Five ages
Every age unlocks new ways to build.
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IStart with your hands
Stone Age
Gather by hand, build your first camp and make tools from stone, clay and fiber.
Complete the Standing Stones to enter the Bronze Age.
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IIMine metal and farm
Bronze Age
Mine copper and tin, make bronze, grow grain and start writing things down.
Complete the Ziggurat to enter the Iron & Water Age.
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IIIPut the river to work
Iron & Water Age
Smelt iron with coal, turn water wheels on the river and make glass for the first libraries.
Complete the Clock Tower to enter the Industrial Age.
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IVRun on steam and powerFull game
Industrial Age
Build steam engines, make steel, bring power to your works and make circuits.
Complete the Great Telescope to enter the Space & Intelligence Age.
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VHead for the starsFull game
Space & Intelligence Age
Refine rare minerals into superalloys, build thinking machines and launch a starship.
Then launch a Starship Module, and leave home.
Logistics
Connect your buildings and watch goods flow.
Draw a route and haulers walk it. Busy routes wear into roads, and roads haul faster. Pack trails give way to carts, conveyor belts, drones and quantum portals.
Beyond the sky
Leaving home.
Found an orbital hub, then settle new worlds, each with its own map and materials. Balance power and heat, and schedule freight between them.
Calm by design
Play at your own pace.
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No enemies or fail states
Nothing attacks you and nothing is ever lost.
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Grows while you're away
Come back to everything your settlement made, up to 8 hours of it.
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Choices that matter
Some technologies come in rival pairs. Pick one, and build around it.
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Start each new run stronger
Begin a new run for Echoes, and rebuild your old layouts from their ghosts.
