Epochs, another new take on the 4x genre

🏛️ Epochs: Course of Cultures is an upcoming civilization building game. Over 3 epochs you will be inventing new technologies, grabbing territories, developing your culture and preparing for possible military conflict. Only the most successful civilization will be deemed victorious, so you better be the most cunning and wise leader! 💪 Epochs boasts a full 4X gameplay experience: 👇

🧭 You have eXploration, as you will be exploring the randomly generated map each game. Interestingly this won’t happen through actions, instead each turn a new tile is turned face up, forming the landmasses you can occupy.

🚩 You have eXpansion, as you can expand out to adjacent hexes, claiming lands with your cubes or building cities on intersections between cubes. 🏙️ Cities are an important source of victory points and income, but you will need to be able to feed the growing population in each epoch.

⛏️ You have eXploitation, as you can control the strategic and luxury resources out on the map, or use specific terrain types to trigger the bonuses of your inventions. Raising your supply and demand 📦 is a good tool to secure yourself some valuable income.

⚔️ Last but not least there is eXtermination, as there is combat in the game. This is somewhat abstracted though, there will be no troop movements on the map. Instead players will be able to conquer neighbouring enemy land or cities. Everyone can have a main unit card and a support unit card to raise their military prowess, gaining raw power and bonus dice 🎲 on certain conditions. As the game goes on you have to keep investing in newer technologies to boost this, lest you be trampled by superior forces. 😱

Epochs: Course of Cultures will be launching today on Kickstarter, so you might want to check it out if you like 4X games. 🙃 The action selection and invention cards are fun and interesting, and the asymmetric civilizations will help with replayability too.
We’ll definitely be diving deeper into the gameplay details in the coming days, so stay tuned! 😉