MILLENNIA - NEW CIV LIKE 4X & GRAND STRATEGY (Gameplay Mechanics Deep Dive)

Any chance you can elect to not use some systems like Faith? If you ignore it, are you screwing your self over to the point where there's no way to win? Are there game settings that would allow you to customize the difficulty and/or pick and choose which systems are used?

Honestly, all that is need to beat Civ 6 is better AI...

The towns and domains system makes it sound like I can finally play Tall. I've been starved for a game where I can start with 1 city and just grow it until it's consumed the entire planet. Even in late "Futurism" ages in other games, there's no real support for Megacity.

Paradox looked at humankind and were like: "Bro they tried something cool, but fcked up right before the finish line." Took their concept and ran with it. Honestly, this is looking spicy and waaaaaay better

I'm curious how the age system holds up to the age system of Humankind where you can also mix and match to form your final culture. At first sight this definitely looks like a more indepth implementation.

I really want a game to focus on deeper history. Sites like gobekli tepi are more than 10k years old. I want a game to explore the possibility of an alternative to history as we know it.

I'm really excited for this age defining mechanic. I had a very similar idea for years that I always wanted to see in a 4x game and I'm so happy someone is finally making it real. With all the civ-like games now (Humankind, Old World, Ara, Age of wonders 4 and now this,) it truly is a great time to be a Civ fan.

At least the end game isn’t just a nuclear slug fest

I wonder how many things you can make with iron...

Man I have been /desperate/ for a good civ competitor for years now. Based on what I've seen so far, this could be everything I've wanted and more. I really hope they do well

I'm a little worried about the combat system. It kind of looked boring. Also the graphics seem to be low in general.

Civ 4 graphics... nice.

Is it RTS or like civilization 6

Hey Party! This looks promising. I do think that in a 4x game we need to have a robust, clear and exciting military system. Hopefully these units get larger, clearer and more hands-on in combat situations.

Graphic style looks more like Civ5 than Civ6, honestly I prefered that older less candy like look, also city recruitment and building tab has nice art, overall looks intresting, thanks for the review!

I will wait a few months. This game has the same thing going for it like the other civ like game Humankind. Which ended up being a dud.

Absolutely digging the look and feel of this game. The ages mechanic seems really promising and I can't wait to see more.

This looks 20 years old, the graphics are disgussting. I love Civ amd hope this will be good, but I really hope that is not the final look but a very early alpha.

What I‘m liking so far is the fact that every playthrough will likely lead to different Ages every time.

Sure it’s a game worth following. Thanks for the great vid— keep 'em comin'.

Oh Paradox... Prepared for bunch of DLCs.

The game got me hyped, not gonna lie. But I'll be careful with it. Because I thought that Humankind would be that great 4X games that could compete with Civ games (still disappointed). I really like the Age system, it's the most exiting part for me so far. But I really curios how the combat plays (hope it's not like in Victoria 3, God please no). What could be the victory conditions and how to reach it. How the culture, science, diseases, cults are look like. And will there be no unique units on faction you play? For example samurai unit for Japan. If not it's kinda meh (if not I believe that it will be in DLCs lol). Anyway, I'm interested and I definitely want to know more about this game. Hope that it will be very good

It’ll be bare bones and they’ll kill it with overpriced dlc. Having been a longtime fan of this dev, I refuse to buy their crap anymore

"I am Millennia, Blade of Miquella"

game has potential, but so did humankind. so we shall see

Great explanation as always.

Are you going to take a look at the upcoming Paradox game, Star Trek Infinite?

I would highly consider a pre buy

Looking forward to your gameplays

I hope this very very very early build, because the graphics look like something from an indie mobile game circa 2008, specially the UI.

I remember when the company went after call to power, So why hasnt civ gone after humankind an others..If i recall they sued the dev team of call to power, Not that i want that competition is good..

Sounds ambitious! I'd love to see the innovation in action but it sounds like the game needs more work to get a proper stream.

Looks extremely promising. I hope it delivers

One for the addicts who want the same thing again and again and again?

i like the town feature

Russia - Faster Navy? Is that a typo? One of the reasons they lost the Battle of Tsushima was because they were so slow.

Are available ages you can chose from randomly proposed ? I would LOVE that !

What makes this a Paradox game though? Will there be emergent storytelling like Stellaris and CK?

I can't believe it's been 2 weeks already since this and i'm just hearing about this game! Already wishlisted! This seems a lot like civ but more complex and involved, and I'm here for it! I also really like this vibe more than the one in humankind

We will see how it turns out, exciting to see innovation here. However when I think of naval buffs matching history Im not sure about russia being a naval boost? Sure during the Russo-Japanese war their baltic fleet sailed around the world and got destroyed.
The township makes me think a bit of the cottage in civ 4, which would level up the longer worked to village and town (producing more commerce/science cant quite recall when budget got split into separate resources)

I kinda like the stylised artstyle of Civ6 and Humankind more but still... I'm always interested in historical 4x games

The age system makes for very evil kinds of playthrough and i love it. Lets see how civilization endure the age of plagues, barbary and destruction.

A civilization style game that has end game crisis (beyond nuclear war and climate change) something that I been thinking about since Civ 4, I always imagined a potential game that has things that make players unite to survive or at the very least cooperate, like rogue AI, alien invasion or meteor strike. I know that Stellaris has those, but they don't really have this desired effect people either stomp them or the crisis resolves itself (i only played launch Stellaris, the game is too bloated for my taste and time).

So it will be absolutely barebones and have 20 dlc within a year.

I love civ style games, my favorite being Old World which never seems to get any attention. But this looks really good. I love seeing what newer civ styled games do to freshen up the gameplay. Seems like the trend now adays is make new playthroughs feel super different from one another.

That's always been my issue with CivV and 6 is most games play out the same, all that changes is whose playing and the map. Humankind tried it's best but history system or whatever didn't freshen it up enough. You just had the obvious "Best choice" for your play through. The idea of the AI picking random ages you MUST follow is really really cool! I hope it succeeds and does really well!

Published by Paradox. Thar means it will have a million DLC and the total spend on the game will be 2000$. No thanks.

Looks a bit heavy on the district mechanic, which is something I'm already a bit sick of tbh...

Looks good, I will certainly be giving it a try. Sounds refreshing.

Graphics look dated

Well THIS is exciting! I'm always down for more Civ competitors, especially when they're finding new ways to innovate. Any thoughts or questions? Share 'em in the comments and I'll answer all that I can - I've been able to get hands-on with the game, so I've got some experience with the gameplay and mechanics, even in this early state. I hope you can see why I'm so pumped for this one!