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20 April

Prepare to Lead Your People to Greatness: Now on Mac via Steam

The battle for Medieval Europe arrives on Mac following successful PC and console launches

Mac users – the time has come for epic battles, cunning diplomacy and relentless conquest. Kalypso Media is proud to announce that Grand Ages: Medieval is out now for Mac via Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/310470/

giving grand strategy fans on the opportunity to lead their people to greatness.
Following the hugely successful launches on Windows PC and PlayStation®4, Grand Ages: Medieval on Mac will test players’ strategic minds as they advance through the decades by utilising construction, research, expansion and conquest in a massive playable arena extending from Scandinavia and North Africa; to Portugal, the Caucasus and the Middle East.

Watch the trailer on Youtube here:

For a more in depth look at Grand Ages: Medieval take a look one of the developer livestreams here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J18SuJS8mA

About Grand Ages: Medieval
It is the year 1050 AD. At the beginning of the High Middle Ages development in Europe has seen an unprecedented level of progress as a rapidly growing population spreads across the length and breadth of the continent. New frontiers are being explored, settlements founded and vast trading routes established. As the head of one of these small settlements, it falls upon you to lead your people towards greatness. Explore a vast world, gather resources, encounter other societies and use your trading expertise to expand and make your fortune. Found new cities, progress your nation with inventive technology and protect your trade routes against barbarian attacks until you are powerful enough to begin your conquest over Europe and forge a bold new empire.

Features of Grand Ages: Medieval

Explore a gigantic game world of over 20 million square kilometres, plot strategically where to found important cities and defend your kingdom against foreign powers
Raise an army and fight your opponents with knights, archers and cavalry
Produce and trade 20 different goods to meet the demands of your citizens and soldiers: such as coal, fruits and pottery
Research and utilise 50 major technological advancement of the Middle Ages: including the three-field crop rotation, the low warp loom or the longbow
Face devastating natural disasters like storms, fires, volcanoes, droughts, earthquakes… or even the Black Death
Challenging Multiplayer Mode for up to 8 players

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7 April

Worldwide Digital Mac Release via Steam Confirmed for 20th April 2016

The battle for Medieval Europe moves forward to Mac after successful PC and console launches

Aspiring emperors/empresses!
Ready yourselves for epic battles, cunning diplomacy and relentless conquest. Kalypso Media today announces that grand strategy fans will soon be able lead their people to greatness on their Mac as Grand Ages: Medieval will be available to purchase via Steam on 20th April.
Following the hugely successful launches on Windows PC and the PlayStation®4 system, Grand Ages: Medieval will test Mac players’ strategic minds as they advance through the High Middle Ages by utilising construction, research, expansion and conquest in an area extending from Scandinavia and North Africa; to Portugal, the Caucasus and the Middle East.

For a more in depth look at Grand Ages: Medieval take a look one of the developer livestreams here
View the Grand Ages: Medieval PC launch trailer here
View the Grand Ages: Medieval PS4 trailer here

About Grand Ages: Medieval:

It is the year 1050 AD. At the beginning of the High Middle Ages development in Europe has seen an unprecedented level of progress as a rapidly growing population spreads across the length and breadth of the continent. New frontiers are being explored, settlements founded and vast trading routes established. As the head of one of these small settlements, it falls upon you to lead your people towards greatness. Explore a vast world, gather resources, encounter other societies and use your trading expertise to expand and make your fortune. Found new cities, progress your nation with inventive technology and protect your trade routes against barbarian attacks until you are powerful enough to begin your conquest over Europe and forge a bold new empire.

Features of Grand Ages: Medieval

Explore a gigantic game world of over 20 million square kilometres, plot strategically where to found important cities and defend your kingdom against foreign powers
Raise an army and fight your opponents with knights, archers and cavalry
Produce and trade 20 different goods to meet the demands of your citizens and soldiers: such as coal, fruits and pottery
Research and utilise 50 major technological advancement of the Middle Ages: including the three-field crop rotation, the low warp loom or the longbow
Face devastating natural disasters like storms, fires, volcanoes, droughts, earthquakes… or even the Black Death
Challenging Multiplayer Mode for up to 8 players

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Reviews

“Grand Ages: Medieval is surprisingly good in combining trade and strategy”
8/10 – http://www.gamereactor.de/Kritiken/268243/Grand+Ages+Medieval/

“Unique blend of grand strategy, trading and diplomacy”
8.6/10 – Hooked Gamers

“Grand Ages: Medieval is finely balanced and challenging”
4/5 – Softpedia

What is Grand Ages: Medieval?

"Grand Ages: Medieval" is an entry in Kalypso's "Grand Ages" series of finely-crafted strategy games of different genres developed by different studios. This game is not a sequel to the 2009 title "Grand Ages: Rome", a classic RTS with a focus on city building. "Grand Ages: Medieval" is a larger scale, real-time empire simulation game combining elements of trade, expansion and exploration with a heavy focus on economical domination.

