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Warlock: Master of the Arcane

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Warlock bringt das erfolgreiche "Civilization-Prinzip" in ein komplett neues Fantasy-Setting! In Warlock übernimmst du die Rolle eines mächtigen Magiers, der sein eigenes Reich auf- und ausbaut. Dabei gilt es, neue Städte zu erobern und zu managen, um schließlich riesige Armeen treuer Untergebener oder schrecklicher Kreaturen in die Schlacht zu schicken. Ob Krieg, wirtschaftliche Überlegenheit, Diplomatie oder Magie - der Sieg lässt sich auf viele Arten erringen und ermöglicht so stundenlangen Spielspaß und einen hohen Wiederspielwert.

Drei Rassen, Untote, Monster und Menschen, stehen den mächtigen Zauberern hierbei zur Verfügung. Doch auch die Wahl des Zauberkundigen selbst hat großen Einfluss auf das Gameplay - du entscheidest u.a., ob du lieber vernichtende Kampfmagie oder heilende Zauber verwenden möchtest.

In diesem globalen, rundenbasierten Strategiespiel wird die fantastische Welt von Majesty aufs Neue lebendig. Geschätzte Verbündete und gehasste Feinde geben sich ihr Stelldichein auf der Jagd nach dem Titel "Master of the Arcane". Den Traditionen des Genres folgend, verbindet Warlock die besten Elemente rundenbasierter Hexfeld-Strategie mit einem völlig neuen Look. Zudem, ganz der klassischen Fantasy entliehen, müssen sich ambitionierte Magier auch zahlreichen Quests und umherstreifende Monstrositäten stellen.

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CPU: Dual Core CPU
GFX: GeForce GT240 512 MB oder vergleichbar
RAM: 2 GB RAM
Software: Windows Vista, Windows 7
HD: 4 GB HD frei
SFX: DirectX 9.0c kompatibel
DX: 9.0c
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, Spanisch

CPU: Quad Core CPU
GFX: GeForce GTX460 1 GB oder vergleichbar
RAM: 4 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7
HD: 4 GB HD frei
SFX: DirectX 9.0c kompatibel
DX: 9.0c
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, Spanisch

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1196 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.03.18 21:38

Paradox hat sich entschieden Basis Elemente ihrer Spiele nachträglich rauszulöschen, daher eine Warnung an alle Käufer, ihr könnt nachträglich auf einmal nur noch ein halbes oder anders Spiel haben.

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2143 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.04.15 10:09

Ich habe gerade nach ca. 14 Stunden mein erstes Spiel erfolgreich beendet.

Es ist eine etwas schlankere Variante von Civilization in einer Fantasywelt.

Grafik: Finde ich wirklich gut
Sound: Naja
Einheiten gibt es viele und die haben Ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Zusätzlich gibt es Ritter/Helden, die besonders stark sind und mit Artefakten auszustatten sind,

Was mir nicht so eingänglich war / bzw. gefällt:
- Götter, was hates damit wirklich auf sich?
- Zauber, gehört zur Fantasywelt, aber mehr als Heilungszauber habe ich kaum eingesetzt
- Viel zu viele Monster, die halten einfach zu sehr auf.

Ich habe ca. 15 € bezahlt und finde den Preis gerecht.
Meine Wertung ca. 78 %

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10957 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.01.15 18:25

low difficulty level but good replayability. not as good as Masters of Magic but nicer Graphics for sure.

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1048 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.10.14 16:32

Wirklich ein sehr gelungenes Spiel. Es macht wirklich Spaß und bindet einen lange an den Bildschirm.

Kritisieren muss man allerdings, dass die Monster viel zu stark sind und man die Dungeons kaum clearen kann. Auch die Outsider Monster sind am Anfang viel zu stark. Mit einer langen Spielzeit und stärkeren Monster kann man allerdings die Map und die spawnenden Gegner schnell kontrollieren.

Positiv fällt auf, dass das Spiel mit zufällig generierten Gegnern immer wieder für Spannung sorgt.

Auch das gut durchdachte Zaubersystem fällt positiv aus. Für mich ein gutes Spiel für Zwischendurch.

