All Age of Wonders 4 Cheats & Console Commands

Cheats are as old as video games, and Age of Wonders 4 is no exception. While beating a game normally can be satisfying, there's nothing inherently wrong with using a cheat or two to make your life easier on a long or hard map.

However, it's worth noting that Age of Wonders 4 has strong multiplayer support and that the in-game cheats don't work during a multiplayer game. If you want an unfair advantage, you'll only get to use it against AI opponents. If that sounds fine to you, keep reading to learn how to use them.

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How to Activate Cheats in Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4 Cheat Console — The cheat console of Age of Wonders 4.

You don't have to jump through any hoops to activate the cheat console, but not every platform has access to it. To bring up the console on PC, you need to hold down Ctrl+Alt+C. Once you do, a text input will appear near the bottom of the screen, helpfully labeled "Cheat." It also explains that you need to press Enter to activate a cheat and that you can activate multiple cheats in a row by pressing Shift+Enter.

Helpfully, the cheat console has an autocomplete function that shows you all the cheat names and descriptions that include what you've typed. The autocomplete entries also tell you what each cheat does, so you don't have to guess what they can do. As such, the only hard part of using cheats in Age of Wonders 4 is figuring out how to bring up the console.

Something worth mentioning is that the built-in cheats have built-in drawbacks. First, as mentioned above, the cheat console simply won't appear when you're in a game with multiple human players. Second, if you win the scenario after using cheats, you won't get any Pantheon experience. But that's a small price to pay if you've already earned all the Pantheon Powers you wanted. Also, if you accidentally bring up the cheat console and don't want to use any cheats, you can press Esc to get rid of it without losing any Pantheon experience.

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World Map Cheats

Age of Wonders 4 Cheat Map — Everything is visible thanks to cheating in Age of Wonders 4.

The cheats listed below are in all caps, but you can use lowercase letters when typing them in.

Resources and Research

Cheat	Effect	Notes
PHILIPS	Toggles instant production	City structures and units appear instantly, but you still need to pay the Gold cost.
LEEUWENHOEK	Instantly finishes the current research	Tomes will unlock after the usual number of research topics.
MASTERSKILLS	Unlocks all research	You'll still need to research "Bind Gold Ancient Wonder," but this otherwise unlocks and fully researches every Tome and topic, including every tier-five Tome.
REMBRANDT	Gives a boatload of Gold, Mana, and Imperium	100,000 of each resource, to be precise.
OLDENBARNEVELT	Gives a boatload of Imperium	100,000.
FREEPOP	Instantly grows the population in the selected city	+1 Pop to any city, friend or foe.
INSTANTSKILLS	Toggles instant research	Effectively gives you infinite Research points.
COMPLETECHAPTER	Completes the current research chapter	The next time you check your research topic, you can choose a new Tome. This also resets your research cycle timer to four.
DEMO	Does MASTERSKILLS, REMBRANDT, PHILIPS, and OPTIMALPRIME all at once	That's all research topics for free, 100,000 of every useful resource, instant production, and something that doesn't matter to Age of Wonders 4.
HUYGENS	Get one affinity level for each affinity, unlocks the empire progression tree before 10 turns have passed	Gives you enough Affinity points of each type to unlock the next Empire Skill in each branch. Also lets you buy them no matter what turn it is.
SPAARGAREN	Unlock the empire progression tree before 10 turns have passed	Just the second part of Huygens.
INSPIRATIE	All spells gain 1 inspiration	This only matters to Mystic: Potential cultures.

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Heroes and Combat

Cheat	Effect	Notes
HAUER	Levels-up selected stack	Heroes gain one level; units gain one rank. You may need to click away and then click on the stack again to see the change. Works on friends and foes alike.
MEDIC	Heals the selected unit	Doesn't appear to work on the world map, but it does work during combat.
IAMGOD	Toggles instant autocombat victory	Your units will continue to gain experience, but they'll take no damage and always win when you hit the "Auto Combat" button.
VOORHEES	Toggles unlocking all non-signature hero skills	Heroes get access to all hero skills from every category and Tome, and they get infinite skill points no matter what level they are.
COEHOORN	Complete siege on selected structure	Allows besiegers to instantly assault the outpost or city they're attacking. Works on friends and foes.
GENHERO	Generate a random offmap hero	Appears to have no real effect unless paired with ALLHEROES below.
GENPRISONHERO	Generate a random hero in prison	The generated hero appears to belong to the closest city to your capital.
GENCRYPTHERO	Generate a random hero in crypt	Same as above.
INCREASEHEROCAP	Increase the max hero cap by 1
MARTIN	Increase the max hero cap to 999
ALLHEROES	Adds all offmap heroes to the recruitment pool	Allows you to hire heroes from enemy factions, all free cities, and all Pantheon rulers.

