Old World 20% off on Steam until September 12

By | September 7, 2022

Old World is on sale! The base game currently costs 31.99€, with expansion 35.98€, and there’s also a pack of the publisher Hooded Horse, which includes Clanfolk (a colony builder) and Nebulous (a 3D space strategy game), for in total 71.96€. This sale goes until September 12.And there’s obviously also the demo, in case you’re undecided. Discuss this… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #241

By | September 6, 2022

Another month, another “Game Of The Month”! This time you play as the Inca on a custom standard size map without world wrap on deity level. You need to go for domination or conquest victory, and you have until September 27 to pacify this world! This game is part of a double to see if the Inca or… Read More »

Explorminate: Our Favorite 4X Games in Development in 2022

By | September 5, 2022

Explorminate, a website dedicated to 4X, strategy and tactic games, has published a list of interesting games currently in development.Most of these games are also interesting for us Civ-fanatics, and have been mentioned here on CFC before. The list: Spellforce: Conquest of Eo Master of Magic (reboot) Alliance Of The Sacred Suns Revival: Recolonization Ara – History Untold… Read More »

Play the very first Old World “Game Of The Month”

By | September 4, 2022

CivFanatics has a long standing tradition of the “Game Of The Month” (short: “GOTM”), where a team of fellow Civ-fanatics organizes new, challenging savegames for the community, to compete against each other. The goal here is not only to beat the game, but then to afterwards compare your approach to the approach of other players, and see who… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #142

By | September 2, 2022

And we continue with the heat-wave theme for the Game Of The Month! In this GOTM you play as John Curtin of Australia on a standard size hot and wet Island Plates map. You need to go for the Science Victory to prevent global warming, but corporations are enabled, up to your government if this will be a… Read More »

History Respawned podcast: History Games at Gamescom and Civs 101: The Inca

By | September 1, 2022

Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about the most interesting games at the Gamescom, e.g. Victory 3 or Age of Empires IV. This release of the podcast is combined with an earlier episode of the Civs 101 series about the Inca from July last year.… Read More »

ABCClassic: The sound of strategy, volume 2: sci-fi and fantasy

By | August 31, 2022

ABCClassic, normally a broadcaster for classical music, has published their second episode about computer game soundtracks. This episode is about sci-fi and fantasy soundtracks, and might interest some people here, because it contains 2 songs composed by Christopher Tin (who won the Grammy for the Civ4 main theme) for OffWorld Trading Company (a game by the Civ3 lead… Read More »

ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs – The winners of the competition

By | August 29, 2022

10 days ago we started a little competition to give away three keys for ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs. This game is a turn-based monster manager, where you up try to bring your two Slorfs through a crazy world while building up your deck and managing your base. The creator turned out to be a lurker here at… Read More »