Game Modes

## **Single Player**

### Starter Campaign

Learn to play the game by completing your first campaign. There are 3 levels: The Basics, Economy, and Dominate. This short tutorial is designed to teach you the basics of playing your cards, ordering units, and managing your resources to grow your empire. Some of the tech tree is locked out for this campaign. The deck is also more simplified and you may not be able to destroy cards or redraw your hand for parts of the tutorial.

### Hegemon

Hegemon is a weekly campaign with 3-5 levels. Complete the campaign to earn points for your chosen civilization. Earn victory points to spend in the store for campaign cards to aid you. You can repeat the campaign as many times as you wish. While the victory conditions remain the same for each level, the map changes with each run of the campaign. You are locked into your civilization choice for that week, but you are able to change the difficulty level between runs. Hegemon resets Sundays at midnight UTC.

### Skirmish

Play a customizable game against the AI. You can choose your civilization, map size, game length, player spacing, AI difficulty, and AI aggressiveness. The number of AI who appear in your game depends on which map size and spacing you choose.

### Daily Challenge

Compete against other players on the daily leader boards. With this mode, the goal is to meet the victory conditions with the fewest number of turns and highest score possible. Easy to complete, hard to master. The Daily Challenge resets every night at midnight UTC.

### Weekly Campaign

Compete against other players on the weekly campaign leader board. The weekly campaign can have 3-5 levels. Earn victory points to spend in the store for campaign cards to aid you. Weekly Campaign resets every Sunday at midnight UTC.

## Multiplayer

### Find Game

Jump into a "ranked" game with random opponents who also use the "Find Game" feature. This mode always uses default settings, and adjust map size to player count. You can choose your preferred civilization, but it is not guaranteed. Key note: this does *not* add you to "custom" games that other players create using the "create game" option, only to ranked games created using the "Find Game" feature.

This option is the same as the one that appears as a pop-up (right), when at least one other player is waiting to find a game.

### Create Game/Custom Game

Similar to a skirmish, you can setup a customizable game against other players and AI. You are able to choose map size, game length, player spacing, AI difficulty and aggressiveness, In this mode you are able to turn off the turn timer. You can also choose to share a generated code on discord for others to join or keep it hidden for private games with friends. You can also enable friendly mode which keeps you from attacking other non-AI players unless they are inside your territory. Limit Card Burn Resources. This toggle defaults off but if enabled will limit the amount of resources you get from burning cards during your turn to 2 hammer + 1 science, 1 hammer, 1 gold, 1 gold....

Games created in this way will not be accessible to people using the other "Find Game" feature.

### Join Game

This is were you would enter the game code generated when creating a custom game above in the create game mode.

## Difficulty Levels

Easy

Normal

Hard

Harder

Hardest