The original Settlers developer studio is also in Germany. Now it makes sense how my version was called Siedlers II.

And the original settlers board game - Catan - is of course also German.

The board game came out after the first computer game. The two are not related.

Oh.. i didn't know! Maybe the relation is still there, inverted?

According to Wikipedia, Klaus Teuber started designing the board game years before the computer game was released, so it's probably not a major source of inspiration. He did change the name (adding "of Catan") so people wouldn't mistake one for the other.

Die Siedler (the plural is the same as the singular), but yeah.

Learn german :) it's not that difficult, it's really fun and imho very cool. I learned english by playing betrayal at krondor with a dictionnary for only help (to be honest I was much younger and had plenty of time)

had to laugh when I saw that it's mostly German. Anno, Settlers, Patricians, we seem to love our simulation games.

oo those are my favorite types of games as well.. along with things like Frostpunk, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Ceasar, EU4, CK3 etc.

I've never heard of Settlers before, any other games of a similar mould?

Just try the settlers. It's lovely, really fun and surprisingly well made for such an old game.

I remember first playing it on a 486!

I can recommend the cultures games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultures_(video_game))

Knights & Merchants is the only game I know that is a bit similar. Settlers always felt pretty unique.

And, interestingly, it’s also from Germany. Check out kamremake.com for a rewrite which runs much better than the original.

You mean the development language is German?

LOL! Sorry - I just picked a German programming language. Damn.

I think they meant the community is mostly German. Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along?

That's probably what they meant.

That is what I meant. There are great youtube communities, but it's mostly german.

> Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along?

Because most is not the same as all.

Unfortunately, this is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy, as rswskg's original comment indicates. The fact that the community is German speaking means that non German speakers won't join (effectively restricting the pool of potential contributors by ~99%), and thus the German speakers won't have any reason to not speak German.

Well, the same applies to English.

This. Text in the community forums.