TurnBasedLovers: Best 10 4X Strategy Games of All Time

By | December 1, 2021
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TurnBasedLovers have published their list of the 10 best 4X strategy games out there. To no surprise, this list contains Civ6! The whole article contains a lot of classics, obviously, like Alpha Centauri, Masters of Magic or Master of Orion II, but also Civ4: Colonization.

An excerpt:

“It should come as little surprise that the granddaddy of every other game on this list would come out on top, especially with how well-designed the franchise’s most recent incarnation has turned out. Civilization is one of the few franchises that improves with each new entry without backsliding. Civ 6 has proven that the team at Firaxis can pinpoint what makes their games fun and keep those elements while still experimenting and pushing the genre forward.”

Read the whole article here: https://turnbasedlovers.com/lists/best-10-4x-strategy-games-of-all-time/

Discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/turnbasedlovers-best-10-4x-strategy-games-of-all-time.674369/

Civilization’s 30th birthday: FreeCol video review

By | November 29, 2021
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Our user blake00 is continuing his video series about the classic games in the Civ series. This time he has a look at FreeCol, a free, open-source version of Colonization. He shows how the game plays, has a looks at mods, the map editor and the late game as well.

So feeling like an old-school free game? Have a look!

Discuss his video here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-video-series-ep-02-colonization-hd-tour.673998/#post-16190430

More autumn sales besides Old World and Civ6: Humankind, Sega, Slitherine, Argonwood, Paradox, Stardock

By | November 24, 2021
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It’s sales time! Right now we already have a sale on Old World (10%), and Civ6 Anthology edition (65%).

But besides this, more and more developers and publishers have started their autumn sales!

Most important to the Civ community is the SEGA sale of Humankind, 20% off for 39.99€.

The SEGA sale has many interesting games, e.g.

Other interesting buys on steam:

From the war-games publisher Slitherine we also get a sale. Among the interesting items are:

Paradox also has a sale on their grand strategy games:

Stardock titles are also on sale:

We plan to update this list with more interesting items, stay tuned.

Let us know about missing deals here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/autumn-sales-2021-civ6-old-world-humankind-sega-slitherine-argonwood.674281/

Old World on sale, 10% off, and Civ6 Anthology on sale, 65% off

By | November 23, 2021
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Old World is currently on sale in the Epic Games Store, it costs only 29.69€ instead of 32.99€.

You can find this offer directly in the Epic Games Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/old-world

The Civ6 Anthology edition is also on sale at both Steam and the Epic Games Store. It is discounted from 99.99€ down to 35€. You can find this offer for the next 10 days here: https://store.2k.com/en/game/buy-civilization-vi-anthology

PolyCast 394: Eisenhower

By | November 22, 2021
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The three hundred-and-ninety-fourth episode of PolyCast, “Eisenhower“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

Forum Talk
– 00h01m51s | Score Victory
– 00h09m11s | History Respawned on England

Senate
– 00h21m04s | The Faith Economy and its Troubles

Forum Talk
– 00h36m01s |Designing America for Civilization VII

PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.

Civ5 “Modder’s Monthly” #14

By | November 21, 2021
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Our user JFD has together with some other dedicated members of the modding community released the “Modder’s Monthly” #14. In this issue they review the new civs from TopHatPaladin, the Monopoly++ mod collection, and the Harmony in Diversity mod, talk about colour schemes for Civs and interview the modders participating in the10th anniversary Civ collection, among other things.

The PDF of the latest issue is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JsQbxJ8BPc4Q-MSuxaTYYw4sX0sq2nEg/view

You can find all issues of the “Modder’s Monthly” here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-modders-monthly.639031/

Free Humankind demo now available, and sale, 20% off

By | November 19, 2021
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Amplitude Studios has announced in a blog post that a free demo for Humankind is now available. The demo allows you to play the first 100 turns in Humankind.
The demo is available on:

  1. Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/
  2. The Epic Store https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/humankind–demo
  3. The Microsoft Store https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/humankind-demo/9n9c55qpkf2f

And in case this convinces you that you absolutely also need to play the rest of the turns, there is now also a sale, you can get the standard and deluxe edition with 20% off! This means for the standard edition 39.99€ instead of 49.99€, and for the Deluxe 47.99€ instead of 59.99€. You can find this offer here:

  1. Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/
  2. Epic Games Store https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/humankind

This sale runs until November 30.

You can discuss the demo in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/free-humankind-demo-now-available-and-sale-20-off.674205/

Old World Patch #78 and soundtrack behind-the-scenes video

By | November 18, 2021
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Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released the latest patch, #78, for their game. This fix includes new events, UI improvements and many bug fixes. You can discuss this patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-78.674210/

At the same time Christopher Tin has released a behind-the-scenes video (embedded above) for the opening track of Old World. You can find the whole Old World soundtrack on different platforms like Youtube or Spotify, and especially the main track is outstanding. You can discuss this video, as well as the rest of the soundtrack, in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/video-to-christoper-tins-i-lift-my-eyes-from-the-old-world-soundtrack.674019/