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Space Hulk (Fourth Edition)

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 2

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From the depths of space an ancient vessel drifts slowly towards the Imperium of Mankind - a space hulk. Within its confines untold thousands of Genestealers slowly emerge from hibernation. The Space Marines must enter the cramped corridors and tomb-like chambers of the ancient ship to defeat this alien menace.Space Hulk is a board game for two players recreating the battles fought between the Space Marines and Genestealers. One player commands the Space Marines as they carry out deadly missions in the ancient Space Hulk and the other commands the horde of Genestealers opposing them. Space Hulk's fast-paced rules simulate the tense atmosphere of a mission deep inside the cramped confines of a derelict space hulk where split-second decisions are needed for victory.This new version has 4 extra missions Boarding Torpedoes Damage Control Room Breach Counters (for where the Boarding Torpedoes hit or something else) and a Turbo-lift Tile allowing for multiple levels to clear of Genestealers.Also new for this edition are three mini-campaign packs released for the iPad: -Space Hulk Mission Files: Dark Angels – Bringers of Sorrow -Space Hulk Mission Files: Ultramarines – Duty and Honour -Space Hulk Mission Files: Space Wolves – Return to KalidusEach Mini campaign comprises 3 missions specific to the chapter and rules for creating new missions plus a brief Chapter history.

Quarriors!

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Players take on the roles of Quarriors - mighty mystical warriors who have the power to capture dangerous quarry from the untamed Wilds! They must conjure the mysterious powers of Quiddity cast powerful spells and summon their creatures to battle if they hope to overcome rivals and earn their rightful place as the Champion!Quarriors has the frenetic excitement of a dice battle game with an added ‘deckbuilding’ twist: players customize their dice pools during the game using resources generated by their rolls.Quarriors takes the best of deckbuilding games without the tedium of shuffling. Take a typical deckbuilding game add the speed and fun of dice and in 60 minutes you’re on your second or third game trying unique strategies against your opponents.Alternate Description of QuarriorsIn Quarriors each player plays as a Quarrior competing for Glory in the eyes of Quiana the Empress of Quaridia. Each player starts with an identical set of 12 dice in their dice bag. At the start of the game Creature and Spell dice (Quarry) are dealt at random to form the Wilds in the center of the table. As play progresses players roll their dice to attempt to summon Creatures cast Spells and harness the magical power of Quiddity (the in-game resource) to capture Quarry from the Wilds to add to their repertoire and into their dice bag. Players draw and roll 6 dice a turn from their bag making that controlling bag composition is key to victory.Quarriors is a fast-paced game where players must strategically balance their choices each turn. Do I use my Quiddity to summon Creatures in the hopes of scoring Glory or should I spend it all to capture more powerful Quarry from the Wilds? Players must outmaneuver their opponent's through strategic Spell use the acquisition of powerful Quarry and ultimately by striking down opponent's Creature in combat. If your Creatures survive until your next turn you will score Glory points and move closer to victory!

Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.In this game — which features Wolverine Magneto Cyclops Iceman Psylocke the Sentinels and more — each player fields a superhero team with each hero being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice and a player can purchase dice only from his team. Each hero also has one or more character reference cards which show the special abilities for the characters based on the die rolls. Different versions of these cards will be available in booster packs allowing for more customization of your team. Players use these dice to collect energy recruit new heroes and battle head-to-head. In addition each player brings two basic action cards to the game which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase these cards. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.The Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men starter set comes with 44 custom dice 38 cards two dice bags and a core rulebook. Booster packs include two dice with two matching character cards.

Terrorscape

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2–4

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Deduction Dice Fighting Horror Miniatures

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On a stormy night a couple of unfortunate travelers rushed into an abandoned mansion in the woods to take shelter. But even worse than the merciless rain they have in fact accidentally entered the hunting ground of a bloodthirsty killer…Terrorscape is a team-based asymmetric horror game. You could take the roles of the survivors or the killer. Survivors cooperate to escape the mansion by searching for 5 keys or repairing the radio to make an emergency call. The killer is solely against the survivors. The killer needs to locate the survivors by their noise or by skills and decide how to eliminate them.In a game of survivors you hide under the sight of the killer and be careful that some action may make noise. You can also draw cards to find items in some locations so as to equip yourself well for the fight. Most importantly survivors look for keys or repair the radio to make an emergency call aiming to ultimately escape from the nightmare.On the other side the killer hunts the survivors with unforgiving abilities. The killer needs to manage well your hand to plan for actions: move sense spread fear block doors......etc. When the killers encounter the survivors a battle of life and death begins!With various characters of killers and survivors each match is diversified! Each of the characters has their own skills playstyles and their own miniatures. Killers enjoy your hunt! Survivors play smart and outplay your opponent! Roll a show with blood and fear!—description from publisher

