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In an ocean world, even enemies have to play fair. You and your rival battle for control of the Four Fleets, the last remnant of ancient Earth. Make shrewd deals, build stable ground and clean the ocean. Then you will truly run Seastead! With the survival of humanity at stake, sabotaging your rival would endanger too much! So in Seastead, many of your actions will also help your opponent; you just have to make sure you don't help them too much. Each turn you either dive to gain resources or build a building from your player mat with your resources. When you dive, you draw a card with two different resource pools to choose from, with the resources you don't choose going to your opponent! When you build a building, you add it to one of the four central flotilla tiles to unlock bonuses and abilities - just try to use them before your opponent can! Seastead features double-sided flotilla tiles, a variety of special cards and multiple building paths to create endless strategies to explore!

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Meeple Towers is a strategic and abstract building game. Players take turns playing action cards that allow you to add workers or new parts to the building. The more you build, the more points you score. The builder with the most points wins!

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Pauly has fallen out of his nest! Slightly dizzy, Pauly regains consciousness on the ground, surrounded by masses of glittering feathers. In Featherlight you have to help Pauly get his collection of feathers back in order. Each feather card in your hand can score points, depending on what you have in your hand and which feathers are in the nest at the end of the game. Each color feather has the same scoring conditions, with slight variations from feather to feather. Some want sets of feathers, while others want an odd or even number of feathers of a certain color. The more complex the card is to score, the more points you can earn. During the game you swap cards to influence both your hand and the central nest, perhaps taking a card that an opponent wants. The game ends as soon as the last card has been drawn from one of the two draw piles. Players choose to play a single game or a three-game "Pauly's Feather Tournament."

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In Damage Control, each player leads a rival cleanup crew tasked with finding and securing the dangerous artifacts and technologies lying in the rubble. Each rubble card represents a powerful item. Notable relics include Doc Ock's severed tentacles, damaged Ultron Drones, crystals and more! You use your deck of Damage Control operatives to demolish, reveal, and collect the rubble cards in search of valuable items, which you then add to your deck. You can use the items' powerful properties to make your deck stronger and more effective or send them to your vault for safe keeping and earn victory points. But be careful! Only the items in your vault will ultimately earn you points, so don't keep them for too long! As a member of the organization responsible for processing the destruction zone, you will also have to deal with various claimants - people who show up after the battle to complain about the traffic or to clean up after themselves. Some citizens are just hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the heroes or villains involved! Heroes such as Captain America, Shang-Chi, Black Widow and more appear in the form of the Character Deck. These heroes give effects and victory points to the Damage Control teams that manage to call on their help. The game also contains four modules: Mighty Asgard, Mystical Manipulation, Pym Tech and Vibranium Synthesis. For each game you choose two modules that you can combine with the standard Rubble and Character decks, allowing you to create different stories, strategies and game options! As the Marvel Universe's leaders in cleanup and rebuilding, your team is sure to crush the competition!

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A gruesome murder has been committed! The body of old miser McGreedy hasn't even been buried yet and the murder suspects are already trying to divide his fortune. Was it his son? The nervous girl? The shady business partner? Or the strangely nonchalant butler? Can you catch the culprit before time runs out? Turbo Sleuth is a puzzle game where players simultaneously compete to find the solution to the round's challenge. Choose one of five cases to solve, with dozens of possible solutions depending on which cards are drawn. Quickly search for the right clues, some of which may look good at first glance, but lead you astray...

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I, Dr. Schism, have a sinister mind and no evil body, and leave one legacy to my subordinates. The gift of small conflicts! Bequest is a super-genius mix of drafting, set collection and I Cut-You Choose mechanics, where players must use all their wits to outsmart their opponents, and come away with most of Dr.'s legacy. Schism! Each round, each player is dealt a hand of five cards to deal with their neighbor, which is part of Dr. Schism represents. It could be treasure, gadgets, the deeds to hideouts, or even evidence of his misdeeds! You decide how to distribute the 5 cards, but distribute them wisely as your neighbor decides who gets which pile! Will you tempt them with the gadget they collect, hoping they'll take some damning evidence with it? Do you offer them 4 of the 5 cards so they give you the only item you really need? While you wait for them to decide, you have your own choice to make among the card piles distributed by your other neighbor. It seems clear which pile they want you to choose - should you choose the other? Or maybe that's what the dastardly villain always wanted! Each Asset type has a unique way to score points as you collect. There are also keys, which in themselves don't give you anything, but allow you to unlock one of Dr.'s powerful special assets. Schism can be drawn up. These include connections to his Lackeys, who can help you with powerful one-off effects, or blueprints for his ingenious schemes, giving you new ways to score! But beware: if you only pay attention to your neighbors, one of the villains on the other side of the table may beat you to the special asset you need! Bequest features phenomenal illustrations by Fiona Yap, of Dr.'s estate and possessions. Schism, as well as a colorful cast of villains vying to take their place as his heir. Will you be the next great supervillain?

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Lead your tribe to the gates of Mara, portals to realms of pure elemental energy. Encounter powerful Elemental Lords, spread your control and summon colorful magic. Aim for the most influence in each realm so you can establish your tribal claims. JB Howell, co-designer of Flotilla, combines upgradeable worker placement with layered area control in Gates of Mara. You can command reptilian Dragonkin, the amphibious Goblins, the insectoid Antids or the tree Elves. Immersive Art - The world of Mara comes to life through the stunning art of Nastya Lehn. Unique Components - The members of your tribe are represented by standees with uniquely shaped bases, indicating which spaces they can claim. Varied Gameplay - With only two Elemental Lords in play per game and a variable central board, no two games are the same! Place your tribe members strategically around the realms and gates. Enchant your tribe members to give them new skills. Fight for short-term goals, but keep an eye on your influence. Only the player with the most influence can claim the gates of Mara!

