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Set sail for an adventurous raid, because it could be your last! Brave danger and adventure as you once again search for the most valuable treasures the Caribbean has to offer. Then quickly find a safe haven to hide precious gold, rare emeralds and pearls with a dazzling shine. Explore, collect cargo, hire crew, take over rival ships, but don't forget to bury your loot. As you sail, you look for a place to settle down after your life on the high seas has come to an end. It won't be easy... You'll have to outrun your opponents, because one trip around the Caribbean won't be enough. You must make three voyages to retire as the richest and greatest pirate of all time. Pirates of Maracaibo is a standalone game in the same franchise as the popular game Maracaibo (2019). Players familiar with Maracaibo will recognize some beloved concepts from the original. However, new players can jump right in without any prior knowledge of the original game, as Pirates of Maracaibo is an independent game with a more accessible set of rules. The game takes place over three rounds; sail through the Caribbean, hire crew, join other ships, explore the coast, collect the most treasures and retreat to a remote island as the most revered pirate in history.

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The Magical Clans prepare for a new era. Evenfall is the time when the boundaries of reality blur and the supernatural awakens. The World Tree opens its glowing gates to unknown faraway realms. Send Witches from your clan to discover and master new Places of Power. Use them for dark Rituals and battle for the favor of the Power Stones. But there is only one place on the Enchanted Throne! Do you have the skills to lead the world into a new era? Evenfall is a card-driven game, with both new and familiar mechanics for 1 to 4 players. Manage your resources, execute your actions efficiently, and discover card and action synergies that generate victory points. The game ends after three rounds and the player with the most victory points wins.

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With a group of pioneers, you have left civilization behind to settle on the shores of Boonlake, a long-forgotten region inhabited by humans long ago. This unexplored area beckons to you! Become part of a new community and work for the common good. Explore the landscapes, build houses and settlements, breed livestock, produce resources and develop infrastructure. Do your best to automate these processes. Take the opportunity to make the most of your new life in Boonlake. Boonlake is an expert game where you'll find yourself improving your life - and that of your group - in this new area... but how you do this is entirely up to you! Thanks to a new action mechanism, every game is different. Each action must be carefully considered, as the other players also benefit from the action you choose. In addition, the action determines how far you can move your ship - the further and faster, the better! The Games Friends: "Boonlake is once again a strong game by Alexander Pfister. It may not beat Maracaibo and CloudAge, but it is also cleverly put together. We think the coolest element is the processing of raw materials, which you can use with a boat to collect. Highly recommended for the expert player!"

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CloudAge is a strategy game by Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender. The award-winning authors have created a dark and dystopian world for 1 to 4 players. Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" set fire to numerous oil production sites and burned down large forests to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental disaster had disastrous consequences for the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel in your airships above the parched landscape in search of a better life. You visit cities, send out drones to collect resources and fight Cloud militias. An innovative sleeving mechanism enables a new, more immersive form of resource collection. Players try to predict which (cloud-covered) terrain will contain the desired amount of resources or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships or recruit new crew members. CloudAge is a mix of engine building, deck building and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to get started playing quickly, as new elements are introduced into the game all the time. As you play, you experience and help guide the story. If you want, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as separate scenarios. The Games Friends: " Alexander Pfister has done it again. He has once again come up with a super cool game that plays wonderfully smoothly and offers enough variety. The ongoing story is a nice addition and keeps you coming back for a new chapter. A big, big tip! ”

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Making the perfect coffee: that's your job as a coffee roaster in this single-player game. In a playing time of 10-30 minutes you need the right touch and a good nose to utilize the full potential of the coffee beans. To start, it is important to roast the coffee beans (which are still hard) evenly and filter out any unpleasant bits. At the same time, make sure you stop the burning at the right time. Then the roasted beans are processed and finally the decisive cup test takes place: will it be the creation of a true master roaster?

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The Middle Ages: in Orléans and the surrounding area, each player puts together his own entourage of farmers, traders, knights, monks, etc. You desperately need your followers and their qualities to expand your power, either by trading, as a professional or in service of science. Knights ensure that you can perform more actions and they are also much needed to guide trading journeys. In the village you can find craftsmen who help build trading houses and make tools. Scholars are important because they make scientific progress. Finally, it doesn't hurt to be active in the monastery, because with the help of monks you are less at the mercy of fate. You always want to perform more actions than you can and there are many paths to your goal. The trick is to choose a combination from the different game elements that best suits your strategy. The Games Friends: “Orléans is a strategic board game that is fun to play. All actions are very well balanced, so you can win in many different ways. Highly recommended if you are a fan of a very good bag builder!”