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2351 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.10.14 10:55

Wollte es nur mal anspielen. Daraus sind mittlerweile über 25 Stunden geworden. Ist interessant auch wenn man wie ich eigentlich nicht unbedingt Rundenstrategie bevorzugt.

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2319 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.11.12 16:41

Majesty 2 trifft Civilization V - ein Strategiespiel mit viel Witz und Charme. Verschiedene Spielstufen sorgen für langanhaltenden Spaß. Apropos langanhaltend: Man sollte sich für Partien in diesem Spiel viel Zeit einräumen. So ein Szenario kann auch mal gerne 6-8 Stunden dauern. Leider verbeißt sich die KI meistens in die selben Taktiken. Einmal verstanden wie der Hase läuft, kann das Spielprinzip auch monoton werden. Aber alles in allem nette Variante eines Civ-Klons für kleines Geld. Meine Empfehlung: Als Civ-Fan ein Kauf-Muss!

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1267 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.02.22 22:03

This is a fun game that is more on the simple side of things. Yet, it has most of the components to make it enjoyable. It is mainly focused on combat and conquest. Like almost every computer game, the diplomacy does not work. Even the CIV games have the same problem. If one accepts that peace is just a short interval between wars, than it's fine. Replayable. 75/100

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7687 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.01.22 09:57

great game

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398 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.12.21 17:59

The best way to describe this game would be it is like Age of Wonders with a Civ 5 overlay. Instead of a tech tree, you research spells. It is much more combat focused than a Civ game, although there are other options to win than just conquering the map. The extra worlds are cool too, as they provide extra areas to exploresettle (although the enemies are more difficult as well). It does have a few minor UI bugs (for example, if you have tutorial screens turned on, the 1st quest you get doesn't let you close out the tutorial screen...you have to hit the Escape key), but they don't make the game unenjoyable. I am enjoying it quite a bit! I give it 2 thumbs up!

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19613 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.11.21 20:35

wizard do spell

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23872 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.10.21 17:01

just fun to play a fantasy style type Civ game

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1047 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.09.21 18:58

Will be blacklisting Paradox games since the company’s management and executives have no respect for the workers.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/union-survey-alleges-culture-of-mistreatment-at-paradox-interactive

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871 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.08.21 10:31

This game is Civilization-like. It has a few quirks all its own, but like that other series... I lose track of time and end up playing into the wee hours.

Good game, wholly recommend.

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251 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.08.21 09:02

I have no idea how to play this game but it looks cool
It also slowed everything else in my pc to almost full stop, maybe I should get a better pc first.
10/10

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581 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.06.21 20:00

A Magical Civilization

What I Liked

It's basically Civilization, but, with a heavy dose of magic.

What I Did Not Like

It's a bit light compared to Civilization.

Why I Stopped Playing

I just couldn't get into it. I recommend it since it's good for what it is, but, I strongly recommend picking up the second game for a better experience.

Disclaimer

I have been a gamer for over 30 years. I tend to play mostly PC games. I also bounce around between games A LOT. I may purchase a $60 game and play it for 2 hours or spend $10 on a game and spend 50 hours on it. Even if I played a game a short time, it does not mean it is bad. It just means another game caught my attention. I also complain about flaws in games a lot, even about the littlest of things. Keep that in mind when reading my reviews. If I do not have a complaint, then the game must be special!

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215431 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.06.21 13:27

Turn based, verrry replayable. Best game in this category

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1921 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.06.21 18:37

Sometimes an unkown game just 'clicks'

This game reminds me of the original Master of Magic. It's not overly complex, but it's rewarding in that it has decent solid gameplay without trying to re-invent the wheel.

Still playing in 2021, graphics are crisp and it runs great eveon on my laptop

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5490 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.21 22:34

+Pros+

+A Fantasy 4x game
+Multiple spells
+Multiple Races
+Engaging combat
+Replayability

-Cons-

-No real campaign/storyline
-Small freezes here and there
-Too simple for some?

