapults can attack, but they can attack only one sort of tower… And all the rest of my army do nothing…( escuse me for the mistake i made if there are bc im french ^^)
I am stuck on the first level of the Mayans. The mountains which are nearby don't have any resources in them, and I can't expand in time to reach the further away mountains before the AI gets there. If I attack him to take over those mountains, he completely swamps me.
I tried to use the donkey cart to settle on another island, but when my pioneers get there, they just keep expanding the border. If I stop them and ask them to build something, they don't do anything, they just drop their shovels and stand there.
I've tried building a harbour and a shipyard, I've constructed the trade ship (doesn't do anything!), but I can't get the ferry to load up the tools I presumably need to transport to the other island to give to the settlers there to help them start building.
Any suggestions?
Im not sure, but using building (small) towers increases your land without having to use pioneers, +destroy all your towers and keep one, concentrate your troops round this tower,the enemy will attack that tower,
also on the north of that level is lots of rocks, there are mines with substantial resources but i think if you build the tequila thing and sacrfice it to the gods to get manga which when using priests can replenish resources with a spell, just remeber to get to the rocks as quickly as possible because they are the least numeros resources available!
Thanks Dan! Actually I eventually came on this strategy last night, so I managed to finish off the Romans quite easily once I had deprived them of the mountain resources.
Having trouble casting spells though. I have the priest with plenty of mana, I click on the mana icon and the list of spells come up, but when I click on the spell, it highlights red but nothing happens – the mana does not decrease.
How does one cast spells?
you get mana bye making wine
I HAVE mana, hundreds of it. I want to know HOW to cast the spell.
Mana is easy: create wine yard to get grapes, build a small temple to convert it to mana, build a large temple for priests to be educated, then you can use the mana in the army settings
Stuck on level 5, always overrun by the others.
I can't seem to produce fast enough or big/strong enough an army to conquer the opponents attacks. and those attacks come pretty much always at the point where my whole colony is starting to get big.
any ideas on how to speed up army building to defeit the attacks from the enemy? and maybe later attack myself?
What I do is trying to have at least 3 or 4 iron smelters and the same number of weaponsmiths going at the same time. Make sure the barracks are placed as close to the front line as possible. If your border is being attacked, start the level again and this time double up with your towers. Since it's really hard to get a chance to build a castle, put two medium towers next to each other, or clump some small towers together if you are desperate. Generally the AI attacks one tower and the archers in the other can do some decent damage to protect the defenders until you bring up enough reinforcements.
You'll need plenty of food of course to maintain the mines. My problem with the game is that despite the mines being maxed out with food, they still hardly produce any ore at all!
If you can find gold, just produce second level soldiers (the ones that require one gold bar each). The AI I think more or less exclusively has crappy soldiers, so the gold ones are definitely worth it.
One other thing. Sometimes the computer keeps attacking you, but actually they are weaker than you think. If you can repulse a few big attacks, sometimes they have hardly any soldiers left. Try building a few towers close together like I said then goading the computer into attacking them. If the defences can kill enough of the enemy, then you can go on a rampage. Try to take over his mountain regions so he can't produce reinforcements.
Where can u get the hammer and the pickaxe from.
You need to tell the toolmaker to make them.
Settlers is a quality game
altho on viking level 1 i cant work out how to load the ferry to attack the mayans with
I dont know how to get through Mayan 2. I need to cross the river/sea to get through the upper west (where the Vikings are). I already have a ferry and trade ship and they seem to not load people. Help!
to load the ferry ( or re load your warship with ammo ) send the ferry to the shipyard – not the harbour, the shipyard. Then grab a bunch of soldiers and move them near to the shipyard. Highlight the soldiers and then click on the ferry – each ferry holds 16 people or a mix of people and carts. Once they are onboard you can move the ferry off and then 'disemark' the peple at any point on a coastline.
I jope this helps
now i'm stuck on the next lvl – where do i build the stone head??
I am also stuck with the 3rd lv of the Myan tribe. Where the heck to do you put the stone head?
I have placed it over the mountains near the pond. There are old stone totom poles there and some golden stones but nothing happens.
Also does anybody else get a lot of crashing with trying to load save games!
It's really frustrating!
The stone circle is in the bottom left of the map. You can get there by going left and follow the coast down until you see a sandbank. Cross this to a seperate island section that has canals cut into the landscape. The stone circle is in the centre of that area. Put a stone head in there and you get a load of iron.
Can someone tell me what to do next? You only get a limited amount of iron and not enough to build a strong enough army to take on the two enemies. Oooo i wonder if i build another stone head in the circle???
Does anyone have an answer about building a new settlement on another island? As for Nicholas, I can't figure out how to do it. I've built a first harbour, and trade ship and couldn't do it. I also tried to pioneering an area on the second island big enough to be able to fit a second harbor. There must be a way: they wouldn't go through all the trouble of programing it just so you could sit around scratching your head…
Build a vehicle yard thingy and then a cart with pioneers, builders, etc. then load on to a ferry and move it across. When on the other island build a stone cutters hut, then wood cutters, then sawmill and you are away. You may be able to build a market place in both areas and traid stuff but not done that island to island yet.
Any one know what to do after you have put the head in the stone circle and got the extra iron on the final mayan level? Have built up a fairly strong army but using the priests to magic weapons, etc. but still not strong enough and the other armies are caning me. Been stuck on this level for ages and now starting to get bored of the game as cant figure out how to beat it.
im having trouble on mayan tribe lvl one, where do you cast the wood to gold spell to actually produce the gold? ive tried casting on the logs and the planks but a puff of smoke comes and then nothing, no gold. please help
You need to cast the spell on a storage area with wood in it…
i nid help with the roman mission 3 the one with the poineers, i did wat they asked me to do, i made 8 pioneers, but i cant expand the borders up north, and i know i nid to send them to the vechicle hall, so i did, and to build a cart, so i did, but i dont know how to get a donkey, pls help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!