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Version 1.5 30 October 2026

The Chancellor reads your board and counsels you, the Seer plays three futures side by side, and with a Chancery the Chancellor can govern your seat.
A Standard game is 99 turns now, an evening, with Relaxed at 180; a first visit opens straight onto a game and the Chancellor's first counsel.
Companions: five named units that ride with you from game to game, joining by deeds and climbing three ranks, kept in an account if you want one.
Brutal and Legend sit above Hard, where rivals answer the leader and race the endings, and from Hard the world deals reckonings: plague, failed harvest, horde.
Every rival plays for an ending of its own, every civilization's edge is doubled, soldiers march a tile further, and the Concord asks for all six ways of life.
A finished game's mosaic gets a Share link that unfurls in any chat, its playback stops for every city taken, and laurels now leave lasting honours.

Twelve marvels, natural landmarks such as a volcano or a glacier, are rumoured on an inked chart of the unknown and reward the first civ to find each.
The whole board is sculpted anew: towns of every age and their buildings, wonders, ruins, camps, resources, farms and mines, herds, ships, roads and harbours.
Fewer, greater cities: a city must stand at least five tiles from any other, and each city past the first makes technologies 5% dearer.
Later-age cities can be taken, and a civ losing a war badly may hand over a city to make peace.
Visiting a city is a quick glide of the map over the town, and the decorations your laurels earn are worn by all your towns.
A first game comes with a short guide, and the New Game screen asks fewer questions, with Pangaea as the default landmass.

Skirmish: a whole game in about half an hour, with a head start for you and your rivals.
Mods give units, buildings, wonders and more new names and numbers; use an AI assistant to write one and the Balance Lab to test it.
Begin any game in a later age, up to the Modern era, with a grown capital, an army of that age and every technology before it.
Share a world as a link, and a friend plays the same map and seat with your result to beat.
Your stats sum every game you have played on one sheet, and a finished game builds its world as a mosaic you can keep.
Herald cards take decisions on the card itself, and small honours arrive as plain news instead of holding the turn.

Units, towns, resources and farms are redrawn as sculpted miniatures, mountains join into ranges, and growing cities spread into neighbourhoods.
Rewind replaces Undo turn: go back to an earlier turn, each marked with what happened after it, such as a city lost or a war declared.
Clicking a city on the map goes straight into its visit, and the city panel is much shorter, with idle citizens put to work as each turn ends.
Fewer barbarians and fewer trade offers: camps are rarer and pay more when cleared, and a rival waits 10 turns between offers.
Deserts are worth settling: they yield production, hold more resources and can hide an oasis, and every map has a modest share of them.
A new era is announced: the turn opens on your capital, the banner names the era, and its light spreads across your view.

Two new ways to win, the Meridian and the Laurel Arch, and a Victory panel (V) that tracks every road.
The board is redrawn: textured ground, resources as scenes, soldiers marching in squads and cities that grow a new piece for every building.
Visit a city up close: every building and wonder shows what it pays this turn, and your laurels win banners, gardens and lanterns for its streets.
Rivals go to war with a plan: they raise an army, mass it on your border and declare only when it's strong enough to take a city.
Trading is a bargaining table that shows what each deal does to both empires, and war now tears up every lease between you.
On a tablet, a first tap on a tile looks and a second tap acts, and buttons grow to fit a finger.

First public release: six civilizations, a six-era tech tree, three ways to win, the Daily and the Challenges, all in your browser.