Conquest of Elysium 3 is an old school fantasy strategy game. You explore your surroundings conquer locations that provides the resources you need. Resources needed vary much depending on what character you are, e.g. the high priestess need places where she can gather human sacrifices, the baron needs places where tax can be collected and where iron can be mined. These resources can then be used for magic rituals and troop recruitments. The witch can use fungus to summon a catoblepas whose gaze can annihilate an entire row of enemies per turn. The demonologist can summon powerful demon lords, but only if he is brave because the likelihood of a demon lord attacking his summoner is quite high. In short the main thing about this game is the amount of features and special abilities that can be used.
The game can be played on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX (both intel and powerpc).
Conquest of Elysium 3.09 released
The new version is a small update that mainly fixes some bugs with modding.
May 10, 2012 News
Conquest of Elysium 3.08 released
This new version of Conquest of Elysium has much improved support for modding as well as some new random events a number of bug fixes.
May 1, 2012 News
Conquest of Elysium 3.06 released
Conquest of Elysium 3 has been updated with bug fixes, user interface and AI improvements and much improved modding capabilities.
Apr 13, 2012 News
Conquest of Elysium version 3.04 released
This patch mostly contains some bug fixes that didn't make it into the previous patch.
Mar 25, 2012 News
Conquest of Elysium version 3.03 released
Conquest of Elysium 3 has been patched to fix some bugs and to introduce a number of new features. Some of the new features are the demilich, different totem poles and a new highscore graph that is displayed...
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Version 3.06 has been uploaded and will be available as soon as it has been approved by the Desura staff. They approved the news before the patch, so that might be a little confusing.
£20 for this? Please!
I'm old school and might have given it a go for under £5
I just spent the full price on it. I'd do it again too. It was worth it.
In order to aid the discussions..
could you be specific about what part of the game you would not spend 20 on?
in my opinion is expensive 25 euros, the game needs multiplayer browser games, and if not a campaign singlegame, I love the game but it lacks that, now I value at 14~ euros. (Translated into Spanish the game 20 euros ^^)
Note that the game is a sandbox, allowing for way more replayability than any campaign could.
Also, note that multiplayer browser games often are "cheap" in the sense that they use the multiplayer as a way to not have to develop an AI, which is often the hardest part of a game to make (and CoE3 has a different AI for each faction)
Illwinter games might no be for everyone, but they are well worth the price, I was prepared to pay 50 euros for the game when it was announced.
I think that, given some time, a singleplayer campaign is possible, especially due to the new modding and scenario commands that are going to be released in the next patch. Just give the community and developers some time :)
Now WITH a DEMO
There is a demo available on the right now, just came out.
There has been talk about doing a demo, but the first thing in the pipeline right now is the first patch. We'll see.
But if you liked previous Illwinter games and if you tried and liked CoE2 at some point, then you don't need to worry about buying this title.