This game is a grand strategy enthusiast's attempt to find a purified core loop of decision-making. All needless repetitive tasks are unceremoniously discarded. Instead, you get 10 actions that consume or convert 9 primary resources. Each turn, you (and each AI-controlled faction) get to take one action. The complexity comes from a dynamic world with many interactive systems.
The actions you can take:
- Respond to foreign invasions and natural calamities.
- Trade one resource for another.
- Recruit soldiers or labourers from your population.
- Nurture a city to boost its production.
- Steal resources from your neighbours.
- Infiltrate cities in preparation for an attack.
- Capture foreign cities by force.
- Negotiate to induce cities to join you peacefully.
- Build or restore unique landmarks.
- Excavate in search of resources and unique relics.