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The official playmat for Pirates of Maracaibo! The playmat includes the game's Caribbean map layout, which significantly aids in game setup and play. Moreover, it enhances the Caribbean feeling on the table with its cool appearance. In general, this playmat can also be used with the alternative card layouts. Made from thick 2mm neoprene with stitched edges, this play mat will stand the test of time. Measuring 59x44 cm, the play mat is supplied in a cardboard display box.

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The residents of Orléans have been hit hard; the plague has overtaken them and brings suffering and misery to the population. Many have died, and even the plague doctor can only bring limited relief and hope to the long-suffering residents. The church also has little to offer when it comes to lighting. And so in the end everyone is on their own and everyone must try to protect their followers as best as possible... Right at the start of the game, conditions are made more difficult by the "rat cards". Sometimes there are fewer monks in the game, sometimes no cogs can be placed on place cards or the construction of trading stations must be paid for with an extra coin. New events are now also linked to the "corpse tokens", a certain number of which players must place in their pocket at the end of each round. These are then randomly drawn from the bag at the start of the round and take up valuable space on the marketplace as they cannot be used for actions. To get rid of it for good, a player can fulfill indulgence cards through pilgrimage, donations, or other conditions, which also grant victory points at the end of the game. Fortunately, each player has a "plague doctor", a new figure that is available (almost) every round and can be used universally.

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Maracaibo is the new strategic game by Alexander Pfister and is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century. In the game, players try to increase their influence in three countries, over a total of four rounds. The players sail through the Caribbean, delivering goods and carrying out actions. In addition, there is also a narrative element in the game, which makes every game different.

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In Boonlake: Artifacts, send your treasure hunters out to find treasure and mysterious artifacts on a new map. Have you always wondered why there are vases scattered around Boonlake? Recent findings show that they are filled to the brim with Variable Atomic System Energy, or VASE for short. Put your found vases into the new artifacts and gain an advantage in victory.

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The year is 1598 and you have settled in the center of France, in the city of Orléans on the Loire. Your goal is clear: to build the Cathedral of Orleans, and you must all do it together, because only together can you take on this challenge! The Cathedral of Orleans is a cooperative game for the whole family that is particularly suitable when adults and children play together. To carry out the actions, the followers who are already known from Orléans are used. But they come in two different bags and the question is always: which bag should I pull from to get the tile I want? You therefore also have to remember which tiles go into which bag at the end of the round. Consultation is not only permitted, it is necessary to work together to develop the strategy as effectively as possible. And time is always running out: the cathedral must be completed no later than the third round, because if a tile can no longer be placed on another action, it must end up in the bell tower and the round ends. Quite an exciting affair that can make even the shrewdest strategist sweat.

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Remember Our Trip is a board game in which players create a map of a city they have visited together. After returning to your home country, you and the other players have come together to try to summon the map of Kyoto or Singapore (depending on which game board you choose). You must piece together the map's landscape using fragments of your memories, earning bonus points if your memory matches that of the motherboard and other players. In the game, each player has an individual image board, while everyone shares a common card board. Each of the game's twelve rounds begins with the unveiling of a "memory card", which shows one of six patterns that players can build on their image board using image tokens they draw up. Over several rounds, you collect image tokens side by side, and when you have the right tokens in the right shape, you suddenly "remember" the building that matches the shape and image, placing that building on the shared common card and scoring points. You can additionally score points for completing buildings with picture tokens that correspond to buildings that others have memorized, i.e., that they have previously placed on the common board. You remember that building now too! Each player also has objective cards and photo memory cards, and you can score points by satisfying them. If you can't fit all your image fragments into the game, you'll lose points for scattered thoughts. For more difficult play, you can use the 7x6 area on the Kyoto or Singapore game board instead of the normal 7x7 area.

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The siege is over. Now is the time to restore prosperity to the city through lucrative trade. However, everyone has different interests and intrigues are forged to eliminate opponents... Trade Orders: The 2nd expansion for ORLÉANS introduces trade orders that can help you make your fortune. This offers a completely new strategy, where you try to deliver goods to certain cities before your opponents. Intrigue: Watch out, meanie! Just like with the good deeds, you can place followers on the 'Intrigue' board, where various dark types can help you thwart your opponents' plans. New Events: Trade, progress and everyday life are affected by many new events. The uncertainty of whether and when events will take place gives the game a new boost. New good deeds: The new 'good deeds' board offers many possibilities. Here you can obtain essential goods, technique tokens and even actions, if you place the right followers.

