Age of Wonders: Planetfall

The more I play this game the more I like it. Well done!

Played this game on and off since it’s come out. Returned this year to this game, and my goodness I’m absolutely addicted. The thing with this game is that it’s actually really good, when you take a step back, aside from various decisions made by the studio most were right. But you have decisions like allowing the AI to cheat on Very Hard. Not expanding further on everything, there was so much potential and possibilities: 1) Empire mode should have had more flexibility on the settings, a game is for fun and freedom. 2) The Apostates should have been a released race, and I’m surprised we never got a Cyro Secret Tech with Frost Damage channel, focusing on Artic sectors etc?.. 3) The shackles this game imposes, sometimes is its downfall. It’s like a duality, it wants to allow you freedom but not too much. Like you can Semi-Hybrid, and there’s some fun combos like Dvar with Vanguard Walkers - Shockwave Infuser or Fire Burst + Arc Overload + Miniaturised Missile Array: Double stun missile in one turn is nasty. But yeah my point I was going to make is you either make your game restrictive or provide absolute freedom, there’s no point in sitting on the fence it just hinders the game. Overall it’s the best Age of Wonders game in my opinion, probably one of the best strategic, economic, turn based games I’ve played. It could have been so much better, especially if given more time than rushing onto the next. Put it this way if you reskinned this game to another franchise like Star Wars or Halo; it would have been a massive success, I think the studio got it wrong; naming it “Age of Wonders” should have let be standalone just “Planetfall”, I’d even suggest the publisher and studio should have a separate team, like Call of Duty with different games in the franchise. I’ll stop waffling, it’s only because I actually love this game and would love a game like this in either the Star Wars or Halo franchise. Thanks for reading if you got this far!