

It is with these groups that you explore the world map and look for an enemy to fight. You can cluster the troops you produce into small groups. Whether this is unlocking new units or strengthening existing ones. The latter is the most important since most of the buildings you can build are all about improving your troops. You can expand them with all kinds of buildings and upgrades and you can create troops. You can do different things with these cities. You do this by building new cities or taking over existing ones. You often start with a small town, but with all the new places and peoples you discover, you will see that this small town soon starts to become part of a great empire. In Age of Wonders III you will mainly be concerned with exploring the world around you. The comparison with the perhaps more well-known Heroes of Might & Magic is quickly made, since in Age of Wonders you also move on a large map with clustered units and the actual battles play out in a separate chessboard-like way. That means that you will confront all kinds of different races and peoples on large maps, from dwarves to elves, while trying to complete different quests.

Age of Wonders is your typical strategy game with a twist. After all, it was 2003 when the third and most recent game in the franchise hit stores.

We don’t blame you if you haven’t heard of Age of Wonders. But the question is, is Age of Wonders III worth the long wait? The Dutch developer put itself on the map in 1999 with Age of Wonders and now brings the fourth game in the franchise to the PC almost fifteen years later. It took a while, but the people of Triumph Studios, located in Delft, are finally making themselves heard again.
