At the Gates of Loyang is a trading game in which you are able to produce goods by planting them and selling them later to customers. You can use the abilities of some helpers to boost your income or production.

Customers, Fields, helpers, and miscellaneous objects are represented by cards. Each player receives two of these cards each round distributed by a bidding/drawing mechanism in which you end up with one of the cards you draw and one of the cards of a public offer filled by all players. Additionally, to these cards you will always receive one field for free each round.

Placing one good on a field fills the complete field with this type of good. Every round, one unit per field is harvested. After planting, harvesting, and distributing cards, each player can use as many actions as they wants, only limited by the number of their cards or the number of goods they owns. At the end of their turn, they can invest the earned money on a scoring track, where early money is worth more than late money. The game ends after a certain number of rounds, and the player who is first on the scoring track wins the game.