Age of Wonders: Planetfall finally launches into space on November 10
Author
Tom Chick
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When
October 14, 2020
No one who's actually spent time with Age of Wonders: Planetfall would accuse it of being a sci-fi skin draped over an Age of Wonders fantasy skeleton.
Too bad they weren’t able to find the time to get that working in MP, would have been a fun way to chain skirmish sessions together with my friends. I love meta strategy layers like this.
Totally agree. I enjoy anything that takes a singular result from a strategy game like this and folds it into something bigger. Campaigns (branching is better!), achievements, and even high-score boards are all things I’d toss in this category. But this is taking it to another level.
Pretty excited for this, and I bought the Season Pass at release so it looks like I already own Star Kings DLC. Nice.
Yeah, this Galactic Empire feature looks great – it’s more interesting to me than the new mech-like faction. I read through a thread about the DLC on the Paradox forums and learned that it will be single-player only, which is fine with me.
I still have many questions, though. How many planets can there be in the Empire, or for that matter how many planets are there in our galaxy? And if conquering a planet gives us bonuses when we take on the next planet, are these bonuses cumulative? Will I have 60 bonuses when I’m attacking planet #60? I’m guessing we’ll have to select a loadout of bonuses, but maybe not?
As ever, I find myself in agreement with the esteemed gentleman in white.
I really need to get back to this, especially since it should play fine one handed while holding an infant in the other, and that’s basically my first criteria for a game these days.