For nearly two decades, the Age of Wonders series has been firmly entrenched in a fantasy realm, with all the tropes that accompany it: Orcs, Halflings, meddling wizards and flying lizards. Triumph Studios latest 4X outing, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, does away with all of that. It swaps magic for mechs, pitting alien races against each other in a galaxy reeling from the collapse of the last great space empire, the Star Union.
We ve been working on fantasy games all our lives, but we also had the fantasy of making a sci-fi game, says Lennart Sas, Triumph Studios CEO. It gives us more opportunities than a direct sequel would ever give us. It s a good middle-ground between doing something that s close to our hearts, but also something that allows us to experiment.