Exploration

Cheat	Effect	Notes
TASMAN	Explores the entire map	Lets you see the terrain and the cities, but the fog of war still applies. You also still need to encounter a unit or territory to start diplomacy.
MOLENGRAAFF	Reveals an unknown realm trait	Does nothing in a realm with fully revealed traits.
BARENTZ	Explores and reveals the entire map	Reveals everything and removes the fog of war completely. Like with TASMAN, you'll still need to send units out to encounter free cities and factions.
CRUIJFF	Toggles infinite movement	You'll see the normal movement range for each army, but you can move your armies to any hex you like.
FLYINGDUTCHMAN	CRUJFF, BARENTZ and REMBRANDT combined	Infinite movement, infinite sight range, and 100,000 of every resource.
UNEXPLORE	Unexplore the map for the current player	Resets the full fog of war so only the hexes around each unit are known to the player.
VANNOORT	Unlocks Basic Seafaring
REUVENS	Excavates all diggable earth on the strategic map	No shovels or Excavation skills required.
STAFFHORST	BARENTZ, CRUJFF, VANNOORT, and REUVENS	Full map reveal, infinite movement, Basic Seafaring, and a fully excavated Underground.

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Diplomacy

Cheat	Effect	Notes
MAKEHAPPY	Improves relation with the target player	You must target a city or army belonging to the faction you want to influence. Each cheat gives you +100 relations for 20 turns, and they stack. Also works on free cities.
MAKEANGRY	Decreases relation with the target player	-100 for 20 turns, otherwise as above.
MAKEALLY	Forms an alliance with the selected independent city or player	This can trigger a military victory if you target the only remaining enemy faction. Brings free cities up to Pact of Loyalty.
MAKENEUTRAL	Set the diplomatic state to neutral with the selected independent city or player	Sets a free city to just below Pact of Cooperation.
MAKEWAR	Starts a war with the selected independent city or player
MAKEVASSAL	The selected independent city or player becomes your vassal	This command won't give you an individual city belonging to a faction but all of their cities at once. Doesn't appear to work on allies.
MAKECOOP	Start a Pact of Cooperation with the selected independent city or player	Appears to only work on free cities.
MAKELOYAL	Start a Pact of Loyalty with the selected independent city or player	Appears to only work on free cities.
MAKEINTEGRATED	Start a Pact of Integration with the selected independent city or player	Appears to only work on free cities.
IMPROVERELATION	Improve the relation with the selected city	Increases pact level of free cities by one and converts vassals into integrated cities.
DECREASERELATION	Decrease the relation with the selected city	Decreases pact level of free cities by one, and drops vassals to zero Allegiance.
WARLORD	Declares war on all other players
REVEALPERSONALITY	Reveals the personality traits of the selected AI player	This is information you usually get for free anyway.
ENGELEN	Gain positive alignment in all channels	+20 Alignment
DEMONEN	Gain negative alignment in all channels	-20 Alignment
RALLYTHELIEGES	Start the next Rally of the Lieges	Changes the timer so that the Rally begins on the current turn.

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Items

Cheat	Effect	Notes
RUIJTER	Add 1 copy of each hero item to the hero item store, disable transportation	This includes one of every item you can find in the game, not any Item Forge items. Also turns off transportation, which prevents heroes from swapping items immediately.
FORGE	Generate a random equipment item	Generating an item with this cheat won't give you the usual indicator that a new item is in your storage, but it'll be there.
FORGEALL	Generate a random equipment item of each type
FORGEALLCHANNELS	Generate a random equipment item of each type for each damage channel	Creates a tier-four weapon of every style for every damage combination.
UNLOCKFORGE	Unlocks the item forge	This lets you use the Item Forge menu even if you haven't built the city structure.
UNLOCKFORGEUPGRADES	Unlocks all upgrades in the item forge	You can use all the infusions even if you don't have the right Magic Materials.
GAINFORGERESOURCES	Gives a boatload of resources required for the item forge	+100,000 Binding Essence.
INSTANTFORGE	Item forge has instant production
FORGEMASTER	Do UNLOCKFORGE, UNLOCKFORGEUPGRADES, GAINFORGERESOURCES, and INSTANTFORGE all at once
CLEARINVENTORY	Remove everything in the player's hero item store	Any items your heroes have equipped will stay with them.
REFRESHAITRADEITEMS	All AI players generate new items for trading	This specifically resets the magic items other factions can sell you in the Negotiate menu.

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Victory and Defeat

Cheat	Effect	Notes
HEIN	Triggers instant score victory	Whether you deserve it or not.
VICTORY1	Triggers instant military victory
VICTORY2	Triggers instant expansion victory
VICTORY3	Triggers instant magic victory
VICTORY4	Triggers instant score victory
VICTORY6	Triggers instant seals victory	No description comes with this victory type, but it has a unique icon.
WILLEM	Triggers instant score defeat
DEFEAT1	Triggers instant leader killed defeat
DEFEAT2	Triggers instant throne city lost defeat
DEFEAT3	Triggers instant expansion defeat
DEFEAT4	Triggers instant magic defeat
DEFEAT5	Triggers instant score defeat
DEFEAT6	Triggers instant seals defeat
VERDOEMENIS	Adds one fake root node for Magic Victory	Gives you a bound Gold Ancient Wonder. Doesn't exist on the map, but counts towards the Magic Victory requirements.
EENDRACHT	Adds one fake beacon for the Expansion Victory	Ticks off one of the required Beacons of Unity for the Expansion Victory, but it doesn't really exist.
EENHEID	Adds max fake sectors for Expansion Victory	Crosses off the "occupy provinces" requirement of the Expansion Victory.

