Skyrise

Set up the game by placing the central island and randomized outer islands in the middle of the table. Shuffle and deal wonders and secret objectives to each player, keeping them hidden. Display two panorama cards, patron value tiles, and the island control card nearby. Players arrange their numbered wooden buildings in ascending order on the right side of their player board, leaving buildings with dots on the left for the second era. Place scoring markers on the prestige track, and randomly place neighborhood, wild, patron, and commission discs onto the board's neighborhoods.

The main goal of Skyrise is to earn the highest prestige score by the end of the second era. Players do this by winning auctions to place buildings and unique wonders onto island neighborhoods, collecting valuable bonus tokens, fulfilling secret objectives, and securing majority control over different islands and panoramas.

The game is played across two eras using a series of auctions. In each auction, players take turns playing a higher-numbered building adjacent to the previous bid, or passing. The highest bidder wins, places their building face down on the board, and collects any token present in that neighborhood. The winner of the auction starts the next one. In era two, players can also bid with powerful wonder pieces and unique wonder cards that break rules and trigger instant bonuses.

At the end of each era, players score prestige for island majorities based on building heights, active panorama conditions, and blimp proximity. At the final scoring, players reveal secret objectives, score patron tokens based on hidden values, collect bonus points for overflow tokens, keys, and commission discs, and finally score points for every structure based on the final token levels of their corresponding neighborhood tracks.

The game spans two distinct eras. Era one ends as soon as a player runs out of their initial set of non-dotted buildings. After scoring and choosing a wonder card, players unlock their era-two dotted buildings and their wonder piece. The game concludes permanently at the end of era two once every player has constructed all of their remaining structures.