Age of Wonders III

Triumph Studios · Paradox Interactive

Released: Mar 31, 2014
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Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 13:12 GMT

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13 Jul 2019Eurogamer
Age of Wonders 3 free to download and keep forever from Steam
Strategy game Age of Wonders 3 is currently free to download and keep forever from Steam . The promotion is tied with the upcoming release of Age of Wonders: Planetfall, the next strategy game from developer Triumph Studios. If you download Age of Wonders 3 during the promotion p
12 Jul 2019Eurogamer
Torchlight currently free on Epic Store, Age of Wonders 3 free on Steam
It's Friday, which means the weekend, which means a few extra hours to be wrung of all their gaming worth (unless you have other plans, but that's totally okay too). However, should you find yourself inexplicably game-less as all that additional play time stretches ahead of you l
11 Jul 2019Developer post
Age of Wonders 3 giveaway!
To celebrate the upcoming release of Planetfall, we're giving Age of Wonders 3 away for free on Steam! As an added bonus, anyone who downloads Age of Wonders 3 for free during this time will get a 10% discount on Age of Wonders: Planetfall Premium Edition. The offer is valid from
28 May 2019Developer post
Age of Wonders: Planetfall now ready for Pre-Purchase
Emerge from the cosmic dark age of a fallen galactic empire to build a new future for your people. 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 c
14 Oct 2018Announcement
Daily Deal - Age of Wonders III, 75% Off
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Age of Wonders III !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time
19 May 2018Developer post
We are proud to announce Age of Wonders: Planetfall!
Sci-fi incarnation of turn-based classic has players reach for new frontiers! Today we announced Age of Wonders: Planetfall, a new upcoming strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders and Overlord series. Slated for release for PC and c
08 Feb 2018Developer post
Triumph’s New Game to be announced May 18th @ PDXCon!
Finally some big news: We will announce our next game during PDXCon in Stockholm on May 18th 2018! Yes, this game is turn-based and yes, this game should appeal to Age of Wonders fans! You can also be there with us at PDXCon, where our parent company Paradox Interactive celebrate
08 Feb 2018Developer post
Triumph’s New Game to be announced May 18th @ PDXCon!
Finally some big news: We will announce our next game during PDXCon in Stockholm on May 18th 2018! Yes, this game is turn-based and yes, this game should appeal to Age of Wonders fans! You can also be there with us at PDXCon, where our parent company Paradox Interactive celebrate
30 Nov 2017Product Release
The Classics Return Weekend Deal, up to 75% Off
Save up to 75% during The Classics Return Weekend Deal*! Games included are: Wasteland 2 50% Off Age of Wonders III 75% Off Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition 66% Off and MORE *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
10 Oct 2017Announcement
Midweek Madness - Age of Wonders series, 75% Off
Save up to 75% on Age of Wonders series during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
02 May 2017Announcement
Midweek Madness - Age of Wonders III, 75% Off
Save 75% on Age of Wonders III during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time
02 May 2017Developer post
The V1.8 “POSEIDON” Patch out Now!
While we are very busy with our next big strategy game, we still managed to find time for some Age of Wonders 3 spring cleaning. In addition to killing bugs and adding a bit of twinkling polish, we have added new water gameplay features for you to enjoy. Thanks to all you folks t
02 May 2017Developer post
The V1.8 “POSEIDON” Patch out Now!
While we are very busy with our next big strategy game, we still managed to find time for some Age of Wonders 3 spring cleaning. In addition to killing bugs and adding a bit of twinkling polish, we have added new water gameplay features for you to enjoy. Thanks to all you folks t
20 Apr 2017Developer post
The V1.8 “POSEIDON” patch in Steam Open Beta
While we are very busy with our next big strategy game, we still managed to find time for some Age of Wonders 3 spring cleaning. In addition to killing bugs and adding a bit of twinkling polish, we have added new water gameplay features for you to enjoy. For more info on how to j
20 Apr 2017Developer post
The V1.8 “POSEIDON” patch in Steam Open Beta
While we are very busy with our next big strategy game, we still managed to find time for some Age of Wonders 3 spring cleaning. In addition to killing bugs and adding a bit of twinkling polish, we have added new water gameplay features for you to enjoy. For more info on how to j
27 Dec 2016Developer post
The 2016 Essential Mod Spotlight
With 2016 drawing to a close we highlight some of the Dev Team’s favorite Age of Wonders III user created Mods from the past year. With all the great mods available, it was a difficult choice. Thanks go out to the modding community for the hundreds of mods available for the game.
27 Dec 2016Developer post
The 2016 Essential Mod Spotlight
With 2016 drawing to a close we highlight some of the Dev Team’s favorite Age of Wonders III user created Mods from the past year. With all the great mods available, it was a difficult choice. Thanks go out to the modding community for the hundreds of mods available for the game.
01 Nov 2016Announcement
Midweek Madness - Age of Wonders III, 75% Off
Save 75% on Age of Wonders III during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time
01 Nov 2016Developer post
Age of Wonders III, v1.705 CAESAR Patch Released!
Hello All! After Age of Wonders III clocking 10s of millions of hours of gameplay, and getting the feedback to go with it, we are happy to officially release the official V1.705 "CAESAR" patch! This marks a new level of refinement for the game, especially for the master Age of Wo
Hello All!
After Age of Wonders III clocking 10s of millions of hours of gameplay, and getting the feedback to go with it, we are happy to officially release the official V1.705 "CAESAR" patch! This marks a new level of refinement for the game, especially for the master Age of Wonders 3 strategists, multiplayer gamers and modders. The variety of balance and bug fixes should benefit everyone.
Multiplayer and PBEM

