Age of Wonders 4: A Guide to and Review of the Best 4X

Thank you for a good content!

To the people looking at this and still on the fence, the devs are actually aware of and interact with the community. I am still yelling at them for Order/Shadow content. The game is absolutely great, but also currently a bit flawed. Fortunately, the devs are actively listening to the playerbase and hard at work fixing said flaws. Necromancy wasn't fun, so they completely reworked Necromancy from the ground up for free. Unit tiers were too decisive, so they're currently in the process of reworking unit tiers. Mystic was a bit boring of a culture mechanically, so they're massively expanding it. For free. Hero stacking was the meta, so they did changes to fix this. These changes weren't all winners, so next patch, the devs took note of that, kept in the changes people liked, and completely removed the ones the community wasn't happy with. The devs listen and the changes they make are aimed at making the game more fun and diverse, not removing fun. Hell, even the DLC content follows this ethos. Reavers and Primal, the two DLC cultures at time of writing aren't the strongest in the game. But they're designed with fun and unique interactions in mind over everything. You aren't paying to complete the game, or getting an overpowered thing that invalidates the base game content. It's simply fun additions that add more variety and options. Not overpowered, not underpowered, just unique and fun.

these kinds of strategy games aren't really my thing but it's pretty clear to even me how much of a standout in the genre this game must be

The best addition of this game, is, that is has workshop support on steam. Many developers sleep on that. It makes EVERY game better, because you will always find someone who mods something that annoys you in the base game.

Straight to the point and a very good introduction to AoW4. Hope this helps a lot of people get into the game!

Random bit. Frostling combined with angelic has one of the goofiest color schemes that makes your units look like photo negatives

It’s been a long time since I played this game, but the builds in this honestly sound like it’s worth dusting it off, especially Magelock Reaver focus.

This is a huge work! Thanks and good luck with the channel

Great content with really good instructions and tips there!

Thank you so much! Im new to the game and most beginners guides are not up to date with the updates and new content, this is really helpful!

Honestly, this is the best Age of Wonders game I've played since the first game; 2 is good, 3 was... eh ok. But this, this is hands down better than the original and that is saying something. If I like a game enough to play it all day that it fixes my messed up sleep... it's good.

Cheers, will watch later tonight. - Ody Was llooking for a video like this, played the game on launch but havn't played in quite a while. Got the expansion pass and looking to get back into the game.

Turn-based fantasy 4x is a pretty niche genre, but I agree that AoW 4 is easily the best game within this niche. It just has so much variety and replayability that it never really gets boring, especially with the ability to make your own races and factions. I often find myself coming back to it whenever I out of the blue suddenly think up some weird combination of stuff that I can make a faction out.

FYI, critical chance is tied to morale, so you can also buff the Barbarian units with moral boosters, like Tome of Revelry.

Very good info here. Good luck on the channel, keep making videos as good as this one and you'll do well.

What a great guide! Excellent work brother

Ya, this is our #1 4x game of all time for us.

Thanks for the guide. I played this on release and liked it, but am overwhelmed by all the expansion stuff which was stopping me from getting back into it.

Great video, longing to see more AOW4 content :)

Good video. I played this game on release, it was a little raw, but I want to return to it later few month and check updates developers added. so good to refresh memories