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Darwin's Choice
After millions of years of wasteland on Earth, animal life is finally emerging. But the world is still forming and undergoing a constant change. Only those species able to adapt to the ever-changing conditions will survive to leave their mark in history. Here is your chance! Do your best to become Darwin’s Choice.
Darwin's Choice is a competitive card game in which players create their own animal species from more than 230 animal cards. These animal species will be placed in biomes that differ strongly in their requirements and the food supply. The highest possible adaptation of animal species to their biomes not only ensures their survival but is also rewarded with the coveted Darwin points. In addition to a high adaptation the species with the highest competitive strength are also awarded across all zones.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Treecer |
Animals, Card Game, Educational, Environmental |
2019 |
1 |
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Tiny Towns
You are the mayor of a tiny town in the forest in which the smaller creatures of the woods have created a civilization hidden away from predators. This new land is small and the resources are scarce, so you take what you can get and never say no to building materials. Cleverly plan and construct a thriving town, and don't let it fill up with wasted resources! Whoever builds the most prosperous tiny town wins!
In Tiny Towns, your town is represented by a 4x4 grid on which you will place resource cubes in specific layouts to construct buildings. Each building scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. When no player can place any more resources or construct any buildings, the game ends, and any squares without a building are worth -1 VP. The player with the most VP wins!
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Alderac Entertainment Group |
Animals, City Building |
2019 |
1 |
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In the Hall of the Mountain King
Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown!
Working on the same game board with the other players (but beginning at your own entrance), you'll dig a competing network of tunnels by spending increasingly valuable materials to lay polyomino tiles onto the map. You want to extend your tunnels to connect with buried gold and materials, with workshop locations that can transform resources, and especially with toppled statues. Statues are key to scoring, and you'll spend carts to move them through the tunnels to prime scoring locations near the heart of the mountain.
A major aspect of the game is the cascading production. You begin with a line of four trolls, and every troll shows the combination of resources — gold, stone, iron, marble, carts, runes, and hammers — that it produces. When a new troll is hired, place it above two other trolls, forming a "pyramid". The new troll activates, gaining its resources, and any trolls beneath it ALSO activate, gaining any resources that they have room to carry. In this way…
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Burnt Island Games |
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2019 |
1 |
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Wingspan
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
- Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
- Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
- Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. The official announcement and pre-orders will be available on January 2, 2019.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Stonemaier Games |
Animals, Card Game, Dice, Economic, Resource Management |
2019 |
1 |
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Tapestry
Tapestry is a two-hour civilization game for 1-5 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier.
Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people — your civilization is unique!
In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and military) to earn progressively better benefits. You can focus on a specific track or take a more balanced approach. You will also improve your income, build your capital city, leverage your asymmetric abilities, earn victory points, and gain tapestry cards that will tell the story of your civilization.
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Stonemaier Games |
Civilization |
2019 |
1 |
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Ticket to Ride: London
Ticket to Ride: London features the familiar gameplay from the Ticket to Ride game series — collect cards, claim routes, draw tickets — but on a scaled-down map of 1970s London that allows you to complete a game in no more than 15 minutes.
Each player starts with a supply of 17 double-decker buses, two transportation cards in hand, and one or two destination tickets that show locations in London. On a turn, you either draw two transportation cards from the deck or the display of five face-up cards (or you take one face-up bus, which counts as all six colors in the game); or you claim a route on the board by discarding cards that match the color of the route being claimed (with any set of cards allowing you to claim a gray route); or you draw two destination tickets and keep at least one of them.
Players take turns until someone has no more than two buses in their supply, then each player takes one final turn, including the player who triggered the end of the game. Players then sum their points, scoring points for (1) the routes that they've claimed during the game, (2) the destination tickets that they've completed (by connecting the two locations on a ticket by a continuous line of their buses), and (3) the districts that they've connected. (A district consists of 2-4 locations, and you score 1-5 points for a district if you link all of its locations to one another with your buses.) You lose points for any uncompleted…
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Days of Wonder |
Trains |
2019 |
1 |
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Nagaraja
Twin temples of two forgotten divinities containing ancient relics have been discovered in India. You set off on a treasure hunt, racing to find them before your rival, but your progress is slowed by a constantly shifting maze of paths… And eternal damnation awaits anyone foolish enough to uncover the three cursed relics of the evil god Garuda!
MOVE QUICKLY...CHOOSE WISELY! A treasure race packed with tough choices, twists & turns!
