Through the Ages

One of the worse games in existence. Gemini described the game as permitting "last minute muggings" and a "Punishment Engine" instead of a Civ-Builder. Players above Lvl 40 will game the system and stock up on Patriotisms and stone and a 10 strength tactic and in the last 3 turns of the game, they will surprise launch into endless wars, quadrupling their tactic and spitefully singling one player for a relentless beating from which the game design does not permit one to recover from. Rather than being called Through the Ages a more apt name for this in-balanced abomination of a so-called "strategy" game should be "Quadruple Your Tactics", or it could be called "War of Culture" or perhaps more simple just "Strength". Because at the end, despite it's so-called "elegant" balance, this game comes down to a single metric "Strength". And the sad thig is, the developers could fix this with ease. 1) they could allow players online to "switch off" wars. No one likes the war mechanic in this game except for 6-year-old Neanderthalic-minded simpletons who content themselves to have a "civilization" with no buildings: just mines, farms, and a blood-thirty slave army that can somehow pilot…

Its really nice. Sometimes a bit buggy especially with colonies but would recommend.

Didn't think I'd like this at first it looked so drawn out and complicated but this digital version takes care of all the bookkeeping and gives you helpful hints on what you could do with what turns you have left and advises on things you could address to prevent unwanted losses, very addictive.

Extremely difficult strategy-card game but wow! It's so addictive! My go-to game on steam deck. Absolutely recommend this masterpiece to anyone. Single-player missions and multiplayer.

great implementation for a great game. Lots of info to track through the various UI components making strategy deeper and easier to track

Very faithful and streamlined adaptation of the boardgame.