Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal.
Your goal is to become the greatest civilization!
In Freeciv you build cities, which in turn can build armies to attack the other players. This part will assume you are playing with a default set of rules and are playing to win by either eliminating the other players or being the first to send a ship with new colonists to Alpha Centauri.
In a city, you can build improvements which can help the city grow and prosper. Some improvements let a city grow. You should also build wonders, as they can give the player very important advantages; for instance the Apollo Program lets you see the entire map. See in-game for more information!
Ultimately, for most players, the goal of the game is to win either by using military units to conquer all opposing civilizations, or by using massive scientific knowledge and production to build a spaceship to send to Alpha Centauri before your rivals can do so.
You decide
Freeciv is much much more than a game: In Freeciv the game players can decide what the rules will be! This means that unlike nearly every other computer game, Freeciv can be a different game each time you play. This opportunity comes with some cost. Especially at first, a player trying to tackle all the subtleties and nuances of this complex gaming experience can get a little lost. It can even be overwhelming.
Solo or multiplayer
You can play Freeciv solo, with one or more artificial intelligent players (AIs) run by the computer, in real time and worldwide by hosting a game through the internet, or it can be played in any numbers of combinations of these. For example, two human players could play with many AIs, all run on two machines connected to one another.
