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Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, fro...
From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse.
Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?
Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world of kings and queens, family matters.
Each of the 7 kingdoms has four noble families that provide various benefits when put in charge of your cities.
Manage family ties through events, actions, and marriages to keep them happy and reap additional benefits. Upset them, or make them too powerful, and you risk their ire.
Maintain a strong family unit, or distract yourself with more illicit adventures.
The world is full of great characters with distinct personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. Use them to forge your kingdom, defend your borders, and build ties with other leaders.
Seek out and recruit famed warriors, philosophers, builders, and more. Have them tutor your children, lead your armies, and further your reign.
Different personality archetypes allow your court members to perform different tasks in similar roles. Find the right combinations to take full advantage of governors, diplomats, spymasters, and even your spouse.
Characters develop new personalities and traits over time, growing old, gaining experience, and finally falling ill and passing away, leaving room for the next generation.
Unsettled tribes, barbarian marauders, and remnants of previous cultures are all waiting in the vast unexplored wilderness.
Discover artifacts and great heroes of the past at ruins scattered across the map.
Experience over 3,000 unique events inspired by history and mythology.
Contact with foreign dignitaries triggers event chains, stories, and courtroom drama.
Pursue ambitions and legacies related to conquest, development, faith, and more.
Historically inspired scenarios, weekly challenge games, and a choice between randomly generated and handcrafted maps to explore. Lead Carthage to victory as Hannibal in the Punic Wars, hold your own against Barbarian Hordes, or compete against other players in tackling fictional scenarios.
Why do things the way they've always been done? Old World brings a new take to key elements of the 4X strategy genre:
Go beyond the traditional resources. Buildings are made of wood and stone, not "industry." Population doesn't grow off "food" alone.
Orders are a resource shared across your realm. Instead of moving every unit once per turn, each unit can be moved multiple times until fatigued or Orders are depleted.
Technological advancement is not predetermined. Randomization helps keep technology trees feeling fresh with each new playthrough.
Quality of life improvements, such as the ability to undo mistaken commands and nested tooltips, ensure you're always making informed decisions.
Play with friends in countless multiplayer modes — from hotseat, to asynchronous, to cloud play.
Experience a Grammy-nominated soundtrack blending Arabic music with contemporary influences.
Mods further open up infinite options for new worlds, empires, and dynasties — inspired by our real world, and by works of fiction as well.
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This is an excellent game.
The game systems are intricate and really build on each other. The strategic decisions have weight and consequences. The AI is competent and you actually can loose in a way that does not feel as if the AI is cheating.
The Family and advisors and the events system give the game flavour and make that each game plays out differently. Events may "RNG" but so is history and life and it gives new challenges (and the occasional snigger).
The only "negative" I see, is that there just isn't enough... you would like to develop your civilization into the modern age. But I guess it is not called old world for nothing.
There is still Civilization I guess, but going back to Civilization feels stale after Old World and just is not an option for me anymore.
If you like Strategy and 4X Games do yourself a favour and give this game a chance
If i could i would give it 4.5 stars. It is engaging but late game has some issues with the timing of the events. when I had no orders left i was struck with an event that required me to replace a govener, whom had just died, so i was unable to do so. next turn i could not find the location or where the characters passing was affected...
I watched a video of someone saying the order system was positive reinforcement skewed so if you gained a lot of order points early it lead to a clear victor, But ... I found the orders points had a cap. and if you exceeded it the extra earned orders were sold for gold. how this cap works i have yet to figure out.
I love this game. Innovative 4x which takes the best bits of Civ and a smattering of Crusader Kings and improves on the formula. Been playing since early access in 2020 and still having fun.
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