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The USS Discovery's ultimate weapon is not its phasers or torpedoes, but its unique propulsion system: the spore drive. Now Discovery has accidentally ended up in the mirror universe, where the previous ISS Discovery has been destroyed. Several members of the ISS Charon want to capture Discovery to use it for their own purposes. In Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert, players divide into teams, with each team representing key members of both the USS Discovery and the ISS Charon crew. Players take turns deploying locations on their ship, navigating the network and attempting to complete missions. One crew tries to return home, while the other team wants to capture their ship. Which team will emerge victorious?

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Marvel: Age of Heroes is an epic strategy game where each player commands a duo of X-Men sent to defeat villains. Your team will collect resources and power-ups before embarking on dangerous missions in one of the game's three uniquely challenging scenarios. The most effective team manages their skills, trains their mutants, and surpasses the competition in the Institute and Mission phases. Scenarios, asymmetrical skills, new skills and scoring conditions all add up to wonderfully high playability! Player heroes are represented by a set of full-color acrylic stands. Teams include favorites like Wolverine and Jubilee, Jean Gray and Cyclops, Forge and Storm, and more! The deck features dozens of iconic X-Men characters and events available through a shared market. As the board and scenarios evolve, so will your characters. Special evolution cards add new skills and scoring conditions.

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In the distant future, a new sport has conquered the world: Giant Mech Battles! Mile-high giants fight over entire city blocks. Rabid fans wear the colors of their favorite team and gather in virtua bars to watch the battles. It's the perfect time for a shrewd gambler to become filthy rich. Even if you have to cheat a little! In Atlantic Robot League, players place bets on the outcome of a massive mecha battle the size of a dozen city blocks! After bets are placed, they get the chance to influence the battle by sliding the Mechs around the arena, eliminating rivals and purchasing Scheme cards from the Insider to change the rules. Particularly crafty gamblers can even pay the Fixer to change their bets during the fight! It is a fast and exciting mech fighting game, where you search for the desired result for a specific team. Occasionally your opponents will help with a shared bet, occasionally they will take out mechs that you need to survive. Since all bets are hidden, you won't know until the end and you might even be able to bluff!

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Jinja is a colorful worker placement game about shrine construction in Japan. You must place workers in key locations around Japan to activate one of thirteen different actions or build in one of seven different areas. To earn top honors, you'll need to plan your strategy wisely and have a bit of luck. Jinja features beautiful artwork and high-quality components, with plastic miniatures representing the shrines, painted meeples, screen-printed score trackers, and a custom multi-colored die. The game board is an illustrated map of Japan, divided into areas with a limited number of temple locations. Over five seasons, players place workers in one of thirteen actions or seven areas as they work toward their various goals. Building a shrine deserves honor and special skills Jinja has high replayability due to variable goals and events. Omikuji, or "fortune," are secret objectives that allow you to earn bonus points if your shrines are in key locations. Kitsune cards are randomly chosen for each game and offer various discounts, bonuses and abilities that change with the seasons. With its breathtaking art, stunning appearance and complex yet accessible thematic gameplay, Jinja is sure to be a game night hit.

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Detective Rummy is a card game for 2 to 4 players, with a narrative element that is revealed in a series of 7 different scenarios. Players take on the role of detectives who compete to solve the cases and gain fame. The story starts at the Rummy Detective Agency and each case takes you to different locations, including the restaurant with the best donuts in town, the cozy Quarter to 3 Bar, a chic fashion store, the most elite jazz nightclub in town and more! The cases in Detective Rummy can be played in two different ways: Campaign Mode and Case Mode. In campaign mode you play all 7 scenarios in a fixed order. In Case Mode you can play Cases 2 through 6 one by one as a standalone Detective Rummy scenario. Since there are new Game Changer cards in each scenario that are discovered in a different order (if at all) each time you play, things will never be resolved the same way twice. You can play both the campaign mode and the individual cases as many times as you want!

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In Last-Second Quest, you and your opponents are archetypal adventurers, with a gridded board representing your backpack staring at a shared pile of items. Each round a quest is revealed with a unique set of required and forbidden items and you only have seconds to fill your save board with as many of the required items as possible while avoiding the forbidden items. Once everyone is ready, take turns defending your choices and scoring based on how well you prepared and how few blanks are left. The best prepared adventurer wins! Fun Social Gameplay: Can you convince your friends that the green stuff at the end of the dagger you packed isn't really poison? Can a hammer be a musical instrument? 15 different classes: Each fantasy class has its own disadvantages and abilities - from the barbarian who cannot use armor but quickly rushes in to collect - to the paladin, who cannot use bad items but wins all the belts. LOTS of great artwork: 60 double-sided item tiles mean there are 120 different detailed, entertaining fantasy items to fit in your backpacks and saddlebags!

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In this new strategy game from Raph Koster and Isaac Shalev, players share the same group of penguins, but score based on how their carefully chosen cards match up with where they managed to get the penguins to end up. Each turn you choose a score card with a goal such as locations with an even number of penguins, with more yellow penguins than red penguins, with a maximum of 5 penguins, or something else! Then you place penguins from your inventory, or take penguins from a single location to move elsewhere. Finally, you score a number of points based on the number of locations that match your scorecard. But be careful! You might move them exactly where your opponents want them!

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