Each faction, even the minor indigenous ones, is busy cultivating relationships with the others, and it soon becomes clear that every new decision you make will ripple out and meaningfully affect your standing in the world. Later you might encounter a third faction who promises you some vital insight into your own objectives in return for betraying the friendship you recently forged. Visit a foreign colony and you might trigger a conversation between your commander and another faction leader in which you're asked to perform a quest to gain their favor. The 13 campaign missions, which let you play as all six of the game's half-dozen factions, are peppered with scripted story beats that succeed in fleshing out the history of and relations between the various civilizations. This emphasis on archaeology is more prevalent in the surprisingly substantial campaign mode than in the randomly-rolled maps of the scenario mode. In a sense it becomes a 5X game, allowing you to exhume and reclaim traces of your civilization's history. But in the light narrative touch of a quest system that gives voice and purpose to everyone you meet, there are moments of reconnection and rediscovery.
There is still war to be had, there are still peoples to displace-this remains a 4X game in the Sid Meier tradition. Instead of conquering a new world, you are returning home ages after a calamity drove your ancestors away. Age of Wonders: Planetfall offers a different perspective.
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