Détente: no power may rise

No power may rise.

Rival kingdoms race across a living island, grabbing grain fields, storming each other's borders and raiding your camps. You're the one diplomat who wants nobody to win. Throw up a wall, flood a river, call in a storm, pay a tribute, and watch empires stall, swing and scramble. Keep them level long enough and they sign a treaty. Let one run away with it, and the whole island goes to war.

Coming soon to the App Store iPhone · iPad An island in year 12: three kingdoms' land, castles, grain fields and next year's attacks

Play kingmaker. Crown no one.

Knock the leader back and the runner-up surges. Prop up the underdog and it turns on its neighbour. Every year is a fresh tug-of-war, ten seconds long.

Bend the year your way

Famine, flood, rockfall, ceasefire, storm tide and tribute, plus walls, camps and a well-placed bribe. You never hold a sword; you just make sure nobody else wins with one.

Nothing is luck

You see next year's attacks before they land, so every rescue is yours and every war is a move you could have stopped.

Fifteen regions, three continents

Open grain fields where everyone collides, mountain passes where one wall changes everything, islands joined by fords. Then Hard, where two kingdoms gang up on the third.

A new island every week

Everyone gets the same map and the same twist. Your first try is the one that counts. Share a replay code and a friend can watch you pull it off.

Twenty achievements

Sign a treaty by year 10, win without building a single wall, break a pact with Sow discord, take a region on Hard with no interventions at all.

Change the whole table

Themes rebuild every castle, tree and mountain on the board, down to the sea around it.

The Classic theme: daylight on a walnut table — **Classic** Daylight on a walnut table

The Brick theme: a hanseatic port at sunset — **Brick** A Hanseatic port at sunset

The Frost theme: a polar realm under the northern lights — **Frost** A polar realm under the northern lights

The Foundry theme: a coal-and-iron valley at dusk — **Foundry** A coal-and-iron valley at dusk

The Gilded theme: a marble palace at twilight — **Gilded** A marble palace at twilight

The Gothic theme: a night board of stone circles — **Gothic** A night board of stone circles

The Interventions menu open over the board: famine, flood, rockfall and more — Six ways to ruin a warlord's year

Hard: two kingdoms sealed in a pact against the third — On Hard, two kingdoms open in a pact

The Delta's continent map with its regions — Three continents to keep at peace

A region's card: its story, difficulty and interventions — Every region has its own trouble