Age of Wonders 4 One Year Later - Is it Worth Playing

Its not the winning that counts but the Tentacles we grow along the way.

Fantastic review. This is basically the only video that I've found that clearly and concisely explained the appeal of this game for a beginner to the series.

I moved to AoW4 from playing Civilization. At this point, with all the DLCs i find AoW4 much more fun due to the customization options with nuances. All these options around faction building allow really fun builds and experimentation, thus replayability. I agree with the shortcomings you listed. I'd add also that the existing victory conditions need rework.

About the ai "pulling armies out of nowhere", it is not actually cheating... (other than economic buffs on higher difficulties) the ai when scared is just very good at using all the ways the game has to recruit troops, like the rally of lieges, the empire tree, and just plain gold rushing, etc.

Thank you for this review. Ive been debating for a year if it was worth buying or not. This was the push I needed to get it. I love the idea that your hero can be found in another game if you win. And how customizable you can make your race i stead of just being handed one.

I will give you my review. One friday I bought this game on sale, and on sunday evening I was calling my boss to take a day off. If you are a 4X fan this game will just suck you in. It has better combat than endless legend (in my opinion), much more empire variety than civilization, where most nations have just few bonuses here and there. Great exploration. Magic is awesome. You can sacrifice your whole race and make them undead, terraform your surroundings. Unlike civ, the further you go, more interesting fights get. Because your high tier tomes and units finally get rolling. Its a great game. One thing I would like to have in this game, would be some mode more centered around combat. Sometimes I want to just go and fight, but the whole empire management and diplomacy just holds me back. Something like chaos warriors in total war warhammer. Where they just go around burn everything and make their army larger, no empire management just pure brutality.

Sea People would be cool!

I want Willis to read me a bed time story!!

The real wonder is Willis.

Such an underappreciated masterpiece. Perfect review for a near perfect strategy game!

Please, could you tell me how does it compare to Age of Wonders: Planetfall? I have over 1K hours in Planetfall so that is the best reference point I can have.

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Yeah but is it better than Hearthstone?

IS Xbox series x console crossplay with Steam? I want thod feature before i buy

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Where is Willis?

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I feel i'm better witing for a humble bundle of this , to get everything at a decent price ... i already have a paradox game to play/try , victoria.... seems it improved and that's nice

it is fun. the last dlc was interresting but i had hoped for more customisation regarding the insects, like the head or tails of the units, but they are stuck looking like earwigs. the new lord type is cool but to me it does not beat the awsome factor of turning my elder dragon into a dracolich. my biggest gripe with the game is the war time diplo, or the compleate lack of it (diplomacy in general is also rather bare bones but imo peace deals are the worst part of it). your only choice is a white peace, a province claiming pact or vassalisation. nothing else, if you want any resources you will have to wait for the ai to offer you something (if they ever do), nor do you have the option to offer anything of yours. i do not know this but i have no reason to assume that you could do any of that in multiplayer war diplomacy. There is really no reason to even bother with it. this is not helped by the reason the devs actually gave to me when i asked them about it on steam. paraphrasing: "we have changed diplomacy to this and also complearely gutted the war diplomacy due to some players pulling of ridicolus diplomacy exploits in AoW3. things are this way to make sure there is only offers that the ai would accept". i got no response when i asked them about why i can not simply demand gold or mana and let the ai give me a number they would accept. they have had a year on this and have done nothing with it. another but more minor problem i have with it is the necromancy rework, and it is mostly just a bit of an immersion break. at first you could only raise undead from your pepole (by recruiting them in your city like golems) and now it is only the enemy units that you can raise. now i get why they only allow one of the two and it is mostly up to yourself which source of undead you find it the least ridicolus that your necromancer overlord is ignoreing. the bodies of the enemy or the local graveyard of his very own town.

No it dont.