
2025Steve Easton
Mainly reviews. ERA is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 18 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 11 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In Era, you will lead a special historical group on the brink of greatness or ruin. Using the leaders, inventions, and technology of that time period, you must successfully unfold the events that made that nation or culture forever remembered in history. But your opponent, leading a different Era, will be trying to do the same. As each of you works in your separate time periods, you will both throw unexpected catastrophes, powerful invaders, and obstacles at each other's plans. Which player will lead their Era to greatness first? Era is a strategy card game that features a unique, 3-pile card management system to let you build, expand, and defend your unique historical group. Era is a symbols-only, no-text game system that provides a large amount of information-at-a-glance for quick and effective gameplay. The first player to score 15 progress points or deal 3 destruction tokens to his opponent, wins. Other features of Era: Each Era deck contains conflict cards that represent your Era's weakness or dangers. These cards are given to your opponent, and they give you theirs. These cards are then shuffled into your decks for you to play against each other. Each Era deck has "keys" that unlock new cards or symbols, allowing you to relive the progression of historical events as they really happened.
Watch it played
ERA has 36 videos from 9 creators: 18 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 3 unboxings and 11 other videos. They date from 2014 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "ERA - Full Tutorial (Official)" by World Within Games, which runs 50 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "ERA Review" by UndeadVikingVideos. 7 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Era Revolution & Crusade" by calandale, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Nova Cry and Nova Cry: Dark Suns, also by Steve Easton, or Mindbug: First Contact and KeyForge: Call of the Archons, which share several of its mechanics.
8 of 9
2022Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, Marvin Hegen, Christian Kudahl
2 players15 - 25 minLight weight
2018Richard Garfield
2 players15 - 45 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Era, you will lead a special historical group on the brink of greatness or ruin. Using the leaders, inventions, and technology of that time period, you must successfully unfold the events that made that nation or culture forever remembered in history. But your opponent, leading a different Era, will be trying to do the same. As each of you works in your separate time periods, you will both throw unexpected catastrophes, powerful invaders, and obstacles at each other's plans. Which player will lead their Era to greatness first? Era is a strategy card game that features a unique, 3-pile card management system to let you build, expand, and defend your unique historical group. Era is a symbols-only, no-text game system that provides a large amount of information-at-a-glance for quick and effective gameplay. The first player to score 15 progress points or deal 3 destruction tokens to his opponent, wins. Other features of Era: Each Era deck contains conflict cards that represent your Era's weakness or dangers. These cards are given to your opponent, and they give you theirs. These cards are then shuffled into your decks for you to play against each other. Each Era deck has "keys" that unlock new cards or symbols, allowing you to relive the progression of historical events as they really happened.
Designer
Steve Easton
Artists
Bryce Cook, Michael Penn
Publisher
World Within Games
Categories
Mechanics