I enjoyed this game for a while now. Several playthroughs and I must say it’s a good 4x fantasy game. Instead of Civ games where they rely heavily on buildings, management, diplomacy, and other aspects to prolong the game; this title gets rid of most of that and simplifies it into a game where combat and casting spells is the major focus. The game uses the hex grid – which allows for flanking and back door opportunities.

You’ll get varies races to select when you begin your 4x campaign – though there is no real story or an actual campaign in terms of lore; well get into that later. You’ll construct buildings that increase your food, gold, and mana. These are the primary resources to your success. Food limits how many units you can have on the field per say. You can go crazy, but the higher your negative food is the slower or if at all – your populations will grow. Gold helps you buy new units and buildings – no gold; no building anything. The mana resource helps you to cast friendly and destructive spells and of course no mana and you’re not casting anything.

Let’s say you picked humans as the starting race and you conquer an undead town. Well, now all the inhabitants of that town are under your control. Yes, that means now from that town alone you can make undead units with your human counterparts from another town. Now, you’ll be conquering the world with undead and humans alike! Don’t fret, this happens with any and all the races that happen to be in that game. You’ll see some pretty amazing armies in the late game.

There are a lot of spells in this game and some you may never even touch. You research them and you use them. Some spells you may use at each turn and others will require some rounds to end. These spells can be anything from healing your units to terraforming the lands to help supply your buildings with profit to harming your enemy units and raining firestorm onto their lands. I enjoyed the spells because one could simply make mountains to create a chokepoint and then bait their enemy into a ridge and profit.

Now, there is no ‘real’ storyline or campaign. If anyone has ever played Majesty 2, you’ll know there was a campaign and it uses the same models of the rogue, fighter, ranger, etc. as the main driving force behind this title. I mean, it even uses the same voice actor in both titles. I would have liked to see more lore purposes in this title.

There is replayability and that comes to the fact that you can make a multiple changes to your Wizard that you pick, the size and settings of your world; how challenging you want and to even include an event called Armageddon to it to make it that much more difficult to win.

The performance as a whole for the game is bit glitchy and it can do small freezes here and there. I’m not sure if this problem happens to others out there, but I found this to be an annoyance at times, but!!! I never experienced any hard crashes to the desktop or game ending bugs.

If you’re into 4x games and you want more combat and you like a fantasy game, I recommend buying this game. It may be simple to some, but I think the simplistic aspects will make up for it for more engaging combat.

Recommended!

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2435 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.02.21 16:38

I wanted to like this game so bad, but there are other games in the genre that are doing certain things better.

But I can't put a negative review - it does some things very well.

In the end, it got tedious, and my main gripe with it is the AI, or lack thereof.

20 caravels filling the whole bay vs 2 water-walking bois with magic swords, who would win?

2 water-walking bois, every time, 10 turns later.

The meta of this game is to create a few superhero units and buff them up like mad (a good unit costs between 120-700g, but the upgrades on it can run 2000g+ and that's without the cost of enchantments, and you have to upgrade them one at time).

So what do AI do? They spam as many units as possible, and never seem to upgrade them. So any fight is a slog through things that plink you for 1-2 damage, your guys have 40-60 hp, and one-shot most of theirs.

All the while building 40 or so farms by hand EVERY TURN in the late game. I don't even care where that farm goes, on a glacier, don't care, not my problem, handle it! Where is the governor AI?

Anyway, here's a game that has ELVES, SWORDS and PVP, and it's 3/3 stars, rights?

And I hated it.

Master of Magic and Age of Wonders do the same things but with less tedium, and the AI can be tricksy.

This was a slog. AI is dumb.

So I had to hate-play it til 4 AM just to beat it and be done.

Ugh.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

P.S. Steam insists that I received this product for free. Was it a bundle? I'm not quite sure. It sat on my to-play list for months, if not years. No idea how it ended up here. Ok Steam, whatevs.

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12961 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.01.21 18:00

Lots of fun ideas, but ultimately a failure due to broken AI.

Yes it looks like Civ 5 and in many ways it plays similarly, explore, expand, build cities, units and buildings, make use of the terrain and resources and on and on.

