Steam Strategy Fest Starts Monday!

[The_J]

As the title already says, on Monday August 28 the Steam strategy fest will start, with tons of discounts and new demos.

Now, also an overview over the rest:

Sales:
The big series are on sales, that includes:

• Civ3, 4 and 6, Colonization and BE (not Civ5, due to unknown reasons)
• Paradox games, including titles of Victoria, Crusader Kings, Age Of Wonders and Hearts of Iron
• Stardock games, including GalCiv2+3
• Age Of Empires
• surprisingly none of the Total War games

The other series we love is on sale:

• Old World

Smaller games and series, which are on sale, and are interesting in one way or another for the population of this forum:

• Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
• Imperium: Greek Wars
• Kingdoms Reborn
• Myriads: Renaissance, a turn-based builder in also a fantasy Renaissance setting (a lot more fantasy)
• Rising Lords
• Lord Of Rigel
• Mahokenshi
• Interstellar Space: Genesis
• Kainga: Seeds Of Civilization
• The Wandering Village
• World Turtles
• Inkulinati
• Pharaoh: A New Era
• Terra Invicta
• Clanfolk
• Songs Of Conquest

Participating games which have (new) demos available:

• Elaborate Lands (obviously)
• Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
• Lord Of Rigel
• Reus 2
• Rising Lords
• Hexarchy
• Great House Of Calderia, a real time grand strategy game in a fantasy Renaissance setting
• Myriads: Renaissance, a turn-based builder in also a fantasy Renaissance setting (a lot more fantasy)
• Mystical Conquests, a turn-based RPG where you lead the surivors of a destroyed civilization.

This list will be updated with more relevant games for us civ-fanatics.

 

[Alexastor]

My game Elaborate Lands, inspired by Civ 6 and city-builder games is now also available as demo. I hope it appeals to all the Civ players who love district planning, like myself

 

[The_J]

Thank you very much for sharing Alex .

Now, also an overview over the rest:

Sales:
The big series are on sales, that includes:
- Civ3, 4 and 6, Colonization and BE (not Civ5, due to unknown reasons)
- Paradox games, including titles of Victoria, Crusader Kings, Age Of Wonders and Hearts of Iron
- Stardock games, including GalCiv2+3
- Age Of Empires
- surprisingly none of the Total War games

The other series we love is on sale:
- Old World


Smaller games and series, which are on sale, and are interesting in one way or another for the population of this forum:
- Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
- Imperium: Greek Wars
- Kingdoms Reborn
- Rising Lords
- Lord Of Rigel
- Mahokenshi
- Interstellar Space: Genesis
- Kainga: Seeds Of Civilization
- The Wandering Village
- World Turtles
- Inkulinati
- Pharaoh: A New Era
- Terra Invicta
- Clanfolk
- Songs Of Conquest

Participating games which have (new) demos available:
- Elaborate Lands (obviously)
- Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
- Lord Of Rigel
- Reus 2
- Rising Lords
- Hexarchy

 

[Dale]

* Sorry, it's in Aussie dollars, but you get the gist.

 

[The_J]

Yes, was noted .


We got another 2 demos, which might be interesting:
- DotAge https://store.steampowered.com/app/638510/Dotage/
- Empires Shall Fall https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477170/Empires_Shall_Fall/

 

[Blake00]

@The_J Not sure which Colonization you meant so I thought I'd mentioned that both classic Colonization (not under your Firaxis link) and Civ4 Colonization are on sale:

Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam

The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

store.steampowered.com

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization on Steam

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game...

store.steampowered.com

Master of Magic classic and the remake are on sale

Master of Magic Classic on Steam

Master of Magic is a classic, one of the most popular strategy games of the 90s. It is a 4X fantasy strategy game that allows you to play as an extremely powerful wizard, leading your troops and overcoming your magical opponents.

store.steampowered.com

Master of Magic on Steam

Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?

store.steampowered.com

The entirety of the Civ and MoM like series Age of Wonders is on sale too (EDIT: Opps you did mention them, my bad lol)

Age of Wonders 4 on Steam

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

store.steampowered.com

Age of Wonders Franchise on Steam

store.steampowered.com

Other Civ & MoM like games like the Warlock Series, Eador series and Planar Conquest are all on sale too.

Sadly none of the Master of Orion games (classic or remake) are on sale.. however I highly recommend this indie MoO2 like game that is on sale:

Interstellar Space: Genesis on Steam

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

store.steampowered.com

Dune Spice Wars

Dune: Spice Wars on Steam

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

store.steampowered.com

Weirdly Amplitudes Civ like Humankind and MoM like Endless Legend, the Col like Treasure Fleet, and Stardocks Civ & MoM like Elemental series are not on sale sadly.

