Wastelands Interactive has just announced that Worlds of Magic will be powered by Unity 5, and will be the first 4X game of such a scale released on this new iteration of the Unity Engine.
Polish-based developers Wastelands Interactive have seen their hard work come to fruition, as their Kickstarter-funded 4X strategy title: Planar Conquest is released today on PC. With eight different races and multiple entire places of existence, Planar Conquest looks to provide ample content to engross fans of such in-depth franchises like Civilization and Heroes of Might and Magic. Planar Conquest is a revamped and enchanced version of Worlds of Magic, which was released last year on Playstation 4, and it expands immensely upon its original iteration.
Joanna Mueller writes: "Conversion rates aside, this is not an insignificant amount of money, but fear not you can still pay $39.99 for the Steam version of the game. At that price point, Worlds of Magic should be standing toe to toe with some AAA titles, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Based on user reviews and the Dev's own promised relaunch it seems like this version is a bit of a buggy mess. While efforts have been made to patch and correct the issues, Wasteland seems to have settled on just redoing the whole shebang in time for the Q2 console release."
Hearing the words "developers" and "Kickstarter" in the same sentence is like hearing "Nigeria" and "scam". Any developer that funds an upcoming game through Kickstarter is by definition pulling a sleight of hand.
Pultny writes:
"Worlds of Magic offers a versatile turn-based strategy game that you just can keep on playing. The game has come a long way and is worth adding if you are a strategy-game lover. The high replayability and many in-game possibilities might make it a worthy successor for Masters of Magic."
Worlds of Magic is probably going to look fantastic on Unity 5.
Wasteland 2 for PS4 is also on this engine.