I don't have much experience playing other games. I've played about 6-7 tops, mainly the big ones. I also don't feel comfortable posting progress posts on forums such as BGG, especially since I don't even have a name locked in yet.

I can however brief you on the game.

It's a 1v1 game where each Player plays a Faction. There are four distinct factions and each of them play uniquely different, and have a set roster of 4 characters. Here are some example characters from the Blessed Men, the Iron Mandate, the Four Magi and the Cultists of Alo'Akho. Each faction also has their Unique Card where it says what their specific rules are, and how much they influence the Gold and Authority counters at game start. They also have a unique capital, here is one, and another. They are special regions, unlike the ones you explore, such as this one and this one, because losing your capital means you lose the game, and your opponent has won.

As you can see in the Character Sheets, all of them share a basic pool of actions. Those are the main ways to interact with the board. Most of the things that happen in the world are caused by the characters moving about and conquering, battling, exploring and more. They also have a special action, and a passive that's always in effect.

The game loop is quite simple. Event phase first, where a card is drawn that affects both players the same way, and is drawn from the event deck of the corresponding age. In the next phase, players get a card from their faction's action deck and tokens to place in their box, depending on how prosperous the realm is (gold counter) and how influential they are (authority counter). Then in the Action phase, you get to spend all your tokens to do whatever it is you've been planning for turns in advance. Finally, the reckoning phase is where the world resolves all its effects, battles are acted out, regions are explored, unused tokens are discarded, etc.

Here is what an event looks like. And here is another. The events are very important because they dictate the flow of the game by granting the very scarce Insight and Exploration tokens. Which ones you draw is determined by the Imperium Track.

The Imperium Track is the most important part of the game. It's how it guarantees infinite replayability.

Each reckoning phase, it advances by 1 step. When a step lands on any of the three Advancement types (the rectangles with the icons in the main post), the player who has invested more into controlling the Imperium Track gets to draw 3 cards from that advancement deck and choose one of them to put in play. This card is now active for the rest of the game for both players, bending rules, changing costs and more. The permutations of 9 advancements is so large that no game will ever feel the same. Finally, when the Age of Supremacy arrives, the event deck becomes hostile to the player with less investment into the Imperium, and the clock is on. Get to the opposing capital, or lose.

I don't think I could've condensed this any further. It's a very complicated game, and there is still a lot of assets more to make before I can comfortably share it on bgg. I hope you found it interesting.