Such a disappointment. The game is unplayable in its current state

Having played and absolutely loved this real adventure game from the 90’s I can tell you this. Fun and free of all those extra charges once you buy it once it’s worth every penny… Having actually called in sick to work just to play and finish colonization back in the early 90’s true story it’s that fun…

I love this game. But, the controls make it impossible to play. It’s unfortunate

Check online for the hot-key functions. Like: Using +/- to load/unload specific cargo. Pressing shift will then allow you to select a specific amount of that cargo also. It’s a bit clunky but it’s such a classic game, and nothing at all was changed. Don’t think it’s even available anymore but I’m still allowed to play it and clearly doesn’t need updates.

I sold have listened to the reviews. If I could give it 0 stars I would. The mouse navigation with the touch is absolutely awful and the keyboard takes up most the screen. It’s unplayable and I can’t get a refund

The controls are completely impossible to use on my iPhone. I can’t navigate or basically do anything at all without great difficulty. It makes me feel sick to try. I’m very disappointed.

I absolutely love this game but the gameplay interface makes impossible to play.

It is definitely a challenge to navigate the controls, but I’ve been playing this app version for quite a while now and the game is the same as my dos version, maybe a bit better. The biggest thing I wish it had was the map editor that was included in the dos version. I would like to create my own unique maps like I could on the computer, but on my iPad instead. Other than that if you are looking for the original gameplay and pixalized fun I enjoyed as a youngster, then this is the game you’ve been looking for.

Game is great however you can’t sell boycotted goods in Europe like you could in the normal game. Would love more options to move horizontally etc but can live with it for now

So I’ve put probably 200 hours into this game and I can say that almost all of the complaints about the controls and interface will be resolved with time and practice. if you use both of your thumbs and learn to hold one thumb on the screen to select something and then use the other thumb to drag, many of the issues go away. Additionally, learning how to use the keyboard is essential. The spacebar input tells a unit to pass for the turn. The F1 input opens the civilopedia on the selected tile. You can switch to tile select by using the view menu -> view pieces. I often use the keyboard arrow inputs to move units or navigate menus. The game plays identically to the original as far as I can tell. I played the original a lot in the 90’s. Needless to say I love the game. There is so much strategy to learn as you play. Lately I have discovered how much trading with the natives adds to the game. There are still some issues: 1. I’ve never figured out how to split resources. In the original a right click would allow me to split, say 90 tobacco, into two quantities to move a part onto a ship or wagon. In this version I haven’t figured out how to do this. 2. You often accidentally click when you want to just move the cursor. With practice this happens less often but it is frustrating. 3. I believe this bug is probably leftover from the original, but sometimes pieces don’t use the optimal path to move to a tile you tell them to go to. Sometimes they get so confused they just go back and forth between two tiles and waste all their movement points, even when a path exists! It’s pretty rare but it seems to happen more often around non-player units.