Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4 is a 4X strategy game with turn-based tactical combat. Players control a growing and changing faction, exploring magical realms and evolving their empire. The game introduces a new storytelling event system and highly customizable empires, allowing for endless replayability. Players can craft unique followers by combining bodily forms, societal traits, and arcane powers. The objective is to seek powerful tomes of magic to evolve people and enchant armies, leading to victory through domination, alliances, or arcane knowledge.

The game builds upon Triumph Studios' award-winning strategy series, elevating its empire building, role-playing, and warfare mechanics. Players can create diverse factions, from cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, and see their populations physically transform as they acquire new magical powers. Tactical turn-based battles involve armies of various sizes, featuring a morale system and environments shaped by player decisions. The game offers tremendous variety in empires, units, and environments, enhanced by moddability and an open-ended design. A new event system provides emergent storytelling, with player choices impacting the world and subsequent playthroughs. Rulers can ascend to an in-game pantheon, further customizing future games by encountering past creations as rivals or allies.