Provinces Under Pressure

Provinces Under Pressure is a strategy game about governing a fragile Roman realm by responding to pressures that can’t be eliminated, only transformed. Each turn, new crises such as disease, fraud, flooding, spoilage, unrest, filth, famine, and exhaustion emerge across the provinces. Use your a limited hand of Ideas and Institutions to build arrangements in local slots that convert one kind of pressure into another.

Draw cards, study each province’s active pressures and local adaptations, and pair one Idea with one Institution and place them carefully, knowing every action advances time and triggers the next event.

Provinces with multiple active pressures begin contributing to your empire-wide suffering, and if suffering rises too high your rule collapses before your term is over. Success depends on reading the map, respecting local conditions, and accepting imperfect tradeoffs rather than chasing impossible purity. Will Rome collapse into ruin? Or see a bright new future. 

Based on the book Seeing Like a State.