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 revealed the next set of DLC coming to Age Of Wonders 4.

Starting today, Expansion Pass 3 ($49.99/£41.99/€49.99) will give players instant access to a minor DLC, and access to three major DLC as they are released in the near future.

The minor Cosmic Wanderer Pack is available immediately with purchase. Additional DLC will arrive later this year and early next year, continuing with Thrones of Blood, a Ruler Pack centered around Vampire Rulers, which will launch on November 11, 2025.

Age Of Wonders 4: Expansion Pass 3 will take players to the far reaches of the Astral Sea, where forsaken realms and forbidden powers await discovery. Three major DLCs will be introduced that enhance and expand players’ options and stories, from new challenges and magic tomes to new cultures and ruler types, and everything in between. The minor addition, Cosmic Wanderer, is available now, and includes a new premade Ruler character, new cosmetic options for costumes and items, new hero loadouts, and a new Society Trait. Purchases of Expansion Pass 3 grant immediate access to Cosmic Wanderer, and access to remaining releases as each one becomes available.

The next such release, Thrones of Blood, adds a new Vampire Ruler type to Age Of Wonders 4, granting players new powers and options uniquely available to these undead sovereigns. Including new skill trees filled with dark abilities, a Vampire’s Castle to take the place of the Wizard Tower, the power to transform heroes into vampiric servants, and Ritual Spells that harness Thralls as arcane fuel, Thrones of Blood allows players to indulge their bloodthirsty ambitions like never before.

The Thrones of Blood Ruler Pack will also include:

• Three New Tomes centered around magic that drains enemies, bolsters allies, and uses foes’ pain to grow more powerful
• New Narrative Content including haunting quest chains that pursue the fate of lost souls and a new Story Realm that delves into the birth of all vampire-kind
• New Map Features including the dark Sunless Lands, new gothic Ancient Wonders and Landmarks, and the magic-infused Blood Glass material
• New Wildlife Units featuring hordes of undead, gruesome devouring maggots, and so many bats
• New Music, New Interface Skin, New Realm Options and so much more

Future DLC included in Expansion Pass 3 will include Rise from Ruin, scheduled for release in Q1 2026, which will add a new Culture to Age Of Wonders 4: the Nomads, uniquely suited to survive and thrive in the devastated Withered Worlds present in this expansion alongside new tomes, environments, and wildlife. The set will conclude with Secrets of the Archmages in Q2 2026, a story-focused pack that will explore the hidden arts and tales of Athla’s renowned Wizard Kings, and grant access to their tomes and realms.

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).