In this 2-players game, each player moves around their own temple, which has spaces for room tiles and hiding places for 9 sacred and cursed relics around. These relics are placed randomly, facedown, around the temples and worth victory points once flipped face up. The first player to score 25 victory points wins the game. However, a player loses if they reveal all three cursed relics! Each round, the players compete to win a new room tile by using cards allowing them to throw fate sticks. The player with the most fate points showing on their sticks wins the room tile and places it in their temple. Each player attempts to create paths leading to their relics, enabling them to flip them face up and score victory points. Yet, Naga symbols on some sticks let you activate cards with powerful effects, so that you can never take anything for granted…
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Hurrican |
Adventure, Bluffing, Exploration, Maze |
2019 |
1 |
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Mutants
In Mutants, 2-4 players have to mix and match genetics to create the ultimate warriors and demonstrate their prowess in the arena. By dominating in the arena and freezing the most valuable mutants, you gain prestige — and whoever collects the most prestige wins.
In each round, players take turns until all players have used every card in their hand. At the end of the round, the player whose token is closest to the top space of the arena track scores prestige based on the round track. The game proceeds in this way for five rounds, after which players reveal their archives and gain additional prestige based on the freeze value of the mutants they have placed there.
In more detail, on your turn you perform three steps. First, you check to see whether you crushed the competition, then you ready your mutants in play, then you take one action from the following three:
- Breed: Gain a new mutant card to use in battle this round.
- Incubate: Prepare a new mutant card to use in battle next round.
- Deploy mutant: Play a mutant from your hand to your active mutant slot.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Lucky Duck Games |
Card Game, Fighting, Video Game Theme |
2019 |
1 |
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The Artemis Project
Europa, Jupiter's moon. Deep beneath the crust, the oceans are teeming with alien sea life. Shellfish, plants, corals, arthropods, even strange fish and larger sea creatures populate a wide-ranging interconnected web of hidden seas. Volcanism is rampant, warming the mineral-rich waters and creating excellent conditions for energy-harvesting.
The largest cavern close to the surface is known as The Pocket. This is where the initial teams of Stabilizers built their first outposts, with the intent to establish long-term communities capable of surviving indefinitely. Aqua-farming is well established; food and other sundries are efficiently gathered. The Pocket has many deposits of minerals and crystals that can be mined and processed to create strong and versatile construction materials locally.
Colonists arrive at the Doorstep at regular intervals when the Threshold is opened. The arrivals are of four general types: Pioneers (who are tasked with exploring the changing surface of the moon and the labyrinth of seas beneath), Engineers (who develop and operate the machinery and structures needed to run the colonies), Marines (who defend the colonies from hostile sea life, unwanted intruders, and other colonies), and Stewards (overseers responsible for strategy and negotiation).
Colony development mostly occurs beneath the ice; this is where all of the moon’s resources are concentrated, so this is where the effort is best spent. To keep close to the…
Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Grand Gamers Guild |
Dice, Science Fiction, Space Exploration |
2019 |
1 |
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Roam
Welcome to Arzium, land of ancient civilizations, bizarre creatures, unexplained wonders, and vibrant characters.
A great sleeping sickness has spread across the land, sending every type of creature to roam for hundreds of miles in a dazed, incoherent march. It's your job to seek them out and wake them from their sleepwalk, recruiting them to help you find even more lost souls!
In Roam, you and up to three friends compete to find lost adventurers. The game includes more than fifty unique, tarot-sized adventurer cards, which feature characters from Near and Far, Above and Below, and Islebound. The opposite side of each card depicts a landscape split into six squares, and two rows of three of these cards are placed in the center of the playing area to make the board.
Each turn, you may activate one of the adventurer cards in your party by flipping the card face down. Activating an adventurer allows you to place search tokens on the board in the shape depicted on your adventurer card. When every square on a landscape card has been searched, the player who did the most claims the card, finding the lost adventurer and adding them to their party. Each adventurer you add to your party gives you points and a new search pattern that you can use.
When searching, you also claim coins, which can be spent to use special actions or purchase artifacts with useful powers. When one player has ten…
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Red Raven Games |
Fantasy |
2019 |
1 |
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Brass: Birmingham
Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace' 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network, in an effort to exploit low or high market demands.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Roxley Games |
Economic |
2018 |
1 |
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Space Base
In Space Base, players assume the roles of Commodores of a small fleet of ships. Ships begin docked at their stations and are then deployed to sectors as new ships are commissioned under your command. Use cargo vessels to engage in trade and commerce; mining vessels to build reoccurring base income; and carriers to spread your influence. Establish new colonies for a new Commodore in a sector to gain even more influence. Gain enough influence and you can be promoted to Admiral!
