Cardivilation

Cardivilation

A Card and Board Game about raising a Civilization.

Cardivilation is a turn-based civilization builder where your future is not chosen from a tech tree, but drawn from a deck. Each turn, you manage cities, terrain, resources, and long-term development by playing cards onto a hex map. Found cities, build farms and mines, unlock technologies, prepare for crises, and try to leave behind a civilization worth scoring.

This game is in a pre-release testing phase! It's incomplete and subject to change, but supposed to be playable fine! Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

How It Plays

• Draw cards each turn from a finite civilization stack.
• Play cards as technologies, infrastructure, tile improvements, global policies, or crisis responses.
• Develop cities that gather yields from surrounding hexes.
• Balance food, materials, energy, knowledge, stability, and climate pressure.
• Survive famine, unrest, climate disasters, and a dwindling deck.

The Twist

You do not have unlimited options. Your hand represents what your civilization can plausibly do right now. Some cards only appear once the right technology exists, while negative crisis cards can clog your hand until you deal with them. The stack is also the timer: when the deck runs dry, history judges what you built.

Current Features

• Hex-based world map with terrain, rivers, canyons, fishing grounds, cities, and improvements.
• Card-driven development inspired by strategy board games and collectible card games.
• City growth stages, working-radius highlights, yield previews, and animated card play.
• Adverse events including famine, civil unrest, and climate catastrophe.
• Custom stack size and card exclusion options for shaping each run.

Controls

• Hover or click cards to inspect them.
• Click a card to select it, then choose a valid map target.
• Use the Play or Discard button on selected cards when available.
• Drag the map to pan.
• Scroll or trackpad gesture to zoom the map or scroll panels.
• End Turn to collect city production and draw the next hand.

Development Status

This is an early playable alpha slice. The core loop is in place, with a focus on making the relationship between cards, cities, terrain, and consequences visible. Expect more cards, deeper city systems, better balancing, persistent unlocks, and more dramatic events in future builds.

If you enjoy civilization games, deck builders, board games, or watching one fragile settlement become a strange little machine of history, this is for you.