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Roots of Harmony is a turn-based, text-based 4X game in which you lead a colony through ideology, exploration and conquest. You move units across a grid map, explore special locations and fight tactical battles. Each island is procedurally generated, and random victory conditions shape how you play. Your decisions affect both your disciples and the island, while the challenges you face vary with the choices you make.

Doctrines and resources

You begin each colony with one of twelve doctrines, choosing between ideals such as altruism or despotism, rationalism or mysticism, and collectivism or individualism. Your doctrine determines which units you can recruit, which perks you unlock, the events that shape your fortunes and the resources you focus on. Resources reflect your moral decisions and are also needed to build buildings and start production chains, including the Pillory.

Explore the island

The island contains different encounters and special locations, including altars for summoning powerful units, mines and plantations for earning resources, places that give your disciples more traits, trading posts, shipyards and dungeons. You start with only a handful of people and little knowledge of the land. Each territory belongs to a tribe, and tribes form alliances and field their own procedurally generated units. They can send waves of invaders if you do not treat them with respect, so planning where and when to move your disciples is crucial to survival.

Tactical battles

Combat uses an auto-battler system. You position your disciples and choose which blessings to cast before battle, but once it begins, the units fight without further input. Squad composition matters, as do the few choices you can make before combat starts.

Difficulty and learning

Your choices influence the difficulty of each island. Provoking a tribe with many allies, adopting a hedonistic lifestyle among ascetic neighbours or making moonshine at holy sites can make the game harder. Roots of Harmony has a humorous and philosophical tone and is designed to be challenging rather than guide you at every step; its mechanics are introduced gradually, with a gentle learning curve.