Board games

Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising is a fully cooperative, standalone board game for 1 to 4 players that delivers the ultimate tower defense experience for the tabletop. Players take on the role of asymmetrical heroes defending their kingdom against waves of oncoming monster hordes. Players place towers to attack hordes, using polyomino tiles to cover monsters until all monsters in a horde are covered and destroyed. Players earn crystals and gold, which can be spent on purchasing new towers or Tower Modifications to improve and customize their existing towers. Monsters have several special abilities that players must take into account, passing towers between each other and positioning attacks to bypass magical shields and monster powers. The heroes will also have to deal with game-changing events and elemental disruptions, such as volcanoes and cyclones. The game is scenario-based and can be played as individual, replayable scenarios or as a steadily evolving campaign leading to major boss battles, hero challenges and more. Kingdom Rush offers easy-to-learn rules with a high level of tactics for experienced players. At the start of each scenario, players can choose from different difficulty levels or even take on the dreaded Iron Challenges, which require near-perfect strategies to overcome.

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DC Spyfall is an easy-to-learn party game based on the social party game Spyfall. It contains elements of bluff, questions and clever answers. At the start of each round, players receive a secret card containing information about the group's location - one of twenty unique DC locations, including Arkham Asylum, the Daily Planet, the Hall of Justice and STAR Labs - except for one player, who receives the Joker card instead. The Joker doesn't know where he is, but if he can guess his location before his cover is discovered, he wins the round! DC Spyfall adds some twists to the Spyfall format. Since Harley Quinn usually follows the Joker, one player can receive a location card with a Harley image in each round. If this is the case, they will try to give the Joker player information about the location, even if they don't know that player's identity! If the Joker player guesses the location, the two collaborators score points - unless the superheroes can turn the tables and determine who Harley is. The game features two multiverse decks with eight different locations each instead of just one, which can confuse players with some questions and answers. Keep in mind that no one at the table knows if they are playing with a multiverse deck. A full Joker deck gives each player a Joker card, meaning all questions and answers are based on nothing more than what the players collectively believe. Just like with the multiverse decks, you don't know you're playing this deck until someone discovers it. Super power cards can give a player an ability for a round, such as dodging a question, or require a player to adjust their behavior; for example, Super Speed ​​forces a player to answer a question in three words or less.

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Motu is a game created by the famous board game maker Scott Almes. The illustrations were made by Olivier Danchin. In Motu you position your cards as smartly as possible and try to use the different resources wisely. Do you know how to play it best? Then you win Motu!

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As the Commander of a team of Catstronauts, you will take part in fast-paced missions to visit planets in the solar system and rescue poor helpless kittens! From the designers of Kittin, Catstronauts is a family game of speed and sequence, where players race to match their numbered Catstronauts with each of the planet cards in the correct order. With 16 "meeples" that can be customized with 16 unique cat face stickers, players can create their perfect team of expert Catstronauts.

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Welcome to Machi Koro town. You have just been elected mayor. Congratulations! Unfortunately, the residents have some pretty big demands: jobs, an amusement park, a few cheese factories, and maybe even a radio tower. A difficult proposition, since the city currently consists of only a wheat field, a bakery and a single die. Armed with only your trusty dice and a dream, you must grow Machi Koro into the largest city in the region. You will have to collect income from developments, build public works and steal money from your neighbors' safes. Just make sure they don't do the same to you! Machi Koro is a fast game for 2-4 players. Each player wants to develop the city on their own terms to complete all the under-construction sights faster than their rivals. In turn, players roll one or two dice. If the sum of rolls matches the number of a building a player owns, they gain that building's effect; in some cases, opponents will also benefit from your throw (just as you can benefit from theirs). Then, with money in hand, a player can build a landmark or a new building, preferably increasing the prosperity of their city in the future. The first player to build all their landmarks wins!

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A game of tricks where your predictions empty your hand. As a Mayan priest, your role is to interpret the cycles of creation and destruction on the various calendars. Make the most accurate predictions to become the one and only Great Priest. Sacrifice cards and try to win corresponding tricks to prove your worth!

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Reiner Knizia's auction game about film production. Over four rounds, players bid on tokens representing real directors, actors, cameras, effects, music, guest stars and agents. These are all placed on the players' film strips to complete the film production. So for example a movie might need 2 actors, but no music or effects and so on. When films are completed, the point value is marked and another strip of film is taken. There are two sides each round, where players can choose from offers without paying anything. There are bonus points for the first completed films and the best films, the best directors, even the worst film. The auction continues until one winning bid remains. Players pay into the pot with contracts, and the rest of the players share the pot each turn. So it's a closed economy where players try to time bidding for what they really need to complete movies.

