And we continue a warm theme also for the last month of summer: For this Civ4 “Game Of The Month” you play as Hatshepsut of Egypt on a tropical pangaea map on Deity level. You have until October 9 to spread the knowledge of the sungods everywhere.
For more information please see this thread.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is currently freely available on GOG.com.
This is a temporary deal, and valid until Monday September 4. The game will stay in your library afterwards though.
King’s Bounty is a game series, which has a similar style to Heroes Of Might and Magic: You are a hero, travelling through a fantasy landscape with an army, to fulfil quests. The battles are happening on a separate strategy map, which is influenced by the current surrounding, and is performed on a hex field in a turn-based manner. The main difference between HoMM and King’s Bounty is that King’s Bounty is more of a role-playing game, since you don’t conquer cities and have only one hero. This makes the game a bit more streamlined, but also in some way less strategic. No matter your preference, it’s a nice turnbased game, which you should definitely get, especially if it’s for free.
Get it here, and join us for the discussion here.
Firaxis has announced the Civtember anniversary celebration.
A part of this celebration is the current Civ6 sale on Steam, with an approximately 90% discount for the base game and most DLCs.
Other parts include the most recent patch, give-aways on coming Mondays, a livestream series and a merchandise sale.
Join us for the Civtember discussion here.
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 14 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to Conquistador 63 for the highest score of the update with a Standard, Epic, Immortal, Domination game for 325,771 points.
tsvyatkov was the most active player during this update, submitting 6 games.
New Number One Entries:
A number of players gained number one positions:
donsig with a 2050 AD, Small, Epic, Prince, Time game for 16,759 points.
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Large, Quick, Chieftain, Time game for 21,515 points.
** New Gauntlet Starting **
We have added some new special challenges for you, for which we need a new win:
G-Major 188 – Space Colony, Monarch, Ancient, Small, Epic, Terra, America
G-Minor 272 – Domination, Warlord, Ancient, Tiny, Normal, Pangaea
Amplitude has announced another DLC for Humankind, the “Cultures of Oceania” DLC. The new DLC comes packed with interesting content. The description from the Steam page:
“The HUMANKIND™ Cultures of Oceania DLC includes:
– 6 New Cultures
– 6 New Wonders
– 7 Independent Peoples
– 15 Narrative Events
– New in-game themed music tracks composed by Arnaud Roy”
The DLC is currently discounted by 10%, to 8.09 instead of 8.99, and will be available on September 11. You can find all information on the Steam page, and you can discuss the DLC with us here.
A surprise update for Civ6 has been released. The most important change from this update is that the Leader Pass leaders are now available on console, the abilities of some leaders get an overhaul (Julius Caesar, Wu Zetian, Harald Hadrada (Varangian), Abraham Lincoln), and the new leaders also get achievements. In addition to this we also get some minor fixes.
For the discussion please check this thread.
Original link: https://civilization.com/news/entries/civ-vi-august-2023-update/
Alex Flegler, creative lead of Age Of Empires I+II definitive edition, has been working on his own game, Elaborate Lands.
The game is a self-described Civ6-inspired city builder, and therefore of interest for us.
You build cities, research technologies, and might also have to build up a military to fight of foes.
Curious? Check out the demo here, and discuss the demo with us here.
As the title already says, on Monday August 28 the Steam strategy fest will start, with tons of discounts and new demos.
The big series are on sales, that includes:
The other series we love is on sale:
Smaller games and series, which are on sale, and are interesting in one way or another for the population of this forum:
Participating games which have (new) demos available:
This list will be updated with more relevant games for us civ-fanatics.