Features:

Explore a gigantic game world of over 20 million square kilometres, plot strategically where to found important cities and defend your kingdom against foreign powers

Produce and trade 20 different goods to meet the demands of your citizens and soldiers: such as coal, fruits and pottery

Research and utilise 50 major technological advancement of the Middle Ages: including the three-field crop rotation, the low warp loom or the longbow

Raise an army and fight your opponents with knights, archers and cavalry

Face devastating natural disasters like storms, fires, volcanoes, droughts, earthquakes… or even the Black Death

Challenging Multiplayer Mode for up to 8 players

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8000 Series or similar
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible, 1 GB RAM, Geforce GTS450 or similar
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: Intel® i5 3 GHz or similar / better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible, 2 GB RAM, Geforce GTX 650ti or similar / better
DirectX: Version 11

Minimum:

OS: 10.11
Processor: Intel Quad-Core @ 3.1 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440/GT 650M, AMD Radeon HD 7750/6970M 512 MB VRAM, Shader Model 5
Storage: 5 GB available space

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64 Bit
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8000 Series or similar
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 compatible, 1 GB RAM, Geforce GTS450 or similar
Storage: 5 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64 Bit
Processor: Intel® i5 3 GHz or similar / better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 compatible, 2 GB RAM, Geforce GTX650ti or similar
Storage: 5 GB available space

User reviews:

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Mostly Negative (29 reviews) - 20% of the 29 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

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Mixed (1,231 reviews) - 43% of the 1,231 user reviews for this game are positive.

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Posted: 12 August

Awful purchase, could'nt get a refund because it spent 2 hours trying to get it to work.

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One of the worst games I ever played 0% 0 - 10

Posted: 11 August

to me it seems that when makeing this game they only got a team of 5 people to work on it for 2 years...and they only work weekends...and everytime their boss asked for an update they would ♥♥♥♥ into a container and hand it to him saying.....we made the game here is the prototype

Have not finished it yet, but this one need a review while it's on sale.

This game comes with new Ideas for strategy games and does well on almost all of them. The single player campain/tutorial is intriguingly written with a good learning curve and well presented story. Buildings options though tend to run out quickly and the management consists of mostly simple repeating steps. The game balance/difficulty is overall easy and plays slowly. Here I can see what other reviewers hint at and must agree with most of the criticism. On the other hand the game works very well in it's strong fields like UI, presentation, graphics and visiual feedback. The latter meaning a thing I really love: all buildings, in progress or otherwise, the resources of a city, everthing reflects in the game world, a game world with free zoom I might add.

So shortly, If you only read this bit and fly over more reviews - Grand Ages: Medieval is visually nice, technically well executed and has a intriguing story. It falls short on balance or big strategy things and is as easy as repetitive.

I recommend it as the relaxing strategy game for the casual medieval fan. Definitly get it on sale.

PS: Multiplayer is to slow and not relaxing, I guess (not tested).

Posted: 6 August

This game looks good on the surface, but has little depth to it.

Its a very basic medieval economy sim with some very generic combat elements thrown in.

They advertise this game as a "Grand Strategy" game when its nothing of that kind whatsoever.

They posted twitch feeds to showcase what the game looks like and claim"transparency." But this is just decieving eye candy. To make you believe there is depth to the game.

I even watched a few lets play videos and seeing how the game starts out, it looked very interesting and makes you think that the game must go very deep as it progresses. But in reality, thats where it ends. It was enough to trick me into buying it, and kept me interested long enough to get past the 2 hour mark for refunds.

Dont let yourself be duped like I was. The dev team stresses how they worked so hard and long for 2 years to make this game. When they said they worked on it for 2 years that should have been a clue that the game isnt that good.

This game is worth about $5 tops. Maybe if they had put 3-4 years into making this a much better game, it would be worth $40. Right now, $40 is a huge ripoff. But you dont realize it until its too late. Heck I might even say they planned it this way. They dont even plan to make it better.
Devs will visit the forum, and even comment on peoples reviews, begging people to give them better reviews. They are either being slimy or are just that stupid.

The only good thing is the music. I really liked the music. But thats it.

My recommendation for this game is "Hell No" This game is garbage and a waste of money. Dont buy it.

If you want to play an actual grand strategy game, take a look at Medieval 2: Total War. That game makes this one look like puke.

Posted: 4 August

The initial sensations weren't good at all. I did not like the mechanics neither the controls. Even not finished the tutorial.

Posted: 2 August

I've enjoyed this game so far

This game is a pretty robust economic simulator. It takes some time to really understand how to play it, I'm still in the process. The experience has been very enjoyable.

This game is broken, not enough rescorces. not enough AI factions for the game to be competitive. not enough fun to keep playing

Posted: 31 July

Aweful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 30 July

I had fun for a bit but once I figured it out, it became way too simple. You can easily and quickly build every resource train, unit, and building the game has to offer. There is no complexity to the trading system, which is the main reason I was interested in the game, and combat is dull.

3.5/10

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Curator Review:

Grand Ages Medieval is a fun twist on medieval age trade systems. Currency is definitely a big deal and it is up to you to create a massive trade empire. Expand your borders through war, diplomacy, or bribery and create an empire to span Europe! This game was a lot of fun to play and is a great concept. Unfortunately, Grand Ages Medieval ended up locking up my computer and being the only game as of today I have ever requested a refund for. Until it receives a patch removing the computer breaking bug it receives 4/10

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