Monthly Archives: October 2023

OpenCiv1 (Opensource Civilization 1 Reassembly Project)

By | October 16, 2023

CivFanatics member Rahorvat has been working over the last few months on an impressive reconstruction of good old Sid Meier’s Civilization 1. While a number of other fan projects have attempted to remake Civ1 over the years they did not involve full disassembly of the original game code to ensure a truly accurate code conversion and reconstruction of… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #231

By | October 15, 2023

And it’s again the time for the middle-of-the-month GOTM! For Civ5 you get this time a very simple game, as Washington on a standard size Terra map on Chieftain level. You cannot just steamroll everyone though, you must win via a diplomatic victory. You have until November 15 to achieve this goal. For more information please see this… Read More »

Civ fans making games: The Settlements

By | October 14, 2023

With Civ being a long standing series, it is at the end not surprising that some civ fans grow up being developers, who take some inspiration from Civ for their own games. Examples of such games are ZOR or Elaborate Lands, and now another civ-fanatic has come forward to present his own game: The Settlements. This game is… Read More »

New Civ6 patch in the making!

By | October 14, 2023

Our user AntSou noticed that there is still something going on with Civ6. It seems that the development branch for QA testing got a new update, which means another patch is in the making! Discuss these news with us here.

Ara: History Untold – How Oxide survived the “nightmare” of making a simultaneous-turn 4X game

By | October 13, 2023

RockPaperShotgun has published an article called “How Oxide survived the “nightmare” of making a simultaneous-turn 4X game”. This article is obviously about Ara: History Untold, and the devs talk about how it was complcated to organize and prioritize the not-really-turnbased game, including resolution of conflicts and land occupation. If you are curious how 4X game dev pros have… Read More »

Star Trek: Infinite released

By | October 13, 2023

Today “Star Trek: Infinite” got released. Most people knowing any Paradox games and Star Trek probably looked at this game and said that it is Stellaris with a Star Trek cover. According to current reviews, from e.g. PCGamer or RockPaperShotgun, this seems to be true, in the best sense. Star Trek: Infinite seems to capture the Trek-atmosphere, including… Read More »

PCGamesN: Sega builds replica Pyramid and Sphinx for Total War Pharaoh launch

By | October 12, 2023

After having already made a great effort with art for the release of Humankind, SEGA has now again commissioned great art for the release of Total War: Pharaoh. This time SEGA gives us a range of sand sculptures, from the Sphinx to the pyramids over status of the pharaohs. Check out this article by PCGamesN for more pictures,… Read More »

TurnBasedLovers: Top Best NEW Upcoming Turn-Based RPGs And Strategy Games of October 2023

By | October 11, 2023

TurnBasedLovers has released another article and accompanying video called “Top Best NEW Upcoming Turn-Based RPGs And Strategy Games of October 2023”,It seems indeed that October is quite a month for strategy enthusiasts. dotAGE has been released already, Total War: Pharaoh just came out today, Hexarchy should be of special interest to Civ fans, and the new GalCiv4 addon… Read More »