A strategy game with cartoony graphics and an innocent line in humour. At the start of the level you choose a starting point, the intention being to get lots of flat land as well as resources to mine and ideally existing sources of trees, stones and water (for fish). Your people are vying for supremacy with up to 3 others.

The gameplay focuses on resource management. Each building requires a certain amount of wood to be constructed, and requires particular resources to do its job successfully. Food must be produced (either fish, bread (requiring a windmill, grain-farmer and baker) or pork (requiring a pig-farmer and butcher as well as the grain-farm) to feed the people working in mines to produce the iron, coal and gold (as well as additional stones).

Huts and Watch-Towers are built to expand your territory, sometimes at the expense of another's land (clever play involves targeting an area where your opponent has a crucial building, thus compromising his production).

To finally win the level, you must start attacking your opponents. Combat is fought one-at-a-time by the little soldiers, and a victory results in all surrounding buildings being lost.

The game features 32 preset missions, as well as the chance to create a custom level, which can be played by 2 players on one system if you have 2 mice.

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Alternate Titles

"工人物语" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"The Settlers" -- European Title
"Gongren Wuyu" -- Chinese Title
"Die Siedler" -- German Title

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Merchant	Title
	Serf City: Life is Feudal
	Serf City: Life is Feudal
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The Press Says

Amiga Format	Dec, 1993	94 out of 100	94
Amiga Joker	Dec, 1993	91 out of 100	91
Amiga Power	Dec, 1993	90 out of 100	90
CU Amiga	Dec, 1993	90 out of 100	90
Amiga Power	Dec, 1993	88 out of 100	88
The Good Old Days	Feb 09, 2003	5 out of 6	83
High Score	May, 1994	4 out of 5	80

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Trivia

One of Massive Development's (today a JoWood company) first projects was the porting of the highly successful Blue Byte game Die Siedler (Serf City) from Amiga to PC. To do this, Massive developed an Amiga to PC assembly language translator. Die Siedler sold several hundred thousand copies worldwide and is still available in the Blue Byte classic line.

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This entry was contributed by Robert Morgan (882) and Rantanplan (1753)