Cardwoven Empires

Cardwoven Empires is a deckbuilding game with 4X gameplay. You explore and expand across a fantasy world made of cards, finding artefacts, unique buildings and allies. Add buildings to your deck and play them to grow your empire with farms, cities, libraries, temples and ports. Once a building is in play, attach cards to it for added benefits: workers in cities gain gold, idols in temples draw cards, and witches, sometimes accompanied by their black cats, gain command points.

Three factions

Choose from three factions, each with its own approach to building an empire:

• The Lands of the King: a balanced faction that works well with large empires or high card draw.
• Babylon: focuses on buildings and attaching workers to customise their effects.
• The Unfaithful: gains short-term advantages by adding harmful sin cards to the deck, which must later be removed.

Build your deck

Military cards help you expand and defend your empire, capture powerful unique buildings and protect against orcish raiders. They do not help against political foes or build up your gold supply. Cards that let you buy more cards can be expensive at first, but can pay off if you craft the right deck. Buffs and utility cards can sometimes support your economy better than another trader.

Victory and difficulty

You can win in five ways, including gaining gold, invading neighbours or befriending them. Each faction has five victory cards, including unique victories specific to that faction. Unlocking difficulty levels adds new obstacles, with 10 levels available.

More than 200 cards provide different combinations of synergies, buildings and artefacts to adapt to each time you play.