Age of Wonders 4

 PlayStation 5
Metascore
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No score yet - based on 3 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. PLAY
    Sep 17, 2023
    90
    You’ll find yourself with more saves than you know what to do with and still be excitedly coming up with ideas for what unique creation you want to try next. [Issue#28, p.90]
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  2. Wccftech
    Jun 1, 2023
    80
    Age of Wonders 4 offers a rare and refreshing level of flexibility for a 4X game, allowing you to customize your leader, people, and realm to an impressive degree. This can be a bit bewildering at first, and the level of complexity threatens to overwhelm the game’s limited tactical battles, but it all comes together as a satisfying package after a bit of trial and error. Age of Wonders 4 may not be the perfect potion for all turn-based strategy fans, but it should enchant a good portion of them.
  3. Metro GameCentral
    May 5, 2023
    80
    A massive and complex fantasy themed 4X strategy game, made appealingly straightforward thanks to its cleverly refined interface.

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User Score
8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. GoonieMcGoon
    Jul 18, 2023
    10
    This game rules and runs awesome on PS5. Plays well on a controller, highly recommended
  2. nogron
    May 11, 2023
    6
    My negative critic is bassed on the games perfomance on console.
    It crashes quite often (tested on 2 consoles) and when it doesnt the games    My negative critic is bassed on the games perfomance on console.
    It crashes quite often (tested on 2 consoles) and when it doesnt the games perfomance degrages drastically with playtime even in the tutorial map up to a point where it seems as if the game has crashed again but then suddenly after about half a minute of a frozen screen with no sound playing it resumes to let the player take action.

    The game doesnt look bad, but isnt all shiny neither, it doesnt need to because it isnt a focus point.
    It offers diplomacy, though the AI doesnt really negotiate but ditcates what it wants for any trade.
    The system around declaring war is okay, penalizing for surprise invading by reducing the rate at which a certain ressource is gathered or grants a bonus in case the war is considered rightful.
    The units system is actually good, of course lending to the basis of different established unittypes like Sword+Shield to block of the enemy, Cavalry for breaking through, Pikeniers to prevent Cavalry attack, Range units and Support units for healing or buffing up ones own army or weakening the enemy army.
    The strongpoint here is the upgrades to each unit that the player can unlock to define his own style of fighting on the rather small battlefields.
    This is important as the games victory types all require the player to have quite a strong army to either conquer all enemy capitals or defend structures that will be required for 2 of the other victory conditions - in essence it is the same, but the trigger to activate them is different: either by research or by growing large.

    With all that being said: it is a fun game to play when it doesnt crash, and when it does I gladly just use the last automatic saved point of progress or a few turns before that.    … Full Review »
  3. Superunknown_80
    May 7, 2023
    9
    I haven’t been this addicted to a game in a long long time. I keep learning something new and starting a whole new character and tribe to takeI haven’t been this addicted to a game in a long long time. I keep learning something new and starting a whole new character and tribe to take this knowledge into a new game. Each time I do this I see something cool and unique. Having built my character and tribe I feel invested in getting them to prosper. The presentation, art style and graphics are reminiscent of other great games in the genre. I can confidently say I will be playing a lot of this game for a long period of time.… Full Review »
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