High Strategy: Urukon

High Strategy: Urukon is a turn-based strategy game built around a focused set of decisions. You and each AI-controlled faction take one action per turn, choosing from 10 actions that consume or convert 9 primary resources. Its complexity comes from the dynamic world and the systems that interact within it.

Actions and resources

Your actions include responding to foreign invasions and natural calamities, trading resources, recruiting soldiers or labourers from your population, and nurturing a city to increase its production. You can also steal resources from neighbours, infiltrate cities before an attack, capture cities by force or negotiate for them to join peacefully. Other actions let you build or restore unique landmarks, or excavate for resources and unique relics.

Factions and cities

You can play as one of 32 factions, each with asymmetric starting conditions and unique goals. Cities contain different combinations of cultures, which produce and require different resources, and can be affected by random or circumstance-driven events. Some cities are subaquatic and require a different resource to capture or raid.

Relations and conflict

Your actions affect your relations with AI-controlled factions, changing how they act toward you. There are no formal truces or alliances, and any faction can attack any other at any time, with a few story-related exceptions. A faction's capital cannot be moved; losing it destroys the faction. Capturing another faction's capital lets you seize its relics, which are otherwise found at random.

Landmarks

The world has 67 unique landmarks that you can build or restore to gain a powerful bonus.