Millenia - Paradox new IP to rival Civilization

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Just this minute been announced, historical turn based 4x to rival the Civ series

Millennia on Steam

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

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Not sure myself, I've always struggled a little to get into the civ type games.

I love the civ games, over 1500 hours in Civ6, over 2000 hours in Civ5. Some of our games on it have lasted 6 months or more (marathon, biggest map possible, 12 civilizations, 4 players)

But Civ has been pretty much unrivalled in the turn based 4x genre now for decades, need something to rival it, so heres hoping.

 

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Sadly about right, I played the demo of it during steams next fest and was very disappointed with it. Definitely not a rival to the Civ games.

 

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CK2 is still a better game overall than CK3, if you take away the nice graphics. Tons of mechanics in CK2 they could have just brought over but they haven't, and 3 years after release all we have seen is some pretty weak DLC.

Cities Skylines 2 is a total disaster, released a year early because line must go up.

Often you have to wait 5-7 years to get a decent PDX experience, and sometimes it's so misjudged and barebones that they have basically strangled it in the crib like Imperator, now a pretty good game IMO, but way too late for them to monetise.

Its a shame Paradox do it really, because ultimately their games do end up being good....in some cases FAR better than good, they sometimes end up being absolutely superb (like Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron and the particularly brilliant Stellaris) but its such a shame that you have to wait so long for them to get to that point.