It&#x27;s a different game, but it seems to be in the same genre. The blurb even describes it as &quot;similar to Civilization&quot;. It&#x27;s reasonable to ask for two games in the same genre, and with the primary description of one as being similar to the main influence for another, &quot;what are the differences? Why would I want to play this game over that game?&quot;<p>To answer that, you can click through to the &quot;About&quot; page (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecol.org&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecol.org&#x2F;about.html</a>), which spends most of its time answering exactly this question (which demonstrates that this is a reasonable question to ask):<p><pre><code>  In Civilization the objective was to build a nation that 
  could stand the test of times and that could also do one 
  of the following: conquer the world or be the first to 
  launch a spaceship. In Colonization things are bit 
  different ...
  
  A Colonization game starts in 1492 and the objective is 
  to colonize America. You begin the game with one vessel 
  and two colonists.</code></pre>