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Posted May 02, 2023
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 – Age of Wonders 4 from Paradox Interactive is now available on GOG alongside its Premium Edition, Expansion Pass and Sign-Up Content!

Age of Wonders in an iconic series of turn-based strategies dating all the way back to 1999. Throughout the years AoW titles managed to capture the hearts of players and critics with their deep gameplay mechanics, intricate fantasy world-building, engaging campaigns, great customization options and incredible replayability.

Now, we are able to enjoy the latest entry in the series, developed by Triumph Studios and brought to us by the one and only Paradox Interactive.



With Age of Wonders 4, 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.



Creating the empire of our wildest fantasies by creating our followers and building anything from a clan of cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, or recreate our favorite fantasy tropes. Taking control of powerful tomes of magic to enchant our armies and evolve our people. Seeking glory through brutal domination, cunning alliances, or ultimate arcane knowledge, and writing your legacy into the very fabric of the realm itself. All of that awaits us in Age of Wonders 4.

Get this strategy and role-playing title like you’ve never seen before now and make your mark on its vast, reactive world.
Posted May 03, 2023
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idbeholdME: Is this in any way connected with the other Age of Wonders games?
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eric5h5: In the same way that the HOMM games are connected. Which is to say, you can play any of them without missing anything, and while there's probably bits of lore connecting them, even having played them all I couldn't tell you what it is. There are different factions and they fight, that's all I remember....
Thanks. I also started Heroes with 3, so that's a good comparison.
Posted May 03, 2023
I bought it, but may delay downloading until they release a patch for the bugs people are talking about (e.g. getting your own faction as a random AI opponent).
Posted May 03, 2023
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Zimerius: I'm curious to see what aow 4 brings to the table. The youtube crowds seems very positive, naming it the strategy title of the century, or at least this year. Steam delivers a mixed rep so far. Probably youngsters who did not manage to spot the lack of triple A's in this title... no pun intended.

3 was a bit of a mess to me, the whole " play aggressive " attitude felt to much like advice about sex given to you by a 10 year old bro. i'' dive into iv when/if manage the complete campaign in planetfall or a respectable discount passes the bill w/e comes first.

(p.s)

one should never frown on any advice or opportunity to learn from any source though in general speaking, extreme situations such as Sex Advice from a pre teen is of course only noticeably favourable in Hentai novels........

Therefore, the statements outed are pure, a measurement of personal reactions... take for example white collar agression, millions died... make no mistake with what i intend to express
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Niggles: Some of reviews impressions seem to be a mixed bag?
If i had to take an average of youtube vid's that popped up i would probably rate the game as....

Overwhelmingly Positive = 9/A-
Posted May 03, 2023
Mixed/negative reviews come from technical state of the game. Which of course is a real problem and disgrace with what happens to most recent game releases.

Other than that pretty much everyone agrees that mechanically it's improvement over Planetfall, which was big improvement over AoW 3. So seems like excellent game for fans when it'll be patched.
Posted May 03, 2023
I will wait for some patches before I actually start playing it... Some other games gather my time right now.

However, are there no serial keys for this one? AoW3 and Planetfall did include serial keys for the Paradox account in the library...
Posted May 04, 2023
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Niggles: Some of reviews impressions seem to be a mixed bag?
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BitMaster_1980: There is some (probably legitimate) anger because from a technical side the launch did not go too smoothly. I myself could not play so far. It's currently unclear if it's Wine, graphics drivers or Triumph screwing up. Although I hear some people manage to run it fine on Linux with less issues than Windows, so it works in principle as expected.
I think I had read someone saying you want WINE to run the game exe directly and not the launcher and it will work.
Posted May 04, 2023
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Dohi64: what the fuck is 'sign-up content'? god forbid a game contained all the fluff already. fucking paradox.
Yeah, the moment I saw that I suspect they already divided the game into small uneven pieces and expect us to pay top dollars for "DLCs"
This felt like a birthday party in hell.
Posted May 04, 2023
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Dohi64: what the fuck is 'sign-up content'? god forbid a game contained all the fluff already. fucking paradox.
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RedRagan: Yeah, the moment I saw that I suspect they already divided the game into small uneven pieces and expect us to pay top dollars for "DLCs"
This felt like a birthday party in hell.
Eh... it's just a helmet. I think you are overeacting.
Post edited May 04, 2023 by EverNightX
Posted May 04, 2023
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RedRagan: Yeah, the moment I saw that I suspect they already divided the game into small uneven pieces and expect us to pay top dollars for "DLCs"
This felt like a birthday party in hell.
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EverNightX: Eh... it's just a helmet. I think you are overeacting.
"Eh it's just a helmet"

