Anachrony

Each Era follows Preparation, Paradox, Power Up, Warp, Action Rounds and Clean Up. Normally power up at most six Exosuits, paying one Energy Core for each bottom-row slot, and receive one Water per empty slot. During Warp, secretly choose 0–2 Warp tiles, reveal together and gain their assets; each warped Worker also costs one Water. B sides and Impact modify slots and income.

Paradoxes: from Era two, check each past Timeline tile with Warp tiles. Whoever has the most on that tile rolls the Paradox die; all tied players roll. Normally the third Paradox immediately causes an Anomaly, clears your Paradoxes and stops further rolls. After all Paradox rolls, only a player who received an Anomaly may retrieve one of their Warp tiles. Anomalies occupy building spots and normally cost 3 points each at the end; abilities may change thresholds or penalties.

On an action turn, first perform Free Actions, each available once per Era, then place an Active Worker at home or with a powered Exosuit on the Main board, or pass for the Era. Worker restrictions and costs still apply. A Genius counts as another Worker type only when taking an Action.

Worker recovery: during Clean Up, Motivated Workers return Active and others Tired; used Exosuits return to supply and need powering again next Era. Supply costs the Water shown at your Morale, activates all Tired Workers and raises Morale. Force Workers is a once-per-Era Free Action that activates them but lowers Morale, or loses a Worker at minimum Morale. B sides and abilities can modify these rules.

Construction and Research: build a top tile from a primary or secondary building stack, paying the leftmost empty slot cost in its row; or build the Superproject in Focus on the globally leftmost horizontally adjacent pair of empty spaces, choosing a row only when several rows tie for that leftmost position (Path of Dominance B can override this restriction), paying its assets and Breakthroughs. Research requires a Scientist or Genius: set one research die and roll the other for a Breakthrough. Recruit takes an available Worker and its type bonus; each Action retains its Worker restrictions.

Power Plants set Focus to a past Era within range. You may return the matching asset for one of your Warp tiles there, retrieve that tile and advance Time Travel. Returned Workers must be Active and Exosuits powered. A Power Plant cannot repay a request from the current Era.

Impact occurs during Clean Up of Era four. It opens Evacuation and strengthens Capital spaces for one final use; used Collapsing Capital spaces close during Clean Up. The game ends at the Clean Up check when all have closed or Era seven finishes.

At game end, first repay outstanding Warp tiles without advancing Time Travel; each unfulfilled tile costs 2 points. Add buildings, Superprojects, Morale, Time Travel and point tokens, normally subtracting 3 per Anomaly. Each Breakthrough scores 1, plus 2 per set of three different shapes. Each of five Endgame Conditions gives qualifying players 3 points, including all ties. Total-score ties favor more Water, then more Resources, then shared victory.