Description

Monarchs at Play is turn-based 4x strategy with a board game soul. Combine buildings for powerful adjacency effects, plan your city layout, and fight or trade with rival monarchs – solo or multiplayer. Simple rules, deep tactics – all in just one hour. 

History

MixedMoonGames GmbH was founded in August 2025 by two lifelong friends from Germany who had already been prototyping this title together the year before. Supported by the “Press Start: Gründerstipendium Games” program, the studio set out to create a strategy game inspired by their love for the district-building systems of Civilization VI. Early in development, they realized they wanted something different: a deep 4X experience that could actually be played with friends without requiring an entire weekend. This led to a radical design decision: remove every feature that felt like chore-like micromanagement and instead focus fully on meaningful city-building, adjacency planning, and fast, competitive matches. Over time, the project evolved into Monarchs at Play, a streamlined but tactical board-game-style strategy experience built for both solo players and multiplayer groups. Development continues steadily, and the team is currently preparing the first closed Steam playtests for early 2026. Mixed Moon Games aims to deliver a strategy game where every decision matters and where finishing a full match with friends is finally possible in just one hour.

Features

• 4X turn-based strategy on hex grid
• Adjacency bonusses for buildings based on surrounding environment and other buildings
• 40+ buildings
• Median playtime: 60min
• Supports up to 8 players
• Asynchronous Multiplayer
• PVP and Co-op online multiplayer
• Singleplayer Mode with clever AI in different difficulties
• Playable Monarchs with special abilities and an own campaign mission
• Interactive onboarding via campaign missions