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Discovering America is a 1992 MS-DOS game from developer Interstel, released as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games series. It places you in the role of an explorer during the age of European expansion, navigating the Atlantic and interacting with indigenous peoples. The game reflects the simulation and strategy interests of its era, offering a mix of resource management and exploration without leaning on flashy graphics or action.

You control a ship and its crew, managing supplies like food and trade goods while plotting a course across the ocean. Your main goal is to explore the New World, establish settlements, and return with wealth and knowledge. Key mechanics include trading beads and tools with native villages for resources, navigating using wind and current patterns, and surviving random events like storms or illness through text based choices and dice rolls. The pacing is deliberate, often tense due to limited resources and the threat of mutiny or disaster. It feels like a careful, sometimes anxious calculation of risk against reward with every new stretch of coastline you approach.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".