Age of Wonders 4

You are not bound by fantasy stereotypes or archetypes, and can thus create often very bizarre combinations of races and their elements. It's a brilliantly done system, and one on which the authors will be able to build all their major or minor DLC for a few more years if sales are good. In an age of games as services, one couldn't ask for more from a solid strategy game. [Issue#327]

This is undoubtedly the best 4X game I’ve played in years, delivering top-notch exploration, combat, and diplomacy alongside a rewarding and dynamic customisation system.

Fans and newcomers alike will find an accessible, compelling real-time strategy experience in Age of Wonders 4.

Undoubtedly a very high-quality turn- based strategy. The remarkable combination of Heroes, Civilization (4X) and Total War brings a large number of options that you can use on different maps, it's just a shame that without a full-fledged story. At first it might seems to be complicated and a little messy, but you'll get the hang of it quickly.

Age of Wonders 4 brings the franchise back to its fantasy roots, offering a robust system that lets you go all-out with customization. Whether you’re out to role-play based on your selections or min-max to come up with game-breaking setups, you’re bound to spend numerous hours just trying out new strategies.

The keyword of Age of Wonders 4 is “choice” – the game provides a lot of it, expressed in all of its mechanics. Lending itself to near unlimited replayability, especially once the ambitious plans for expansions and new content are realized, Age of Wonders 4 is a natural evolution of the series’ classic formula and will have min-maxers and role-players alike suffer from a severe bout of one-more-turn fever.

Age of Wonders 4 is a beautifully crafted 4X experience for players who like to dig deep and learn how to customize a game to fit how they like to play and be able to research through many varieties of choices and traits. The game offers some ways to simplify things for those who are more casual but definitely is something that someone could spend hours, days, and weeks digging into and still not be able to see everything the game has in its depths. While its overloaded amount of bookkeeping can prevent some enjoyment, what's here is more than satisfactory for the genre.

this is the best 4X game i ever played, the faction costumization end evolution is fantastic, theres tons of combinations and the game is still easy to learn and play,the only downside is IA being a bit stupid, but i never seen an strategy game without the IA doing weird choices.

I like and dislike this game at the same time. It is really a love and hate relationship. It's really great and has some huge flaws at the same time. It leaves very little freedom to the player when it cometo diplomacy, treason and intrigue.

Very nice attempt to make a great game but here are some issues which makes great disturbance for me: 1) No replays: in fact, there are replays but you cannot save them and rewatch latter, which is sad, some battles between my custom heroes are very epic and I want to rewatch them, to remember them, but I can’t 2) A porridge of spells and creatures: I cannot spot tome progression so I was forced to learn frost spells for my crazy pyromaniac lord and blessings for my necromancer, which obviously ruins immersions. 3) You cannot hide transformations of AI races: with time they acquire lots of tomes and start looking really ridiculous, I can't force them to follow some conception and again this fact ruins my immersion. 4) No one more turn: after victory you cannot take that nasty Throne City of your enemy because that is actually game over, again ruins immersions. 5) Level cap for heroes is too low: for really long games 20 levels are clearly not enough, that can make some paragon level system or something like that. Thus all and all I cannot stay in this game for long, alas.

While it shines with all sort of new features - I generally can't stand the clunky sector expansion, weird tome mechanics, excavations in sectors. The combat seems to be better though, with the % of accuracy + dmg scaling depending on the casualties suffered. Feeling somewhat neutral about the morale. The game seems to take Planetfall as it's base, which was a massive dislike for me due to overwhelming similarity to the Endless series.

Looks cool. Ideas is very good. But gameplay part is pretty bad for the game of that level.