Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, improvements to the Steam Deck performance, and balancing changes, e.g. you may use the ships of allied nations for your movement. For more details, please check our thread here.
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
This month you’re getting a mystery GOTM! You play as Ghengis Khan of Mongolia on Emperor level, but all other settings are unknown. You must go for a Domination or Religious Victory, and you have until November 1 to finish this game.
For all details, please see this thread.
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: December 13. For more info about this, please see the announcement, and check our thread for the remake here.
And it’s again the time for the “Game Of The Month”! This time you play as Pocatello of the Shoshone on a standard size “four corners” type map on Immortal level. You need to go for a culture victory and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. You have until October 15 to finish this game.
All details can be found in this thread.
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 earth is getting invaded by aliens, and you are leading one of the factions to deal with them: Fight them? Befriend them? Flee Earth? It will be your choice!
You can get Terra Invicta (in early access) right now with a 10% discount, for 35.99€.
Some streamers which are also known for their Civ streams have played/reviewed Terra Invicta already:
PCGamer has published a new article, called “Civilization: From Alpha Centauri To Beyond Earth“.
In this article the author talks about how the story made Alpha Centauri memorable, and how the extensive lore behind Beyond Earth does not give you the same feeling of story in the game.
An excerpt:
Story is a core part of the experience, and in Alpha Centauri more than any other 4X game ever made. There’s the obvious stuff with the faction leaders and big text infodumps at regular intervals, but there’s also a lot of other important stuff going on that’s less front-of-house – not least the constant reinforcement of just how awful everything on the planet actually is. What starts as a mission of hope breaks up before it’s even really begun, and it’s not long after that that you’re nerve-stapling citizens and fighting wars where the losing immortal is thrown screaming into a pain booth. Alpha Centauri’s Planet is a terrible, terrible place where the best of intentions go to die.
You can read the whole article here: https://www.pcgamer.com/civilization-from-alpha-centauri-to-beyond-earth/, and discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/pcgamer-civilization-from-alpha-centauri-to-beyond-earth.679349/
Christoper Tin, our most beloved composer, will be giving a free webinar about how he is making his music.
This webinar is organized by Hal Leonard and the American Choral Directors association, and will be available on Zoom on October 4, 7 PM Eastern Time.
If you want to know more about his soundtracks, culture and music, then have a look at it.
You can sign up here, and these news have been provided by himself on Twitter.
You can discuss this webinar in our forum here.
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 this thread.
At the same time the Humble Bundle as a sale for the Total War classics.
For only 12.08€ you get Medieval I+II, Shogun I+II, Empire I, Napoleon and their addons. If you have not tried a Total War title, then this is the time to do it!