Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Gaming NexusCarter Kilmann

9/10

If you're looking for an easygoing, mindless gaming session, Planetfall isn't in your ballpark—or even playing sports. But if you woke up this morning thinking, "Hey, I'd love to play XCOM and Civilization today, then you can kill two birds with one stone. Planetfall will fill your unique craving.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

9/10

For console owners, Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a rare treat. It’s not only a 4X strategy game that they can play from the comfort of their couch, it’s a bloody good one at that. It doesn’t do the best job of getting players up to speed, but once they have everything figured out they’re in for what is perhaps the best strategy experience currently available on console. It just requires a little bit of patience and persistence to work through a confusing first few hours. After that, there’s little to disappoint those seeking to display their colony-building prowess.

GameWatcherRobert Honaker

8/10

Some great extra content takes a backseat to an extraordinary new gameplay mode that players will get for free from the upcoming “Triceratops” patch. Though the new content is of high quality, especially the new faction, it’s overshadowed by a free patch and perhaps isn’t as exciting with the addition of yet another human faction.

Worth PlayingJared Hall

8/10

Age Of Wonders: Planetfall will bring all the exciting turn-based empire building and immersive tactical combat of its predecessors to an all-new sci-fi setting.

WellPlayedAdam Ryan

8/10

With a galaxy full of interesting races/factions and gameplay that should satisfy both the 4X and turn-based combat crowds, Planetfall deserves your attention.

Impulse GamerJohn Werner

Overview

XboxEraPieter "SuikerBrood" Jasper

7.5/10

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a wonderfully crafted 4X game with deep tactical combat and a sci-fi world that looks stunning. The different biomes keep the gameplay fresh and the different playable races give the game a slight Total War: Warhammer vibe. While the campaign is interesting, it can be a bit bland at times. The lack of cutscenes to give you that extra little immersion is a pity. Overall this is a fun strategy game to enjoy a slow Sunday evening with.

ShackNewsKevin Tucker

7/10

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a polished, gigantic, and complex sci-fi strategy game. It has loads of different features, factions, and quests, and there's enough content to keep players active for weeks, months, probably years. But while the possibility of such a deep well may be alluring to 4X fans, it's a bad fit for the rest of us working-class citizens. If you've got time to spare, Planetfall has more than enough intricacy to keep you occupied, but if you're someone without a lot of free time, the game's demanding pace, meandering tasks, and compulsory conflicts will prove to be more frus...

GameSpotDavid Wildgoose

7/10

Homeworld bound.

TwinfiniteKhayl Adam

2019 has been a banner year for strategy games, with critical and commercial successes like Total War: Three Kingdoms and Fire Emblem: Three Houses raising the bar for the genre. Age of Wonders: Planetfall, while not quite reaching that mark, is an enjoyable game in its own right.

Playstation LifestyleJarrett Green

6/10

In this modern age of game design, genre-melding has become a gimmick critics and consumers alike can all get behind. ”What if this game I loved could play a little like this other game I loved?” The savviest devs swoop in with an answer that changes the way we look at landmark games from then on. Others manage to nail the concept on the surface, yet still fail to be remarkable. Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the latter.

Checkpoint GamingLise Leitner

Unscored

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a 4X turn-based strategy game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is the latest entry in the Age of Wonders series and is the first Age of Wonders game set in a sci-fi setting. For a strategy game Age of Wonders: Planetfall offers beautiful visuals with a surprisingly layered narrative; the game comes with a whole new set of factions, all of which have their own backstory.