Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War

Achieve perfection in battle with Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War. Embrace the Oathsworn culture, deploy monks and assassins, investigate mysterious happenings and lead two new forms for your factions: the Ogrekin or the Simians.

Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War

Achieve perfection in battle with Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War. Embrace the Oathsworn culture and devote yourself to their warrior's code. Deploy disciplined monks and shadowy assassins. Investigate mysterious happenings that see your fellow Godir replaced by demons and dragons. Lead two new forms for your factions: the hulking Ogrekin or the strong Simians. This content pack contains a new culture, new tomes, new wildlife units and a new type of narrative event chain.

Oathsworn Culture

A new culture based on ethical codes which will provide unique advantages. The Oathsworn culture includes 3 subcultures that let you choose what sort of ethical code you want your people to follow:

  • Oath of Harmony: Focus on avoiding wars, while building a multicultural empire and making the world a safer place

  • Oath of Righteousness: Focus on gathering “good” alignment points, and destroying evil forces

  • Oath of Strife: Focus on waging war against worthy opponents; earn bonuses for attacking forces more powerful than your own

4 New Tomes

  • Tome of Discipline (Tier 1): Channel your inner strength to cleanse your units and empower their attacks. Unlocks the monk unit.

  • Tome of Shades (Tier 2): Strike from the shadows, blind your foes and find their weak points to deliver the perfect, fatal blow. Unlocks the assassin unit.

  • Tome of Calamity (Tier 4): Bring calamity to the realm and burn your enemies in cold Ghostfire. Gives access to Calamity units.

  • Tome of Prosperity (Tier 4): Bring forth prosperity to your empire and grant your units healing Grace. Unlocks Prosperity units

Intrigue Happenings

Multi-stage story events that bring narrative elements to normal skirmish maps. These events focus on crises such as assassinations, coups and betrayals, and give you the chance to take part, thwart or exploit them as they wish.

2 New Forms

The Ogrekin and the Simians

Two New Lines of Ancient Creatures

  • Creatures of Prosperity who are dedicated to good and harmony

  • Creatures of Calamity who are dedicated to evil and strife

New Mounts

  • Graceful Judge

  • Blessed Dragon

  • White Warg

And more!

  • New Interface skin to celebrate the addition of the Oathsworn culture

  • New Music tracks from composer Michiel van den Bos

  • New realm template, pre-made rulers, and gorgeous World Map content

Age Of Wonders 4 Ratings & Reviews

PC Gamer

by Fraser Brown

87 / 100

A flavourful and inventive 4X full of incredible spells and engaging empire management.

Eurogamer

by Ruth Cassidy

Recommended

Taking inspiration from RPGs breathes new life into Age of Wonders 4, which balances exciting breadth and surprising approachability.

IGN

by Leana Hafer

8 / 10

Age of Wonders 4 is a dizzyingly customizable fantasy 4X made mightier by a legacy that follows you across multiple campaigns.

Reviews provided by OpenCritic

Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS

Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit

OS

Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit or Windows® 11

Processor

Intel® Core™ i5-2500K or AMD® Ryzen™ 5 1600X

Processor

Intel® Core™ i7-9700K or AMD® Ryzen™ 5 5600X

Memory

8 GB

Memory

16 GB

Storage

20 GB

Storage

>20 GB

Graphics

Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 670 (2GB) or AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) or Intel® Arc™ A380 (6GB) or Intel® Iris™ Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)

Graphics

Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1070 Ti (8GB) or AMD® Radeon™ RX 5700 XT (8GB)

Other

1080p (30FPS)

Other

1080p (60FPS)

Languages Supported

  • AUDIO: English

  • TEXT: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Chinese - Simplified, Russian

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