Age of Wonders 4: Giant Kings Review (Dreepa)
This is NOT just a ruler type and 2 tomes. (And even then, tomes alone add much to the game), as some claim.
You get a new unique neutral town on the map (crystal dwelling) that offers interesting happening / quests to get on good standing with them.
There is also a new wandering shop merchant where you can reskill heroes or buy a skill point or renown.
You also get new handcrafted map parts distributed over the map with stuff to conquer and questlines if you activate the relevant traits at map creation.
And to put the cake on the icing, if you reall feel ripped of, scroll through the complete patch notes (including the free update) here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/full-ogre-update-patch-notes.1733833/
Few devs do this for a 2 year old niche 4X game. They even address small little wishes of the community like scalable combat banners.
Imho they deserve all the support they can get, because they are a rare breed of dev that you mostly only see in indie devs nowadays. But AOW is too big for indies. Yet too small for a real mainstream success.
It's the best fantasy 4X on the market that we got. With devs that show love for their game.
Support it if you want to keep it alive.