Bloodlines & Banners

You play a dynasty, not just an empire

Bloodlines & Banners is a historical 4X grand strategy game where your civilization spans thousands of years, and your family is the thread tying it together. Your ruler is a specific person with a name, a face, a family and a mortality date. When they die you don't pick a replacement from a menu. You raised that heir from childhood, arranged their marriage, and hoped they inherited more of their mother's diplomacy than their father's stubbornness.

Rulers age, accumulate stress, and die; heirs inherit traits and bloodline bonuses

Raise your children with upbringing stances that shape six stats

Arrange marriages across civilizations; children of cross-cultural unions inherit mixed heritage

Courts, advisors, faction loyalty, coups and civil wars

A family tree with portraits that age through nine life stages

Civilization scale

88 civilizations across 10 eras, from the Neolithic to the Information Age

48 playable from the start; the rest are reached by advancing through the ages

A 146-technology research tree, era-gated

54 buildings and 40 world wonders, each wonder with a narrated historical blurb

21 resource types with tier-based city reach

Ten-plus paths to victory: domination, wonders, dynasty prestige, culture, diplomacy and more

History is the art direction

Every civilization has its own portraits, music and unit art. Rome sounds different from Carthage; Macedon's soldiers look nothing like Kush's archers. Nine voiced era narrators carry you across the ages, and the research tree is built from a real historical dataset.

Play your way

Single-player against AI rivals runs entirely on your own machine, no connection needed

Hot-seat : pass the device and share one campaign on one computer

Asynchronous online multiplayer : invite a friend by code and take your turn when you have ten minutes

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