Four factions (Earth, Mars, Outer Planets Alliance, Protogen Corporation) attempt to control a settled solar system 200 years in the future. Then game uses an action point/event card system similar to Twilight Struggle.
Tapestry is a competitive, asymmetric, medium-weight civilization-building game. 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.
Merlin is the new strategy game by Stefan Feld set in the mystic world of Camelot. Get the most influence at the round table and manage the provinces to your advantage to be the winner of Merlin.
Each player is a traveler crossing the "East sea road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling, players will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas and visit temples and wild places. At the end of the day, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.
Eclipse is a standard 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) where players will research technologies and grow their empire. This game will use the Rise of the Ancients and Shadows of the Rift expansions and can accommodate up to 9 players.
You find yourself in a dystopian cityscape with a few workers at your disposal to make your mark on the world. Like most people in dystopian fiction, your workers are oblivious to their situation. This world is all they've ever known, and you may use them at your whim.
Euphoria is a worker-placement game with dice to represent your workers. As a sort of middle manager in the dystopian regime, your eyes are open to the harsh realities of your world, and your primary goal is to gain as much influence as you can as fast as you can. In order to do this, you must walk a fine line where your underlings are concerned; they must have enough knowledge to be useful, but not so much that they grow disaffected and desert your cause. Use your workers to get resources and commodities, discover artifacts for a long-gone era, and forge alliances with the various factions that populate this world. What are you willing to sacrifice to build a better dystopia?
The Partisans is a tabletop game based on the Extra Credits mini-series, Extra Politics. In the game, you play a political ideology attempting to move the government towards your goals. Of course, other players have different ideas about what the government should be doing.
Players take turns as the Committee Chair and work together to craft bills from amendment cards. All the players then vote on weather or not to pass the bill. VP are scored if players vote with the ideals of their faction and players gain extra power by voting with their lobbies.
When the game ends, a round of final scoring takes place based on the currant priorities of the government. The player with the most points is the winner!
Based on the private lines that have formed the Tokyo Metro system, this heavy 120+ minute economic simulator brings a lot to the table in a small box. Featuring an era deck worker placement system, with an interactive map and separate train line income track, TOKYO METRO will challenge economists and gamers alike!
Tapestry is a competitive, asymmetric, medium-weight civilization-building game. 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.
In Trogdor!: The Board Game, you and up to five friends — or maybe people you just paid to come over — take on the roles of these acolytes of the Burninator, each with their own unique abilities and magical items. Take turns guiding Trogdor on his destructive lost weekend around Peasantry. Help him avoid pesky knights and archers, devour peasants, burninate the countryside, and, of course, the thatched roof COTTAGES!!
Have you ever thought about who's really behind some of those interesting news headlines? Now you can try and convince some others that you can come up with the conspiracy theories behind them, in this new card game from Steve Jackson Games.
Scythe is an engine-building, asymmetric, competitive board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor.
Merlin is the new strategy game by Stefan Feld set in the mystic world of Camelot. Get the most influence at the round table and manage the provinces to your advantage to be the winner of Merlin.
Includes Arthur, Knights of the Round Table and Queenie expansions.
Come play one of the highest rated games on BoardGameGeek. Work together with the other players to make Mars habitable through temperature, forestation and water, but the one with the most points at the end wins!
In this viking themed worker placement game, players have to hunt, gather basic materials, refine those materials, develop their production-buildings, build/buy ships, and raid settlements.
The resulting earnings are placed on the players' board in the best possible pattern to produce income and (later) victory points.
Eclipse is a standard 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) where players will research technologies and grow their empire. This game will use the Rise of the Ancients and Shadows of the Rift expansions and can accommodate up to 9 players.
After the Cylon attack on the Colonies, the battered remnants of the human race are on the run, constantly searching for the next signpost on the road to Earth. They face the threat of Cylon attack from without, and treachery and crisis from within. Humanity must work together if they are to have any hope of survival…but how can they, when any of them may, in fact, be a Cylon agent?
In this epic contest of sinister power, take on the role of a Disney Villain and strive to achieve your own devious objective. Discover your character's unique abilities and winning strategy while dealing twists of fate to thwart your opponents' schemes. Find out who will triumph over the forces of good and win it all!
Enter this Forgotten Realms spin-off of the classic game Betrayal at House of the Hill: take control of one of six adventures who are investigating disturbances in the city of Baldur's Gate. Be on your guard as the shadows of Bhaal are all around and one of you could betray your party and face off in one of 50 haunts. Can you solve the mystery of what is going on in Baldur's Gate?
In Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meager vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crushpad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success.
The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There is competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to get to the job has an advantage over subsequent workers.
Armed only with your trusty die and a dream, you must grow Machi Koro into the largest city in the region. You will need to collect income from developments, build public works, and steal from your neighbors' coffers. Just make sure they aren't doing the same to you!
Play the role of one of six explorers who are exploring an old house on the hill. Survive supernatural events, collect items and omens, up until one player betrays your team and the fight to survive is on.
Four factions (Earth, Mars, Outer Planets Alliance, Protogen Corporation) attempt to control a settled solar system 200 years in the future. Then game uses an action point/event card system similar to Twilight Struggle.
In Trogdor!: The Board Game, you and up to five friends — or maybe people you just paid to come over — take on the roles of these acolytes of the Burninator, each with their own unique abilities and magical items. Take turns guiding Trogdor on his destructive lost weekend around Peasantry. Help him avoid pesky knights and archers, devour peasants, burninate the countryside, and, of course, the thatched roof COTTAGES!!
Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first game in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.
In Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meager vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crushpad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success.
The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There's competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to get to the job has an advantage over subsequent workers.
2 to 6 players compete to build the most amazing Town. Each turn the “Master Builder” determines which resource will be produced, and all the players gain one unit of that resource. Players can decide to use their resources to construct buildings according to the construction cards in play. Choose carefully! Where you build, and what you build will determine how dense your Town will be and how many points it will score! At the end of the turn, a new player becomes Master Builder.
