City of Iron

City of Iron lets you lead one of four rival nations in a steampunk world of machines, magic and money: industrious humans, toad engineers, scholarly Cresarians or clever hogmen. You produce goods such as machine parts and bottled demons, research steam-age technology, hire mercenaries and build schooners or airships to reach faraway lands and flying islands. The twist is the deckbuilding: you customize two decks of cards, and your cities have limited capacity, so building advanced structures means deciding what to keep and what to demolish. Powerful, tricky and gloriously odd, it suits players who like their fantasy with gears and a sharp sense of economy.