Do you like turn-based strategy or civilization management games? Then you should know that, apart from the best-known games in the genre, you can find other reasonable alternatives, such as Freeciv. As we said, this is a traditional title with elements of both tactics and taking advantage of all the features available to us while we manage our civilization.

The idea of Freeciv is that our civilization continues to grow and obtain land, taking advantage of all the available resources, and generating, in turn, an army of men to defeat the enemies and keep all their possessions. Of course, there will be moments of growth in your town in peace and harmony, while in others, you'll have to dedicate yourself mainly to battle if you don't want to end up eliminated by the enemies.

Freeciv differs from other similar titles in that it is a freeware-type game with a GNU license, so it is free to download, while you won't have to pay to unlock other content. For the rest, we find that, in any case, it provides us with absolutely every function or option that we can expect in a strategy and civilization management game.

The objective of Freeciv is to make our civilization the most powerful of all those that appear on the map, and it is precisely for this reason that you will have to develop as many towns and cities as you can. Usually, you will first have to develop a civilization, and when it has prospered, you will have to go and attack other nearby places to take all their elements.

Suppose you want to obtain a final victory in Freeciv. In that case, you will have to make your civilization conquer the whole map using military force, or you can use production or technology to help you. And in case you have any doubts, you should know that on the official website of the developers of Freeciv, many of them are answered, with an excellent manual in many languages.

Undoubtedly, one of the best things this game offers is the possibility of developing multiplayer games, which are almost always much more fun than those in which we must face the artificial intelligence of the system. You can compete with up to 30 players simultaneously through a local network and the Internet, so it is a perfect proposal to enjoy with friends or colleagues.

We have also seen many maps and scenarios in our tests, which makes the game rarely becomes repetitive, being very attractive even when we have been following our civilization closely for a while. Diplomacy elements will also allow you sometimes to avoid battles, although be careful with them, as they could sometimes betray you and disobey a pact reached.

In summary, starting with an explorer and just a few settlers, you will have to explore the terrain around your first lands. With these few resources, you will have to build an empire by defeating your opponents. Make the most of the game's three primary resources: Food, Production, and Trade, if you want to show your ability to impose yourself on your rivals and other civilizations.

How about Freeciv's graphics? Well, you shouldn't expect the level of details that other similar and, in many cases, better-known games have because the truth is that here everything is a bit more square and less defined. Considering that it does not have too important power requirements, nor does it weigh a lot, we believe that the relationship between the factors allows it to pass with just enough.

When we analyze the game in perspective, we can see that among the main strengths or advantages of Freeciv, it is an open-source title, which is entirely free to install on our computers. Secondly, we have also found it very interesting to have the possibility of carrying out multiplayer games, something that makes any game much more entertaining.

Meanwhile, if you want to know the aspects of Freeciv that we liked the least, we are going to stop basically at one of them, the one that has to do with the fact that there is no help in Spanish available within the game itself. That is to say, although the manual in Spanish that we mentioned before is available, it is a real shame that you have to cut the fun to access it, so you should consider this fact.

In summary, in any case, we are convinced that Freeciv is undoubtedly a game of civilizations and management, as well as strategy, that will please all users who consider themselves fans of this type of proposal. We are in the presence of a free title, open source, which does not consume too many resources of our computer, and that, in return, offers a very well-achieved multiplayer fun.