Serf City: Life is Feudal

1001 Video Games

The Settlers appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Combat

The way the battles were handled in this game was infamously polite and hilarious. If you wished to attack an village, your soldiers would walk up to the enemy barracks and knock on the door. Then one of their units would come out and you would duke it out mano a mano. Repeat until either you or they ran out of units.

Development

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

Awards

• Amiga Joker
  • Issue 02/1995 – Best Game in 1994 (Readers' Vote)
  • Issue 02/1995 – Best Strategical in 1994 (Readers' Vote)
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 12/1999 - #25 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
• Power Play
  • Issue 02/1994 – Best Amiga Game in 1993
• Świat Gier Komputerowych (Poland)
  • Issue 01/1995 - Golden Disk Award for the best foreign game of 1994

Information also contributed by Stillman