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Browse all games. More GOG. GOG Galaxy. Join the team. Game technical issues. Orders and payments. Account and website. What secrets will unfold when you uncover the history of the fallen galactic empire? Discover the fate of the Star Union by exploring lush landscapes, wild wastelands and overgrown megacities.

Encounter rival factions and discover hidden technologies long forgotten in abandoned places. Steer the future of your colony with a mix of technological advances and social development.

Will you create an environmental paradise or a perfect military order? A deep single-player story campaign alongside random map generation makes for endless replayability. Franchise: Age of Wonders. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. Add to Cart. Package info. Bundle info. Add to Account. Add all DLC to Cart. View Community Hub. About This Game Emerge from the cosmic dark age of a fallen galactic empire to build a new future for your people. Build your empire with one of six unique factions, ranging from the militant Vanguard to the dinosaur-riding Amazons and the cyborg-zombies of the Assembly.

Fight, build, negotiate and technologically advance your way to utopia in a deep single player campaign, on random skirmish maps, and against friends in multiplayer.

Tactical Turn-Based Sci-Fi Combat Perfect your combat strategy in intense turn-based battles featuring a large cast of factions, customizable units, and destructible environments. Discover a Rich Science-Fiction World What secrets will unfold when you uncover the history of the fallen galactic empire? Discover the fate of the Star Union by exploring lush landscapes, wild wastelands and overgrown megacities.

Encounter rival factions and discover hidden technologies long forgotten in abandoned places. Planetary Empire Building Steer the future of your colony with a mix of technological advances and social development.

Will you create an environmental paradise or a perfect military order? Multiple Paths to Victory Achieve your end goals through conquest, diplomacy or doomsday technologies. A Multitude of Game Modes A deep single-player story campaign alongside random map generation makes for endless replayability.

Try new play styles in skirmish mode, and play multiplayer your way - online, hotseat, and asynchronous! They might have different system specifications from the Age of Wonders: Planetfall game, are not tech supported and have an English only interface.

Age of Wonders' visuals are inconsistent; its menu screens and opening movie are graced by elegant hand-painted art, whose effective use of shadow and simple color contrasts lend it a distinctive and pleasingly understated quality. Unfortunately, this picturesque style isn't carried over to the maps on which most of the game is played.

Though the maps themselves have the same colorful and detailed look of New World Computing's Heroes of Might and Magic games, the same can't be said for Age of Wonders' units, whose miniscule size, stilted animation, and sometimes downright silly appearance contrast oddly with the game's otherwise high fantasy look.

Age of Wonders' sound is also inconsistent; at any given time, there's always some sort of music playing in the background, and it's usually stirring and thematically appropriate and never obtrusive.

However, one of the most important - and frequent - components of Age of Wonders' gameplay is combat. Unfortunately, between the scurrying of poorly animated units across the screen and the alternating sound of the generic loud slapstick thwack when a melee unit hits its target and the accompanying generic yelp of pain, combat sometimes seems more like a Benny Hill skit than anything else.

Whatever else may be said about how it looks or sounds, Age of Wonders is a solid, if not entirely original game to play. Its resource management system, which mostly consists of moving your units over mines and other resources on the map to claim them as your own, is essentially identical to that of Heroes of Might and Magic. Of its two combat systems, Age of Wonders' isometric-perspective tactical combat is reminiscent of Master of Magic.

Age of Wonders borrows its quick combat system from SSG's Warlords III: Darklords Rising, along with many other features, including the ability to create war parties without a hero in the lead, to create eight-creature army stacks, to raze and loot towns and other structures, and the ability to play turns simultaneously against your opponent.

However, Age of Wonders does manage to distinguish itself from its peers with several interesting new features. First and foremost is the sheer number of different factions to play: There are 12 races to choose from, and in turn, 12 corresponding sets of combat units.