Space Base is a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play dice game using the core "I roll, everyone gets stuff" mechanism seen in other games. It's also a strategic engine builder using a player board (your space base) and tableaus of ship cards you can buy and add to your board. The cards you buy and the order you buy them in have interesting implications on your engine beyond just the ability on the card you buy, making for a different type of engine construction than seen in similar games. Players can take their engine in a number of directions: long odds and explosive gains, low luck and steady income, big end-game combos to launch from last to first, or a mix-and-match approach. Ultimately, Space Base is a game you can just start playing and teach everyone how to play in the first round or two and has a satisfying blend of dice-chucking luck and challenging strategic choices.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Alderac Entertainment Group |
Dice, Sci-Fi, Space Exploration |
2018 |
1 |
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Spell Smashers
Harness the power of your vocabulary in this exciting, monster-battling, loot-collecting word game. In Spell Smashers, you combine your letter cards to spell words, smashing fearsome monsters and their even more fearsome adjectives!
When you deal damage to a monster, you gain precious coins. When you defeat a monster, you collect that monster as a trophy ... and gain a new letter to use later on! But beware - as you battle these dangerous creatures, you receive wounds, which are difficult letter combinations that could ruin your day.
Between battles, visit the local town and spend your hard-earned loot to outfit yourself with powerful gear, take on new quests, buy devious potions, or grab an ale at the tavern as you boast about your battle scars. Set your sights on fame and glory as you smash monsters with your spelling skills and rid the world of evil!
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Renegade Game Studios |
Fantasy, Fighting, Word Game |
2018 |
1 |
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The Quacks of Quedlinburg
Toadstools, Mandrake, and African Death's Head Hawksmoth, Oh My!
It is the 9-day Quedlinburg festival of quack doctors. Purchasing good ingredients for your brew can help you make the best "healing" ointments in the land, winning you fame and fortune! You can use that fortune to buy even more powerful ingredients to put into your pot. But be careful, one ingredient too many and your potion will explode! Winner of the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres, The Quacks of Quedlinburg perfectly blends deck, i.e. 'pot', building strategy with a press your luck element that ratchets up the excitement each turn as the stakes get higher.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Schmidt Spiele |
Medieval |
2018 |
1 |
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Endeavor: Age of Sail
In Endeavor: Age of Sail, players strive to earn glory for their empires. Sailing out from Europe and the Mediterranean, players will establish shipping routes and occupy cities the world over. As they do so, players will leverage their growing industry, culture, finance, and Influence, building their engine and extending their reach into the far-flung regions of the world.
Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Burnt Island Games |
Exploration, Nautical, Renaissance |
2018 |
1 |
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War Chest
The king's greatest friend had been an old general who had advised him and helped him protect his kingdom. He handed the new father a chest. "This is not for you my King, this is for your child. There will come a day when rule will be passed on to this young one. The respect you have earned will not be given to your children - it will be earned. In this simple chest is everything a leader needs to become a strategist and general. It will be seen as a game by the child, but, in truth, is preparation for ruling the land and surviving the tests of battle that will surely come."
War Chest is a simple to learn, yet highly re-playable and exciting war game, where each player controls a unique army. It combines drafting, with an elegant army composition mechanic. Each player plays with different units, requiring you to develop alternate strategies to balance the need to recruit more troops, offset your losses and effectively maneuver your soldiers.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Alderac Entertainment Group |
Medieval, Wargame |
2018 |
1 |
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Underwater Cities
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Delicious games |
Eurogame, Sci-Fi, Strategy |
2018 |
1 |
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Everdell
Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, events to host - you have a busy year ahead of yourself. Will the sun shine brightest on your city before the winter moon rises?
Everdell is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement.
On their turn a player can take one of three actions:
a) Place a Worker: Each player has a collection of Worker pieces. These are placed on the board locations, events, and on Destination cards. Workers perform various actions to further the development of a player's tableau: gathering resources, drawing cards, and taking other special actions.
b) Play a Card: Each player is building and populating a city; a tableau of up to 15 Construction and Critter cards. There are five types of cards: Travelers, Production, Destination, Governance, and Prosperity. Cards generate resources (twigs, resin, pebbles, and berries), grant abilities, and ultimately score points. The interactions of the cards reveal numerous strategies and a near infinite variety of working cities.
c) Prepare for the…
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Game Salute |
Animals, Card Game, City Building, Fantasy |
2018 |
1 |
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Anklebiters: Pixies VS Gremlins
Pixies VS Gremlins is a light-hearted strategy card game. The objective is to control enough magic rune stones to summon the magnificent and fearsome Wolpertinger! To do that, players choose a faction and send out their minions! Once a player has enough strength to capture a rune stone, its theirs...
