Ashthrone
The realm stirs...
Ashthrone is a strategy game played one season at a time. You found an empire on bare land, work it for gold and grain, raise an army, and climb over everyone else trying to do the same. Turns accrue whether you are at the screen or not, so it is played in visits, not marathons.
The shape of it
The realm waits
Turns pile up while you are away, up to a ceiling. Nothing else does - the realm moves only when you spend one. Spend a batch and the whole batch lands at once, the grain it earns and the wages it owes.
Nothing is hidden
Every number the realm runs on is public - taxes, combat, loans, the cut the market takes. The rulebook reads them from the live season, so it can never go stale.
Then it ends
A season closes and the board is swept. The winners are cut into the Hall of Fame and everyone else starts again from nothing. Nothing carries over but the story.
Eight Races · Four Ages · One Crown