Category Archives: other games for Civ-fans

Ara: History Untold Developer Diary: City Layouts

By | January 30, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted 2 in their dev blog, talking about city layouts. They describe the difficulties of having procedurally generated city layouts, which also need to look appealing. Initially they cities appeared like pizzas, with repetetive sectors. They seem to have fixed this problem by definiting some basic layouts, from which the game… Read More »

Mahokenshi: A turn-based deck builder in a Japanese fantasy setting

By | January 24, 2023

The turn-based deck builder Mahokenshi has today (24.01.2023) been released on Steam.In this game you lead your samurai hero, belonging to one of 4 different houses, through a campaign on a hex-based landscape. You build up your deck of cards, to gain special abilities, with which you will slay all kinds of far-eastern themed fantasy monsters. The game… Read More »

Ara: History Untold – Technical Alpha 2 to come

By | January 11, 2023

Ara: History Untold is another hot contender for best upcoming Civilization-like game. The developers have now concluded the first alpha phase of the game, and are incorporating the feedback into the game. They have also announced that a second technical alpha will come soon. If you want to join this alpha, you first need to join the Xbox… Read More »

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 »

TOP 10 Offline Turn-based Tactics Games for Android & iOS 2023

By | January 5, 2023

We got notified via Twitter of this video above, showcasing the best mobile offline games, which you should play in 2023.A lot of these should be very interesting in case you don’t have Civ on your mobile phone, so check out this video, and discuss it with us here.

TurnBasedLovers: Top 10 EXCITING Turn-Based Games to play in 2023!

By | December 21, 2022

TurnBasedLovers has released a new article, “Top 10 EXCITING Turn-Based Games to play in 2023!”. The list features upcoming games for the next year (obviously). The most interesting game for the Civ community is “Ara: History Untold“, but also Mahokenshi, Songs of Conquest (already in early access) or Alliance of the Sacred Suns should be interesting for us.For… Read More »

FCiv.net December 2022 showcase

By | December 19, 2022

And the developers of fciv.net are further developing their version of FreeCiv. Above you can see the latest show case for December 2022. If you want to have a quick (or not so quick, whom are we kidding?) game online, then head over here: https://www.fciv.net/ , and if you want to discuss FCiv.net in our forum, then please… Read More »

TurnBasedFest: Celebrating turn-based video games (Dec 8-12)

By | December 5, 2022

On December 8 to 12 the TurnBasedFest will be happening: A showcase of turn-based games of all kinds (strategy, RPG and others). Various developers and other content-creators will be around, showing their games, of which more than 300 will be featured. A steam sale for many of the featured games will be happening at the same time. So… Read More »