Rex: Final Days of an Empire

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 3–6

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Fighting Negotiation Political Science Fiction

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Game description from the publisher:Rex: Final Days of an Empire a reimagined version of Dune set in Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium universe is a board game of negotiation betrayal and warfare in which 3-6 players take control of great interstellar civilizations competing for dominance of the galaxy's crumbling imperial city. Set 3,000 years before the events of Twilight Imperium Rex tells the story of the last days of the Lazax empire while presenting players with compelling asymmetrical racial abilities and exciting opportunities for diplomacy deception and tactical mastery.In Rex: Final Days of an Empire players vie for control of vital locations across a sprawling map of the continent-sized Mecatol City. Only by securing three key locations (or more when allied with other factions) can a player assert dominance over the heart of a dying empire.Unfortunately mustering troops in the face of an ongoing Sol blockade is difficult at best (unless of course you are the Federation of Sol or its faithless ally the Hacan who supply the blockading fleet). Savvy leaders must gather support from the local populace uncover hidden weapon caches and acquire control over key institutions. Mechanically this means players must lay claim to areas that provide influence which is then spent to (among other things) smuggle military forces through the orbiting Sol blockade. Those forces will be needed to seize the key areas of the city required to win the game. From the moment the first shot is fired players must aggressively seek the means by which to turn the conflict to their own advantage.While the great races struggle for supremacy in the power vacuum of a dead emperor massive Sol warships execute their devastating bombardments of the city below. Moving systematically the Federation of Sol's fleet of warships wreaks havoc on the planet's surface targeting great swaths of the game board with their destructive capabilities. Only the Sol's own ground forces have forewarning of the fleet's wrath; all others must seek shelter in the few locations with working defensive shields...or be obliterated in the resulting firestorm.Although open diplomacy and back-door dealmaking can often mitigate the need for bloodshed direct combat may prove inevitable. When two or more opposing forces occupy the same area a battle results. Each player's military strength is based on the sum total of troops he is willing to expend along with the strength rating of his chosen leader. A faction's leaders can therefore be vitally important in combat...but beware! One or more of your Leaders may secretly be in the employ of an enemy and if your forces in combat are commanded by such a traitor defeat is all but assured. So whether on the field of battle or the floor of the Galactic Council be careful in whom you place your trust.All this along with a host of optional rules and additional variants means that no two games of Rex: Final Days of an Empire will play exactly alike. Contributing further to replayability is the game's asymmetrical faction abilities each of which offer a unique play experience.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–5

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Exploration Fantasy Fighting Nautical Pirates

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Skelit's Revenge....the most feared ship on the high seas....and you've finally taken it. Captain Fromm and his skeleton crew have amassed a massive treasure and now is your chance to take it all. Players take on the role of Pirates who are boarding Skelit's Revenge for one purpose....to take the loot. They must battle the flames the skeleton crew and their own fatigue if they hope to make it out alive.Dead Men Tell No Tales is a co-operative game for 2-5 players. The game uses the common Action Point system to determine what a player does on their turn...with a twist. As players work together they can pass their Actions on to their teammates in order to best utilize the assets that they have. Players will build the board as they play ensuring that no two games will ever be alike. As they search the ship for the Treasure they will encounter Enemies and Guards that they must battle along with various items that will help them in their quest. all the while battling the inferno that resulted when they took over the ship. Unique systems for tracking fire enemy movement and a player’s fatigue all combine into an interesting and unique cooperative gaming experience.Do you and your crew have what it takes to make off with all of the treasure and live to tell the story? Or are you going down with the ship in Dead Men Tell No Tales?

