Rule a fantasy realm of your own design in Age of Wonders 4! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn.
Triumph Studios’ award-winning strategy series has emerged into a new age, evolving the game’s iconic empire building, role-playing, and warfare to the next level. A new storytelling event system and hugely customizable empires provide an endlessly replayable experience, where each game adds a new chapter to your ever-growing saga.
Powerful Wizard Kings have returned to the realms to reign as gods among mortals. Claim and master the Tomes of Magic to evolve your people, and prepare for an epic battle that will determine the ages to come.
Create the Empire of Your Wildest Fantasies
- Craft your followers by combining bodily forms, societal traits and arcane powers. Build anything from a clan of cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, or recreate your favorite fantasy tropes
- Seek powerful tomes of magic to enchant your armies and evolve your people! See your people physically change as they morph into angelic beings or scions of chaos to face their enemies.
- Seek glory through brutal domination, cunning alliances, or ultimate arcane knowledge, and write your legacy into the very fabric of the realm itself!
Strategy Meets Role-Playing Like Never Before
- Every choice opens up new possibilities and tactical advantages; deep, multilayered strategy allows you to try new tactics or explore new powers at every turn
- Tactical turn-based battles bring your armies to life, showcasing their power in an environment shaped by your decisions. From skirmishes with roaming monsters to vast sieges with dozens of units on each side, with the addition of a morale system and more features, every battle brings a fresh challenge
- Tremendous variety in empires, units, and environments keep the game endlessly replayable. Age of Wonders is more moddable and open-ended than ever in the series’ history
Make Your Mark on a Vast, Reactive World
- Explore a new realm with each game - or create your own! Challenge new variations and combinations of locations and features, from frozen wastelands ruled by ice queens to desolated ruins where dragons roam
- A new event system provides unexpected levels of storytelling for 4X games. See your decisions shape the world around you, from growing cities and roaming armies to world-warping magic effects
- Guide your empire to greatness - but the story doesn’t end with your victory or defeat! Ascend your rulers to an in-game pantheon and unlock ways to further customize your experience. Encounter your own creations as potential rivals or allies in subsequent games, and experience the next chapter in your own story!
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Age of Wonders IV is the newest title from Triumph Studios, currently slated for a May release. Before their acquisition by Paradox Interactive, they developed a number of other old school strategy games, usually with a fantasy emphasis (with a notable exception) - so here's four mods you can get right now, and one we think deserves a mention for its potential!
Overlord
The mod reworks the existing balance of Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, adding tons of functionality to ranged units to increase their combat capability, increased tenacity for cavalry, and reworked heroes to improve their balance (whilst new names also join the roster). This joins adjustments to larger scale systems like building construction and magic which, overall, make this a very different experience for veterans.
Stargate Shadow Magic
By Gustaffsson
Stargate Shadow Magic is a modification for Age of Wonders Shadow Magic, which will turn the world of the game upside down by changing the theme from medieval fantasy to Stargate. War with catapults, swordmen, archers and galleons is over; war with firearms, Staff Weapons, fighters, Deathgliders and spaceships begins.
Barbarian Mod
By ivicok
Sometimes, short and sweet is for the better - with this snappily named mod achieving plenty more than its simply namesake would suggest. All four races of Age of Wonders III receive reworked tech trees to change up the gameplay and give some additional strategies a chance; meanwhile, new units and new spells mean you've got more than ever to field in battle, expanding the variety of options available to stategists.
New Units (v.2) by Laurentius
By Laurentius
This classic mod goes back to basics and the original Age of Wonders, adding dozens of new units to the roster across all factions that switch up how engagements can play out. New buildings are also part of the offering - including towers and guilds - and the best part is that for other Age of Wonders modders, these additions have all been released with an open invitation to work them into your own mods (with credit, of course!)
Endless Annihilation
By Ahrimansiah
And now, for an as-of-yet unreleased but very promising looking mod for the incongruous Age of Wonders: Planetfall. Still possessing plenty in common with its predecessors mechanically, this game took things into sci-fi instead, and Endless Annihilation turns things up a notch with jet units, as well as cameo faction appearances from some other classic strategy factions like the Brotherhood of Nod and GDI. A solid mod to look forward to getting a chance to play!
A Wonderful World
Age of Wonders IV is the newest entry in Triumph Studios' Age of Wonders series of fantasy-based strategy games. Continuing the franchise's hallmark mix of expansive 4X strategy and gripping turn-based combat, it's looking to be another solid strategy offering from Paradox Interactive (who bought Triumph Studios back in 2017, gaining ownership of all their previous IP and getting a great addition to their deep-thinking umbrella of franchises). Whilst not yet out, many of the game's features have been discussed up to now, and newest among them is the expansion pass plan.
Age of Wonders IV mixes 4X strategy with dramatic fantasy action
Building For The Ages
Expansions are intended to range all the way into the first half of 2024, adding new realms, factions, and set pieces to the game each time. Whilst it may be worth querying whether announcing expansions before an official release is suspect or not, it ultimately depends on the game's offering on day one. If it's content complete and rich with strategy, then these expansions will eventually be giving an already good title even more going for it. If not, it may be worth waiting for a time down the road when a bundle deal gives you the option of getting more bang for your buck. It remains to be seen, but we're optimistic Triumph Studios' classic roots can help them deliver another game for the ages.
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