How does it hold up? I’ve always wanted to try it; I’m a big fan of Age of Wonders 1, which I believe was inspired by MoM. However, I find older games pretty user-unfriendly with garbage UI - at least the ones I didn’t play as a lad. I heard there was a remake in the past few years - is that any good?
It runs okay enough, but yeah diplomacy is useless and the balance can get really wonky really quickly, and sometimes you'll find a ton of great stuff in your starting area protected by like lone scrub units and sometimes you'll be surrounded by hordes of endgame monsters right out the gate. On the other hand, the magic system is genuinely a lot of fun and the UI is mostly fairly straightforward for all the things you have at your disposal. Having a guide to follow in your early game is helpful though.
Still undecided. Reviews seem cautiously optimistic, but not to a "this is so much better than The Outer Worlds" extent, and I'd want it to be definitely better if I'm going to dedicate time and money to it.
My go-to is Mortismal Gaming and he has said it is basically an improvement on OW1 in every way.
It is very good. 10/10 fully recommend. But don't get the version with just 64gb unless you also get an ssd -and are technically inclined or have a friend who is- because it gets filled very very quickly.