Fixed an issue in multiplayer with the Production Resource Pickup. Which allowed a player to select both city upgrades if the game was continued from a save game.
Fixed an PBEM Ironman exploit where replacing delete/replacing save games, would in some cases not trigger an Ironman Notification.
Increased the PBEM save game size limit.
Fixed ironman exploit where a player could exit TC without triggering an ironman notification
Fixed an issue where it was possible to reload a multiplayer game with different seal settings than it was created with
Fixed an issue with PBEM Ironmode warnings.
Balance

When a unit has been resurrected during tactical combat, it will no longer give XP or casting points (via Essence Harvest) for the rest of that battle.
Leaders affected by swallowed whole can now be rescued by killing the swallowing unit
The Magical Structures Skill no longer gives the - unintended - Arcane Study bonus.
Frostling Scoundrels now have Projectile Resistance on Bronze, like the other Scoundrels.
Nymphs should no longer show up in rewards from Spring of Life locations.
One of the classes had a double frost protection hero upgrade, which was removed.
Stability

Fixed a couple of rare crash when loading a save game.
Fixed various crashes caused by removing mods which add new banner colours and icons
Fixed crash when city was being razed while at the same time a player had a 'Independent Can Discuss: ...' event
Fixed crash when clicking on empty specialization icon in diplomacy interface
Random Maps

Fixed a bug in RMG (online multiplayer) games where players would sometimes not start on the map layer that they had selected in the leader customization menu.
Fixed a bug in RMG where choosing 'Random' advanced setting for 'Resource Sites' (as well as other options with 'Random') would be a random value per player instead of the same random value for all players. Which meant that some players could start without any resource sites, while others start with many resource sites.
Choosing 'None' roads in RMG does not remove bridges from lava hexes anymore, because it made the map too hard to taverse.
Modding and Tools

Added a new unit property that can be used to change the strength of resistance checks. See: AoW Unit Property: Resist Strength Modifier.
Modders can now add a requisite to units who stolen from other players using mind control. The requisite is applied to the unit when battle ends.
Added support for additional workshop tags to PackageManager
Modding: All of the 'AoW City Operation' now correctly check their required properties
Map Editor now streams content cutting memory use considerably.
Mod Editor now only loads low-resolution textures, cutting memory use considerably.
Fixed rare bug in PackageManager where it would not correct detect previously publish workshop item.
Fixed an issue that prevented modders from editing XP pickups without causing instability
Fixed a crash caused by modders adding starting properties to city cores
Graphics and Glitches

Fixed a geometry gap in the city walls of arctic city battles.
Fixed a graphics glitch for one of the human male hairdos.
Linked the correct bird for the Halfling Eagle Rider.
Fixed the dragon animation so they correctly spawn particles when using the fire spit ability.
Text and Localization

Fixed a typo in the English Warp Domain description.
Updated to Poison Domain description to include which units are not valid targets for the spell's effect.
Updated the Ancient Ruins description to correctly indicate the reward for clearing this structure.
The Polearm ability description now - correctly - states it give a +4 damage bonus. It used to say +5 which was incorrect.
Fixed French typo in Cannon description
Fixed German Dark Pact Ability & Spell description
Fixed and clarified English loading screen text
Removed duplicate entries from the tome of wonders for the Fire Cannon and Movement Upgrade abilities.
Miscellaneous

AI no longer tries to dispel meditate, so it has casting points and mana left for more usefull things.
Tweaked Audio settings for sound effects reported to be too loud
Fixed an issue that caused the camera to zoom in during combat while the user was moving the camera, was supposed to be when the user WASN'T moving the camera
Fixed an issue where skills given by libraries didn't trigger the All Knowing empire quest. Library rewards will still not trigger the Sage empire quest.
Fixed an issue where Users could glitch the leader editor by selecting creation master, then changing to necromancer and back again.
Fixed issue where master specialization would not be correctly removed when removing adapt
Fixed an interface issues where properties would display 'Unknown Property Source!' when it could not find the source of the property. Instead of displaying the property's screen name.
Fixed an issue on certain Linux distributions where the checkboxes were not visible in the User Content tab of the Launcher.
Resolved an exploit in Diplomatic AI.
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01 Nov 2016Developer post
Age of Wonders III, v1.705 CAESAR Patch Released!
Hello All! After Age of Wonders III clocking 10s of millions of hours of gameplay, and getting the feedback to go with it, we are happy to officially release the official V1.705 "CAESAR" patch! This marks a new level of refinement for the game, especially for the master Age of Wo
Hello All!
After Age of Wonders III clocking 10s of millions of hours of gameplay, and getting the feedback to go with it, we are happy to officially release the official V1.705 "CAESAR" patch! This marks a new level of refinement for the game, especially for the master Age of Wonders 3 strategists, multiplayer gamers and modders. The variety of balance and bug fixes should benefit everyone.
Multiplayer and PBEM

