
Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! 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!
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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.

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!

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

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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DLC prices are fricking insane. Modders add more to the game in their spare time for fun.
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As an MTG player, I found this game interesting because it reminds me of Theros from the Magic multiverse. The devotion mechanic and Greek mythology setting make it fun playthrough.
It's an okay game that gets regular updates. If you have the space, install it on an SSD because it's quite resource intensive. If you want the actual full experience that resolves previous story arcs, particularly the events transpiring right after Age of Wonders 3, it's best experienced with the Empires and Ashes expansion, in my opinion it should have been included in the base game which is the only reason I bought it, the other expansions I could care less about, more nostalgia-bait or window dressing than actual substance. Kind of wish forms had permanent traits with minimal additional customization, especially since they do essentially jack all unless they make a significant portion of your units mounted or change your starting surrounding biome tiles, but what can you do? It's not bad, but I'm hoping for more in future updates with less paid DLC items, especially considering the amount that I paid for the game.
Incredibly addictive, I totally was not expecting myself to spend so much time playing, I started off just wanting to try this genre for once but now I am even thinking about buying all the expansions (!) with no sale going on (!) [h2] Pros [/h2] [list] [*] A lot of depth to all the strategic elements, incredibly fun to explore all the traits, societies, classes, tomes, empire progressions, and all other kinds of bonus and abilities and how they might fit together into one thematic and powerful build (hopefully) [*] The system of tips and hints are very helpful for someone that started with 0 knowledge about how this game should be played and what anything means. And yes I did have to use it extensively. [*] beautiful visuals with lots of options for customization, especially as we win more games that unlock more cosmetic options for banners, weapons, etc. [*] campaign maps are all very interesting with events and back stories [/list] [h2]Cons[/h2] [list] [*] I'm not sure if every 4x game is as sophisticated as this one, but it is a huge learning curve with a lot of reading and experimenting. It might not be a full degree worth of contents but it can definitely require many many hours of full time learning to have a basic idea of what everything roughly is [*] I found that most of the time I can't undo an action, for better or worse. It is annoying that I have to reload from a save if I miss presses something, which I for sure did a lot of [*] Expect to lose sleep, lose will to go outside of your room, and generally disappear from your friends and families as this game entraps to to another dimension. I haven't lost my job yet but it is definitely looking more likely than before I started this game [/list]
Huge learning curve, but it's fun after making the time investment to learn the rules.
De los mejores pa no decir el mejor juego de estrategia por turnos que e jugado 100/10
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
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