And it’s another month, which is awaiting world domination!
In the current Civ4 “Game Of The Month” you play as Suryavarman II of the Khmer on a Great Plains map on an Archipelago world on Deity. You may opt for the adventurer bonus and get the same starting bonuses as the Deity AI (2 settlers, 3 archers, 1 worker), plus a great spy.
You have until June 15 to finish this game. For all details, please check the related thread.
The video game website Kotaku has just released a news article, which describes in its headline Old World as “The Best New 4X Game In Years”. An excerpt from the article below:
I said simply calling this “Civilization x Crusader Kings” was unfair not because it’s technically wrong—five minutes with this game will show you that’s the case—but because it sells the final product short. Old World is so much more than just bolting one game’s popular system into another genre and hoping for the best.
Old World actually feels pretty closer to those older, near-perfect Civ spin-offs like Colonization and Alpha Centauri. Games that took the basic 4X formula and repackaged it into a shorter, more focused setting which swapped out the passing of ages for some more interesting mechanics. In Colonization that meant turning tobacco into cigars and sending them back to Europe. In Old World it’s managing an ancient empire through not just roads and farms, but family ties as well.
You can read the full article here and discuss with us in our forum here.
Old World is available on the big distribution platforms, you can find the relevant links below:
Amplitude Studios, the developers of Humankind, have today announced another event: The Mississippians community event.
This event adds another civ, the Mississippians, to Humankind, the basic stats of this civ you can see above. This civ was very well known for their earth work, and with this we also get three new challenges, running from May 1 to June 9:
Discuss this event in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mississippians-community-event.677033/
Yesterday it was announced that TakeTwo, the parent company of 2K which ownes Firaxis Games, will merge with the deveoper Zynga, which is mostly known for browser games. While we hope for not another iteration of CivWorld, this still allows us to speculate about the future development of Civ.
Read more about it in our thread here, and join the discussion: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/take-two-zynga.676999/
And again, as every month, we have a new challenge for you! In this “Game Of The Month” you play as Wilfried Laurier of Canada on a standard-size tilted axis map on Immortal level. You must go for domination victory and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory condition. You have until June 15 to finish this game.
For all the details please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm135-announcement.676841/
Just a few days after its release, Old World is one of the best selling games on GOG and Steam! It is currently the 5th best selling game on Steam, and the 8th best selling on GOG!
Get it now!
Obvioulsy you can also find an Old World discussion forum at CivFanatics, just check here.
Old World has finally been released on GOG and Steam (May 19, 3 AM Eastern Time)! If you buy it within the first 2 weeks after release you also get the DLC “Heroes Of The Agean” for free!
Old World is a game produced by the Civ4 lead designer Soren Johnson, and features, just like Civ, turn-based strategy with city building and culture development in an ancient setting. So perfect for us civ-gamers!
Get it now!
Obvioulsy you can also find an Old World discussion forum at CivFanatics, just check here.
Soren Johnson has updated his blog with another entry.
This time it’s a podcast, and Soren and Leyla talk with Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk, both at QuarterToThree.
The description of this episode is the following:
In this episode, Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk interview Soren and Leyla Johnson about their new historical 4X, Old World. They discuss whether the Old World timeline really makes sense, how they approach Early Access differently, and why Soren didn’t want to give up on the name 10 Crowns.
You can get this podcast episode here and discuss it in our forum here.