

Most of the tutorial hints are presented in text tooltips lengthy enough to have been written by Proust. You can feel like a decent strategist without delving too far into the game’s mechanics, even if there’s a lot of room left for you to improve.Īge of Wonders III throws up roadblocks.

While 4X games are always complicated-there are a ton of systems to learn-a game like Civilization is good about giving you the small victories up front. Age of Wonders III simply neglects about a decade of improvements in user experience, resulting in a game that feels opaque and unintuitive up front.

Getting started with Age of Wonders III is a hostile and intimidating experience, and not in the Dark Souls-esque “purposefully obtuse” way. Click to enlarge all images in this article.