But things are seldom so easy. Players will challenge each other by engaging in combat, unleashing mischievous spells, wicked traps and powerful gadgets.
—description from the publisher
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Pandora's Fox |
Card Game, Fantasy |
2018 |
1 |
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Nut So Fast
You gotta be lightning fast in the wildly nutty party game Nut So Fast! Flip two cards and watch for exactly four matching nut pictures. If you see a set of four, grab the nut token with the same face right out from under other player's noses! But "nut" so fast because if a number card appears, players instead need to strike the correct nutty pose.
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Smirk and Dagger Games |
Action, Dexterity, Party Game |
2018 |
1 |
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Great Western Trail: Rails to the North
From Board Game Geek: Great Western Trail: Rails to the North introduces a new railway system for players to compete on as they grow their cow herding businesses.
With this expansion, players deliver their herds to northeast United States with stops in Chicago, Detroit, and New York City, amongst other cities, in an effort to become the most successful cow rancher this side of the Mississippi. Be advised that business is much more difficult on this rail, so players will want to take advantage of friendly hospitality by establishing branchlets and helping form towns. In addition to the new railway system, players will also discover new station master tiles, private buildings, and an expanded player board to offer more strategic depth in their decision making.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Eggertspiele |
American West, Expansion |
2018 |
1 |
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Istanbul: Big Box
In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything...
In more detail, on a turn you move your merchant and his retinue of assistants one or two steps through the bazaar, either leave an assistant at that location or collect an assistant left earlier, then perform the action. If you meet other merchants or certain individuals at the location, you might be able to take a small extra action. Possible actions include:
- Paying to increase your wheelbarrow capacity, which starts the game with a capacity of only two for each good.
- Filling your wheelbarrow with a specified good to its limit.
- Acquiring a special ability, and the earlier you come, the easier they are to collect.
- Buying rubies or trading goods for rubies.
- Selling special combinations of goods to make the money you need to do everything else.
When a merchant has collected five rubies in his wheelbarrow,…
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Pegasus Spiele |
Economic |
2018 |
1 |
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Hokkaido
After establishing themselves in Honshu, the Lords and Ladies head north to Hokkaido. Beholding Hokkaido's mountainous landscape, they see that expansion on this land will prove to be a greater challenge than before. Hokkaido is the second map-building card game in the Nippon series, bringing new ideas and drafting mechanisms to the first design, Honshu. A game of Hokkaido consists of 12 rounds, each divided into two separate phases. Each player must expand their personal map to maximize their scoring possibilities.
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Lautapelit.fi |
Card Game, City Building, Territory Building |
2018 |
1 |
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The Mind
The addictive card game you play without talking.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Pandasaurus Games |
Card Game |
2018 |
2 |
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Key Flow
Key Flow is a new card-driven game, designed by Sebastian Bleasdale, Richard Breese and Ian Vincent based on many of the ideas contained in the award-winning R&D game Keyflower. Key Flow plays quickly over four game rounds (seasons), allowing players to develop their own unique village, with many ways to score points for their buildings, animals, keyples, resources and other items. Each season, players are dealt a number of cards. Players choose one of their cards and then pass the remaining cards to their neighbour, until all the cards have been chosen. All scoring takes place at the end of winter. Points are scored from the village cards in various ways, through upgrading buildings and from gathering gold. The player who scores the most points wins the game.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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R&D Games |
Card Game, City Building, Economic, Farming, Medieval |
2018 |
1 |
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Roar: The King of the Pride
In the wilds of Africa, lion prides rule over all beasts, but only one pride can rule over all the lions! In Roar: King of the Pride, 3-6 players compete to become the dominant pride of Africa. Managing your food supply, while expanding your territory and growing your pride size with cubs, will take strategic planning and key wits. Even the best-laid plans, however, can be interrupted by other prides' secret objectives, or worse...the encroachment of a new, and deadly, threat.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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IDW Games |
Animals, Educational, Territory Building |
2018 |
1 |
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End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a competitive card game for 1-4 prospectors and fortune seekers. Players manage a hand of cards to secure transportation, prospect land, and take a shot at winning a title to more land at the poker table. Cards have three uses, each corresponding to a particular phase of the game: to prospect land tiles and discover how much gold a claim will produce, to collect and play cards that build a good poker hand, and to purchase additional cards in auction to help with prospecting, poker, or both.
