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Federation Kitbash
Yesterday we took a look at Age of Civilization, Jeffrey CCH’s take on the thirty-minute civgame, which was loaded with clever ideas that got short shrift thanks to the game’s clipped duration and misplaced priorities.
Fortunately for us, CCH revisited the concept a few years later. Age of Galaxy swaps the first game’s historical civilizations for alien societies, tasking players with cobbling together their very own Federation of Planets — or a merciless Dominion. Or a Culture. Or maybe an Imperial Radch if they play their cards poorly. The bones of that first game remain very much intact, but everything else has been overhauled. And this is one hull upgrade that proves rather appreciated indeed.
Age of Three Civilizations
Before Inheritors, before Eila and Something Shiny, Jeffrey CCH designed a civilization game. The white rabbit of “civ but in half an hour” has humbled many a talented creator. Does Age of Civilization bend the long arc of history away from failure?
Nope. But it’s an interesting failure. That’s more than I can say for many of its peers.
SPACE-BIFF! 