Starting from humble beginnings, you must lead your civilization to greatness. Harvest, hire, build, and plan your way into the history books!
At its heart, Ancient Realm a civilization-building-themed puzzle game, where you're trying to maximize your points by deciding what blocks to keep and what blocks to build over, carefully managing your resources, and balancing end game scoring goal needs with immediate tactical needs.
Players: 1
Length: 15 minutes
Age: 14+
Button Shy hand assembled games are labeled for ages 14+.
EXPANSION
Monuments & Misfortunes is 6-card expansion which randomly replaces some of the standard game’s Districts with special Districts featuring Monument and/or Misfortune blocks.
Monuments to your civilization can be constructed without any special cost and score at the end of the game, but can instead be covered to gain a free Resource. Misfortunes are negative events that apply when they are in your Realm; you can cover them up to eliminate their effect or suffer through them to score points for your resilience at the end of the game.
CREDITS:
Designed by Steven Aramini
Art by Startraphell Talbot
VERSIONS:
Ancient Realm Wallet Game - base game packed in a vinyl wallet; required for all games
Monuments & Misfortunes Expansion - 6 card expansion packed in a card sleeve; requires Ancient Realm Wallet Game
Ancient Realm: Leaders - 18 card expansion packed in a wallet; requires Ancient Realm Wallet Game
Jul 31, 2026
Well designed little game, but so tough! Hard to imagine how I'm going to improve my score well enough to not embarrass myself, but I'm sure more plays will enlighten me to some strategies.
Jul 31, 2026
Excellent product and people, as always!
Jun 28, 2026
Fun games, really cute package.
Jun 19, 2026
Excellent module to give direction to the wonderful solo Civ builder of Ancient Realm. It poses a greater challenge for a win / loss condition as opposed to just bettering your score in the base game. Highly recommended.
May 25, 2026
Another great, portable little game!