Prospecting land is a risky business. Players must choose their cards carefully, as they have limited chances to discover the most bountiful sources of gold. Each time they play a card and peak at a land tile, they must decide if they will stake a claim, placing their prospector's tent, or if they will press their luck and try to find a better claim. But if a new land tile that they peak at produces less gold than their most previous inspected tile, the player's luck has run out, and they are forced to accept the less bountiful claim.
In the California Gold Rush, fortunes were won and lost at the poker table. At the end of each round, players must select two of the cards they played for prospecting and add them to the stud poker hand in front of them on the table. At the end of the game, players reveal their poker hands. The player with the best poker hand wins another claim, placing their fourth and final prospector's tent on a land tile.…
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Elf Creek Games |
American West, Bluffing, Card Game, Exploration |
2018 |
1 |
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Root: The Riverfolk Expansion
The Riverfolk Expansion adds two new actions, new vagabonds, and exciting new game modes.
Play as the:
• Lizard Cult - Indoctrinate the dispossessed creatures of the woods and spread your creed far and wide.
• Riverfolk Company - Capitalize on crisis. Offer services and expand your trade operations to secure your status as a merchant king.
• Second Vagabond - Compete with a rival Vagabond to gain fame and fortune while the other factions attempt to secure their rule.
Play against the:
• Mechanical Marquise - Wage war against the Mechanical Marquise in competitive or cooperative modes!
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Leder Games |
Animals, Expansion, Fantasy |
2018 |
1 |
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Just One
Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled!
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 7
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Repos Production |
Party Game |
2018 |
1 |
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Root
Find adventure in this marvelous asymmetric game. Root provides limitless replay value as you and your friends explore the unique factions all wanting to rule a fantastic forest kingdom. Play as the Marquise de Cat and dominate the woods, extracting its riches and policing its inhabitants, as the Woodland Alliance, gathering supporters and coordinate revolts against the ruling regime, the Eyrie Dynasties, regaining control of the woods while keeping your squabbling court at bay, or as the Vagabond, seeking fame and fortune as you forge alliances and rivalries with the other players. Each faction has its own play style and paths to victory, providing an immersive game experience you will want to play again and again.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Leder Games |
Adventure, Animals, Fantasy, Wargame |
2018 |
1 |
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Planet
In Planet, spread your mountain ranges and your deserts, expand your forests, oceans and glaciers. Strategically position your continents to form hospitable environments for animal life to develop and try to create the most populated and diverse Planet!
Each Player receive a planet core without anything on it, at each turn players will chose a tile with mountain/ice/forest/desert on it and place it on the planet. Then the player who fulfill the most the condition of apparition of some animals, gain its card.
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Blue Orange |
Environmental, Science Fiction |
2018 |
1 |
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SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD
SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is a fast-playing board game in which one to four players explore and develop outer space over three eras. Each player controls an Earth-based enterprise seeking profit by driving the expansion of humanity into the Solar System and beyond. During the game you earn profit from exploration discoveries, by conducting production at resource sites, and by completing contracts. For example, a contract in the Mariners era rewards the first player to build a base on Mars. The player with the most profit at the end of the game wins but there are many ways to get there.
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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GMT Games |
Economic, Science Fiction, Space Exploration |
2018 |
1 |
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Walking in Burano
Burano is a beautiful island of Venice in Italy, known for its colorful houses. Walking through the island, you will see these vibrant houses on both sides of the canal, as well as the personal décor placed by the inhabitants of these houses and shops. Tourists always linger on the street to appreciate and enjoy the view. The colorful houses of Burano need a fresh coat of paint in order to stay beautiful and vivid. Use your creativity to refurbish and decorate the houses and amaze the tourists and local people with your masterpiece!
Walking in Burano is a family game. Players place the Floor Cards in order to receive a visit from different characters. They will score points based on the various symbols on the houses. To be the player with the most points at the end of the game.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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EmperorS4 |
Card Game, Territory Building |
2018 |
1 |
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Summit
Summit The Board Game is a survival game which, thanks to it's two-sided game board and variable mechanics, can be played competitively, cooperatively or solo.
In a competitive game, players race up and down the deadly mountain while managing their resources, building their path, overcoming obstacles and attempting to survive their competition. Summit uses a unique Karma System which allows players to actively help or hinder their opponents - but it also affects end game scoring. For a few extra points you could share some of your valuable food or oxygen, or maybe you can afford to lose some points so you choose to cut their rope and watch them disappear down the mountain.
