Age of Wonders 4: The Silver Seas Is Out, With Sea Cities, Pirates and Shark People
Age of Wonders 4's The Silver Seas expansion is out for $24.99 on Steam: a Mercantile culture with cities at sea, pirate captains and two new forms.
Age of Wonders 4's new expansion, The Silver Seas, is out today, 3 November. It's built around something players have asked for since launch, according to developer Triumph Studios: more to do at sea. The headline feature is a new culture that can place its cities on the ocean, and the expansion costs $24.99 on Steam.
Triumph says the game is now in its fourth year and starting its fourth set of expansions, which makes it the longest-supported game in the series.
What's in The Silver Seas
- Mercantile culture: place cities on land and at sea, and turn them into floating fortresses. It comes with two pirate subcultures: the Cartel, who grow through smuggling and secrecy, and the Barony, wealthy nobles who place bounties on their enemies and import what their empire needs
- Two new forms: the Sharkkin, shark warriors built for battle, and the Aqualon, near-human sea people. A new society trait, Children of the Waves, turns your people into Merfolk
- Four new tomes: Hydromancy (lightning and frost), the Damned (Ghostfire and summoned Accursed Wisps), Piracy (mobile skirmishers and explosive Ember Dust) and Eternal Ice, a powerful tome that can freeze the ocean itself and has to be earned
- Bond of the Free Captains: a new dwelling with six pirate captains, each with their own ambitions, that you can ally with, play against each other or defeat, unlocking shops, units and stolen technologies
- More to find at sea: ocean events, new landmarks such as the Tempestuous Vortex and Armada's Fall, and two new Ancient Wonders, the Uncharted Harbor and the Pearltide Dome
Shaped by players
Triumph says both new forms came from its community. The Aqualon started as a piece of concept art shared while the team worked on the Eldritch Realms expansion, and players liked it enough that the studio developed it further. As for the Sharkkin, "Sharks!" was always a big part of the answer whenever the team asked players which people to add next.
The studio also wrote a sea shanty to go with the release.
