The core gameplay revolves around tile exploration. On a randomly generated map, two tiles are automatically revealed each day. You must select one tile to explore before proceeding to the next day. Unselected tiles are re-flipped, and new events are generated. Tile exploration follows an adjacency rule; new tiles are randomly revealed only in adjacent locations of already revealed tiles. Once all tiles are explored, the next map is unlocked. The content that unfolds during tile exploration is diverse, including building, technology development, recruitment, disasters, shops, searching, bounties, hunting, dungeons, and tower defense. Construction and technology events require gold and wood; most buildings have prerequisite buildings, and most technologies have population requirements. Recruiting can obtain racial or neutral units; racial units require the construction of various barracks buildings beforehand. Cataclysms will bring various weakening effects or strengthen enemies. The sh...