The Settlers (German: Die Siedler) is a city-building and real-time strategy video game series created by Volker Wertich. The original game was released on the Amiga in 1993 with subsequent games released primarily on MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows: The Settlers II (1996) The Settlers III (1998) The Settlers IV (2001) The Settlers: Heritage of Kings (2004) The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (2007) and The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom (2010). There are also several spin-offs; The Settlers II (10th Anniversary) (2006) is a remake of The Settlers II The Settlers DS (2007) is a port of The Settlers II for Nintendo DS Die Siedler: Aufbruch der Kulturen (2008) is a German-only spiritual successor to 10th Anniversary The Settlers HD (2009) is a handheld remake of The Settlers IV and The Settlers Online (2010) is a free-to-play online browser game. With the exception of The Settlers HD Ubisoft Blue Byte has developed every game in the series as well as publishing the first three titles. From The Settlers IV onwards Ubisoft has published all titles.