I absolutely loved Civilization and it killed as many of my hours as any other games.
So when Simtex created a game that married Civilization with magical creates, spells and a fantasy setting... I knew my social life was over.
The game is almost flawless and no two games are alike.
I've probably finished this game on hardest difficulty, with almost all of the default races (still don't like being Gnolls) and it's almost always a challenge. For every time that I've finished the game, I've probably died about 10 times.
Just like Civilization, the game has multiple ways of completing it. Not as much, but you can either finish the game by annihilating all your enemies, or by researching and successfully casting the Spell of Mastery.
Either way will be challenging.
Get ready for losing many precious hours of your life. Once again, I'm glad that I am a GOG member :)
Thank you GOG for wasting more of my precious life!