

Write Your Own Legend: A new event system provides unexpected levels of storytelling for 4X games. Tactical turn-based battles bring your armies to life, from skirmishes with roaming monsters to vast sieges with many units on each side. Strategy Meets Role-Playing Like Never Before: 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. Seek powerful tomes of magic to enchant your armies and see your people physically change as they morph into angelic beings or scions of chaos to face their enemies. Build anything from a clan of cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, or recreate your favourite fantasy tropes. Create the Empire of Your Wildest Fantasies: Craft your followers by combining bodily forms, societal traits, and arcane powers. For the first time in the series, players can create their own custom factions, and leave their mark on countless worlds through each choice they make. Powerful Wizard Kings have returned to the realms to reign as gods among mortals, and players will rise to challenge their rule using Tomes of Magic to unleash arcane destruction and evolve their armies, gaining new abilities and forms. There's hitches in the animations and input delay in handheld mode but nothing too terrible.Īnd for the record as a total noob at the game i put in 20 hours before learning how to use engineering to upgrade armor and weapons unlocked from research so it's not too punishing of a game on lower difficulties.Age of Wonders 4 invites players to rule a fantasy realm of their own design, in a blend of strategy, role-playing, and turn-based combat. Sound is a mixed bag sometimes working fine other times just crackling. Models look great for what's possible the load times are a little long but bearable. Everything is lowered quality to run on the switch but doesn't feel like it's been gutted. I've had it crash on me maybe 4 or 5 times out of 30 hours of play. Granted im a filthy casual at the game and play it on the easiest settings with some save scumming to fix terrible mistakes. All dlc is included with options to start a game with or without each dlc before going in.

Tough as all hell but never feels like it's cheating.

I grabbed it when it was on sale last after playing through mechanicus.