In a cooperative or solo game, players must work together to overcome the mountain and survive the expedition. Summit is a game so grueling you only need one team member to survive the ascent and descent, so players may sacrifice themselves for the good of the team. Mechanics are changed as a "Sherpa Track" and a "Time of Day Track" are added, as well as a whole new stack of event cards. It is unlikely everyone will be returning from this expedition.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Inside Up Games |
Adventure, Environmental, Exploration, Racing |
2017 |
1 |
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Clank! In! Space!
The evil Lord Eradikus has all but conquered the galaxy, and is now on a victory lap across the sector in his flagship, Eradikus Prime. He may rule with an iron grip, but his most prized artifacts are about to slip through his cyborg claws. You and your fellow thieves have challenged each other to sneak aboard his ship, hack your way into its command module, and steal from him. Along the way, you'll recruit allies and snatch up extra loot. But one false step and-Clank! Careless noise draws the attention of Lord Eradikus. Hacking into his command module and stealing his artifacts increases his rage. You'd better hope your friends are louder than you are if you want to make it to an escape pod and get out alive...
Contains:
* 7 Game Board Pieces
* 43 Reserve Cards: 15 FAZR, 15 Boldly Go, 12 Memory Core, 1 GOB-L1N
* 4 Starting Decks (10 cards each)
* 100 Adventure Deck Cards
* 6 Artifacts
* 11 Major Secrets
* 28 Minor Secrets
* 120 Clank Cubes (30 of each player color)
* 1 Boss Marker
* 24 Boss Cubes
* 4 Bounty Hunter Cubes
* 8 Market Items: 2 Master Key, 2 TelePass, 2 Med Kit, 2 Contraband
* 1 Market Board
* 1 Blockade Token
* 4 Command Code Tokens
* 5 Power Crystals
* 8 Data Cubes (2 of each player color)
* 4 Unique Player Pawns
* 1 Boss Bag
Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Renegade Game Studios |
Sci-Fi |
2017 |
1 |
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Azul
Azul was designed by the world famous, award winning game author Michael Riesling. Azul captures the beautiful aesthetics of Moorish art in a contemporary board game. Players compete as artisans decorating the walls of the royal Palace of Dvora. By carefully drafting the correct Quantity and style of tiles, the most clever of artisans plan ahead to maximize the beauty of their work (not to mention their scores!) while ensuring they wasted no supplies in the process. Introduced by the moors, "azulejos" (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese, when their King Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra Palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The King, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own Palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the royal Palace of Dvora.
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Next Move Games |
Abstract, Strategy |
2017 |
2 |
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Photosynthesis
The sun shines brightly on the canopy of the forest, and the trees use this wonderful energy to grow and develop their beautiful foliage. Sow your crops wisely and the shadows of your growing trees could slow your opponents down, but don't forget that the sun revolves around the forest. Welcome to the world of Photosynthesis, the green strategy board game!
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Blue Orange Games |
Abstract, Environmental, Strategy |
2017 |
1 |
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Dinosaur Island
In Dino Island players will compete to create the world's greatest Dinosaur theme park. You'll need to acquire DNA, research the DNA sequences to bring different species of dinosaurs back from extinction, combine your DNA to create these beastly creatures.
Of course, it's 2017 and guests are easily bored. So, you should probably build some roller coasters and shops to keep your guests entertained. Oh, and maybe invest in some security, because if you don't your dinosaurs may escape and eat your guests, and who wants to deal with regulators coming in and telling you your park is a "death trap".
The game uses 10 full-color dice to create the pool of available DNA at the beginning of the round, and features really unique artwork inspired by early 90s graphic design to catch your eye and 3d renderings for the rides. The game contains Dino-meeples, double thick cardboard with cut outs to keep tracking cubes from sliding when the table is bumped, and two unique mechanisms that we are really fond of.
The game-length is variable from 60 minutes to 2.5 hours regardless of player count simply by adjusting the number of "end-game" cards used. The game also features "plot twist" cards that change certain game rules each time you play for endless replay-ability. No two games will ever be the same!
The game is a mid-weight strategic worker-placement game with strong thematic integration with the mechanics. We've found the games…
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Pandasaurus Games |
Economic, Sci-Fi |
2017 |
1 |
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Downforce
High-stakes bidding on million-dollar race cars. Frantic bets placed in secret even as the cars race around the track. And to the victor, the biggest purse of all. But, in the world of motor racing, the margin between victory and defeat can be a single moment: a steep banked turn, tires screaming and spitting out smoke, and the downforce, pressing you down in your seat and keeping you on the track as you make your move inside to pull ahead.
