Ember to Orbit

Lead a people from the end of the last Ice Age to Mars, on the real Earth. Ember to Orbit is a turn-based strategy game ("4X": explore, expand, exploit, exert) played on our planet as it was twelve thousand years ago: the sea rises over the centuries, fords disappear, the green Sahara dries out, and every game begins in a region drawn at random. TEN AGES, ONE GAME From knapped flint to rockets, then to the Moon and Mars: your people keeps its name, its cities and its treaties from one age to the next. Villages change before your eyes, from a hamlet of huts to the city of 2100. AN EARTH TO DISCOVER The world stays under the clouds until you explore it. Your maps age, are traded and sold; rumours point in a vague direction. EIGHT PEOPLES, LIVING CLANS Eight imaginary peoples, each with its own way of life: builders, riders, seafarers, merchants, scholars, forest wardens, smiths,…