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Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Millennia is a strategy, turn-based strategy and 4x game
developed by C Prompt Games
and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on March 26th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Russian.
It has received 3,593 reviews of which 2,475 were positive and 1,118 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Millennia into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2300X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ R9 380 (4GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
User reviews & Ratings
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Watch a video of the combat animation. Straight out of the 2000's. If you can't take it, I'm not here to convince you otherwise. I myself played Warlords and World at War, so I have no problems with it. (What I have problems with is the much prettier Ara, where troops act more like ocean waves than armies. So uncanny!) I was critical of this game on release. It was in a rough state and felt overpriced. This justifies the mixed reviews, but they eventually made just enough improvements that I can now enjoy the unique elements of the game. I've played many 4X games, and I'd say in most you tend to do rather similar things throughout the game -- at least after the initial expansion phase, which often turns out to be the most interesting part of the game. Then, you experience 500 turns of cranking out bigger numbers. Millennia gets out of this mold by using Eras. Each Era introduces new rules that break up monotony every 30-40 turns or so. Additionally, you can encounter different Eras in different play-throughs. So in one game you might suffer from an Era of Plague, and the next game witness the Age of Heroes. Is this "gamey?" Certainly. You have heroes rise up and adventure around the globe and then, when the Era ends, they stop being heroic altogether. But is it fun? I think so, at least a certain number of times. Just remember, it is all intended to be taken a bit tongue-in-cheek. As for your civilization, it has very generic beginnings. It doesn't matter if you pick Canada or Japan. As you play, you pick a number of different National Spirits that shape your nation. There are a large number of possible combinations. Some are quite a bit stronger than others, so if you "power game" then you might tend to pick the same ones. But you really don't need to. Additionally, you can earn Innovations. These are selected at random and can further diversify your experience from game to game. For example, you could get bonus goods for paper production, encouraging you to build near forests and make books. Innovations might even influence which Age you want to work towards. My main gripe about the game is the documentation. Each Age brings different rules and technologies, which lead to different improvements, which generate different goods, which benefit by different National Spirits, and so on. It is a rather complex web which even the wiki doesn't do justice. So you can either spend time cross-referencing everything, or play a bit blind and make decisions without knowing everything that will come from them. Overall, Millennia has some flaws, but it can keep me engaged for the duration of a game. Eventually, though, the novelty of Ages will probably wear off. Thus, I recommend getting the game on sale.
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After probably 25 years of gaming on and of steam, this is my very first review. Why? Because I want a roadmap for 2025! In my oppinion this game deserves it! The game is imo the best competitor to CIV as of now, with fresh ideas, regarding replay (timeline can be changed significantly by choosing), tile system and strategy (focus trees). Each of the ideas are great, I love the immersion that they generate, which are not broken by the alternative histories. Damn I even love the graphics; they feel more realistic than Comic CIV 6. The game for sure has it's weaknesses, especially in CPU AI (weaker than CIV, but similar problems), balance (the game for sure is not perfect for Min Maxers), and the super prolonged late game (CIV has a similar problem) So the game is definitely not for everyone (especially min maxers won't like aspects). But in my oppinion it brings enough fresh air to be exciting for a lot of hours. Hopefully the game gets a roadmap for 2025!
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I would be willing to recommend this game with a couple of caveats. The game is extraordinary detailed. There is a huge potential in the game for replay and replay and replay. My issue with this game is it does tend to be painfully tedious. There is no real guidance as to what a player should be focusing on within a particular journey to the end. If the goal is a Military victory, that's pretty basic stuff. Everybody knows how to accomplish that. But if a player decides not to pound all the others into oblivion, it can become a bit problematic trying to figure out how to "win". I just finished playing a game to the 500 turn limit, and lost. I have no idea why. I was first to the moon, I was first to the A-Bomb, out had the most Democracy points. I had no idea what I should have been doing to secure a non-military victory. The game has no graphs, no information about each type of possible outcomes, no information on where you stand relative to the other players. The game just ended with a DEFEAT screen, nothing.... I have no intention of playing this game again until there are appropriate updates to the game. That said, the game has a HUGE amount of potential it's obvious a lot of thought has already gone into the development and I do wish for more from this title
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Bought this game on Launch when it first came out. At the time (launch) the game was terrible and complete trash. After several updates they basically pulled a No Man's Sky and made the game into a good game. The Combat kind of sucks but putting that aside everything else takes the Civilization formula and makes it better.
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I actually really like it. It's much slower paced than civ, it's really not all that truely set apart from civ, but I don't think it really needs to be just to compete with civ. It is good at all the things that civ is also good at, I don't feel like the game has any shortcomings that civ doesn't have too. Complaints about the ai are endemic to literally all civ-like games and nearly all 4x games in a broad sense. The presentation is much more on the level to be expected from an indie operation versus a triple A studio. But again that is certainly to be expected and really visuals are relatively low on the totem pole of priorities for a civ-like game. I really love the alternate age mechanic, I find that it does a great job spicing up and varying your many runs through the game. I found myself much more motivated to play. I never ended up doing a an English queens game with a friend on co-op or some other sort of gimmick to re-entice myself or others to play. Millennia's alternate ages, disaster ages, variant win eras, and the inability to just boss the game and get all the variants immediately on one strong run causing the others to be bereft of new unlocked content. Plus many ages like the heroic age were packed with new and varied content; the heroe units, the unique leveled quest sites, the quest reward Parthenon building, and the hall of heroes building stacking research bonus multiplied by your number of quests successfully explored by heroes, and more are all examples of how distinct and varied each alternate age really was. It's the really lone thing that really meaningfully sets the game apart, and I think that's for the best, they stuck to re-creating what worked well from the civ formula, created no new problems,a nd built this really cool hook of an alternate era system with multiple outcomes, fostering varied games and a high replayability.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Millennia is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Millennia is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Millennia received 2,475 positive votes out of a total of 3,593 achieving a rating of 6.73.
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Millennia was developed by C Prompt Games and published by Paradox Interactive.
Millennia is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Millennia is not playable on MacOS.
Millennia is not playable on Linux.
Millennia offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Millennia offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 3 DLCs available for Millennia. Explore additional content available for Millennia on Steam.
Millennia does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Millennia does not support Steam Remote Play.
Millennia is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Millennia.
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Developer
C Prompt Games
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Release
26 Mar 2024
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