Where it differs it does so in very interesting ways. There is no tech tree as such, instead there is a split between researching spells (that don't seem to really have much relation between them as a tree would) and having a building tree where you get more and better units/bonuses available by building a series of buildings (one unlocks the next). Instead of fairly weak barbarians you have monsters, some of which are very strong and can't be cleared until the early-midgame, as well as independent cities. You have Gods you can build temples to in order to gain other units and spells and lastly you have otherworlds, accessed via portals and full of nasty monsters.

Nice ideas but the AI being awful (worse than Civ 5's ever seemed to be to me) means much of it is moot. Regardless of species it seems the pattern is this - Spend the first 20-30 turns spamming weak units (OK sometimes, not always), if spawn near independents then take those cities (good), if near opponent declare war (not always good), forget to expand or properly use resources (very bad), forget to ever apply upgrades to units (very bad), throw weak units against strong monsters ensuring a continual recycling of low-experience troops (very bad).

All of this means that the AI fail to use their territory well and fail to build a decent army at any point, you can easily outperform them purely by expanding well in the territory you have and being sensible with troop management, honestly the only threat you have is if you spawn near multiple opponents and a bunch of high level monsters to curtail your expansion.

The most disappointing thing for me though is the otherworlds, they promise a whole host of bonuses and such but they are completely pointless, if you are strong enough to get them you are more than strong enough to have rolled all the other mages anyway.

Overall nice idea, poorly executed, get if you really like 4X games just for the ideas, skip otherwise.

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27620 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.11.20 03:27

If you made a Civ V mod to re-create the old DOS classic Master of Magic, you'd end up with a game much like this. Which is good.

But it's poorly implemented. Clunky UI. Resource hog (5 FPS?!?). Some odd bugs.

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4148 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.11.20 21:22

The Majesty games? Can't stand them, the AI or some broken updates have ruined those games right now. But Warlock here is a shock. I've tried many times to play the Civilization games, but never have I had any luck at them for longer than a couple hours. Warlock I'm currently 14 hours in my first map, and I'm starting to take over. This has been an interesting first time.
Update: I have finished my first game. While I do feel it's disappointing that the easiest way to win is crush every one (Had a really good AI partner helping me here and there with fighting the others, would have liked a peaceful end, but oh well.) I still can't praise this game enough for being difficult in a fair and fun way, while also allowing me to finally finish a 4x game. I can't wait to try another map, and would love it if my friends would like to join in on this one.

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1601 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.10.20 20:46

Pretty epic turn-based fantasy battle game. But definitely not easy. And I'm 99% certain the computer cheats like fuck.

Me: Trying to scrounge together some gold to buy a single decent unit.
Computer: Endless stream of super-badass units with all the upgrades.

Da fuq! :/

Good, but highly frustrating... :D

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2919 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.09.20 18:51

is fun and difficult at times

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16332 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.09.20 00:49

Fun Fantasy/Strategy game, also very time consuming js.

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53244 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.08.20 14:25

Entertaing game & very challanging

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557 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.08.20 02:31

An overlooked gem. Turn-based strategy with exploration, treasures, heroes, kingdom building an a fairly standard fantasy setting, that makes it all feel well-worth playing. Wandering monsters and neutral factions, and random global events, loot and quests add enough randomness to keep me on my toes.
In the same light-civ / combat heavy strategy games category as the equally-worthy HoMM, AoWonders, Eador, Disciples and Fantasy wars series, but still worth playing even if you own those others. So much fun for so little money.

Very much recommended.

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1060 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.08.20 12:44

Best archers ever lol for realz though, sat down and 17 hours later still haven't gone to bed. It's basically fantasy civilization. Not quite as good in some areas compared to civ, better in others. If you can get on the cheap (aka humble bundle or stream sale) def would recommend.

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1803 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.08.20 12:19

I like it

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356 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.07.20 13:42

Stripped down version of Civ in a fantasy world. The combat surpasses the civ games but it lacks depth in any other area. I don't recommend it because the performance drops considerably from the mid to late game. The time between ordering units to take action and the units performing that action increases as the game progresses, including slowdowns of their animations. It's very annoying in my opinion.

