Civilization

Today marks exactly one month until the doors open on SPIEL Essen 2026, so we're starting a daily countdown with a game attempting something fairly ambitious: squeezing the entire sweep of human civilisation from the Stone Age to spaceflight, into around 90 minutes.

Mega Empires is an empire-building strategy board game that has it’s origins in the classic Civilization game designed by Francis Tresham and published by Hartland Trefoil Ltd in 1980.