Right from the start, the task seems daunting.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall pits this style of play into a science fiction setting, where members of six different races or factions come into conflict simply trying to understand or otherwise survive the world they've come to inhabit. The core of 4X gameplay pushes players to create their own empire. It's a hell of a gameplay hook, and unsurprisingly, it's not for the faint of heart. This is what Age of Wonders: Planetfall feels like: A strategy game where no stone was left unturned, where players are dropped onto an island in a sea of possibilities, given only the few basic tools and instructions they need to build an empire from scratch.
But that's effectively what the 4X genre has done: It took a long, hard look at turn-based strategy games, then said to itself, "Let's do that, but turn everything up to 11 first." Think back to the last time you looked at a game and thought to yourself, "This isn't complex enough." Can't recall such an event? Neither can I.
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