Build a fantasy faction from bodily forms, societal traits, and arcane powers. Expand your empire, fight turn-based tactical battles, and transform your people through the Tomes of Magic.
Age of Wonders 4 combines fantasy 4X empire building with turn-based tactical combat. Create a faction, explore magical realms, and expand an empire that grows and changes with your decisions.
Tomes of Magic let you enchant armies and transform your people into new forms. Story events shape each realm, while the Pantheon lets your rulers become part of a saga that continues across games.
Get familiar with the two layers of play: building your empire on the realm map and fighting turn-based tactical battles. Learn how faction creation, magical research, and exploration shape your campaign.
Empire Building
Expand your empire across a fantasy realm while your faction grows and changes.
Tactical Battles
Command armies in turn-based encounters ranging from roaming-monster skirmishes to large sieges.
Magical Development
Use Tomes of Magic to enchant your armies and transform your people.
Build your faction by combining bodily forms, societal traits, and arcane powers. Create a familiar fantasy people or experiment with combinations such as cannibal halflings and mystic moon elves.
Bodily Forms
Choose the physical form of your followers as part of faction creation.
Societal Traits
Combine societal traits with your chosen form to define your people.
Arcane Powers
Add magical powers to your faction's starting identity, then develop it further during play.
Explore the magic system that lets your faction evolve throughout a campaign. Tomes support army enchantments and transformations that visibly change your people.
Army Enchantments
Use the powers unlocked through Tomes of Magic to enchant your armies.
People Transformations
Magical transformations can turn your people into angelic beings or scions of chaos.
Evolving Factions
Your faction's appearance and capabilities can change as you develop its magic.
Explore tactical combat from small encounters to sieges with dozens of units on each side. Get familiar with morale and the ways your empire's choices shape the armies you bring into battle.
Turn-Based Combat
Battles use a tactical turn-based system.
Morale
A morale system adds another consideration when managing units in battle.
Sieges
Large siege battles can involve dozens of units on each side.
Roaming Monsters
Exploring armies can fight skirmishes against monsters roaming the realm.
Explore a different realm with each game or create your own. Changing locations and realm features provide new settings for expansion, exploration, and war.
Realm Creation
Create your own realm rather than relying only on existing settings.
Varied Environments
Realm settings include frozen wastelands ruled by ice queens and desolate ruins where dragons roam.
Story Events
An event system lets your decisions shape the world and your empire's story.
Build your empire's legacy through military domination, alliances, or arcane knowledge. Explore these different approaches as you decide how your faction will deal with the realm's other powers.
Domination
Pursue glory through military conquest.
Alliances
Use alliances as part of your empire's strategy.
Arcane Knowledge
Pursue powerful magical knowledge as another route to your empire's legacy.
Check your PC against the minimum and recommended hardware before installing. The listed performance targets are 1080p at 30 FPS for minimum specifications and 1080p at 60 FPS for recommended specifications.
Minimum CPU and RAM
Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, with 8 GB RAM.
Minimum Graphics
Listed options include NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 with 2 GB VRAM and AMD Radeon HD 7870 with 2 GB VRAM.
Recommended CPU and RAM
Intel Core i7-9700K or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, with 16 GB RAM.
Recommended Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti with 8 GB VRAM or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT with 8 GB VRAM.
Operating System and Storage
Minimum requirements specify Windows 10 Home 64-bit version 21H1, DirectX 12, and 35 GB of available storage.
Age of Wonders 4 combines fantasy 4X empire building with turn-based tactical battles. Create a faction, explore a realm, develop cities, and research Tomes of Magic.
When was Age of Wonders 4 released?
Age of Wonders 4 was released on May 2, 2023. Triumph Studios developed the game, and Paradox Interactive published it.
Can you play Age of Wonders 4 with other players?
Age of Wonders 4 supports single-player campaigns, online PvP, and online co-op. Its Steam version also supports Workshop mods.
What PC memory does Age of Wonders 4 require?
Age of Wonders 4 lists 8 GB RAM as the minimum and 16 GB RAM as recommended. The Windows version requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
Ready to Shape Your Next Realm?
Choose your faction, plan your research, and lead your first campaign.
