Power of Planets – Earth (Retro Civ like MMO game derived from FreeCiv)

Another talented Civilization series fan Gábor Auth has set out to create something quite different, a MMO version of FreeCiv called Power Of Planets – Earth! Impressively he has fully reimplemented the FreeCiv engine into Unity over the last 10 years to achieve this. In Power Of Planets (formerly known as Golden Age of Civilizations) you play as one of many players in a quasi-real time environment. You start with a couple of units on a continent, very Civ-style, however your opponents are humans, and units are not moved turn-based, but they get a count-down after their movements are exhausted until they are recharged.

You can download the game for Windows, Linux and Android, or start an online version in your browser here: https://gaborauth.itch.io/pop-e

Star Trek Infinite Dev Diaries & Preview (4X strategy Stellaris & Birth of The Federation like game)

I recently posted about my excitement for the new Birth of the Federation and Stellaris looking Star Trek game from Paradox called Star Trek Infinite. IGN recently did a nice preview on it and now the developers have started releasing dev diaries for it that even directly mention BOTF as inspiration and recreating that experience which is great. I’m loving all their TNG/DS9/VOY era artwork (presumably used in the game’s many events and story trees).

Dev diaries: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1622900

UPDATE: Game released! Plus cool new videos HERE!

Civilization 2: Heroes of Might & Magic 2 mod – Dev Diaries 9-10

Regular visitors to my blog may have seen on my What Is Blake Playing Right NOW? page that I’ve been quite busy with Civilization 2 modding as part of the HUGE new WIP Civilization section and youtube series I’ve been working on for ages.

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Because I’m a huge Heroes of Might & Magic fan the biggest project of them all is a HoMM2 total conversion mod and scenario for the great classic game Sid Meier’s Civilization II MGE created by Metropolis and me! Inspired by Tom2050’s amazing HoMM3 mod for Civ3 we hope to create the most HoMM2 like experience within the limitations of the old Civ2 engine.

PREVIOUSLY:
Dev Diaries 1-3 were posted HERE
Dev Diaries 4-6 were posted HERE
Dev Diaries 7-8 were posted HERE

Dev Diary 09 – New Azure Dragon, Neutral Cities & HoMM1 Addon For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the ninth dev diary for the Civ2 HoMM2 mod we replace Matt’s dragon with a mighty Azure dragon, add a 7th neutral faction city, and begin work on a future HoMM1 addon.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/news/azure-dragon-neutral-city-h1-addon

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FINAL Dev Diary 10 – World Map, Factions & Extra Graphics For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In this final tenth dev diary we finish up by showing some of the scenario world map, the factions, and some special alternative graphic sets
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/news/world-map-factions-extra-graphics

Theocracy (Civ 1 & 2 like retro 4X indie game with some MoM & Col influences too)

Recently found out about a retro ‘Civ like’ 4X indie game recently released called Theocracy which the author Marcel Strbak describes as his personal homage to Sid Meier’s Civilization 1 & 2. Much like with Civ you start in ancient times and work your way into the modern era with tanks & infantry etc however interestingly he has also added mythology & magic into the game with “miracle” spell casting & monster summoning which Master of Magic fans will likely find interesting too. It appears you can play as a number of native American cultures exploring the new world and competing for control of the Americas or as Europeans racing across to get there as well which Sid Meier’s Colonization fans may like too. The game supports easily accessible and very Civ2 like rules & graphic files making it good for modding and Marcel plans to add scenario creation tools and possibly unit animation (presumably Civ3 & Civ2 Test of Time like) in the future too. The game is currently part of the Steam strategy sale until Monday (not currently on GoG though).

Steam page (not currently on GoG):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195530/Theocracy/