Elaborate Lands – free demo for a Civ6 inspired city builder

By | August 28, 2023

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.

Steam Strategy Fest Starts Monday (updated)!

By | August 27, 2023

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.

Discuss the Steam strategy fest with us here.

Ara: History Untold | Dev Diary | Ep. 01 – Combat & Armies

By | August 25, 2023

Today, the developers of Ara: History Untold have released a dev diary about how armies and combat works in Ara.

Discuss Ara: History Untold with us here.

Humankind now available on consoles

By | August 24, 2023

Humankind has now been released on Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, and Playstation 4/5, and is also included in the XBox Game Pass.

The official announcement:

How do you feel about making history from the comfort of your own sofa? Do you want to build a great empire while chilling in front of your TV? Or maybe you’d like to lead your troops to glorious victory from the safety of your living room?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re in luck: HUMANKIND™ is now available on Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, and Playstation 4/5. Pick it up on your preferred console storefront or the Amplitude Store!

To celebrate this occasion, we’ve also prepared a short video together with Aspyr about their work to bring our historical 4X game to consoles.

If you want to discuss your experience, we have prepared a new forum section to discuss the console version of the game here you can chat about strategies, your favorite cultures, or anything else related to the game.

We’re happy to welcome all our new players, and hope you’ll have many hours of fun leading your people to greatness in Humankind!

Discuss Humankind with us here.

For people who are more interested in real time strategy (due to unknown reasons…): Age Of Empires IV is now also available on XBox.

Ara: History Untold – first gamplay trailer

By | August 23, 2023

Today, the developers of Ara: History Untold have released their first gameplay trailer during the Gamescom, and the gameplay looks definitely interesting.

For people who might be undecided about the game, you can try it in 2024 also with the PC Game Pass.

Discuss Ara: History Untold with us here.

GameRant: Civilization 7 Could Break New Ground with an Exciting Feature

By | August 21, 2023

GameRant has recently published a series of articles somewhat related to Civ7, most of them not being informative, but one of the authors over there has now proposed something a bit more interesting: Civ7 should have a campaign mode, with dedicated goals and stories for each leader and civilization. They refer to other series like Age of Empires or the Anno series, who obviously do things differently than Civ, and then talk about the good work which has been done in Civ with various scenarios.

An excerpt from the article:

Civilization 7 should break new ground for the franchise by offering the first full campaign mode of the series. Ideally, Civilization 7 should have a tailored campaign mode for each of its world leaders. Borrowing a little from the highly underrated Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Civilization 7 could offer a series of Scenarios for each leader, as opposed to just one short Scenario each, taking players through their entire historical career beat by beat, and putting them up against the same challenges that the real-life versions of those figures had to face. This way, fans are able to enjoy full-length campaigns, but can take it at their own pace, going mission to mission. Civilization 7 is probably looking for a way to stand out from past entries, and adding a full single-player campaign would definitely do that.

Read the whole article here.

What do you think?
Is this a way to go for Civ?
Or should this stay reserved for a mod like our most very famous and popular “Rhy’s and Fall”?
Or is there just n oplace in civ for a story, besides the story of all humanity?

Discuss with us here!

Hexarchy playtest now live!

By | August 20, 2023

Hexarchy has now started a playtest.
If you join it, then you are free to play it over the weekend until August 22, also in multiplayer, if you like!

Discuss Hexarchy with us in the forum here.

Madish Moose: HUMANKIND versus Civilization 6 – A (mostly) Definitive Comparison based on the 4x Strategy Genre

By | August 19, 2023

For the 2 year anniversary of Humankind, the streamer Madish Moose has released a video comparing Humankind to Civ6. On his Twitch profile you can see that he plays both games regularly, so he has some experience with both of them. In the video he compares both titles based on the 4Xs of the genre, and judges which game performs better on them.

Do you agree with him? Let us know here!