C-evo Distant Horizon (Civilization 2 & FreeCiv like opensource fan game)

While many people have probably heard of FreeCiv and Civ2Clone, there is also another freely available opensource indie game inspired by Sid Meier’s Civilization 2 called C-evo! C-evo aims to recreate the classic mid 90s 4X TBS Civ2 like experience, but with more emphasis on a custom military unit designer, extremely powerful/deadly AI (that doesn’t cheat), and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge. The game uses similar asset files to Civ2 allowing for lots of cool ‘easy to make’ mods too (eg there’s Star Wars & LOTR mods on the C-evo site).

Like FreeCiv, C-evo has been in development for several decades (since 1998!) and is fully playable from start to finish. Work on the game slowed to halt in the 2010s when it reached a relatively finished state, however in recent years the game has seen a new lease of life through other programmers taking up the mantle of continuing the project and improving the game further. First Chronos started the C-evo New Horizons project and ported the game from Delphi to Lazarus making many improvements (including localization for multiple languages), and then PeterBB forked it to the C-evo Distant Horizon project improving the game even further.

PeterBB recently released version 1.9 of C-evo Distant Horizon for Windows & Linux adding much larger map sizes and more languages. I’m playing it at the moment and having ball, I’ll definitely be doing a video on this for my Civilization video series! Check out the links below to try it out and let him know what you think! WARNING – Their AI will probably own you. 😉

https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c-evo-distant-horizon.681373/