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Lead a sci-fi faction across shattered planets, build colonies, customize armies, and fight turn-based tactical battles.
Released 06 Aug 2019
Customize Every Unit
Fight Tactical Battles
Build Sector Colonies
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Developed by Triumph Studios · Published by Paradox Interactive
After the collapse of the Star Union, lead one of several factions as it seeks to build a future among the survivors. Campaign missions follow different factions as you explore planetary ruins, meet rivals, and uncover the history of the fallen empire.
On the strategic map, expand colonies, develop cities, manage resources, research technologies, and deal with other factions through diplomacy or conflict. Exploration brings you to landmarks, neutral groups, and hidden technologies, while conquest, diplomacy, and doomsday technologies offer different paths to victory.
When armies clash, take command in turn-based tactical battles where positioning, cover, unit abilities, and environmental destruction matter. Customize units with mods, develop heroes, and combine faction traits with secret technologies. Play the campaign, random-map skirmishes, multiplayer, or an empire mode where rewards and unlocks carry into later games.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its distinct factions and flexible unit customization, which make different combinations fun to experiment with, alongside tactical battles that reward positioning and abilities. Some also highlight the empire mode’s between-game progression and the sci-fi setting. Other reviews find the systems difficult to learn, the campaign uneven, or later turns repetitive and slow; opinions on the game’s depth and pacing vary.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 80 |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports multiplayer in several forms: online, hotseat, and asynchronous play. Store features list Online PvP, and the description says players can play against friends in multiplayer. Reviews indicate co-op play against AI is possible, simultaneous turns are used, asynchronous turns can be played without all players being online at once, and saves can switch between simultaneous and async multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop and modding tools are available. The provided text does not state specific multiplayer mod support or restrictions. Reviews mention DLC/no-DLC multiplayer compatibility, but not mod compatibility behavior in multiplayer. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 81/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
