Age Of Wonders 4 is the first sequel in nine years for the Age of Wonders fantasy strategy game series, bringing new levels of customization and replayability to the games’ iconic empire-building, role-playing, and best-in-class tactical combat.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design in Age of Wonders 4! 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.

Triumph Studios’ award-winning strategy series has emerged into a new age, evolving the game’s iconic empire building, role-playing, and warfare to the next level. A new storytelling event system and hugely customizable empires provide an endlessly replayable experience, where each game adds a new chapter to your ever-growing saga.

Powerful Wizard Kings have returned to the realms to reign as gods among mortals, and players will rise to challenge their rule using Tomes of Magic to unleash arcane destruction and evolve their armies, gaining new abilities and forms. For the first time in the series, players can create their own custom factions, and leave their mark on countless worlds through each choice they make.

Paradox Interactive and Triumph Studios announced details for Age of Wonders 4: Empires & Ashes, a major expansion coming to all platforms on November 7, 2023 for $19.99/£16.99/€19.99.

This pack comprises the largest content addition in Age of Wonders 4 to date, introducing an industrial culture of war, a new avian physical form, an added victory condition, new Tomes of Magic, mounts, missions, and more. 

Players who purchased the Premium Edition of Age of Wonders 4 or the Expansion Pass will receive Empires & Ashes when the expansion launches.

In Age of Wonders 4: Empires & Ashes, players can ‘fly’ in the face of the tradition, combining magic and steel with new techniques to create mighty war machines and lay waste to enemy cities. The Reaver culture is hellbent on driving society forward through industry, and by unlocking the Seals of Power, players can claim a new kind of victory and control the Astral Sea.

“Age of Wonders 4 continues to evolve with ongoing development and community feedback. To add new and different elements to our fantasy world, we’re adding a new culture into the mix that will help shape new stories,” said Lennart Sas, Co-founder of Triumph Studios and Director of Age of Wonders 4. “We will add many features on top of this industrial warfare, like the Avian Form and Seals of Power victory condition, alongside one of our biggest free content updates, the Golem Update, which we built based on direct community feedback. Together with our players, we have many more worlds to explore!”

Age of Wonders 4: Empires & Ashes Key Features:

• Reaver Culture: Push progress forward at any cost in the Reaver culture, whose industrial might is fueled by conquests and raids. These expert engineers have mastered the art of binding magic to technology to achieve unparalleled power and dominance.
• Avian Form: Hatch your most cunning strategy yet with the new Avian Form, complete with a set of traits and customization options.
• 4 New Tomes: Sharpen your anti-magic prowess, unlock the secrets of transmutation, and muster legions of machines and automatons. Bring forth magical mechanical wonders and dominate the battlefield like never before.
• New Seals of Power Victory Mechanic: Locate and claim the Seals of Power to control access to the Astral Sea - and hold them long enough to control the realm in a fan-favorite Age of Wonders victory condition!
• 2 New Story Missions: Fight alongside Laryssa in order to stop the rampaging forces of Chaos from destroying the Astral Sea. 
• A New Ancient Wonder and Infestation Location: Unearth a new hidden wonder and explore infested derelict workshops. Harness the power of ancient relics and clear the path to greatness!
• New Wildlife Units and Mounts: From bear mounts to scrap hermits, ready to heed your orders, or fall before your might.
• 6 New Music Tracks: Let 6 new tracks transport you to a world of fantasy and adventure!

In addition, Empires & Ashes will launch alongside a large free content update, the Golem Update, which adds new game features for all players. The Golem Update includes:

• Item Forge: Create new equipment for your heroes and march into battle with unparalleled power and style
• War Coordination: Give specific instructions to your vassals to aid you in times of war
• Form Trait Rework: Design your race’s inherent physical abilities with new levels of freedom
• New Events: 25 new in-game events to encounter, themed around war and conquest
• Improved Water Gameplay: Graphical and mechanical improvements to sailing the seas on the world map and in combat
• New Spellbook Interface: Browse your available spells from a proper Wizard’s tome

Key Features:

• Create the Empire of Your Wildest Fantasies: Craft your followers by combining bodily forms, societal traits and arcane powers. Build anything from a clan of cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, or recreate your favorite fantasy tropes. Seek powerful tomes of magic to enchant your armies and see your people physically change as they morph into angelic beings or scions of chaos to face their enemies.
• Strategy Meets Role-Playing Like Never Before: Every choice opens up new possibilities and tactical advantages; deep, multilayered strategy allows you to try new tactics or explore new powers at every turn. Tactical turn-based battles bring your armies to life, from skirmishes with roaming monsters to vast sieges with many units on each side!
• Write Your Own Legend: A new event system provides unexpected levels of storytelling for 4X games. See your decisions shape the world around you as you seek glory through brutal domination, cunning alliances, or ultimate arcane knowledge. Your own creations may even appear as potential rivals or allies in subsequent games, as you experience the next chapter in your own story!
• Make Your Mark on a Vast, Reactive World: Explore a new realm in each session - or create your own! Challenge new variations and combinations of locations and features, from frozen wastelands ruled by ice queens to desolated ruins where dragons roam. With a tremendous variety of empires, units, and environments to keep the game endlessly replayable, Age of Wonders is more open-ended - and mod-friendly - than ever before in the series’ history.

Age Of Wonders 4 is available for PS5, Xbox Series |XS and PC (Steam).