Players try to bring the city-states of ancient Sumeria to the fore. Each turn, players boost the importance of one of the city-states by flooding it with their traders, boosting its power. Each time a city-state gains power one or more will lose power. The aim is to gain control of the pre-eminent city-states during the scoring rounds at the end of each dynasty. Players have to time their movements, as a city-state can quickly lose favour too.
Sumeria is an area control game for 3-4 players aged 10 and up. Games last 30-60 minutes.
Sumeria features the following components:
- A playing board featuring eight city-states
- 2 large pawns - a start player marker and a turn marker
- 8 city tiles
- 56 trader tokens - fourteen each in four colours
- 36 score tokens - nine each of four different types
- a cloth bag
