Posterity: Ash and Apogee

Posterity: build, explore, advance, leave a legacy. A hunter by his fire on a cliff looks out over the ages: Greek temples, a castle, a river with sailing ships, factory chimneys, a city of towers, a rocket launch and a space station among the stars.

A turn-based game of nations in your browser. Take a people from a few huts in 4000 BC to a launch from the Kennedy Space Center, one city, one border and one century at a time.

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Nothing to install. No account needed. Your saved games stay in this browser.

This site keeps anonymous play statistics. What is recorded?

What this site records
  • That a game was begun, and which options were chosen — nation, world size, land type, climate and difficulty.
  • The turn your game reached, at a few milestones, and how it ended. This is to see whether anyone actually finishes a campaign.
  • Your IP address and browser string, stored alongside the above and erased automatically after 30 days. The counts remain; the identifiers do not.

Nothing is shared with anyone, and there is no third-party or advertising tracker on this site — the counter is a small program running on the same server. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing at all is recorded.

Saved games are a separate matter: those never leave your browser and are not sent anywhere.

Best on a desktop or laptop. The map needs a mouse and a wide screen — touch controls are still to come, so a phone will load the game but will not play it well yet.

Four ages on one map

This is the game itself. Every city is drawn from what it really is: its size, its age and the buildings inside it. A village of three huts grows, era by era, into a skyline.

A stretch of coast on the game map: a stone-age village, a walled medieval town, an industrial city and a modern metropolis, each inside its nation's coloured border, with troops and ships around them.
A ancient city on the map, with its territory and troops
4000 BCAncientA few huts round a fire, cavemen and archers at the door, and a field of wheat if you are lucky.
A medieval city on the map, with its territory and troops
Walls go upMedievalTiled roofs inside stone walls, temples, roads between the farms, and knights riding the border.
A industrial city on the map, with its territory and troops
Smoke and sailIndustrialBrick and slate, cathedrals and harbours, a Great Building on the skyline and cannon on the hills.
A modern city on the map, with its territory and troops
The last launchModernTowers and factories, tanks and fighters, battleships off the coast, and a rocket waiting at the end.

What you are getting into

One long game, from stone tools to orbit, against rivals who want the same land you do.

A world made fresh

Choose a size, a land type and a climate, and the map is generated from scratch: twelve terrains, rivers that run downhill, 24 resources and continents nobody has charted yet.

Borders you can see, and buy

Every empire's land is drawn in its colour, strongest round its cities. Culture pushes the border out, and gold buys the hex next door when you cannot wait.

Buildings that were real

All 26 Great Buildings actually got built — the Pyramids, the Terracotta Army, Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore. Once one is raised, it is gone. Your rivals want it too.

53 troops, all animated

From the caveman with a club to the F-15, every unit walks, waits and fights on the map. Each nation fields one of its own: Legions, Samurai, Impi, Panzers.

Heroes, earned

Win battles and a Military Hero is born who makes a whole stack fight harder. Study long enough and a Scientific Hero arrives who can finish a technology outright — at the cost of their life.

71 technologies to orbit

Pottery to rocketry across four eras. Build the parts, launch from the Kennedy Space Center, and your people are the ones history remembers.

Sixteen nations

Each with a leader, two traits and a unique unit. Pick one, and the other fifteen are who you are up against.

RomansCaesar · Legion
GreeksAlexander · Hoplite
EgyptiansCleopatra · War Chariot
BabyloniansHammurabi · Bowman
ChineseQin Shi Huang · Rider
PersiansXerxes · Immortal
AztecsMontezuma · Jaguar Warrior
ZuluShaka · Impi
EnglishElizabeth · Longbowman
FrenchJoan of Arc · Musketeer
GermansBismarck · Panzer
JapaneseTokugawa · Samurai
IndiansGandhi · War Elephant
RussiansCatherine · Cossack
AmericansLincoln · F-15
CarthaginiansHannibal · Numidian Mercenary
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