Category Archives: Old World

PCGamer: “The top 100 PC games”, including Old World!

By | September 13, 2021

PCGamer has published an article about the top 100 games, which you should be playing this year. While this is time-wise tight, with an average of 3 days per game, you need to make a selection, so we are very happy that this is not too hard: Old World has been included in the list! From the article:… Read More »

Old World patch, September 9

By | September 9, 2021

The developers of Old World have released a new patch. They have made various tweaks to the religious components and also added more events, among other things. Discuss this patch in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september.673147/ Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mohawkgames/status/1436075294314704896

Old World designer notes #7: Soren Johnson on Characters

By | September 8, 2021

Soren Johnson has added a new blog post, about why the characters were added to Old World. Have a read here: https://www.designer-notes.com/?p=1714An excerpt: “Simply put, characters add a dynamism to Old World that prevents it from reaching ECS, the usual fate of most 4X games. The most obvious way characters disrupt the game’s stability is via diplomacy. Simply… Read More »

Official Old World user manual

By | September 7, 2021

Mohawk Games have released the offical manual for Old World: It’s a 100 pages long PDF document with all the basic explanations you need for the game. The manual has been made with the help of a Velociryx, https://www.twitch.tv/velociryx, the author of the SMAC/X strategy guide. You can find the manual here, and you can leave comments in our… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: Give Civ a present, get one back!

By | September 3, 2021

Civilization’s 30th birthday: Give Civ a present, get one back! To celebrate the 30th birthday of Civilization, we are holding a contest: Give Civ a present, get one back! How would you do this? We are looking for any form of art, created for Civilization! Have you ever drawn something inspired by Civ? Made a sculpture? A lego… Read More »

Old World patch, September 1

By | September 3, 2021

The developers of Old World have released a new patch. The patch notes can be found here. Besides various tweaks, also more bonus cards and events were added. Discuss the new patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september-1.672965/

Soren Johnson on citizens and specialists in Old World

By | August 31, 2021

Soren Johnson has released his latest blog post about the development of Old World. You can find the blog post here. An excerpt: “I used this opportunity to fix a couple other problems with the design. Players had complained that cities were too similar to each other, which was certainly a problem with yields coming less from the… Read More »

New Old World patch, August 25 2021

By | August 25, 2021

A new patch for Old World has been released. The patch notes can be found here, the full log here. The changes include various balancing related items in single, as well in multiplayer, in addition to 39 new events. Discuss these changes in our Old World forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-august-25-2021.672732/. Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1430645958904369154