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After millennia of infertility, life has returned to Rauha. As a venerable Shaman, one of his five worlds has been entrusted to you. Your powers are divine and allow you to shape the environment to make this world a cradle of life energy, a guardian of serenity and harmony for centuries to come. Get the most victory points to win the game. You have 2 Ages to transform your world into an energetic core of Rauha. In Age 1, vegetation, terrain and wildlife will appear. In Age 2, civilizations will flourish.

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The Gig is a game in which players are members of a jazz group who improvise their way through a song, competing to take the spotlight and please the crowd while creating amazing solos! The game consists of six rounds, also called "numbers". In each song, players count down, roll and place dice in real time to get symbols and create patterns. When a player has placed all four of his dice, he shouts "Take it to the bridge!" and other players must stop rerolling and place the remaining dice. After all the dice have been placed, players can add the shape their dice have formed to their instrument's unique solo board, which offers a different challenge and method of scoring. Players can use symbols obtained from the number and their solo boards to quickly change their dice, save them for end-of-game scoring, or spend them to purchase audience cards, each representing a newly acquired fan that gives you a different way to score points at the end of the game. After the six-song setlist has been played, the player with the most points earned from their solo, audience cards, harmonies and symbol sets wins.

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You lead a great civilization at the height of its influence, but can you save it from collapse? In Empire's End, 2-4 players battle to keep disaster at bay. Empire's End combines the intuitive and elegant mechanics of reverse bidding with engine building, long-term planning and strategic depth. The result is a fast-paced game with abundant tension and multiple challenging paths to victory. Players start with a civilization at the height of its power. The game progresses through a series of stages that vary as you progress through the game. During the Disaster Phase, players face a common threat, such as famine, a flood, or barbarians. The player who ends the bidding must take the ramp, which destroys one of their territories. With every disaster that strikes an empire, its people grow in wisdom and resilience. In the manner of the modern classic game "No Thanks", the resources offered by all players will ultimately accrue to the player who ultimately takes the disaster card. That player will also gain a new ability, an innovation that reflects their empire's adaptability in times of challenge. Each turn, players move along a progression track that determines whether they face a disaster or another type of stage. Players can obtain new resources during production phases, rebuild lost territories during industry phases, and challenge each other during military phases. At the end of the progress track, the game ends and the winner is the civilization with the most victory points. Intact areas contribute to points, but innovations and military successes can provide alternative ways to win.

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Do you have what it takes to defend Valeria? For more than a month, the monstrous creatures have surrounded your fortress near the southern border of Valeria with hordes of monsters and mighty war machines. Your supplies are almost depleted, but you have mobilized your soldiers and holy troops to meet the enemy's final attack. If you cannot break the siege within seven days, your fortress will fall and the southern border will collapse. Siege of Valeria is a fast-paced survival game where players must defend their castle against waves of monstrous enemies. You'll use cards and dice to defeat the attack, and it's essential that you find clever ways to combine your forces!

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Welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1980: a vibrant city of music, food and magic. Neon lights flicker in dirty puddles along Bourbon Street; the innovations of the modern world collide with old and terrible traditions; and murder is never far away. Staffed with a roster of brilliant, colorful, and ultimately flawed private investigators, the Beaumont Agency specializes in solving cases that no one else can crack. In The Dark Quarter, an app-based cooperative adventure game set in the dark 1980s New Orleans, players each take control of a Beaumont cop and work together to solve the worst crimes New Orleans has to offer. It is a world full of magic, where curses are sold on every street corner, where voodoo priestesses and creatures of the night lurk, and where even the most mundane crimes have a hint of the supernatural. Through multi-scenario campaigns, the game tells a rich, dynamic story and invites players to make crucial decisions that not only affect their characters, but also change the direction and course of the story. The characters are not simple avatars that can be easily moved from scenario to scenario; instead, they are woven into the core of the story itself. Their fate and the fate of New Orleans are inextricably linked.

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Ecosystem is a card-drafting game in which players choose cards and place them in their playing area turn by turn. The cards in a player's playing area form their own personal ecosystem, and at the end of the game a player will have twenty cards in their ecosystem, with the game containing eleven types of cards. Bears score by being placed next to bees and trout; trout score by being placed next to streams and dragonflies; and at the end of the game the flows are compared with each other, with the player who has the largest flow earning points. These are just a few examples of how scoring works in Ecosystem. Don't forget to diversify!