The City of Kings

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting Puzzle

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This world used to be a garden full of life; from the flying Vadora to the deep-dwelling Dwarves – but that was before Vesh came. The world has been lost and only one city remains; the oldest city in the world – and the last refuge for all of us. Now... we fight back.The City of Kings is a co-operative puzzle-based fantasy adventure board game for 1 - 4 players in which your character is tasked with exploring the hazardous world trading for vital resources and battling your enemies whilst uncovering a story of a world imperiled.You start by choosing one of seven stories or twelve scenarios then select your hero with each of the six heroes featuring twelve unique skills and nine customizable stats that allow you to specialize in attacking healing tanking worker management or whatever you desire. Aside from your hero you need to manage your workers who must gather resources in order to trade for new items and build structures to gain powerful bonuses.You explore across the Ageless Realms by turning over tiles discovering resources side quests hazards building sites traders and creatures as you continue to power up whilst preparing to enter Azure Rise.At its heart The City of Kings is a complex puzzle featuring endless strategic battles. Each creature is generated from a pool of spells characteristics and stats offering over 10,000,000 unique battle situations. There are no dice damage is persistent it’s up to you to customize your characters and work together to come up with a strategy to defeat whoever stands in your way.

Batman: Gotham City Chronicles

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Comic Book / Strip Fighting Miniatures

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In Batman: Gotham City Chronicles one villain faces off against a team of heroes in one of multiple scenarios. Each hero has their own character and they control this character by spending energy to perform actions (such as Melee and Ranged attacks defusing bombs...) recovering more or less energy at the beginning of their turn depending on their stance. If the hero gets damaged energy moves to a wound area and if they lose all of their energy then they're out of action for a while to recover their strength. Each hero has differing strengths for their abilities and these strengths are represented by colored dice with different values; the more energy a hero spends on an ability the more dice of that color they can roll.The villain controls a team of henchmen and iconic villains of the Batman universe and these characters are represented by tiles on their command board with the characters costing 1 2 3 etc. energy to activate as you move left to right down the line. Once a character is activated they move to the end of the line boosting their cost to the maximum value should you want to use them again immediately and decreasing the cost of the other tiles.The game-play in Batman: Gotham City Chronicles is based on that of Conan with revisions to character abilities the addition of two different types of dice (w/ five types total) and a modified two-player set-up the Versus Mode in which each player has a command board and their own team of tiles that they can draft with heroes facing off against villains.See also Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - The Roleplaying Game

Wendake

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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American Indian Wars Economic Farming Fighting

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Wendake is the name that the Wyandot people use for their traditional territory. This population also known as the Huron Nation lived in the Great Lakes region together with the tribes who formed the Iroquois Confederacy and many others. In this game you will explore the traditions and everyday life of these tribes during the 1756–1763 period when the Seven Years’ War between the French and the English took place in these territories.But this white man’s war is only a marginal aspect of the game; the focus is on life in the native villages fields and forests. In this game you won’t find the traditional tipis which were used by southwestern tribes who moved their camps to follow the bison herds. The natives of the Great Lakes were more sedentary living in longhouses. The women farmed beans corn and pumpkins while the men hunted beavers in the forests mainly to sell their pelts as leather.In Wendake you step into the shoes of the chief of a Native American tribe. You will have to manage the most important aspects of your tribe’s daily existence thereby earning points on the Economic Military Ritual and Mask tracks. The core of the game is the action selection mechanism: you will have the opportunity to choose better and better actions over 7 years (i.e. rounds) and the winner will be the chief who finds the best combinations of actions and uses them to lead their tribe to prosperity!

Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–5

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Sentinels of the Multiverse is back and better than ever! With all-new art notably streamlined mechanics and new stories to experience this is the award-winning cooperative comic-book card game you’ve been waiting for!Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative game in which each player controls a Hero using their powers abilities and wits to work together with their fellow Heroes and save the world!Each game involves three to five Heroes fighting against one Villain in a perilous Environment. The game is fully cooperative so the Villain and Environment aren’t run by a dedicated player but rather are controlled by turning over cards from their decks and following the instructions on those cards.Each Hero Villain and Environment are represented by a deck of cards. Heroes and Villains also have character cards which provide their Hit Points and other information specific to that character.The game starts with the Villain turn then each of the Heroes in turn order clockwise around the table. The round ends with the Environment turn. After the Environment turn repeat the round starting with the Villain turn! The game continues in this order until the Heroes save the Multiverse or the Villain defeats the meddling Heroes one way or another.—description from the publisherContents: Heroes: Legacy Tachyon Wraith Bunker Absolute Zero Unity Argent Adept Fanatic Captain Cosmic Haka Tempest Ra Villains: Baron Blade Omnitron Grand Warlord Voss Citizen Dawn Matriarch Akash'Buta Environments: Megalopolis Ruins of Atlantis Wagner Mars Base Insula Primalis Magmaria Freedom Tower

