Metras

Metras is a game for 3-4 players with an approximate duration of 15 minutes per player. You become the head of a Noble Family of the Empire of Metras seeking the favor of Emperor. You will hold lavish parties, resort to intrigue and corruption, or face epic missions on behalf of the Emperor.
For your Family to succeed, you will have to place and use allies in key positions to hoard Influence Points (IP), a measure of your power at the Imperial Court.
The winner is the Family who earns the most Influence Points.

The game has 5 turns and the players may perform action by buying action card through an auction from the market using the Influence Point, that you need to win, as coins.
Action cards are the actions that you can do at the Emperor's court. Each action refers to a one of the four branch of the player's Noble family and they relate to specific aspect of the life at Court.

The branches are:

Fame: this branch indicates the direct influence that the family has on the life at the imperial court;
Exploration: this branch indicates the military and exploratory capacity of the family;
Wealth: this branch indicates, in addition to the assets, the organization and the economic grandeur of the family;
Espionage: this branch indicates the capacity and the amount of spies every family has;

To increase the strength of each branch you must recruit allies or servant that will help you do the actions you bought at auction.