Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Draft colored action dice, develop technologies and territories, and guide a civilization through three eras without collapsing into unrest.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Action Drafting
Choose actions from a shared supply before opponents can claim them.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Tech Progression
Unlock or improve abilities by progressing through connected development paths.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Read the full game description
Nova Era is a civilization-building game driven by shared dice drafting. Across three eras, players select colored dice and spend their values to acquire technologies, gather resources, recruit personalities, and claim territories for a growing personal tableau. Technologies branch into increasingly powerful opportunities, while cards and public objectives reward both specialization and breadth. Taking too much power is dangerous: the sum of a player’s collected dice can create unrest, and dice left behind push disasters or a dark age closer. Scoring comes from technological variety, majorities, completed objectives, and the civilization assembled over the full arc of play. The result is a medium-weight development game in which every attractive draft also changes the pressure confronting the rest of the table.
