Monumental

Monumental (2020) is a civilization game built around a city of nine cards. Each player controls a civilization whose 3x3 grid of cards can be activated to gather Science, Military, Production, Culture and Gold. The twist: you cannot activate everything at once, so every turn means tough choices about which cards you need most. The resources you gather let you acquire improved buildings, technologies and wonders from a common pool. It also has area movement and a modular board, so there is a map to push around too. One to four players, about two hours, for people who like civilization games but want the city on a card table.