Unfortunately I found the battles to take a long time and they aren’t as enjoyable as XCOM, but luckily there is an auto battle option that probably isn’t as efficient as a good player taking control of the battles but for the sake of the speed of the game I was willing to just try and get my army as strong as I could and auto battling.Īge of Wonders: Planetfall is sci-fi themed, so you’re colonising new planets and mechs, androids and aliens are commonplace. If you enjoy it then there’s plenty of it happening as even if you’re being passive there are Marauders on the map which are always aggressive and NPC factions will ask you for help with side quests (researching stuff, building stuff and killing enemies) and if there’s more than one on the map then helping one will annoy another. You can use cover of varying heights, go into overwatch to attack any unit that enters your field of view and you have special abilities that act on cooldowns. Like XCOM it’s turn based and you have action points (three) to use to move and attack. You can build armies of up to six units, and adjacent armies will generally be pulled into combat with you allowing for up to 42 units in a battle.

As opposed to it being a simple numbers game like in Civilization here when you enter combat you’ll be taken to an arena where you move units individually. These can be founding new colonies, researching, deciding whether to build colony enhancements or combat units and moving those combat units around the map, exploring or fighting.įighting takes an interesting twist in that it’s similar to XCOM. Each commander takes it in turns to complete their actions. You can use war to take over the whole map or destroy all the other commanders or you can develop a doomsday weapon for a technological victory. You can be diplomatic, unifying all the commanders in friendship.

Something like a Civilization game maybe, something like Age of Wonders: Planetfall which has just released on PS4.Ī 4X game (explore, expand, exploit and exterminate), you can play as one of six factions as you try to take over a randomly generated map whilst up to eleven other commanders try to do the same. The long summer games drought is nearly over but it’s still quite quiet and the weather has taken a turn so you may be looking for a game to soak up your weekends.

Augin PS4 tagged 4x / age of wonders / civilization / planetfall / sci fi / strategy / turn-based / xcom by Gareth

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