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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 02, 2023
Got it earlier today, I've been looking forward to this for a while now. Can't wait to give the game a go. :)
Posted May 02, 2023
The helmet very much inspired by the one of a certain Dark Lord which some people were asking about is available too, by the way.
Post edited May 02, 2023 by Swedrami
Posted May 02, 2023
Depending on whether this one doesn't have hit-chance like AoW3 or has hit-chance like Planetfall, I'll either wishlist it or ignore it, maybe indefinitely.
Post edited May 02, 2023 by Lesser Blight Elemental
Posted May 02, 2023
high rated
what the fuck is 'sign-up content'? god forbid a game contained all the fluff already. fucking paradox.
Posted May 02, 2023
Is this in any way connected with the other Age of Wonders games? I haven't played a single one so far, but been meaning to give the first game a try soon-ish. Just wondering if having played the past entries is a plus before going to 4 or if it doesn't matter.

Will probably get this once all the DLCs are out in a year or two.
Posted May 02, 2023
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Dohi64: what the fuck is 'sign-up content'? god forbid a game contained all the fluff already. fucking paradox.
This may very well be a response to my complaint about the sing-up bonus, which was only available as a Steam Key.

While it would have been nice if the sign up asked us to pick a platform key, it is far better to have it as a DLC than not having it at all. I moaned about it on several GOG threads and on their own forums.

So while MTX are generally bad, in this case I am glad to have this on GOG at all. I'm sick of studios always treating GOG as a 2nd class citizen, so I'm glad that someone have finally listened it and corrected it.

Thank you, Paradox and Triumph!
Posted May 02, 2023
Does this game also have microscopic text like AOW 3 does? And that includes tooltips too, upon which the devs' (not-very-good) "unofficial" suggested fix for AOW 3's microsopic text seems to have zero effect.
Posted May 02, 2023
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idbeholdME: Is this in any way connected with the other Age of Wonders games?
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....
Posted May 02, 2023
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Does this game also have microscopic text like AOW 3 does? And that includes tooltips too, upon which the devs' (not-very-good) "unofficial" suggested fix for AOW 3's microsopic text seems to have zero effect.
lowering your res usually helps =D

planetfall came with a cus ui sizer though automode managed to nail it, for me at least.
Posted May 02, 2023
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
Post edited May 02, 2023 by Zimerius
Posted May 03, 2023
Cool cool. Now I actually have to get around to to playing AoW 3 & Planetfall first though. Still sitting in my backlog. *whistles innocently*
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
Some of reviews impressions seem to be a mixed bag?
Posted May 03, 2023
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P-E-S: Cool cool. Now I actually have to get around to to playing AoW 3 & Planetfall first though. Still sitting in my backlog. *whistles innocently*
While AoW3 wasn't a bad game I could not get into it again in the runup to the fourth. Planetfall simply did so many things massively better, even with me preferring fantasy over science fiction there was no real contest and while AoW4 returns to fantasy world it takes a lot of refinement from Planetfall.

AoW felt to me like Master of Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic had a baby. The tactical battles tended more towards MoM, the strategic map more towards HoMM. With AoW3 the strategic map and general design started shifting strongly towards a real 4X. Planetfall confirmed and refined that and now AoW4 seems to build on top of that.

I played the earlier AoWs a bit for historical interest but until Planetfall did not feel really at home.
Posted May 03, 2023
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Niggles: Some of reviews impressions seem to be a mixed bag?
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.

You also need to add some review discounts for "Paradox means thousands of DLCs"-screamers and for example the foaming-at-the-mouth-anti-woke brigade took offense because your main character can select a their pronoun.

But setting everything aside, the reason I enjoyed Planetfall was not because it was perfect from the beginning (it wasn't) but because Triumph did a very good job of post-release work even beyond the scope of the planned DLCs. The experience bought a lot of good will from me and I'm willing to extend that favor to AoW4. Of course, if they screw this up that might have repercussions to whatever comes afterwards.
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