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3018 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.06.20 05:36

A pretty straight forward fantasy tactical game.

It doesn't draw me back in the way some of the more complex tactics games do, but it was an enjoyable enough experience for a couple of runs.

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1916 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.05.20 18:46

good civ like game

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23427 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.05.20 01:25

Without a doubt, my favorite game on Steam. It's a little different every time you play because the map changes, the monsters change, and your can change the race you are playing. An older game that I've played happily for many, many years. Never get bored with it.

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26659 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.05.20 00:01

An enjoyable 4X game, similar to Master of Magic from the '90s. Build your empire, cast spells to enhance your units or strike down your enemies.

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66023 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.04.20 16:02

This game is highly replayable, entertaining, and not overly complicated. The look is enjoyable and the map generator is sound. There are 4 factions to play from with some upgrade to units and the economic systems for gold, mana, and food is a good management aspect for the game. Resources can be acquired and special building can be built on certain landscapes; a really fun exploration phase of the game.
The only criticism I have of the game is the inclusion of simultaneous worlds throught portals on the main map; it turns into a big waste of time. It would have been better if adversaries actually had the HQ somewhere on the other worlds, because there is really no reason to explore there. All of your adversaries appear on the main map and they never attempt to access the portals to expand their kingdom. It is a good idea, but not execution.

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340 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.04.20 22:56

In my ongoing and likely futile effort to write a Steam review for every game in my library (#397 out of 572)... it's time for Warlock: Master of the Arcne.

Next in the long line of Civilization-style high fantasy grand strategies, Warlock: Master of the Arcane is pretty rough around the edges. From what little time I spent with the game, I saw very little to differentiate Warlock from its peers in any meaningful way, and I found the user interface to be extremely lacking. In general, there's a noticeable lack of visual feedback. It's a small thing, in relatively speaking, but the annoyance of not having really basic, fundamental information (like unit movement range) being totally clear is omnipresent and builds up over time. I'm sure if you were very determined to eke some enjoyment out of Warlock, you could eventually brute-force your way to seeing past the interface problems, but for my money the game doesn't really do enough to establish its own identity to make that kind of effort worthwhile.

If you're up for a Civ-style grand strategy, maybe try Fallen Enchantress or Age of Wonders III instead.

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1059 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.03.20 03:31

the hints which pop up crash the game constantly

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2231 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.03.20 01:03

Hello Steam user who is wondering if this visual no– I mean civilization creating game Warlock - Master of the Arcane is worth their time and money. I personally think it is and I'm kinda here to tell you why.

Upfront this isn't my usual type of game. Honestly visual novels and JRPG's are more my speed but this game is different in that it has the nostalgia factor for me. It was one of the few games that my dad bought and I would play on his steam account and so when I got my own account I had to get the game myself and I think it's pretty fun. You play as a Great Mage who is competing with their fellow mages to see who gets to be the de facto ruler of the world. Sure you can make alliances or crushed them under your feet but your ultimate goal is to become the supreme ruler of the world. Fun stuff right? Honestly though the story is not really why people come to this game. The reason I play it is because all you're doing is creating cities and expanding your Empire which can be pretty fun. There's lots of varieties and troops you can own along with its own deity system and there are four core races so you can choose between having humans or monsters or even the undead or these fancy elves. There's also a variety of great mages you can choose to be with their own little blurb back stories and you can also hire elite troops called lords that can pack an extra punch to the battles. This game really does take it's fantasy setting and just runs with it. And if you happen to read some of those blurbs chances are they're probably going to be funny in some way because whoever made this game really had a sense of humor because one of the Lord you can hire is a indestructible bunny and one of the foes you can find is a horde of Mad Peasants (if you do happen to run into them they are tougher than they look).

All in all I think this is a pretty decent game and it's not too horribly priced sense it pretty much has endless replayability especially if you try the other modes like Armageddon or try to win in the various ways they offer. I've heard that it's being compared to this game called Civilization which I have never played so I can't really comment on it but I've heard that's good as well so Yah!