BattleCON: War of Indines

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Fighting Print & Play

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BattleCON is a fast-paced head to head card game for 2 players based loosely around the mechanics and tactics present in 2D fighting games. In BattleCON players choose characters with unique abilities and powers to test against one another in a battle of tactics strategy and intuition.BattleCON: War of Indines is a standalone dueling card game designed for head-to-head play. Each player selects a character who uses a unique gameplay mechanism to give them an edge in combat. Take control of 18 different characters from a fire elemental an ocean guardian and her panda familiar a space-bending trapper a shadowy assassin and more! Each character's play style requires new strategies but uses the same foundational tactics making a new character easy to learn but challenging to master.Players move along a seven-space-long board trading blows and attempting to strike the opponent using attacks formed by combining a character's unique styles and abilities with a set of basic cards that all characters share. There is no hidden information: you always know exactly what cards the opponent holds just not the ones they'll choose! The last player standing wins!BattleCON: War of Indines can be played on its own or combined with other BattleCON sets to create an even greater pool of characters and play variants.______________________________________________________________________________BattleCON: War of Indines has two versions now dubbed Classic and Remastered. The Classic version contained multiple art styles as different fighters were drawn by different artists. This version contains multiple errors and outdated cards and is now permanently out of print.The new Remastered version features the same 18 fighters but updated to match the uniform art style of Devastation of Indines. It also includes balance changes to a few fighters new double-sided finishers updated art and components and a streamlined version of the rulebook that focuses on standard 2-player duels. The variants included with Classic that were removed in Remastered are still present in the Devastation rulebook and other expansions.

Massive Darkness

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–6

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Massive Darkness brings the classic fantasy RPG experience to modern board gaming with an action-packed campaign chock full of gorgeous miniatures and a streamlined system that keeps the focus on the heroes' actions with no need for a game master to control the enemies.Using the popular Zombicide system as a starting point Massive Darkness adds all the richness of a dungeon crawl RPG. Pick your hero choose a class decide on which skills to spend your XP and get loot by searching the dungeon or killing special enemies that can use the equipment against you! Face a multitude of different enemy types coming in all shapes and sizes whose behavior is resolved automatically...or you can try to sneak around enemies by taking advantage of dark areas of the map.Players begin their adventure in Massive Darkness by picking a Hero – each with two special starting skills – and pair them with a Class of their choosing. Depending on the combination another skill can be unlocked giving players a wide range of choices and play styles. In Massive Darkness the created Heroes go on Quests killing monsters collecting loot and gaining XP. Players spend their XP to unlock new Skills growing more powerful as the Quest progresses.Throughout the game players encounter different monsters including Minions Agents Roaming Monsters and Bosses. An unique mechanism of the game is the Guardian. Any of the monster types have a chance of spawning as a Guardian meaning it will use a random piece of equipment in the fight against Heroes. However if players are able to overcome this difficult encounter they will acquire that piece of loot!

Shadowrun: Crossfire

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Card Game Fantasy Fighting Science Fiction

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The shadows of the Sixth World have every kind of danger you can imagine: ultra-violent gangers flesh-eating ghouls mages that summon spirits from toxic waste backstabbing corporate raiders hard-nosed police officers and even dragons. You don't have much — mainly your guts your wits and your friends — but maybe that's enough. Between you and your teammates you can sling spells hack the Matrix talk a tiger out of his stripes and bring down a charging ork from a hundred yards away. Will that be enough to face down the worst the mean streets can throw at you? You're about to find out.Shadowrun: Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building card game for two to four players set in the gritty cyberpunk fantasy world of Shadowrun. Play a shadowrunner team and take on tough jobs such as protecting a client who's marked for death shooting your way out of downtown when a run goes sour or facing down a dragon. In each game you'll improve your deck with a mix of strategies while earning Karma to give your character cyber upgrades physical augmentations magical initiations weapons training and Edge.Shadowrun: Crossfire includes two obstacle decks a black market deck a crossfire event deck mission sheets role cards runner cards and upgrade stickers.