Downforce is a card game for 2-6 players based on Top Race, the award-winning design by the legendary Wolfgang Kramer. Players first bid to own the six cars in the race. Then, they play cards from their hand to speed them around the track. However, most cards will also move their opponents' cars. So figuring out just the right time to play a card is the key to victory. Along the way, players will make secret bets on who they think will win the race. Whoever has the most money from their prize money, winning bets, and remaining bank wins the game.
Back in 1974, Top Race began as Tempo, a themeless race game on a straight track and Kramer's first published game. In 1980, he brought it back as Niki Lauda's Formel 1, now licensed and featuring the race car theme that would garner it so much attention. In 1996, he released the definitive version of his racing system with Top Race, recommended for the Spiel des Jahres (the same year he won it for El Grande). Over the next decade, it would see print under a number of…
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Restoration Games |
Racing |
2017 |
1 |
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Fantasy Fantasy Baseball
In Fantasy Fantasy Baseball, you are the Wizard manager of a baseball team of fantasy creatures going through a season of fantasy baseball. Go head-to-head against other Wizard managers and battle for wins while building up your team’s statistics. But beware, your players may be sent on missions or have spells cast on them.
Developed by acclaimed designers Daryl Andrews and J.R. Honeycutt with art by Rob Lundy, Fantasy Fantasy Baseball is a roster-building card game that requires you to draft a strong team, manage your roster, deal with events and use your players’ special abilities.
Fantasy Fantasy Baseball weaves together all the best elements of fantasy baseball, including head-to-head win system and rotisserie stat tracking. However, instead of the typical fantasy sports experience taking months to play, the entire experience is boiled down to 10 minutes per player. Also, the amazing fantasy creatures help make this game accessible and fun for baseball fans and gamers to enjoy together.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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CSE Games |
Card Game, Fantasy, Sports |
2017 |
1 |
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Bärenpark
Some bears stand over 10 feet tall and weigh 1 ton, so caring for them is surely a challenge. In Bärenpark, players will attempt to build the best bear park not only for the most massive Kodiak bears, but also polar bears and even Koalas! Yes, we hear you, Koalas aren't bears. But they were too cute to leave out so they're here! Place enclosures, animal houses, and shops skillfully in your park. Complete areas quickly to score a lot of points. Cover icons to get new tiles and park sections. Make the most interesting park for years to come! .
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Asmodee |
Animals, Puzzle |
2017 |
1 |
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Codenames: Duet
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it.
Two covert operatives are on a secret mission in a crowded city. Each knows 9 secret agents that the other must contact. Communicating in coded messages, they sneak past enemy assassins in an attempt to complete their mission before time runs out.
Codenames: Duet is a cooperative word game for two or more players. A key card gives you 9 words to give clues and 3 words your partner must avoid. A clue is only one word, but it can point to multiple words that you want your partner to guess. Your partner also gives you clues for the words you need to find. If you both find all the words before you run out of turns, you both win!
With a new way to play, 400 new words that work with the original Codenames, and 100 new challenges, Codenames: Duet is sure to push your mind to the limit!
Go Undercover!
In Codenames: Duet, players must work together to uncover all the secret agents on both sides of the key card before they run out of turns. You'll need to be quick-witted, because these challenges will put your deductive skills to the test!
It Takes Two to Tango!
You and a partner will pick a key card and set up the grid of words. You'll take turns, going back and forth, giving each other clues to guess as many words as possible before passing to the other player. On their turn, a player gives a word and a number as their clue…
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Czech Games Edition |
Card Game, Deduction, Spies/Secret Agents, Word Game |
2017 |
1 |
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Gaia Project
"Set your sights on distant stars and strive to colonize the galaxy in Gaia project, the follow-up to the smash hit Terra Mystica! true to the foundations that made Terra Mystica a massive success, this box invites one to four players to forge their own galactic empires. Explore the vast reaches of space and convert planets to meet your faction unique environmental needs as you seek to tighten your grasp on the galaxy. Fourteen unique factions stand ready to boldly take their first steps into the cosmos while building structures to generate resources, researching new technology, and uniting planets to form powerful federations. Chart your course and remake planets as you see fit in Gaia project. In the end, only the most advanced faction will win."
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Z-Man Games |
Economic, Sci-Fi, Territory Building |
2017 |
1 |
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Heaven & Ale
You have been assigned to lead an ancient monastery and its brewery. Now it's your time to brew the best beer under God's blue sky!
The fine art of brewing beer demands your best timing. In order to get the best results of your production, you have to provide your cloister's garden with fertile resources and the right number of monks helping with the harvest - but keep your brewmaster in mind as he is ready and eager to refine each and every one of your barrels!
