Category Archives: other games for Civ-fans

Old World expansion: Heroes Of The Agean – First look

By | April 14, 2022

And there is a first video out about the early access of the new Old World expansion “Heroes Of The Agean” by Mohawk Games. Discuss this expansion in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-expansion-heroes-of-the-agean.676299/

Anno 1800 free to play until May 19 (and sale)

By | April 14, 2022

Anno 1800 is currently available to play for free in the Ubisoft store until May 19. Anno 1800 is a real-time historic strategy builder, set in the year 1800, and well worth a look. GreenManGaming and Ubisoft. At Ubisoft the main game is discounted to 19.80€ (and appropriate discounts for the gold and complete edition). At GreenManGaming the… Read More »

FreeCiv: New version 3.0 and updates

By | April 12, 2022

FreeCiv 3.0 has been released in February, and recently also the patch 3.0.1.As many of you know, FreeCiv is a free, open-source Civ game, inspired by Civilization 2. The recent change in version number has also changed the rules. The default rules are now closer to Civ3 than to Civ2, see https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/Civ2civ3 . FreeCiv 3.0 can be downloaded… Read More »

Old World: Expansion “Heroes Of The Agean”, and Steam/GOG release May 19

By | April 11, 2022

IGN has just put out the announcement trailer for Old World‘s new expansion “Heroes Of The Agean”! You can see the trailer above, and read some information about the new infos here: https://www.ign.com/videos/old-world-heroes-of-the-aegean-expansion-exclusive-announcement-trailer The new expansion will include 6 new historical scenarios, and introduces more interesting personalities like Leonidas. Apparently Mohawak Games will make the expansion free for… Read More »

Push Humankind too far?! Live stream April 11-17 with great streamers on Elhoim’s map!

By | April 10, 2022

The Humankind Twitter account has just announced a live streaming challenge with several streamers, including the well known Civ6 streamers @PotatoMcWhiskey , TheGameMechanic and JumboPixel.Over these days they will try to trigger the pollution end-condition in the fastest way possible.They will be playing this game on Elhoim’s World map.You may wonder if this is in any way related… Read More »

10% discount for Old World, and new video about training

By | April 5, 2022

Old World is currently on sale, 10% off in the Epic Games Store, 29.69€ instead of 32.99€ (sale is for 2 days). If you take the chance to get it now, and want to dig deeper, then our user alcaras has made a new video about training in Old World. Have a look at it if you want… Read More »

GOG: Free giveaway (48h) – Thea 2: The Shattering

By | March 30, 2022

GOG has a 48h giveaway. The game “Thea 2: The Shattering” is freely available for everyone for 2 days.The game is a turn-based strategy game on a hex grid. On first glance it reminds one of “Heroes Of Might & Magic”.The self-description on the GOG webpage is:“Thea 2: The Shattering is a follow-up to the successful Thea: The… Read More »

Masters of Magic remake: Beta testers wanted

By | March 29, 2022

Masters of Magic is one of the strategy classics out there, dating back to 1994, and having also been described as a fantasy version of Civ.The wargaming publisher Slitherine is working on a remake of it, to be released this year.The game seems to include a hex-based overview map, turn-based combat, city management and spell research.In their latest… Read More »