Category Archives: other games for Civ-fans

Tacticon 2024: The schedule

By | July 16, 2024

The Tacticon is a virtual convention about strategy games, and now this year’s schedule is known! Every civ-fanatic should be interested in the talk on Friday about historical accuracy in strategy games!The talk about procedural generation might be interesting as well, given that’s essentially how the civ maps are generated.For the game showcases, Reus 2, a god game… Read More »

Tacticon 2024, July 18-22

By | July 12, 2024

The Tacticon is a virtual convention about strategy games, organized by the independent publishers FireSquid Games and HoodedHorse, and therefore should contain some things, which are also interesting for us.This year the convention will happen from July 18 to July 22. The lineup normally consists out of various talks, new demos, and some sales, obviously.The list of games… Read More »

Ara: History Untold – first gameplay and release date

By | June 12, 2024

During the XBOX Game showcase we got the first footage of Ara gameplay! The release date was also announced, September 24 2024. If you want to discuss this video with us, then join us here.

Old World – Behind The Throne DLC released

By | May 28, 2024

Today, Mohawk Games has released the latest DLC for Old World, “Behind The Throne”.This DLC brings new characters, 350 new events, new projects, and most interestlingly new gameplay mechanics. This includes characters who might be competing with you as a leader, a grand vizier who manages your cities better (or doesn’t he?), new political eras, civil wars, and… Read More »

Endless Legend free on Steam until May 23

By | May 18, 2024

As various outlets such as Polygon and GamingOnLinux have reported, the title “Endless Legend” is currently free on Steam until May 23. This includes the base game without DLC, which are currently discounted. Endless Legend is a turn-based 4X game, so definitely something for us, and was released in 2014. The setting is not historical, but in a… Read More »

Great House Of Calderia: Crusader Kings 3 has a rival as beloved grand strategy game hits 1.0

By | May 3, 2024

FireSquid games, the organizers of Tacticon, have released a new game, “Great House Of Calderia“. PCGamesN has also published an article called “Crusader Kings 3 has a rival as beloved grand strategy game hits 1.0“, which probably tells you why this is interesting for us.Great House Of Calderia is a grand strategy game, running in real time, so… Read More »

New indie game release: Manor Lords

By | April 26, 2024

Today the game “Manor Lords” has become available in early access, after being for a long while Steam’s most anticipated game.This city builder has been developed by a single person, and is published by Hooded Horse, who have also published Old World.The setting of this game is in medieval Southern Germany, and your task is to build a… Read More »

Civilization meets Cities Skylines 2 in new historical city builder

By | April 13, 2024

A new game has been announced, which should be of interest to the Civ-fanatics: Memoriapolis. PCGamesN describes it as “Civilization meets Cities Skylines 2 in new historical city builder“, which indeed could be come true. The game is described as a city builder, where you take your city through the ages, unlock new challenges, meetnew demands by your… Read More »