Age of Fear: The Free World

Age of Fear: The Free World

Leslaw Sliwko · 2019 · Tactical RPG, Turn-Based Tactics, Party-Based RPG, Turn-Based, Strategy RPG

PC
Very Positive83% · 4082playing now
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About Age of Fear: The Free World

✦ AI summary

Command a customizable army of over 200 unique units across hex-free tactical battles and an open world filled with quests, where faction conflicts and unit rivalries create emergent storytelling. This completely free entry to the long-running series delivers deep tactical gameplay with sophisticated AI, permanent consequences, and the freedom to tackle missions in any order or create your own campaigns.

Age of Fear is a long-running series of fantasy turn-based strategy games. Loved by fans for its tabletop wargame battle system and in-depth RPG customization. Age of Fear: The Free World serves as a COMPLETELY FREE introduction to the series' tried-and-true gameplay, focusing on non-linear exploration and combat in an Open World style. Choose your faction, build a unique army and embark on countless exciting quests awaiting you throughout the realm!

FEATURE LIST

COMPLETELY FREE - go ahead and try the series. If you like it, please visit 'Other Age of Fear Games' section on this page! ⭐HEX-FREE BATTLES - test your tactics with a novel movement system where size matters and units aren't constrained by artificial grids!⭐OPEN WORLD - are you bored with the main storyline? No worries, you can always take a side-quest or play procedurally-generated battles. Play this game as you want!⭐GLOBAL EVENTS that occur while exploring the World Map, à la Battle Brothers. This feature is still being developed and could serve to provide more lore and fun unit interactions conditional on the player's party!⭐MERCENARIES - recruit your troops from multiple races and factions! Will a Dwarven Warrior work with a bloodthirsty Orc?⭐ALIGNMENTS such as Evil and Holy. Units from opposite sides won’t like each other and may desert. A bit of diplomacy (or charisma!) is needed to manage such relationships.⭐EXTENDED STORY including many sub-quests, optional events, more detailed lore, etc.⭐FREQUENTLY UPDATED - we take our work seriously and patch our games often with new features and content. Also, whenever possible, those updates are back-ported to all our previous games!⭐COMMUNITY-DRIVEN - we listen to our players and continuously improve! Go and check our forums, everyone has their say and we implement those suggestions.⭐FULL OF JOKES - who said strategy games have to be serious? All the best fantasy jokes have a home here!⭐PARTY CUSTOMIZATION - build and upgrade a custom army from more than two hundred unique units, skills and spells (but be aware of racial animosities!).⭐DEEP BATTLE MECHANICS - learn the basics in a hurry, then develop new strategies around a huge variety of skills, spells and battle hazards like neutral factions and environmental effects (yes, you can anger bystanders!).⭐EASY TO MOD - create your own missions, or even full-fledged campaigns, to be shared with the Steam community!⭐PERMANENT DEATH - accept the grim realities of death where all units that fall in battle stay dead... unless an evil Necromancer raises them as Zombies.⭐ARTEFACTS AND RELICS - discover numerous unique weapons, armours, potions and treasures, with the rarest granting powerful OP skills and stat bonuses.⭐ADVANCED AI - our AI is built upon a self-organizing network of agents and meta-heuristics algorithms (yes, we are PhD-smart!). Discover one of the most sophisticated AI systems you've ever played against!⭐LOW HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS - run the game even on that old potato laptop of yours. Your stone-age computer is good enough!⭐COLOR-BLIND MODE - a special mode with higher contrast and outlined fonts.⭐...everything else we come up with! Purchase only if you want access to the latest features in the Age of Fear series, and please keep in mind that this is an evolving product.If you're hungry for a no-nonsense, old school turn-based strategy game, you've met your match in the Age of Fear series. Enter the fantasy world of Age of Fear today!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Mar 19, 2026
Immediately I rolled my eyes after starting the undead campaing: Why the zombies got a T-shirt and pants? They looks like ex-car salesmen. I thought this was some fantasy medieval game, so this sight broke the immersion right at the beginning.. it felt so stupid.. Also, feels, looks and plays like a clunky & mediocre windows game from 1998. I like nostalgia but not the crappy side of nostalgia..
Recommended Mar 16, 2026
Uhm, really old school game
Not recommended Mar 9, 2026
i cant open it anymore and take long time to open
Not recommended Jan 25, 2026
Got to the first screen. It described the dwarves in the team. Couldn't get past that.
Recommended Dec 1, 2025
Very fun game!
Not recommended Nov 5, 2025
I can't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ open the game without my monitor turning off. I tried the "fixes" for black screen on launch, and I tried changing ALL the video settings. Nothing. Good job, you made a game I can't open without having to manually restart my PC.

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