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The great Pharaoh Mino has died, and rule passes to his eldest son: Pharaoh Mido. Unhappy with the plain appearance of the pyramid in which his father was buried, Mido turns his attention to his own legacy. He wants his final resting place to better reflect his majesty and has ordered that 2-4 architects build pyramids set with jewels: a "pyramido". The architect who builds the most impressive pyramido will be appointed Vizier and will enjoy wealth and power beyond imagination. Pyramido is a tile placement game in which each stage of the pyramid creates connections. Players take turns taking dominoes from the available selection to build their pyramid. To maximize their points, players must match the jewel icons on the dominoes and place their markers of the same color to activate the scoring areas. Each choice of a domino and its placement has a significant impact, as the previous stages influence the entire game.

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Sub Terra II: Inferno's Edge is a cooperative adventure board game. You and up to five friends must explore a temple inside a volcano to steal a legendary artifact. To obtain it, you must find your way to the inner sanctum, unravel its secrets, and then escape via the path you took. This is a dangerous place. You will have to work together as a team to avoid deadly traps, brave the burning lava and defeat the mysterious guardians of the temple. Stick together to share your skills, or split up to cover more ground. But be warned - the volcano is stirring beneath you, and time is running out... In Sub Terra II: Inferno's Edge, players gradually reveal new tiles as they form the board, mapping the volcanic temple from its sunlit entrance to its flaming core. As players explore the temple, they will have to overcome obstacles, avoid dangerous terrain, and face the fierce guardians of the 'artifact'. During each player's turn, after they complete their actions, a random hazard is activated, making careful action planning essential for survival. Players must collectively find and obtain 3 'keys', mysterious objects needed to access the room containing the legendary artifact. Your adventures must be short, however, because the volcano is stirring and as the game progresses, the volcanic eruption approaches, turning tiles into completely inhospitable lava flows that will drive the adventurers out of the cave.

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With the rising sun the songbirds start to sing. In this magical forest, the loudest songbirds claim the ripest berries and the best nesting sites. As a forest spirit, you help your favorite songbird color survive in secret. Each turn you place a songbird with a specific volume in the forest. The volume of each songbird is added to those of the same color in rows and columns. The songbird color with the loudest volume wins the token in that row or column. In the event of a tie, the songbird color with the second loudest volume wins. When the entire forest is filled with songbirds, you move on to the final score. At the end of the game, you reveal the last remaining Songbird card in your hand. This is your favorite songbird and you score the points that the songbird color has collected in tokens and add the volume of your favorite songbird. The player with the most points wins the game!

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Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery is a cooperative combat action board game. You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to battle his collection of skags, bandits, and assorted psychopaths. You can play a standalone battle full of explosions, carnage explosions, sauce explosions and loot explosions! Or play a series of deadly battles in campaign mode where your Vault Hunter improves between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear, develop your character with unique skills, equip epic new weapons, and enter the next game as an even bigger BADASS than before! Just make sure you're strong enough to take on the final boss, an Ultimate Killing Machine, who's determined to send you back to the Borderlands as moist and meaty skag snacks.

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No one can remember when the Empire's regime began. They say it will never end, that resistance is impossible... but no one has ever prepared like the Uprising. They have secretly planned, gathered intelligence and sowed discord in the Districts. However, the Empire has countless advantages and will confront the Rebellion with its full might. The revolution starts now. In Unrest, two players face off in the asymmetrical battle for control of five City Districts. Can the Uprising complete their missions and overthrow the regime? Or will the Empire continue to rule?

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Tucana Builders is a sequel to the award-winning Trails of Tucana. Place tiles on spaces that match the revealed terrain tile to connect animals to corresponding huts. All connections that score in round 1 will score again in round 2. So will you go for high scores in round 1, or will you try to create smart intersections for long-term benefits? Tucana Builders is an easy to learn game for those who enjoy challenging tile games.

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Will you be able to cross the universe and join one of the Orion Nebulas? Along the way you will encounter black holes that weaken you to death, or galaxies that make you stronger. Plan your maneuvers well, because every move you make can give your opponent the opportunity to get closer to victory. Your tiles have two colors: yours in the majority, but also the color of your opponent. Try to connect your tiles cleverly without giving away too many opportunities. You can win in 3 different ways: by connecting 2 opposite sides of the board with an unbroken chain of hexagons in your color; by collecting 4 Galaxy Pieces on connected hexagons of your color; or by letting your opponent get 3 Black Hole Pieces on connected hexagons of his/her color. Note all 3 options! Don't let anything escape your attention...

