A new indie game has been released, which has gotten a bit of traction on Steam and on the gaming media, and is also interesting for us. This game is a turn-based city builder, where you’re fighting for your survival against an upcoming apocalpyse. There is a prophecy which predicts doom on your tribe, and you must build… Read More »
Hooded Horse is a small indie publisher, and a rather new one in the field. The are the publisher of Old World, which probably many people in this community know.But despite the newness, they have their first sale on Steam, which is for us here quite interesting, as it includes many strategy games, including some turnbased ones!On sale… Read More »
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!The lead programmer describes how regions, borders and your empire work.You upgrad the capital of a region with buildings, like in a normal civ game, and you also build farms, camps and other improvements in the surrounding. In addition you can have vassals like in Civ4, and outposts… Read More »
PCGamesN has also released an article covering Hexarchy, called “Civilization and Slay the Spire collide in 4X deck builder on Steam”. The article talks about that Hexarchy is a light-weight game which can be played in less than 1h, that a lot of balancing has gone in the tech tree, and, shocking for veteran civ players, that there… Read More »
Paradox Games has announced today their new game “Millennia”: In contrast to most previous Paradox games it is a turn-based game, very much civ-like, but set in a different universe with an alternative history. While going through 10 ages like the stone age or the iron age, you can discover new technologies, of which some lead you to… Read More »
As we know, the civ community is very creative, shown by the countless mods for all the Civ games we have. Another civ fan has set out for something completely different: A MMO version of FreeCiv! In “Power Of Planets” you play as one of many players in a quasi-real time environment. You start with a couple of… Read More »
Paradox Games, the publisher of many great 4X games like Europa Universalis, Victoria or Crusader Kings, will be announcing another 4X game on September 21. Right now nothing is known about it, besides that an image definitely indicates that it starts in the stone age. Will this be a civ competitor? A stone age game? Something else? In… Read More »
IGN has published a video, previewing the new and upcoming 4X game “Star Trek: Infinite” by Paradox games. The comment favourably on the trek-like atmosphere, but critize some of the aspects which are common to all the Paradox games. If you want to discuss Star Trek: Infinite with us, then join us here.