This sounds exactly like a decade ago when people said

"Eh it's just a horse armor"

We used to laugh at it. Now we don't laugh anymore
Posted May 04, 2023
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BitMaster_1980: There is some (probably legitimate) anger because from a technical side the launch did not go too smoothly. I myself could not play so far. It's currently unclear if it's Wine, graphics drivers or Triumph screwing up. Although I hear some people manage to run it fine on Linux with less issues than Windows, so it works in principle as expected.
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EverNightX: I think I had read someone saying you want WINE to run the game exe directly and not the launcher and it will work.
Nuking bloody stupid launchers is generally among the first thing I do by default, because launchers are bloody stupid. However, the launcher works fine for AoW4 even under Wine (apparently it's a bit picky when it thinks default Windows fonts are missing, but that's a single winetricks call). Unfortunately, the problem happens during startup of the actual game and that issue is not limited to Wine.
Posted May 04, 2023
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EverNightX: Eh... it's just a helmet. I think you are overeacting.
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RedRagan: "Eh it's just a helmet"

This sounds exactly like a decade ago when people said

"Eh it's just a horse armor"

We used to laugh at it. Now we don't laugh anymore
I don't understand why any sane person would be upset over horse armor or a helmet as they are both meaningless in the scope of the game and represent no real value to the player. They are the equivalent of a toy in a box of cereal. A decade later I still don't care.
Posted May 04, 2023
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RedRagan: "Eh it's just a helmet"

This sounds exactly like a decade ago when people said

"Eh it's just a horse armor"

We used to laugh at it. Now we don't laugh anymore
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EverNightX: I don't understand why any sane person would be upset over horse armor or a helmet as they are both meaningless in the scope of the game and represent no real value to the player. They are the equivalent of a toy in a box of cereal. A decade later I still don't care.
When I look at how I design my characters in similar games, especially Planetfall, I
1) start editing an existing character and make the relevant changes to skills and traits. Cosmetics are usually unchanged. If they are, see 2),
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2) I create a character from scratch and after all skills and traits are set, I hit "random" for cosmetics until I find something that "largely works", then adjust the few bits not fitting in until I'm under my avoidance thrshold or get bored.

I get that this is important for some people and while the very idea of these scattered-all-over-the-place-for-various-reasons cosmetics is of course extremely bloody stupid, it's also so far down my give-a-damn-list that it's not really going to come up. Except as a minor forum post when I wait for my build.
Posted May 04, 2023
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EverNightX: I don't understand why any sane person would be upset over horse armor or a helmet as they are both meaningless in the scope of the game and represent no real value to the player. They are the equivalent of a toy in a box of cereal. A decade later I still don't care.
Unequal treatment. Knowing that others can get more or better tends to make most people way more unhappy with what they get. Seems very sane to me.
Posted May 04, 2023
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Cavalary: Unequal treatment. Knowing that others can get more or better tends to make most people way more unhappy with what they get. Seems very sane to me.
Apparently you don't know what unequal treatment is. Can you not do the same as the people who got the dlc? If so, you are treated the same. It's your choice to do the same or choose to be different. And again...we are talking about a stupid helmet that no one should care about.
Post edited May 04, 2023 by EverNightX
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