Category Archives: Old World

WarGamer.com: The best 4x games on PC

By | January 10, 2023

WarGamer.com, a site dedicated to tabletop and war games, has published a list of the best 4X games for PC.As it has to be, despite it’s age, Civilization 6 is still on the list, together with one of our other favourites, Old World. They point out Old World’s interesting order system, as well as Civ’s ever expanding scope… Read More »

GDC 2022, Soren Johnson: My Elephant in the Room: An ‘Old World’ Postmortem

By | January 1, 2023

Soren Johnson’s talk from the GDC of 2022 has now been released on Youtube.He talks obviously about Old World, about Civilization and how Old World is similar and different, and about issues of the 4X genre in general.He also talks about the decision to include characters and a kind of story into the game. Source: Twitter. If you… Read More »

Old World update #102

By | December 21, 2022

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, bugfixes, 2 new events, a new map of the Roman Empire and a donut map script. Discuss this update with us here. Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Old World’s Soundtrack nominated for a grammy, and another additional nomination for Christopher Tin

By | November 15, 2022

The Recording Company has published this year’s nominationy for the Grammy awards. This year is the first time that prices will be awarded in the new category of best video game soundtrack. So far, the only video game title to win a Grammy is Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu”, the Civ4 main theme, and the related album “Calling All… Read More »

Old World update #100

By | November 10, 2022

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, improvements to the AI, and more. Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Old World update #99

By | October 20, 2022

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, reduced memory usage, reworks on the French translation and more. For more details, please check our thread here. Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Old World Update #98

By | October 6, 2022

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, improvements to the Steam Deck performance, and balancing changes, e.g. you may use the ships of allied nations for your movement. For more details, please check our thread here. Old World is currently available in… Read More »

TactiCon Schedule

By | September 21, 2022

And there is now a schedule for the TactiCon!The program includes talks about strategy games and publishing. Among the participants will be Soren and Leyla Johnson, the former being the Civ3 and 4 lead designer, and they both worked together on Old World. Tim Bender from their publisher Hooded Horse will be participating in a talk about how… Read More »