The Settlers IV is a unique case, where the game still looks smooth, but the interface is so tiny that it is strenuous to play, painful even, with an overlay that only takes up a minuscule corner of the screen. For the middle titles, there is definitely some grime and visual glitches that come with going big, such as muddy textures in The Settlers III or clipping hero models in The Settlers VI. For the oldest two games with mostly simple pixel art, the upscaling comes out clean and well playable on modern monitors. Visually, for pretty much every game, the collection comes as is, with some upscaling for modern devices. It’s been a while since the franchise has tried to come out into the spotlight. As such, the first game dating back to 1993 is quite different than the last, which still released all the way back in 2010. Things got weird around the middle of the series and the game went with subtitles instead.
The Settlers: History Collection encompasses every numbered game, regardless of them holding the actual numbers.
It turns out that the quality of each game separately fluctuates wildly and the effort of grouping these titles together has done little else but isolate that a few games go a long way.
THE SETTLERS PC GAME ARCHIVE
Publisher Ubisoft has therefore decided to launch The Settlers: History Collection, to archive what this strategy simulation game has brought us through the years. The Settlers has never quite aspired to be a billboard title, but it definitely has garnered enough affection to be counted as an iconic series.