Grow a Bronze-Age settlement toward its monument, unlock each building by matching it to the right function.
You manage a young settlement across the seasons, producing resources and investing them in a great monument. To unlock each new building you must correctly match it to its function; build the right structures, keep production flowing, and complete the monument to win.
Agora is a light history-management game about growing an ancient town and learning what each building was for, bringing civic life to life.
Managing a settlement across seasons while matching each building to its function borrows its setting from the Greek agora, the public space that was simultaneously market, assembly and civic centre.
Gating construction behind correctly identifying what a building does is the original mechanism.
That is the right thing to gate on. Ancient civic buildings are usually taught as vocabulary — stoa, bouleuterion, prytaneion — when what distinguishes them is function, and a settlement that cannot unlock a building until its purpose is understood makes the vocabulary consequential.
Agora is an original light history-management game about growing an ancient town and learning what each building was for. It's free to play in your browser.