It's not clear if they'll be appearing in free updates or premium expansions, though. I would've liked to see a lot more of AOE4, but the short glimpses I got were still enough to pick up on how many changes can fall under the umbrella of modern.' Age of Empires 4 will have 8 civilizations, but there's room to expandĮight civs is a decent start, but Relic plans to keep expanding them. 'Three big things fans will want to know about right away: the plan is to launch with eight civilizations (largely from Europe and Asia, but not exclusively), there will be four campaigns tracing the histories of some of those civilizations, and naval combat is in.