The Battle of Polytopia (2016)

A compact civilisation map turns expansion into a series of visible trade-offs: buy technology, grow a city or field the unit that prevents a neighbour taking it. A turn at a time gives those choices room to matter. Select the longer asynchronous format instead of Live Games, whose clock can become demanding with a large empire. Learn a regular tribe and the economy before experimenting with special tribes. The PC purchase and mobile tribe purchases package access differently, so check the version your group uses.