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12293 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.12.19 00:29

Closest thing to 'Masters of Magic' I've played so far :)
(and I mean that as the highest compliment for this type of game)

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231755 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.10.19 15:06

Just a great strategy game. Well made, well balanced. Hundreds of game hours, as you learn the intrigate tactical details of Ardania.

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1396 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.09.14 09:10

its pretty fun i guess. Relaxed mode is certainly relaxing.

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4371 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.07.14 10:18

Great turn based strategy game.
Very similar to Civilization in its core but has a lot of unique things to offer.
almost feels like a rpg with the lords and spells and stuff.
researching technologies is replaced by spells.
and you can build stuff in cities when it grows instead of the worker business.
With spells you can curse, buff, damage and move units.
You can also change the terrain and cast stuff on rival mages.
The game world can be pretty big with max 6 additional worlds which is awesome.
You could almost go play this without rival mages and fight the neutrals and the mosters in the world.
If you are concidering buying this or the second one id suggest the first one.
The second one has stuff like unhappiness and allies share vision and bunch of other stuff I personally dont like.
I have one complaint about the game atm and its the fact that enemies in mp can see how much mana/gold you have and what spells you have that they dont.
i feel like this is way too much information id like to give.
Also a minor issue is that when something that i have previously explored ( like a city) updates even when im not there to see the change.

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211 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.04.14 03:43

Love the game, it well challenging. Tip for all don't lose the main base.

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1900 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.03.14 01:48

The easiest comparison is Civilization 5 with magic. Alright, review over, that was easy!

Okay, really though, it LOOKS like Civ5 at first - it's a city-building game with hex tiles and units that don't stack - but it actually works fairly differently. To explain:
1: There's a whole lot less focus on cities. In particular, there's not even a research tree! Each city instead has a progression of buildings it can produce and... well, to avoid getting into details, let's just say that every city is just going to specialise in producing one resource and it's nearly always obvious what to build next. It's very simple compared to Civ5.
2: On the flipside, there's a whole lot more focus on military. In particular, constructing units does NOT slow down constructing buildings, instead costing their own resource (gold) to produce. And there's always wild monsters of varying toughness to kill. The end result is that, rather than in Civilization where peace is the most beneficial option, in this game EVERYONE has an army!
3: Spells. There's a LOT of spells, and they do a lot of stuff - from hurting and healing to buffing and nerfing to summoning units to changing the landscape to, hell, there's even city-wide buffs in this game. Spell research is what takes over regular research in the Civ games.

This is all leaving out the other big details, like heroes and gods and the nifty way you get better units. But that could go on for a while. And it's got some problems of its own because it lacks polish, things like a point where micromanagement gets annoying, and that you can't turn off animations (although you can skip them every time), and there's no synchronous multiplayer turns which it so desperately needs. The lack of polish is why I'm really looking forward to Warlock 2.

But the short of it is: I really like it! On it's own, it's really not as good as Civilization 5, it just didn't have the budget to be. But if you love playing super-aggressively in it, this is a game made all about that!

Oh, as for DLC? Elves adds a new race focused on research and Armageddon introduces a rather nifty man-vs-monster mode, so they're both great. And the rest... isn't worth it. Although really, if you haven't got the game yet, you should just get the Ultimate Edition, it's definitely worth the extra cost!

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Verfasst: 07.03.14 22:29

A suprisingly fun and interesting game, that at first glance appears to be a Civ 5 knockoff, but offers many different gameplay traits and more indepth combat tactics, as well as a fun overall aspect. It is one of many grand strategy games I've been playing recently, and I think it has some very interesting and enjoyable features, most notably the prominence of spells in the combat and in empire management, and the wide variety of different units you can find and build. Overall, I would suggest this game to anyone who has enjoyed a game like Civ but is looking for something with a different touch.

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Verfasst: 25.02.14 19:51

Extremely good game, when I play it's like I'm getting sucked into it, and I forget everything else only to realize that all of a sudden I've played the game for 8 hours straight.

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Verfasst: 19.01.14 18:01

it das bawsest game ever

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Verfasst: 06.04.13 18:29

I recomend this

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