Fixed an issue in multiplayer with the Production Resource Pickup. Which allowed a player to select both city upgrades if the game was continued from a save game.
Fixed an PBEM Ironman exploit where replacing delete/replacing save games, would in some cases not trigger an Ironman Notification.
Increased the PBEM save game size limit.
Fixed ironman exploit where a player could exit TC without triggering an ironman notification
Fixed an issue where it was possible to reload a multiplayer game with different seal settings than it was created with
Fixed an issue with PBEM Ironmode warnings.
Balance

When a unit has been resurrected during tactical combat, it will no longer give XP or casting points (via Essence Harvest) for the rest of that battle.
Leaders affected by swallowed whole can now be rescued by killing the swallowing unit
The Magical Structures Skill no longer gives the - unintended - Arcane Study bonus.
Frostling Scoundrels now have Projectile Resistance on Bronze, like the other Scoundrels.
Nymphs should no longer show up in rewards from Spring of Life locations.
One of the classes had a double frost protection hero upgrade, which was removed.
Stability

Fixed a couple of rare crash when loading a save game.
Fixed various crashes caused by removing mods which add new banner colours and icons
Fixed crash when city was being razed while at the same time a player had a 'Independent Can Discuss: ...' event
Fixed crash when clicking on empty specialization icon in diplomacy interface
Random Maps

Fixed a bug in RMG (online multiplayer) games where players would sometimes not start on the map layer that they had selected in the leader customization menu.
Fixed a bug in RMG where choosing 'Random' advanced setting for 'Resource Sites' (as well as other options with 'Random') would be a random value per player instead of the same random value for all players. Which meant that some players could start without any resource sites, while others start with many resource sites.
Choosing 'None' roads in RMG does not remove bridges from lava hexes anymore, because it made the map too hard to taverse.
Modding and Tools

Added a new unit property that can be used to change the strength of resistance checks. See: AoW Unit Property: Resist Strength Modifier.
Modders can now add a requisite to units who stolen from other players using mind control. The requisite is applied to the unit when battle ends.
Added support for additional workshop tags to PackageManager
Modding: All of the 'AoW City Operation' now correctly check their required properties
Map Editor now streams content cutting memory use considerably.
Mod Editor now only loads low-resolution textures, cutting memory use considerably.
Fixed rare bug in PackageManager where it would not correct detect previously publish workshop item.
Fixed an issue that prevented modders from editing XP pickups without causing instability
Fixed a crash caused by modders adding starting properties to city cores
Graphics and Glitches

Fixed a geometry gap in the city walls of arctic city battles.
Fixed a graphics glitch for one of the human male hairdos.
Linked the correct bird for the Halfling Eagle Rider.
Fixed the dragon animation so they correctly spawn particles when using the fire spit ability.
Text and Localization

Fixed a typo in the English Warp Domain description.
Updated to Poison Domain description to include which units are not valid targets for the spell's effect.
Updated the Ancient Ruins description to correctly indicate the reward for clearing this structure.
The Polearm ability description now - correctly - states it give a +4 damage bonus. It used to say +5 which was incorrect.
Fixed French typo in Cannon description
Fixed German Dark Pact Ability & Spell description
Fixed and clarified English loading screen text
Removed duplicate entries from the tome of wonders for the Fire Cannon and Movement Upgrade abilities.
Miscellaneous

AI no longer tries to dispel meditate, so it has casting points and mana left for more usefull things.
Tweaked Audio settings for sound effects reported to be too loud
Fixed an issue that caused the camera to zoom in during combat while the user was moving the camera, was supposed to be when the user WASN'T moving the camera
Fixed an issue where skills given by libraries didn't trigger the All Knowing empire quest. Library rewards will still not trigger the Sage empire quest.
Fixed an issue where Users could glitch the leader editor by selecting creation master, then changing to necromancer and back again.
Fixed issue where master specialization would not be correctly removed when removing adapt
Fixed an interface issues where properties would display 'Unknown Property Source!' when it could not find the source of the property. Instead of displaying the property's screen name.
Fixed an issue on certain Linux distributions where the checkboxes were not visible in the User Content tab of the Launcher.
Resolved an exploit in Diplomatic AI.
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