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Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony

Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of…

78 8 June 2011

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony is an indie developed by Final Form Games, released 8 June 2011 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony is

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony is an indie game developed by Final Form Games and released in 2011. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, also known as simply Jamestown, is a vertically scrolling shooter developed and released by Final Form Games in 2011. The game takes place on Mars in an alternate history steampunk 17th century, where the planet is an English colony contested by the Spanish and the indigenous Martians.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 42 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Pentium™ 4 2.4 GHz or better, 512 MB RAM and Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM and full GLSL support. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony launched on 8 June 2011, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Dirt 3 and Alice: Madness Returns. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Dirt 3, Alice: Madness Returns.

Cheats and codes

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Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony — frequently asked questions

When did Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony come out?
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony was released on 8 June 2011 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony?
At minimum, Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony needs Intel® Pentium™ 4 2.4 GHz or better, 512 MB RAM, Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM and full GLSL support graphics, 250 MB of storage.
How many GB is Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("250 MB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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