And you are also getting the last Civ5 “Game Of The Month” for the year 2025! This time we challenge you to play as Oda Nobunaga on a standard size “small continents” map on (fittingly) Emperor level. Unfittingly, you must win a diplomacy victory though, and prevent all other civs from winning another victory. The earlier you win, the better! Check for the savegame here. You have until January 15 to finish this game and send in the winning savegame.
During this year’s CivGive, history student and civ streamer Paisley_Trees was interviewing Firaxis historian Andrew Johnson. They talk about what their Civ7 strategy is (historic roleplaying…or not), why Oxford is not a medieval wonder, the current view on the beginning of human civilization, the complications with the languages in Civ, and a lot more. Watch the video, and discuss with us here.
And it’s time for the special December “Game Of The Month”, called the “Krampus” edition. This is again a challenge for you, but with some more spiced-up requirements. The basics are that you play Machiavelli of Aksum on a huge Archipelago map on Deity level. The disaster intensity is catastrophic, and the independents are hostile. As special requirements we have that you must take Hawaii and America as following civs (and you must unlock them), you must win a domination victory before anyone else, you must have the memento “Il Principe, Glass Armonica”, as Hawaii you must settle 2 islands, and as America you must settle 3 cities in distant lands on plains or grassland tiles.
Sounds like a challenge? Get the savegame here!
Today we got the latest Civ7 update! Patch 1.3.1 comes with a new map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, rebalancing, bugfixes in the AI, UI changes and a lot more.
The second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC has also been released, and it’s still free until January 5. You can now (finally) play as the Ottomans, as well as Iceland, and we get the barbary pirate queen Sayyida al Hurra as new leader.
Check out the thread for the update here.
We already mentioned it a while ago that there was apparently a cancelled LEGO civ game. It seems that this then flew under our radar for a while, and a month ago our user cuc had posted a leaked video from the unfinished game. Have a look at the video above, and discuss with us here.
Sara came by today for again some news, and this time also the most exciting one: We can expect the update, and also the second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC tomorrow! This all will come with another map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, some rebalancing and a lot more. Stay tuned for tomorrow, and check the discussion here.
5 years ago for Civ1s 30th anniversary we posted Blake’s video here about how to play it in HD with the best mods & scenarios and now as we close in on Sid Meier’s Civilization II 30th anniversary the time has come to do the same for Civ2. In the intervening years Blake has painstakingly searched, rescued & preserved several thousand Civ2 scenarios made over the last 3 decades and is now showcasing many of the best total conversion ones in this video. There’s also previews on some crazy new mods of Blake’s that change nearly everything in Civ2 to look like Heroes of Might & Magic, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune, and Alpha Centauri to name a few. Eventually he’ll be doing episodes on playing Colonization, Master of Magic, Alpha C, CtP and Civ3-4-etc in HD too but that’ll be a few more years work. Curious? Check more here.
Nova Roma is a historic city builder set in ancient Rome.
You do your usual thing of collecting resources, building housing and infrastructure, manipulating the environment, and also pleasing the ancient gods.
Nova Roma is published by HoodedHorse, who have also published Old World.
The system requirements are rather moderate, and you can already try out a demo, before the game gets published in January.
Check out the details (incl. download) here on Steam, on GOG or Epic (Demo only on Steam right now though), and discuss with us here.