Welt von Arzium

Above and Below is a mix between city building and storytelling. In the game you send your villagers to do things like explore the cave, harvest resources and build houses. Each villager has unique powers and you will have to decide how best to use them.

Read more less

In Near and Far you look for the lost ruin with the various maps. You do this by hiring adventurers, searching for treasure and becoming the most experienced traveler. You need to gather food and equipment for the long journey and don't forget to bring enough weapons to fight against criminals, living statues and rusty robots. Sometimes you come across something special during your travels and you have to read what happens to you in a book full of stories. This way you create a different story every game. The Games Friends: “ Are you looking for a narrative board game that you can keep playing? Then Near and Far is highly recommended. In Near and Far you will find many different ways to play. You can go through a campaign, you can discover your character's story and you can play stand-alone scenarios. That way you can continue playing this game. As far as we are concerned, Near and Far is therefore very cool!”

Read more less

Arzium is a world of ancient civilizations, bizarre characters, inexplicable wonders and colorful characters. A strange substance has spread into the air in the land, causing all types of characters to wander around in a dazed and disorganized manner. It's your job to find and wake up the wandering characters. Once you've found and awakened them, take them with you to search for even more lost characters in the realm of Arzium! The game is played in turns. The starting player starts. Then play continues clockwise. On your turn, you use the pattern of an available character to place travel stones in the playing area. Place your travel stones in the playing area in the shape and orientation indicated on the character's banner. Then turn the card over. You should place all the pattern's travel stones in the playing area, if possible. Blank squares on the playing card do not have to fit in the playing area. If there is already a travel marker of yours or another player on a space, you skip that space. You must place all other travel stones. If at the beginning of your turn all your characters are face down in front of you, you may reactivate the characters. Turn over all cards and proceed with the rest of your turn as normal. At the end of your turn you may purchase one of the face-up artifacts. Pay the number of coins indicated on the artifact tile. Place the tile face up in your personal playing area. Take a new artifact tile from the stack and place it in the row. A player may own an unlimited number of artifacts, but you can purchase a maximum of one artifact per turn. Artifacts have special actions. When you use the special action of an artifact in your personal play area, you turn the artifact over (image down). If at the end of a turn the 6 spaces of a playing card in the playing area are completely filled with travel stones, the playing card is completed. The wandering character has been found! The game continues until a player has 10 playing cards in his personal playing area. The 3 starting cards count. Complete the round so that all players have had the same number of turns. All players add up the points of their playing cards and artifact tiles (if played with them). The player with the most points in total wins the game. In the event of a tie, the tied player with the most coins wins. If there is still a tie after that, the tied players will share the victory. The Games Friends: "Roam is a surprisingly cool card game with many tactical choices. Every round you use a character and with that you can place stones. Because there is a new character on the back of all the cards, you build a nice machine . Recommended!"

Read more less

Far south of The Last Ruin lies a clifftop village called The Monument. For generations it protected an ancient shrine until the day a crystal meteorite fell. The inhabitants of the meteor slowly crept into the world - bizarre monsters from a nightmare, attacking everyone in their path. As they spread across the land, there was no intelligent malice or grand invasion strategy; the creatures behaved like a fungus and sporadically spread into new territory. After many fruitless attempts to drive away the monsters, the people of The Monument fled as their village collapsed, banished to distant lands, resigned to a nomadic existence. Twenty years later, there are rumors that the bizarre monsters are becoming weak. They are slower, less impervious to attack, some undergo gradual petrification until they crumble into dust. Is it the atmosphere? Do they die of old age? Are they suffering from some strange disease? No one knows for sure, but as word spreads, various factions have their eyes on the vacant, ruined village of The Monument. The original villagers, now refugees, are desperate to return and rebuild. But they have to do it quickly, before someone else claims their home. This is their chance. It is now or never. In Now or Never, you and up to three friends compete to rebuild your ancestral village as best you can and guide the rest of the villagers on their journey home. Although the meteorite creatures have lost much of their power, many of them remain, and you must fight them to protect traveling villagers. Now or Never is the third game in the Arzium storybook series that includes Above and Below and Near and Far. Now or Never is a competitive strategy game that allows you to: Choose one of four asymmetrical characters to play. Rebuild the village so returning villagers have a place to live. You must carefully choose what and where to build to maintain an advantage and reap the greatest rewards for long-term planning. Collaborate with other players by hiring their specialists to perform special actions. Fight dangerous creatures to save villagers. Explore a fantasy landscape full of bizarre places, technology and peoples. Now or Never features two game modes: standard and story. When playing in story mode, you read from a storybook as you explore, make choices, and learn more about the characters and world. Each character has their own set of stories, unique to the locations they explore and diverse in plot, perspective and motif, allowing you to choose the direction your own story will take. Travel to the monument and help rebuild your old house!

Read more less

This expansion adds a gem board that each player receives at the start of the game. Players can then collect gems during their turn that can be placed on spaces on the gem card. At the end of the game, completed gem patterns on the gem card give the player extra points. The Games Friends: This is really an expansion that doesn't cost anything, but still adds something to the game. With this expansion you can play it in a different way and that feels fresh. Highly recommended for fans of the basic game!

Read more less

On your turn you can either take a specialist action or a hero action. Specialists are friendly creatures that can perform a specific action for you. And the hero is you. When you perform a hero action you must first move, and then you can visit a location and perform the action depicted on it, fight a monster or investigate a location. In the introduction you do this by turning over a chip, but you can also play 6 chapters where you read the stories from a storybook and can make choices that have all kinds of different consequences for the game. You can also get missions in this game, and when you complete them you can hand them in at a location for the rewards. Combat is simple in Now or Never, but with a twist. You have four slots for attacks, which you can upgrade during the game. During a battle you roll a D4, and that determines which attack you perform. In addition, you have four slots for permanent bonuses that always apply to a battle. Monsters only have an HP value, an attack value, and a reward when you defeat them. By upgrading these slots you can make your character strong for battles. And if you win a battle, you often gain experience, which you can use to unlock those stronger attacks. Each character has a unique set of attacks. But this is only one of the pillars of the game. You are also given an empty village board at the start of the game, on which you can build buildings for villagers to live in. You will need this for the production of goods, which you need to pay for those buildings, for example. And you can sell goods for money, with which you can, for example, buy specialists. You also sometimes need goods for mission cards and always for orders. You will also be adventuring around the board a lot to visit the different locations where you can trade resources, lives, coins, mission cards, experience, orders and other aspects of the game for each other in certain proportions. So you can specialize in fighting monsters, in researching locations, in building buildings, in populating your village, in attracting specialists, or in making mission cards and/or orders. But you already feel it coming, you are never going to be good at doing everything, you will have to make choices... After six rounds the game is over. You then have to throw away all your money and all your resources, and then it is checked how good the engine you have built is. You then produce again (just like every round), and you can then sell your produced resources for money. Each coin then translates into a victory point, which you add to your other victory points from buildings, missions and orders to determine the winner. You can play a chapter separately or knit it together in a campaign, where your reputation is also tracked during the entire campaign. You can also play underground on the back of the board, and finally a solo mode is also included.

Read more less

Organize your board game and set up games in no time with the inserts from Folded Space! All parts have their own place, so you never lose anything again and the containers with small parts can simply be placed on the table as general stock! Folded Space has a lot of inserts for a lot of different games. You can find all the Folded Space inserts here . The inserts are made of evacore and you can easily assemble them yourself with wood glue. You can use this glue for example. Curious how to do that? You can find the manuals for the Folded Space products on their website or in the packaging of the product.

Read more less