Download Artist Colony today! Get full licensed game for PC. Fast, safe & secure. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Full version game 90.3MB. Time Management. Download Download. Dark Colony: The Council Wars. Dark Colony: The Council Wars is an expansion pack to the 1997 video game Dark Colony, published on January 8, 1998. New things players can find are crashed flying saucers, Taar fortress markings, and a revisit of Area 51, featuring rattlesnakes. Apart from that, familiar terrain types have a slightly different. Dark Colony is an action, real-time strategy video game that is heavily focused on the actual combat. Gathering resources, unit production, and base construction can be executed quickly, giving players allowing players to focus on eliminating the enemy armies. Some missions provide ancient artifacts which provide a variety of unique options to beat the odds, even when they all seem to be.

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1. Dark Colony

Description of Dark Colony Windows

Dark Colony is an underrated real-time strategy game in the same vein as StarCraft or Warcraft 2. Its commercial failure is perhaps unsurprising, given the deluge of RTS games in 1997 and the fact that Dark Colony does not offer anything that is dramatically different from RTS bestsellers. Still, there are some innovations, however small, that are worthy of recognition, in addition to the fact that the game is a good starting choice for newcomers to this genre who are feeling a bit overwhelmed by the frantic action of StarCraft.

Dark Colony is set on Mars in the far future. Humans have discovered a new, valuable energy source called Petra-7 on Mars. The bad news is that a group of wandering aliens, who call themselves Taar, feel that the humans are intruding too much into their potential new home. In Dark Colony, you can either represent the humans, or the aliens (called 'Greys' by the humans) and help them establish their new home and rid the planet of those pesky humans.

SSI definitely took the approach 'more is better' with Dark Colony, as the game is more or less a typical RTS, except there are dozens of maps, many multiplayer options, and additional features such as nighttime missions, and the ability to fight indoors and underground. The game is quite easy to get into and enjoy, though, as Adrenaline Vault observes:

'The game was easy to get into and start playing. The tutorials offered a brief but informative glimpse at the important parts of the game. The game was really set up to include lots of combat and little of anything else (i.e., resource management). The missions were fairly interesting and usually featured variations on the same theme: kill the other guy. The multiplayer portion was pretty standard. I liked some of the wars, but there are a lot of real-time strategy (RTS) games on the market that are much better suited for multiplayer play than this one. The manual was pretty sparse and had only basic information and a minimum amount of detail. Of course, unless you've never played an RTS game before, you'll pretty much be able to pick up everything without a problem.'

Dark Colony also introduces some new features not commonly seen in RTS, such as the ability for your units to advance in rank, similar to Fantasy General. They can also be awarded medals for exceptional performance in battles, and this will improve their abilities. The only major downside is that the units are basically the same on both human and alien sides, and there is no truly race-specific unique units that make gameplay different. As such, you may not be tempted to play as the other side once your campaign is over, although the flawless multiplayer play may change your mind.

Overall, I find Dark Colony to be a solid RTS that definitely deserves a second chance. It is not as good as StarCraft or Red Alert, but perhaps comparison with such heavy-hitters is unfair. Dark Colony is a fun, introductory-level RTS that is easy to get into, and provides a lot of long-term play value with dozens of missions-- many more than RTS classics. The graphics are also excellent, if a bit on the violent side, so you may not want to play this game in front of your kids.

Try it out, and it may just grow on you the way it grew on me. Thumbs up!

Review By HOTUD

Dark Colony unofficial website: http://www.darkcolony.pl/.

Dark Colony has an addon available: Dark Colony: The Council Wars, don't miss it!

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Comments and reviews

Ava Taar2020-06-250 point

Has anyone else had problems with recommencing an apparently saved game? TIA

greatest2020-04-261 point

how do you add the mods to the game

Cuddlefish2020-04-141 point

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Can confirm Trickerino's video link! Didn't need to change compatibility on my windows 10 pc though - just ran the daemon disc and changed the .A01 file shown at 4:45 into an f drive. After that, I was playing as the grays for the first time in over 20 years :D

souza2020-01-190 point

alguem me ajuda nao to conseguindo instalar ele pow , ai nois aproveita e ja faz um servidor pra jogar me adicionem la no discord= jonas Souza#6521

trickerino2020-01-033 points

Watch this video guys. https://youtu.be/4StQbQ0KjB4. Basically you gotta change compatibility to XP SP 3 and to fix the 'only multiplayer game' problem you gotta have the iso mounted and open the file HBNFUFL.A01 with notepad. You will see the letter 'd' written only. Change that to the letter of your virtual cd drive.

Cuddlefish2019-11-020 point

Almost there. For everyone who said that only multiplayer is available, this is because the game isn't recognizing the disc being in. It would let you play online, just no campaigns. I'm guessing that's what the CD fix is for, but I can't figure out how to use it. Save settings for drive C, and no change. I would assume that if you burn the ISO to a disc that would do it, but the program I have is the lite version which won't let me burn to disc as an ISO :/
Haven't gotten it figured out yet, but still at it. Let me know if any of you get it working properly.
Note: this is on Windows 10. Intro video jerky, but plays with audio! Also, all mission text files are accessible through the mounted cd image.

Kern2019-10-171 point

First use VMware Workstaion then install microsoft xp. then use a portable iso player and install the dark colony iso image. it will play.

bill2019-07-184 points

i downloaded the RIP Verizon and i extract and start it up, it crashes. Also im on windows 10

stacks2019-06-25-1 point

did anyone get the single player to work?
i have the game running, but only multiplayer availble

Bruno2019-05-242 points

tf are you talking about Starship Troopers is based on a book from 1959

Manicx2019-05-23-4 points

Does anyone think that the film Starship Troopers was inspired by this game as the aliens are very similar .... comments please

seano2019-03-22-2 points

You can go into a txt file and change the attributes of the units to make them different.. for example perhaps marines shoot further but aliens troopers are more powerful.. stuff like that.

Doomedrpg2019-03-16-2 points

I can't get this game to run on my windows 10 desktop computer

rrric2019-01-294 points

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having compatibility issues here, I'm trying to run it on a windows xp service pack 3 but a still got nothing

lucid_enigma2018-12-170 point

Burning the iso might get it going with music.
Mine's playing an audio cd from my physical BD-ROM even though I've mounted the iso in a virtual drive.
I've got no blank discs to try but thought I'd share my thought!

whowants2018-12-130 point

who wants to play darkcolony -- send me msg on steam - PORTAL_2_PLAYER_1

Vier2018-07-244 points

The game's only available option is Multiplayer, but obviously there are no servers available.
Do any of you guys could get it to work in Campaign mode??????

Innsomatic2018-06-135 points

Running Windows 10 64x, Copy over the DC folder from the iso.
First, Edit the HBNFUFL.ao1 file. It has a letter in it. Just change that letter to where the ISO is (virtual drives make it like F, or G).
Then, right click on DC16.exe, properties, compatibility tab. Run it on compatibility -- Windows XP service pack 3, check Admin rights.
Start game. I get everything but the old CD music.

Lucias2018-03-290 point

Hey guys I really miss this game; cant seem to run it though. System is win 8.1

billy2018-03-260 point

it wont work when I open the application it just turns black and crashes

Lockimus Prime2018-02-200 point

I loved this game when i was like 16 or 17 and played it to death, and now i cant even get it to run in compatibility mode on my win 10 laptop :( oh well, is what it is. still one of the best and most creative rts ive ever played

chespi2017-09-16-1 point

Excellent review!
I can't wait to play this game again!

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