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Rise and Fall: Bronze Age is a historical state-building game set in the Fertile Crescent, several millennia after agriculture began. As people formed larger societies, cities and the first states, trade and war emerged. You guide a state as civilizations spread from Egypt and Sumer across Mesopotamia and the Levant.

Build and maintain a state

Your population is the basis of the economy, rather than resource-producing buildings. Populations change over the years through war, epidemics and periods of prosperity. Your state must also appear legitimate within its culture: if legitimacy falls to zero, you lose. Build temples, win wars and erect monuments to raise it, while managing your elites and keeping them loyal.

Technology and rule

Ideas emerge when specific conditions are met, and state technologies can be forgotten. The challenges of rule differ between small kingdoms and large empires. As a small nation, you can rely on warfare and diplomacy to expand and survive; as a large empire, you must contend with scheming elites, foreign clergies and populations that resist your rule and seek liberty.

Startdates

Fourteen startdates span 3400 BC to 1450 BC. You can unify Egypt's chiefdoms, take sides in the war between Horus and Set, witness the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom, or rule as the New Kingdom and conquer Nubia and the Levant.