Stellaris, but fantasy?

[Unpure]

So, I been (mostly) having a blast on Stellaris, the ability to creature almost any conceivable Sci-fi race or culture and go nuts, as well as exploring the galaxy and uncovering mysteries while other nations rise and fall lets me just kill hours upon hours in this game.

But sometimes I desire a fantasy setting, and have started to look or wonder if there is or could be a Fantasy Stellaris... Fantaris?

From what I've seen in my initial search are titles like Age of Wonders 4 and Dominions 5.
They look good, but thought I ask around here, hear if others who might have tried them feel they are good candidates.

[Terminus]

Age of Wonders 4 has a lot of variation in creating your own race, culture, and magic. It is a more combat focused game. Each individual encounter results in a battle between two groups. Whether or not you like the game depends on how much you enjoy the combat mechanics.

Dominions is more of a god game, where you also have a lot of variation over the type of god you want to play. You do not fight the battles directly but write scripts for what your armies do which play out when battles happen. This can lead to some interesting outcomes. There is very little diplomacy since the point of the game is world domination and gods do not like each other.,

Personally I have more time in AOW4 because the graphics are pretty and the UI is better, but if you are hard core you might like Dominions too.

[Sanctus57]

+1 for Dominions, here. You can do basically anything conceivable in a fantasy setting. For example there is a spell called "Wish" in the game. It doesn't even give you a set of options, you just type whatever you want into a text prompt... and it mostly gives it to you. The whole game is full of that kind of insanity.

[EJR]

Commenting here so I know some Stellaris-like Fantasy games myself

[Bloodartist]

Age of wonders series is probably closest equivalent.

[Seek and Find]

Uh, this is a fantasy game.

[Xaphnir]

I suppose that is one niche that Paradox has yet to fill with a grand strategy and/or 4x game.

[Unpure]

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

I suppose that is one niche that Paradox has yet to fill with a grand strategy and/or 4x game.

True; There's AoW4, but it's developed by Triumph Studios.
And when I saw the advertisement for Millennia on the Stellaris launcher, I was initially excited, thought that would be it. But from what I seen it's more similar to Civ/Humankind, and is developed by C Prompt Games.

Would love to see Paradox Development Studio take a crack at it, taking all they've learned from Stellaris and create a fantasy version of it.

[HappySack]

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

I suppose that is one niche that Paradox has yet to fill with a grand strategy and/or 4x game.

Sounds like a new idea for a game in the very early unknown years of human civilization.

If we have CK, EU, Victoria, HOI, then Stellaris in the far future, we need to go to many tens of thousands of years into the past.

But yeah, otherwise Dominions 5 is the closest thing.

[Azunai]

There's a fairly advanced fantasy mod for EU4. That might be worth a look.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1385440355

[Unpure]

Originally posted by HappySack:

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

I suppose that is one niche that Paradox has yet to fill with a grand strategy and/or 4x game.

Sounds like a new idea for a game in the very early unknown years of human civilization.

If we have CK, EU, Victoria, HOI, then Stellaris in the far future, we need to go to many tens of thousands of years into the past.

But yeah, otherwise Dominions 5 is the closest thing.

Thing is, I don't want to play as humans necessary.
Much of Stellaris appeal for me is how buck wild I can go and create, or recreate species and cultures. If I see a crazy build, or something cool in media, I can make a Sci-fi version of it in Stellaris, and I want something similar for a High-fantasy setting.

I think that's why the other games (Civilization, Humankind, and most likely Millennia) don't scratch that itch. Since they always force me to pick an existing human culture, and follow a technology tree to the ones in our history. The closest thing I've seen trying to break away from that mold might be Millennia, where it looked like you can get a Age of Steampunk if you pick the right developments.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by HappySack:

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

I suppose that is one niche that Paradox has yet to fill with a grand strategy and/or 4x game.

Sounds like a new idea for a game in the very early unknown years of human civilization.

If we have CK, EU, Victoria, HOI, then Stellaris in the far future, we need to go to many tens of thousands of years into the past.

But yeah, otherwise Dominions 5 is the closest thing.

So rocks vs rocks and instead of settlements you control groups of nomads

[Mälsträm]

total war: warhammer

[Nifty]

Originally posted by Unpure:

So, I been (mostly) having a blast on Stellaris, the ability to creature almost any conceivable Sci-fi race or culture and go nuts, as well as exploring the galaxy and uncovering mysteries while other nations rise and fall lets me just kill hours upon hours in this game.

But sometimes I desire a fantasy setting, and have started to look or wonder if there is or could be a Fantasy Stellaris... Fantaris?

From what I've seen in my initial search are titles like Age of Wonders 4 and Dominions 5.
They look good, but thought I ask around here, hear if others who might have tried them feel they are good candidates.

Crusader kings 2 or 3 with the game of thrones mod?

[talemore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=717060367&searchtext=gundam