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Conquest of the New World cover art

Conquest of the New World

Quicksilver Software · Interplay · 2017-07-21

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Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 31, 1996 (DOS), Mar 31, 1996 (Mac)

Discover the uncharted during the Age of Exploration in this strategy game of exploration, combat and colony management.

92%
positive of 121 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Conquest of the New World is a video game produced by Interplay Productions and released in 1996. It is a strategy game, involving one or more players either by hotseat, on LAN, modem, or even PBEM (play-by-email). The game starts in the year 1493 and deals with the discovery and conquest of the Americas.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 61% of 7,149 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 121 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2013-12-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 15 of 29 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$2.392015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-11-14 — best price $5.992016-06-11 — best price $2.392016-12-05 — best price $2.392017-11-06 — best price $6.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-03-27 — best price $3.392018-06-22 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $3.392018-12-20 — best price $3.392019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-01-24 — best price $6.992020-05-04 — best price $9.992020-10-12 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-03-07 — best price $9.992022-10-10 — best price $9.992023-01-03 — best price $9.992023-05-18 — best price $8.492023-09-22 — best price $6.992023-12-13 — best price $7.792024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-09-26 — best price $9.992024-12-20 — best price $7.992025-03-19 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-12-03 — best price $9.992026-02-04 — best price $9.992026-08-20 — best price $7.992026-08-28 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XClassicStrategyDiplomacyHistoricalTurn-BasedMultiplayerTurn-Based CombatResource ManagementTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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