Another game of interest for the Civ community has become available (early access): Civitas.This game is a real-time city builder, focused on the medieval and renaissance era. It is also a sand-box game, with procedural maps. Means you are free to build whatever you want, on randomly generated maps.While not directly a civilization builder, it seems this game… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago a new interesting game was announced, which just today popped on my radar: Solium Infernum. PCGamesN has as a headline “Doom meets Civilization as Hellish strategy game gets triple-A remake“. Apparently the remake of a not well known 2009 strategy game, it is set in a Hell scenario (therefore the “Doom”), but it’s… Read More »
Another game which could be of high interested for the Civ community has been released: Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim.As the title hints, this game is a civ-like game, set in the bronze age (so more similar to Old World). So this is a turn-based 4X game in a historical setting. You can build cities, build wonders (although… Read More »
The original Master of Magic game (from 1994), one of the classics of turn based games and 4X, is currently available for free on GOG.This promotion lasts until Sunday October 2.Get your free copy here. Discuss this classic with us in our forum here. This sale goes together with the announcement of the release date for the remake:… Read More »
Since Yesterday “Terra Invicta” is in early access.This is another 4X game published by Hooded Horse, who also published Old World.While still a 4X game, Terra Invicta is not turn-based, but a real time strategy game, so more similar to the Paradox Titles like Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings.The setting is completely different though: In Terra Invicta… Read More »
There is now also a TactiCon sale going on!60 different turn-based games are on sale, with discounts between 10 to 75%!Most interesting games for us here are probably “Imperiums: Greek Wars”, “Expeditions: Rome” and “Going Medieval”, since these are history themed, but a lot more interesting games can be found there! For more infos about TactiCon please see… Read More »
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 »
Hooded Horse, the publisher of Old World and another range of strategy games, together with FireSquid, the developers of the 4X game “Great House Of Calderia”, are organizing Tacticon, a digital strategy even on Steam, happening September 22-26. This event will cover various presentations about strategy games, and will be featuring more than 100 different games, released and… Read More »