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Everyone knows the pyramids on the Nile - eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture that can still take our breath away. The players (leaders of a royal Egyptian family) choose their locations, build their pyramids and thank Amun-Re and the other gods for their bounty. In Amun-Re all the pharaohs want to build the most pyramids. To achieve this, they must first acquire a province where they can trade and farm. With their profits they can buy new provinces and building blocks to build pyramids. For all their actions, players must make smart use of their power cards and always make appropriate sacrifices to Amun-Re.

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Every wizard knows that the best ingredients for spells are freshly grown. Unfortunately, there is only one patch of land in the area that is really suitable for growing magical plants. Everyone agrees to share the garden, but you have a plan. Your faithful fairies use the powers of the plants to infiltrate the garden as it grows. Then when everything is in bloom, the best spots will be yours! In this luxurious version you will find even nicer components!

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Thousands of years ago, towards the end of the Ice Age, people once again lived on fertile land. But a new challenge awaits! The ice is still melting, and that fertile land will soon be under water. All living things must escape to the mountains. Your engravings and cave paintings will stand the test of time, and the skills you have honed will be passed on to your descendants. It is up to you to leave your "footprints on the ground" for generations to come. Maneuver your clan through difficult terrain, hone your skills to progress more efficiently, gather the necessary resources, create cave paintings and engravings at key locations, and use your leader to inspire your clan beyond their limits as you attempt to reach the cairns on the horizon Reach before time runs out... Footprints is a competitive game with asymmetrical player forces (each player has their own clan deck) and a variable design through a modular game board. Your skills in route planning, skill improvement (engine building) and hand management will increase your chances of winning the game. The game can be played solo.

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Easter is just around the corner and egg hunts are always a favorite for children and adults alike. Jump into the adventure with the Easter Quest and become the fastest egg hunter in the game! In Easter Quest you have to try to collect as many egg coins as possible. At the start of a turn, a card corresponding to an egg coin is revealed. All eggs seem to look the same, but they are actually slightly different from each other. The faster you find the right egg coin, the more likely you are to collect it. The one who collects the most eggs at the end of the game wins!

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In 3000 Scoundrels: Double or Nothing, the hidden potential of the Traveler's technology has been unlocked, making his gadgets more valuable than ever before. Technologies now grant unique abilities that can be customized with transparent cards, offering 270 different combinations to discover! New jobs and abilities double the number of possible villains to 6,000, while debts, quirks, and new locations offer more strategic depth and drama than ever before. A fully-fledged standalone mode also allows players to experience the game alone against 4 engaging opponents.

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Shape rooms using numbers. Then use the rooms' special abilities to score the most points. There are 4 unique levels (each with their own rules), and each time you play you use a random set of 4 of the 12 possible skills. This creates new challenges with every game. House of Cats is a fast and clever roll-and-write game, and the first joint design from seasoned designers William Attia and Kristian A Østby.

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Ships of Akarios is a set of miniatures used to complement the Stars of Akarios game. The miniature models are used to replace the standees that come with the game. The miniatures provide players with a visual representation of their starships while playing the game, which can increase gameplay enjoyment and immersion. This addition gives players a more tangible and realistic experience of their space adventures in the Akarios Galaxy.

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The expansion Revive: Call of the Abyss introduces the mysterious life form Scyphoz, which lives in the gigantic lakes formed by meltwater from the glaciers. Building near lakes earns you devotion points, which gives you access to the new and powerful Scyphoz cards. You can also use the 'switch' action to initiate journeys, sending your citizens on missions to earn more devotion points. In addition to 16 Scyphoz cards, 18 Journey cards, 3 Lakes and the Devotion Track, this expansion includes 15 new Machine Tokens, 9 new Citizen cards and four new Tribes, with all content (except the Cordycephians Tribe) compatible with the solo game. The four new tribe boards have an advanced side, and each has its own unique rules, advanced skills and technologies.

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Every ecosystem is a complex combination of living organisms and the environment. Even a small change in one element affects the entire system, but usually equilibrium is quickly restored. However, sometimes a random event leads to the butterfly effect - an unpredictable cascade of changes that can completely transform the entire biosphere. “The Butterfly Effect” expansion offers a new and unique way to play Evolution: New World. New cards, new game modes, new numbers of players - try them out in different combinations! Evolution: New World is required to play.

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Hero: Tales of the Tomes is a card game in which each player takes on the role of a legendary hero and battles each other until only one remains. The gameplay is fast and exciting. With surprising twists and comebacks, you will never truly feel lost. One of the most unique aspects of Hero compared to other card games is that all players play with one shared deck. No prior deck building or card collecting is required. You can just get some friends together, sit down and play a game.

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