Timespan EN

Lead your civilization from the stone age through 4 ages (ancient, middle ages, modern, future). Pay resources to play cards representing historic persons, buildings or technologies into your timeframe. Then use your population markers to activate the effects on the cards, or upgrade the cards by delivering luxury goods. As you build more cards, older cards may be pushed out of your timeframe and into your graveyard. During the game you will advance on the culture track (to gain wonders and more population), on the science track (to gain acceses to unique technologies), and you will explore by using ship, flight, or even space flight.

Each round begins with an exploration phase, where players take turns (in order of their positions on the harmony track) to draft cards and a discovery tile (with various rewards) from the current age. Then all players may travel with their camel to visit other players' wonders. Then follows an action phase that is played simultaneously: All players may spend resources to build cards into their timeframe, or assign their population to activate their played cards. Activating cards provide various effects, such as production of resources, or advancement on the culture track, the science track, or possibly letting players advance their ship, their plane or their space ship to gain exotic luxury resources . By collecting luxury goods, players can upgrade their cards' effects. When all players are done, players gain passive income from the cards in their time frame as well as from luxury goods that have been moved into the graveyard. Then a new round begins, with a new exploration phase. Et the end of the second and fourth rounds, a new age begins, giving players access to new cards. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game, wins.

Lead your civilization from the stone age to the space age.

• Simultaneous play allows for an epic civilization game in just 90 minutes. No warfare: Focus on peaceful civilization building, exploration and your economic engine. Create your unique civilization by recruiting among 175 historic persons, buildings, technologies and wonders.