Age of Wonders 4 screenshots

Splash screen

Intro

Main menu

One of the many loading screens, featuring Karissa the Red

The campaign's story is narrated through many illustrated slides

Start of a scenario, showing an overview of the starting race and technologies

Quests, side-stories and encounters are displayed in this kind of view

Cities now have two production queues, one for buildings and the other for units

Periodically inspecting a hero/ruler and their inventory and abilities is important

A free city, ready for negotiations towards vassalage

Regions for expanding city borders are smaller but more plentiful than in Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Choices in quests bring different bonuses and trade-offs, and may affect alignment or the economy

Manual combat is very similar to prior 3D Age of Wonders titles

Killing an enemy hero/ruler or the last unit of the army brings a slow-mo closeup

The spellbook for world-level enchantments

Researching new spells and enchantments

Choosing tomes determines the player's affinities and available research items

Gathering the Imperium resource and points in different affinities gradually unlocks this tree of bonuses

Minor enchantments affect unit abilities and often appearance

Encountering a returning character in the campaign

The diplomacy screen is more elaborate than before

The number of heroes a player can have is tied to the number of owned cities. When a new city is built/conquered, heroes will flock to join

Choosing a governor for a city brings small resource boosts

Sites of interest vary by tier/difficulty

Major race transformations radically change the appearance and stats of the player's race

Sieges take multiple turns to execute. The besieged city's production is blocked for the duration

Region improvements are animated

Unit inspection screen

Infestations periodically send hostile units to pillage their surroundings, and expand in territory if left unchecked

Victory screen

Upon winning a scenario, pantheon points are added for customization unlocks, and the ruler can be sent to the pantheon itself to be reused as a hero or AI ruler in future playthroughs

Scenario selection

Custom scenario creation, with a wide variety of options

When creating a custom faction, starting affinities can be chosen...

...the ruler modeled...

...and even basic visual traits of the race itself changed.

"Exalted Lord", sounds appropriate.

Age of Wonders 4

Windows screenshots