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Age of Innovation

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Published
2023
Reach
Well known
Players
1–5
Play time
40–200 min
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How it plays

Score the most points by expanding your faction, forming cities, advancing sciences, and developing innovations. On your turn, terraform hexes, build or upgrade structures, advance science tracks, gain abilities, or pass, while managing resources and benefiting from nearby rivals. After six rounds, add points from round goals, cities, science, networks, innovations, and other bonuses; highest score wins.

Main mechanics

  • Trading & negotiation
  • Spatial puzzle
  • Engine building
  • Tile laying
  • Trading & negotiation: Deals between players move the game forward.
  • Spatial puzzle: Fitting shapes together efficiently is the challenge.
  • Engine building: Small early moves compound into a machine that does the work later.
  • Tile laying: You build a shared or personal board tile by tile.
Full publisher description

Age of Innovation is a standalone game set in the world of Terra Mystica . Twelve factions, each with unique characteristics, populate this world of varying terrains. Here you will compete to erect buildings and merge them into cities. Each game allows you to create new combinations of factions, homelands, and abilities so that each game isn't the same as another. You control one of these factions and will terraform the game map's terrain into your homelands where you can erect your buildings. Proximity to other factions may limit your expansion, but it also gains you significant advantages in the game. This tension adds to the appeal of the Terra Mystica series. Upgrade your buildings to gain valuable resources such as tools, scholars, money, and power. Build schools to advance in different sciences and collect books, which you can use to make innovations. Build your palace to gain a powerful new ability or build workshops, guilds, and universities to complete your culture. description from the publisher

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