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Empire's End stats: 2-4 Players for Ages 13+. Plays in 45-60 minutes

save your civilization from collapse

You’re the leader of a grand civilization at the height of its influence, but can you save it from collapse? In Empire's End, 2-4 players compete to keep calamity at bay.

Designed by John D Clair with art by Kwanchai Moriya, Empire's End is a different kind of civilization game. Each round, players must pay to avoid disaster cards, such as floods, famine, and barbarians. The player who ends the bidding must take the disaster, which devastates one of their territories. But they’ll also gain all resources bid to avoid it, as well as a powerful new innovation…

From the community

  • Hats off to john d clair! It's freakin' brilliant, this game does so much with the core of 'No Thanks' and it blows up in such a big way

    -Rahdo

  • an interesting twist on the civ building genre

    -Might I Suggest A Game

  • Empire's end does a great job with its theme. pressure and confilict breed innovation, and you have to balance those opposites on a knife's edge

    -Jonathan Liu

  • the unique mechanics of Empire's End perfectly deliver the gut-wrenching thematic panic of your civilization's end of days!

    -Thinker Themer