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[The_J]

Thanks @Blake00 .
It's a lot of games on sale, hard to get an overview.

 

[The_J]

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/473750/Feudums/ Feudums is also a very interesting 4X game, and it got a free demo!
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/2057782/Ozymandias__The_Andes/ Ozymandias has published an Andes map pack for 1.99

 

[kaptainkook]

Theocracy on Steam

Classic 4X turn-based strategy game, where you manage a theocratic empire, conquer and convert pagans and enemies by divine power or brute force, cast mighty miracles and enact dogmas. Advance and expand your theocracy into dominant world empire. And if necessary... release the Kraken!

store.steampowered.com

Theocracy - my personal take on older Civs, but with religion/mythology twist, should be easily enjoyable by all Civ fans who like retro, single player, turn-based 4X.

 

[Blake00]

EDIT: Opps I missed the post above and pretty much posted the same thing here after seeing your FB comment, have deleted the original text lol.

Not knowing you were here I also made a separate thread about your game going into more detail as I'm not sure if anyone here knew about it! That looks really cool! Can see the Civ 2 and Civ 1 influences and it looks like you've created a fascinating mix of historical and mythological elements.

Theocracy (new Civ 1 & 2 like 4X indie game)

We've just found out about a relatively new indie game called Theocracy which the author @kaptainkook says is his personal homage to Civilization 2. On closer inspection I can also see some Civ 1, Sid Meier's Colonization and Master of Magic influences too as the game appears to be a fascinating...

forums.civfanatics.com

 

[Dale]

@The_J Not sure which Colonization you meant so I thought I'd mentioned that both classic Colonization (not under your Firaxis link) and Civ4 Colonization are on sale:

There is only One Col to Rule Them All! The classic of course!

 

[Civinator]

Theocracy on Steam

Classic 4X turn-based strategy game, where you manage a theocratic empire, conquer and convert pagans and enemies by divine power or brute force, cast mighty miracles and enact dogmas. Advance and expand your theocracy into dominant world empire. And if necessary... release the Kraken!

store.steampowered.com

Theocracy - my personal take on older Civs, but with religion/mythology twist, should be easily enjoyable by all Civ fans who like retro, single player, turn-based 4X.

How many civs can participate in a Theocracy game ?

 

[The_J]

I totally had not noticed, shame on me: "Yield" has a demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/1561960/Yield/ . Definitely worth checking!

GOG has started their autumn sale https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_a..._medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=EN , which includes Civ III+IV, Colonization, Alpha Centauri, Call To Power II, the Heroes Of Might And Magic series, the Anno series, the Caesar series, and a lot of others too.

 

[Dale]

EDIT: Opps I missed the post above and pretty much posted the same thing here after seeing your FB comment, have deleted the original text lol.

Not knowing you were here I also made a separate thread about your game going into more detail as I'm not sure if anyone here knew about it! That looks really cool! Can see the Civ 2 and Civ 1 influences and it looks like you've created a fascinating mix of historical and mythological elements.

Theocracy (new Civ 1 & 2 like 4X indie game)

We've just found out about a relatively new indie game called Theocracy which the author @kaptainkook says is his personal homage to Civilization 2. On closer inspection I can also see some Civ 1, Sid Meier's Colonization and Master of Magic influences too as the game appears to be a fascinating...

forums.civfanatics.com

When I saw this I got excited, as I thought it was this Theocracy, a great old game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy_(video_game)

 

[kaptainkook]

EDIT: Opps I missed the post above and pretty much posted the same thing here after seeing your FB comment, have deleted the original text lol.

Not knowing you were here I also made a separate thread about your game going into more detail as I'm not sure if anyone here knew about it! That looks really cool! Can see the Civ 2 and Civ 1 influences and it looks like you've created a fascinating mix of historical and mythological elements.

Theocracy (new Civ 1 & 2 like 4X indie game)

We've just found out about a relatively new indie game called Theocracy which the author @kaptainkook says is his personal homage to Civilization 2. On closer inspection I can also see some Civ 1, Sid Meier's Colonization and Master of Magic influences too as the game appears to be a fascinating...

forums.civfanatics.com

When I saw the great list of the games on sale on Steam I thought that it might be a good moment to introduce my game, so I posted it at FB and here. Thanks so much for actually making a thread for it!