In Heaven & Ale, you have to overcome the harsh competition of your fellow players. There is a fine balance between upgrading your cloister's garden and harvesting the resources you need to fill your barrels. Only those who manage to keep a cool head are able to win the race for the best beer!
Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Eggertspiele |
Economic, Farming, Industry/Manufacturing |
2017 |
1 |
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Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary
Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary contains the Notre Dame base game, the New Persons expansion that first appeared in the 2009 alea Treasure Chest, and a new "New Persons" set of nine characters.
In Notre Dame, players take on the roles of the heads of influential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. In the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral, the players compete for prosperity and reputation. Each family controls one of the 3–5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of their family, each player tries — through clever use of their action cards — to advance the power and prestige of their family, but penalties are assessed on those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. The player with the most prestige at the end wins.
The "New Person" expansions allow for more variety during gameplay since these characters make different actions available to the players.
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Ravensburger |
Economic, Renaissance |
2017 |
1 |
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Spirit Island: Branch & Claw Expansion
The branch & claw expansion for Spirit Island, featuring two new spirits (sharp fangs behind the leaves and keeper of the forbidden wilds) and a new adversary (France) as well as adding events to the invader phase of the game! the event deck has events that happen each turn, adding further variation to the game play. In addition, the expansion has tokens that prevent the invaders from exploring, building, or ravaging or add wild beasts to the land, a new set of powers (31 minor and 21 major) that use the new tokens and expand the game play, 15 new fear cards, new blight cards, and new scenarios.
Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Greater Than Games |
Age of Reason, Environmental, Expansion, Fantasy, Fighting, Mythology |
2017 |
1 |
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Sagrada
As a skilled artisan, use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia. Gain prestige by adapting to the preferences of your fickle admirers, and, of course, by adding your own artistic flair while completing your glass masterpiece in Sagrada, a game of dice-drafting and window-crafting.
Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Floodgate Games |
Puzzle |
2017 |
1 |
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Century: Spice Road
Centuries ago, the spice trade was the most important market in the world. It established and destroyed empires, compelled men to explore the far corners of the earth, and led to the discovery of new worlds. At that time, the value of spices even rivaled that of gold! In the old days, they carried a sense of mystery and allure. Spice merchants would weave fantastic tales of danger to reach these spices in hopes of selling their wares at higher prices. In later centuries, the demand on spices became so great, that those who controlled the spices generated immense wealth and renown. It is at this time, you find yourself leading your caravan across the eastern lands to the Mediterranean Sea in search of wealth and fortune. As a caravan leader, your journey begins on the Spice Road. This is Century: Spice Road!
The Spice Must Flow In Century: Spice Road, players aim to collect and trade spices in order to acquire point cards and coins that are worth points at the end of the game. Players play cards from their hands to acquire spices for their caravan and trade those spices in for wealth and power (point cards and money), or to purchase new merchant cards to more efficiently acquire rare and valuable spices. Players take one action a turn until someone has acquired their fifth (or sixth in 2-3 player game) point card, players will finish out the current round of play and the person with the most points wins!
Play or Acquire Cards…
Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Plan B Games |
Card Game, Economic, Medieval |
2017 |
1 |
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The Red Dragon Inn 6: Villains
You and your wicked companions have spent the day pillaging the countryside and "dealing" with meddlesome adventurers. It's about time you kicked back with a pint at the evil equivalent of The Red Dragon Inn — The Black Dragon Depths, a nefarious tavern hidden deep in the catacombs below Greyport. No more heroes this time. Now you get to play as the bad guys!
The Red Dragon Inn 6: Villains is a standalone expansion to The Red Dragon Inn series of games. In this game, you and up to three of your friends play as evil villains celebrating the defeat of your archenemies at a wild fantasy party. You gamble, brawl, and drink the night away as you compete to be the last villain standing at the end of the night.
Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Slugfest Games |
Card Game, Fantasy, Humor, Party Game |
2017 |
1 |
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Valletta
The year is 1566. The Order of Malta has placed the first stone of what will become a powerful city in the Mediterranean. It is up to you to undertake the building projects that will complete the city and make Valletta the future capital of Malta. Procure raw materials from craftsmen and hire builders, masons, and woodworkers to construct the mighty bastions and beautiful baroque buildings of the capital. As your projects progress, enlist the aid of historical figures such as Emperor Charles V or Jean Parisot de Vallette himself to score even more points and become a master builder. Hire the help you need, manage your resources, and leave your mark on the city!
Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4
Boardgame Atlas: Link
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Hans im Gluck (Germany) |
City Building, Renaissance |
2017 |
1 |