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This is the first major expansion for Orléans. Get to know Orléans from new perspectives! Six different scenarios give you new ways to play the game – solo, cooperatively or against each other. 'Prosperity' expands the basic game with a carpenter and construction projects that earn extra points and during “The Siege” 2 or more players must work together to repel the attack. 'The Duel' is a scenario for 2 players and challenges them to get the best out of themselves in a battle between two merchants. 'The Dignitary' is a solo scenario in which you, in the role of a dignitary, try to gather as many citizens around you as possible. 'Capital Vierzon' is another solo scenario in which you are challenged to develop Vierzon into the capital of the region. 'The Traveling Salesman' is another solo scenario in which the player travels around the country as a trader, delivering precious goods to far-flung places.

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You are responsible for the economic and social development of a city. However, with Rise you must always keep the well-being of your citizens in mind. Because industrial progress often goes hand in hand with environmental pollution, and the income needed for further development is often derived from tax or rent increases, this quickly leads to discomfort among the population... Variable tracks, actions and events - all this leads to a multitude of possibilities that can trigger chain reactions. All this makes Rise an exciting and ever-changing gaming experience that is difficult to calculate even for absolute strategy fans!

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The Canadian province of Manitoba is wild, fascinating and almost without borders: countless lakes, majestic mountains, a vast tundra in the north and endless prairies in the south. Manitoba is a country whose name is directly derived from Manitou, the great creative spirit of the American natives. In Manitoba, players become clan leaders of the Cree tribe and try to become the leader of them all, but this is not easy as they have to deal with the capriciousness of nature and provide both material and spiritual wealth for their clans. As the seasons progress, there are a few things everyone needs to consider: When and where do I plan to be active on Manitoba's hunting grounds? Or would it be better now to emphasize spiritual development and walk on mystical paths? How can I exchange and exploit my resources smartly? Players can also manipulate the totem's wooden checkers to greatly influence the abilities of all players. Many situations require wise decisions...

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Number of players: 2 - 4 players Game time: 60 - 180 minutes Age: From 12 years Publisher: DLP Games Language: English, German Orléans Stories is based on the bag-building mechanic of Orléans, where this mechanism has been further developed into a story in which players go through different eras and face different challenges. Instead of focusing on the city of Orléans and trading with the surrounding villages, the player now settles in the Loire Valley. Players must produce resources, establish villages and build forts and churches. They will experience times of prosperity and success, but also times of hardship; they must brave famine and plague, fight for their country, and perhaps conquer foreign lands to secure the lives of their colonists. But in the end there is peace and joint governance of territories and villages. The game contains two stories: "The First Kingdom" and "The King's Favor". “The First Kingdom” is an epic story that spans eight so-called eras, and each era has different terms and emphases. Sometimes knights settle, with whose help you can conquer foreign territories, sometimes the plague threatens to decimate the population of settlers, unless they all worked together to develop medicine. "The King's Favor" is shorter, simpler, and more suitable as an introduction to the game. In five eras, certain tasks must be completed and those who do not will be mercilessly dropped. The threat of having to end the game prematurely provides a constant thrill, but all tasks are achievable, so (usually) all players make it to the end. But you certainly shouldn't just focus on these tasks... it takes more to win! The different eras influence both the game parameters and the rules of the game, creating new strategic possibilities. This challenges players to constantly adapt to current circumstances, giving you the impression of experiencing a story. The legacy game is replayable and you can play it as many times as you want. The changes from era to era require a new way of seeing things from a distance, but this is made easier by a storybook where players will find not only all the relevant information and quirks of rules, but also hints on how to prepare.

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Orléans Stories Erweiterung is an expansion for Orléans Stories that contains two new stories. In the third story, "The Settlers", you go back to the beginning of the settlement around Orléans. The hardworking farmers gradually expand their settlements with the help of old acquaintances such as craftsmen, monks and scholars, and they only experience minor skirmishes, which slightly affect their otherwise peaceful lives. A story for everyone who likes the silent construction without major outside disturbances. The fourth story, "England vs. France", is quite different from the previous one: the age-old feud between these two countries serves as the basis for the clashes between the teams. There are exactly four players involved, two of them play for France, the other two for England. But who is who? This secret is only revealed during the course of the game and often the surprise is great because one has bet on another competitor. Now it's time to quickly complete the common task and hope that the secret messages will also contribute to the victory to ultimately prevail.

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