There are plenty of titles that offer an interesting plot combined with 4X battles. But I would argue that it’s not really needed.

So, if you are looking for a deep story, you won’t find it here. The main focus for most players is going to be the endless battles that come afterwards. There is a very short campaign mode in Age of Wonders 4 which is worth playing to both practice the mechanics of the game (it’s pretty much a long tutorial) and to learn a little bit about the lore. However, while most people focused on the sci-fi aspects, if you looked a little deeper you would clearly see the basis of Age of Wonders 4 there too with deep customization and the ability to evolve both heroes and armies as a scenario was being played.Īge of Wonders 4 took many of those concepts found in Planetfall and greatly expanded them, making them the core of the gameplay for the new title. We actually got to see a little bit of that new vision back in 2019 with the release of Age of Wonders: Planetfall, which brought the series away from the fantasy realm and into sci-fi territory.

However, Triumph has been busy taking the series in a whole new direction for a while now, especially since they became an official studio of Paradox Interactive, which likely gave them the freedom and the funding to really work on their unique vision for turn based strategy wargaming. And for previous entries in the Age of Wonders series, that was a pretty direct comparison. All of the Age of Wonders titles have been solid entries in the so-called 4X strategy (explore, expand, exploit and exterminate) wargames genre, with many gamers considering them to be a worthy successor to the classic Heroes of Might and Magic games. The Age of Wonders franchise from developer Triumph Studios has been evolving for quite a while.

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