From Strategyinformer.com: "Worlds of Magic sees two indie developers teaming up and taking to Kickstarter to create a spiritual successor to a classic PC strategy game: Microprose’s Master of Magic. We talked to Leszek Lisowski of Wastelands Interactive and Aaron Ethridge of newcomers Lucid Dreamers about why a 1994 4X game is such an inspiration, get a detailed insight into the features of Worlds of Magic and discussed the excitement and terror of crowdfunding."
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."
