Age of Wonders 4

Очень приятно, что разработчикам хватило смелости наконец-то выбросить механики, тянувшиеся из первой части аж до третьей, из-за которых вместо "4х стратегии про магию" мы раз за разом получали интересную, но довольно поверхностную игру. Забавно, что после этого игра стала больше походить на master of magic (1994), но на максималках - вроде как по мотивам этой легенды и появилась первая часть, но её слишком упростили. Теперь же она выглядит как полноценное продолжение легенды, в котором добавили больше ВСЕГО, что нравилось, и ещё сверху. Если нужно за что-то поругать - то за сюжет, изобилующий фансервисом и персонажами из предыдущих частей, которых мы должны за что-то любить. С другой стороны, здесь сюжет - как в порно, и нужен просто для галочки, на фоне. Ну и за сырую дипломатию, но кому она нужна, когда можно просто стереть всех с лица земли полчищами демонических карликовых пауко-козлов

Even if you aren't a 4X veteran (I'm certainly not), you'll easily spend plenty of hours making thematic builds thanks to all the tomes and culture combinations. That's a level of creativity you won't find in most 4X games.

8/10 Solid game, solid system, though I would wish to have more variety in the late game and the early game in terms of game mechanic depth.

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A nice little game to play, classic old school strategy empire builder. Is it perfect? Probably not, they never are but so far it has been pleasant. The amount of menus and and things to build has a few kinks, the encyclopedia doesn't go deep enough to tell you where a certain thing is found so you know you can't do it since you need to research it but where did I find basic Seafaring when I want to research it? Imperium menu but tucked away at the bottom. It has in other words a learning curve but most things are inuitively placed for the most part right now it seems. Oh and tutorials and help are decent, just enough to give you a general direction but that is it. What is f-ing surprising is that this game did NOT work on windows with an nvidia card. I checked now on windows and I kid you not, works flawless on linux with an AMD card. Not sure of what to make it but so far games I like runs better on Linux than windows.

a surprisingly great fantasy Alternative to civilization, having the ability to create custom nations and rulers is really fun

This is easily the best 4K civilization-like game out there. I love being a Tyrant Queen and conquering my enemies.

This is a fantastic game! It has become one of my favorite games. Definitely worth a buy to play with friends or solo.

Love this game and this franchise to bits! Although I wish it was similar to the story of AoW3 meaning that you'd control and see the story from the point of view of a character, getting to make both minor and major choices that affect the current campaign or the story in general. In AoW3 the characters that experienced this the most were Sundren and Edward, I won't go into details in case anyone reading this wants to try AoW3 as well. Here you make a custom character or pick one from the existing characters which in theory could have been great if done like this: in the first rise of the godir mission, you'd get to pick between playing Yaka, Sundren, or your own player character. This could have been something new that makes AoW4 even better than AoW3 story and creative wise. And as the story progressed, if you choose to continue with that player character, the other characters would react to your past deeds, depends on if your were good or evil, were you helping the covenant or the shad'rai. This would allow the existence of both the custom player character element in the story and playing as the existing characters, leaving the choice to the player and not forcing them to make custom characters that had little flavor. My criticisms for the story aside, the game is amazing to play. I love the Combat, The graphics and customization options are amazing offering much more than AoW3 in this aspect, Although I wish race and leader visual transformations could be toggled separately, for example a pale human Death Knight leading a race of undead, wightborn just transforms everyone. The OST is amazing as always, my favorite tracks include clashing iron, trampled blades of grass, fang, and clutches from the hive. There are many more soundtracks that I love but those 4 are my fav. Managing your cities and expanding feels like a good experience, not to mention the random events that occur. There's still much more to experience and I barely scratched the surface in my review, if you're an AoW fan or a turn based combat fan in general you gotta give this game a try, you won't regret it!

I started with a faction a Lawbringer owls, trying to rid the world of infestations. but now... i am in control a bunch of mosachistic owl-spider hybrid that make cat noises 10/10 would cat-girl spider-owls again