Epochs: Course of Cultures

Empires rise, technologies are born, and legends are written, across three great ages of human history.

In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you become a leader of civilization at the crossroads of time, guiding your people from the dawn of antiquity through the medieval age and into the modern era. Every choice matters as you balance expansion, innovation, culture, and war in a richly strategic 4X experience that captures the sweep of history without overwhelming complexity.

This grand civilization game supports 2–4 players, with each session spanning three distinct epochs — Ancient, Medieval, and Modern — filled with invention, strategic growth, and cosmic shifts in global power.

The fate of your society rests on your ability to adapt. Will you push the boundaries of knowledge and unlock game-changing inventions? Will you build awe-inspiring cities and mighty wonders? Or will you raise armies and conquer your rivals? In Epochs, every leader writes their own version of history through the actions they take and the paths they choose.

On your turn, you draw invention cards, play strategic actions, and make choices that ripple across ages, expanding into unclaimed territories, establishing trade routes, researching groundbreaking technologies, restructuring your government, or bringing culture and prosperity to your people. Peaceful progress can be rewarding, but at times you may find war the sharper tool to secure your destiny.

Over the course of the game’s three epochs, you’ll manage territory, build cities, lead armies, foster trade, and commission wonders that define your civilization’s legacy. The world map itself evolves as civilizations clash, cultures flourish, and technologies unlock new possibilities. At the end of the final age, the leader with the most prestige, earned through achievements in culture, expansion, cities, inventions, and military fame, ascends as the greatest ruler of all.

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