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    THE SETTLERS

    Feb 03, 2022 5 minutes
    Christopher Livingston

    Growing an empire is a balancing act. Expand your borders too quickly and you’ll be spread thin, an attractive target for enemy raids. Branch out too slowly and another faction will claim precious resources before you can. Get the balance wrong and you’ll watch your empire burn to the ground.

    In the beta build of Ubisoft’s The Settlers, I’ve watched my empire burn to the ground a whole bunch of times now. This is the latest entry in the long-running city-building and real-time strategy series, which began way back in 1993 for the Commodore Amiga. There have been six sequels since, plus a number of spin-offs including a free online browser game. The past decade, however, has been a rough patch for the series. An eighth game was planned for 2014, but its closed beta was poorly received and the game

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