Empire depth. Dynasty soul.
Build an empire on a real Earth map. Raise a house that ages, marries, produces heirs, and carries your name across ten thousand years.
Bloodlines & Banners puts two kinds of strategy game in the same campaign: a hex-map empire spanning recorded history, and a living house whose choices echo across it. It joins the empire, technology and wonders of a Civilization game with the dynasty, succession and intrigue of a character-driven strategy game, the heroes and tactical battles of the Three Kingdoms tradition, and branching event chains that follow your house through the ages.
Your ruler is mortal. They age, accumulate stress, marry, and die, leaving heirs who inherit their traits by blood and by upbringing. How you raise a child matters: upbringing stances shape war, leadership, politics, intelligence, charisma, and prowess. Your court is alive too, with officers whose loyalty can curdle into factions, coups, and civil war. When your heir dies, the game does not end. Houses fracture, fall and are succeeded; the banner passes on regardless.
Meanwhile the empire climbs a 146-technology tree, raises 55 buildings and 40 world wonders, works twenty-one resource types, and meets rivals under first-contact fog: you do not know a civilization exists until you find them. Ten-plus victory paths are open, from domination to wonders to dynastic prestige. Play solo, or with friends in asynchronous and synchronous multiplayer.