It is my personal "project", a sort of "one day I would like to make a strategy game with reasonable AI" thing, and there is no denying it is heavily inspired by Civ1 and Civ2 - which I spent solid part of my younger years enjoying.

 

[kaptainkook]

How many civs can participate in a Theocracy game ?

If you mean human players, it is single player only.
If you mean how many opponents you can have, the standard game can handle 9 players, so you and 8 AI opponents. Plus Pagans, Heretics and Atheists, which are special "civs" sort of like Barbarians, but they actually really play like special opponents, they don't just "roam around" like in Civ1 or Civ2. That makes it 11.

In mods/scenarios more players will be allowed, but that feature is not released yet.

 

[Civinator]

kapitainkook, thank you very much for the answer. 9 players, that is more than I have expected - and now to steam to order this game (so I would have preferred GOG).

 

[Blake00]

When I saw this I got excited, as I thought it was this Theocracy, a great old game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy_(video_game)

Yeah when I was looking on youtube for a copy of the gameplay Trailer @kaptainkook has on his steam page to put in the other thread but failed to find one however I kept finding videos about another Theocracy game that I'd never heard of set in the Colonization era. Looks pretty cool. Think I'll share it around the Col groups to see if others know about it.

When I saw the great list of the games on sale on Steam I thought that it might be a good moment to introduce my game, so I posted it at FB and here. Thanks so much for actually making a thread for it!

Glad you did. 'Civ like' games are of big interest to us here and retro Civ/Col/MoM inspired ones are of even bigger interest to me personally. There's more I can do too so I'll probably PM you soon about it as your game deserves may more attention.

If you mean human players, it is single player only.
If you mean how many opponents you can have, the standard game can handle 9 players, so you and 8 AI opponents. Plus Pagans, Heretics and Atheists, which are special "civs" sort of like Barbarians, but they actually really play like special opponents, they don't just "roam around" like in Civ1 or Civ2. That makes it 11.

In mods/scenarios more players will be allowed, but that feature is not released yet.

That sounds really good to me too.

kapitainkook, thank you very much for the answer. 9 players, that is more than I have expected - and now to steam to order this game (so I would have preferred GOG).

Cool, it'll be a while before I get to trying it so feel free to post your gameplay impressions over in that other thread I made as I'll be very curious to hear your thoughts on it mate. Plus we're kinda railroading The_J's sales thread here lol!
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[Civinator]

Cool, it'll be a while before I get to trying it so feel free to post your gameplay impressions over in that other thread I made as I'll be very curious to hear your thoughts on it mate.

For me this will need some times, too, as at present I have all hands full to do with finishing the next version of CCM, including CCM 2.6, RARR, SOE, WW2 Global Gold and AOI.

A first fast view behind the scenes shows, that it has bmp graphics with a nearly Civ 2 "pre-ToT" (48x48) format for units and the game could be a good graphical choice for Civ 2 modders. The unit and monster graphics are nice, but I have not seen a way to animate them, as it could be with Civ 2 ToT units. The game data are .ebm files.

Blake00, all in all I think with this price you cannot make something wrong and the concept of the game looks fresh and interesting - for me much more interesting than some games with a price, that is 5-6 times higher.

 

[kaptainkook]

For me this will need some times, too, as at present I have all hands full to do with finishing the next version of CCM, including CCM 2.6, RARR, SOE, WW2 Global Gold and AOI.

A first fast view behind the scenes shows, that it has bmp graphics with a nearly Civ 2 "pre-ToT" (48x48) format for units and the game could be a good graphical choice for Civ 2 modders. The unit and monster graphics are nice, but I have not seen a way to animate them, as it could be with Civ 2 ToT units. The game data are .ebm files.

Blake00, all in all I think with this price you cannot make something wrong and the concept of the game looks fresh and interesting - for me much more interesting than some games with a price, that is 5-6 times higher.

Hi. Indeed the game graphics like units are totally Civ2-style and the game is prepared for modding EXACTLY the way that Civ2 was. For this reason the game-play graphics are simple BMP files and can be easily changed. All game rules can be stored and modified in a TXT file (again, almost exactly like Civ2 files used to be) and really a lot of the game can be modded and whole scenarios prepared. However, the scenarios support is not yet released, but I am working on finishing it. There is no animation of units at the moment. Data files are encrypted and "EBM" format is my own format, those files cannot be modified, but it wouldn't make sense. Sounds can also be modified, they are plain WAV files. As said, rules of the games (units, techs, buildings, miracles, etc.) can be stored in plain TXT file, but it's not out there yet.