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Other

Cheat	Effect	Notes
DOKTERWIE	Skip turn	The turn counter in the lower-right corner ticks up by one, but nothing else happens. This has no effect on the Score Victory timer or your autosave names.
DOKTERWIE10	Skip 10 turns	Same as above.
DOKTERWIE25	Skip 25 turns
DOKTERWIE50	Skip 50 turns
DOKTERWIE100	Skip 100 turns
SWITCH_TM	Switch between simultaneous and classic turns	Lets you swap mid-game between turn types. May cause issues if used more than once.
OPTIMALPRIME	Toggles instant operation priming	Operations are an Age of Wonders: Planetfall mechanic, so this does nothing in Age of Wonders 4.
IKBEDOELALLES	Unlocks all global operations	More Planetfall commands.
OPALWAYSSUCCEED	Makes operations always succeed
OPNEVERSUCCEED	Makes operations always fail
OPSOMETIMESSUCCEED	Makes operations succeed from time to time
OPALWAYSDETECT	Makes other players always detect operations
OPNEVERDETECT	Makes other players never detect operations
OPSOMETIMESDETECT	Makes other players detect operations from time to time
QUESTMASTER	Toggles whether quests are enabled	Quests are normally enabled. Using this once turns them off.
LELY	Toggle instant operations	A Planetfall command.
DUMPHYPERLINKS/ DUMPGRAMMARSINTAX/ ETC		Developer tools.
TICKTOCK	(Turn) time in 3... 2... 1...	Appears to do nothing.
RESETACHIEVEMENT	Resets all achievement	Convinces the game that you haven't completed any achievements.

If you're wondering about some of the command names, they're Dutch words and famous Dutch historical figures. This makes sense because Triumph Studios (the developer of Age of Wonders 4) is also Dutch.

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Tactical Cheats

Age of Wonders 4 Cheat Unlimited Movement — A unit can move from one end of the battlefield to the other in an instant thanks to cheating in Age of Wonders 4.

All the listed cheats turn off after each combat, so you'll need to reactivate them each time you want to use them.

Cheat	Effect	Notes
RESTART	Restarts the current combat	There's an in-game button that does the same thing.
REALOOS	Purposefully cause a real OOS by invoking the hex world randomizer	OOS stands for out of sync. Does nothing in single-player games.
RESEED	Randomize the RNG seed	The game runs through a set of pre-generated random numbers for things like hit chances; this cheat swaps in a different set of numbers.
NOLIMIT	Enable/disable turn limits	Even long combats don't usually run into the turn limit.
WINNOW	Win combat	Causes all enemies to rout.
RUNAWAY	Retreat own units	All friendly units will instantly leave the battlefield as if they retreated.
GETOUT	Kill selected unit	Nothing happens if no unit is selected.
WEAKEN	Set selected unit's HP to 1
MEDIC	Refill selected unit's HP
EXHAUST	Remove all action points from the selected unit
REFRESH	Refresh cooldowns on selected unit abilities
WAKEUP	Restore all action points to the selected unit
KONINGS	Combines REFRESH and WAKEUP to fully revitalize a unit, like a king
LEVELUP	Give one level to the selected unit	Actually gives a pile of XP to the selected unit, equal to several levels for heroes and several ranks for regular units.
CRUIJFF	Give infinite movement to all owned units	No amount of movement will use any amount of action points while this cheat is active.
HAPPY	Cause selected unit to gain morale	+20 morale, to be specific.
SAD	Cause selected unit to lose morale	-20 morale.
KILLERBUNNY	Cause selected unit to immediately rout
CONSOLE	Toggle controller mode	Pressing any button on your controller does the same thing.
ALWAYSHIT	Ensure own attacks always hit and status effects always proc	"ALWAYS" cheats apply to every controlled unit.
ALWAYSGRAZE	Ensure own attacks always graze
ALWAYSMISS	Ensure own attacks always miss
ALWAYSCRIT	Ensure own attacks are always critical	Status effects always proc when using this cheat, too.
ALWAYSFUMBLE	Ensure own attacks are always fumbles
NORMALHITS	Switch off all ALWAYSXXX cheats	Only one ALWAYS cheat can be active at once. This resets you back to normal attack odds.
SHOWOBSTACLENAMES	Show the resource names of obstacles in their tooltips	Another developer tool.
COVERME	Give operation coverage to the player	Developer tool.
OOS	Fake an out of sync	Kicks you out of the combat with a fake out-of-sync message. The battle screen says "Defeat," but neither side loses units.
DEBUG	Toggle debug modes	Developer tool.
EQUIP/EQUIPHERO	Give the selected hero the equipment piece with the given resource ID	Two commands with the same description. Sadly, there doesn't appear to be a list of resource IDs for equipment anywhere online.
DUMPPROPERTIES	Dump all the unit's properties to the log	Developer tool.