Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries is a real-time strategy game that places unusual emphasis on diplomacy, economics and espionage alongside conventional military conquest. Players build kingdoms, manage populations, develop economies and raise armies while dealing with rival civilizations that may be conquered, negotiated with or manipulated. Combat is only one part of the equation, and a clever ruler can sometimes achieve more through diplomacy than by throwing thousands of soldiers at the nearest border. The game also features different races and cultures, each with distinctive characteristics that affect strategy. Its combination of economic management, diplomacy and battlefield tactics gives it considerable depth. Seven Kingdoms is ideal for strategy players who enjoy the idea that winning a war might occasionally involve something more sophisticated than producing another hundred swordsmen.