Master of Magic – Caster of Magic Mod (PC, GOG Galaxy)

Master of Magic is one of the early 4X games (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate; a genre of turn-based strategy games) along with Civilization and Master of Orion. I was introduced to it in high school and have periodically replayed it over the years. 25 years after the original game came out, there’s an enhancement mod that redoes the enemy AI, adds quality-of-life improvements, changes some of the buildings and racial modifiers, removes some of the broken bits and generally makes it a better game. And GOG just happened to advertise it to me.

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Overall: This was a lovely use of $4.50 to get a fresh take on an old favorite. As a side bonus, this was the first time I set up the “GOG Galaxy” front-end, and while its cloud sync is having issues, I love that I can maintain my GOG library as easily as my Steam library.