Claustrophobia 1643

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting Horror

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Claustrophobia 1643 is a miniatures-based survival game set within the catacombs.The box contains miniatures which are placed on large tiles showing the dungeon spaces. Also included are character dashboards counters and markers and dice.One player controls a small group of determined humans while the other plays an almost unending army of demonic creatures. The game is thematic and highly asymmetric: human characters are stronger but the demon characters are more numerous. Gameplay is very straightforward with a minimum of rules and each game plays in an hour or less.In essence dice are allocated after rolling to perform actions while cards or special abilities are also available. The game is about managing decisions and choosing what to do with the resources that you have managing difficult events and out-thinking your opponent. Combat is handled by dice. Complexity is low with the focus on theme and building towards a tense climactic ending.Claustrophobia is played through scenarios of which there are several in the rulebook (20). Generally speaking the human characters are attempting to complete a task (e.g. escape the catacombs close a portal) while the demons are focused on stopping them. There are varying win conditions depending on the scenario chosen.—description from the publisher

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1

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Adventure Card Game Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is a solo play game with an original campaign story written by Isaac Childres that features a playstyle similar to Gloomhaven in a fraction of the size.Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is set after the events of Gloomhaven and Forgotten Circles. The Aesther recluse Hail has earned a reputation for being highly instrumental in saving the city from recurring disasters and she absolutely hates it. Wannabe heroes are constantly barging in on her studies at the Crooked Bone looking for help in becoming famous themselves — not to mention all the demons that come by looking for vengeance. She briefly considered moving but as that would require effort she instead just placed an enchantment on her front door: Anyone who attempts to open it becomes miniaturized and therefore is no longer a problem.Your character is one such wannabe hero. In an ill-advised attempt at fame they try to visit Hail and poof. Now they're the size of a mouse and have entered an entirely different realm of lawlessness and self-preservation. They must find a new way into the Crooked Bone to convince Hail to return them to their previous size.Each scenario is a single card pitting one mercenary against a handful of enemies with simplified actions and AI. Each mercenary has a hand of just four double-sided cards but they can be used twice — both the front and the back — before they are discarded. Attacks are resolved using a die in conjunction with a modifier table and both the table and the mercenary ability cards can be improved as you level up throughout the campaign.—description from the publisher

Riftforce

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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The Rifts changed our world. Villages were torn apart Riftforce emerged from it and spread across the land. What seemed lifeless before started to rise and wake. Flames left campfires and waves poured out of their riverbeds. Even the sun and moon leave their footprints in the ground.We learned how to control those living elementals and formed guilds to perfect this knowledge. While competing for Riftforce the guilds forged temporary alliances to share their unique abilities and guard the access to the Rifts.Now it is your time! Choose your guilds combine their powers and rush into battle. Gain Riftforce from the land you control and all the elementals you destroy until you have enough to ascend into a higher state of power.•••In Riftforce the two-player duel card game each player starts by drafting four of the ten different guilds each with a unique power to forge their own asymmetrical alliance. Every game of Riftforce gives you a chance to discover new synergies between guilds which will greatly influence your overall strategy and strengths. Can you combine the flexible and mobile water guild with the all-consuming fire elementals who even harm their allies and unleash their full potential?The guilds’ elementals are the lifeblood of the game - they are your troops and at the same time the resource necessary to attack. Soon you will find yourself wondering how to use them best. Each turn you are torn choosing one of three possible actions. Do you want to strengthen your position at the Rift sacrifice elementals for powerful combo attacks or gather support for your next turn?Gain Riftforce by destroying the elements of your opponent and by controlling locations along the Rift. Only then will you ascend and win the game.Discovering new synergies between the different guilds clever gameplay combos and the deeper layers of strategy will keep you coming back to enjoy the game again and again.

Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

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Animals Card Game Fantasy Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme

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In battle there are no equals.Dinosaurs eat man… Woman inherits the earth. The greatest predator the world has ever known is closing in on the tenacious Dr. Sattler. Who has the slightest idea what to expect? In Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex the massive T rex unleashes fearsome attacks and seems unstoppable while Dr. Sattler makes full use of her surroundings and the aid of Dr. Ian Malcolm and his chaos theory. Who will become extinct first?Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.—description from the publisher

Primal: The Awakening

Rating: 8.6 | Players: 1–4

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Primal: the Awakening is a fully cooperative monster hunting miniature boardgame for 1-4 players set in a fantasy world where humans struggle to survive an untamed wilderness. The game is played in a series of multiple sessions throughout an epic campaign where you will take the role of hunters fighting monstrous creatures and unveiling mysteries about their origins.In Campaign mode players will choose their path through the story by completing quests and unlocking special rewards and achievements. Each mission you choose will lead to different developments of the story and to plenty of unique opportunities like crafting options unique items and rare hunts to be played. The consequences of your actions will impact the story as the campaign progresses towards the epic finale. Players can also play one-shot encounters in the Hunt mode. Specific setup and rules are provided for single combat scenarios at different levels of gear and difficulty. The Hunt mode also offers the opportunity to play special end-game quests using your campaign characters.The gameplay is centred on an intense and challenging boss-fight system that combines tactical positioning on the board hand management and cooperative play. The combat is designed to be fast paced while focusing on card combos and player interaction. Each monster is a unique challenge that hunters will have to face as a group completing specific objectives and adopting different strategies. Monsters have their own specific deck of cards which represents their specific combat behaviour including attacks targeting specific areas on the board special abilities but also weaknesses and vulnerabilities that hunters can take advantage of during combat.The game also focuses on a deep character customization. As the campaign progresses players will unlock a large variety of crafting options as they upgrade and expand the Forge depending on the specific monsters they slay. As the hunters level up from session to session players will also have multiple choices to customize their deck of ability cards in order to build better synergies card combos and group strategies.—description from the publisher

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles – Base Set

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Pirates

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All Hands on Deck!There's adventure to be had on the high seas when a group of press-ganged pirates becomes embroiled in the plots and plunder of the Shackles—an infamous island chain dominated by pirate warlords. But as these new swashbucklers make names for themselves rival scalawags enemy navies legendary sea monsters and the infamous Hurricane King himself seek to see them walk the plank. Who will survive when there's loot on the line?Launch a campaign to control the Shackles with the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set. This complete cooperative strategy card game pits 1 to 4 heroes against the traps monsters deadly magic and despicable foes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game’s award-winning Skull & Shackles Adventure Path. Choose your character’s class; build a deck of allies equipment and magic; and explore lethal locations as you journey through multiple scenarios in an exciting fantasy adventure. Characters grow stronger after each game adding unique gear and awesome magic to their decks and gaining incredible powers all of which they’ll need to challenge greater threats in a complete Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Adventure Path.The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set includes:The contents of Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set is:1 rulebook 5 dice400 cards: 7 character cards 7 role cards 7 token cards 1 adventure path card 1 adventure card 5 scenario cards 28 location cards 5 villain cards 36 henchmen cards 34 monster cards 18 barrier cards 52 weapon cards 33 spell cards 22 armor cards 37 item cards 32 ally cards 68 blessing cards 6 ship cards 1 fleet cardUPC 726670261410 ISBN 9781601256478

Dungeon Fighter

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–6

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Party

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Action / Dexterity Exploration Fantasy Fighting Humor Party Game

Explore spooky dungeons find glorious treasure buy powerful magic items and challenge the most horrible creatures. Will your party be able to defeat the final boss?In Dungeon Fighter a fully cooperative board game players take on the roles of heroes venturing deep into a three-tier dungeon. Along the way they explore the dungeon search its many rooms and face endless hordes of vicious monsters. Best of all your skill determines the ability of your character. Can you kill Medusa without looking into her eyes defeat the Minotaur in the labyrinth or resist the breath of the dragon? Will you be able to hit a target by throwing the dice under your leg with your eyes closed?You will feel truly part of a centuries-old battle between good and evil...with a touch of foolish stupidity.

Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

Rating: 8.6 | Players: 1–4

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Euthia: Torment of Resurrection is an open-world sandbox RPG strategy for 1-4 players that can be played competitively cooperatively or solo. Choose one of six heroes with different play styles and unique ability trees and embark on a wide range of epic fantasy adventures through infinitely replayable scenarios. Wander through an expanding open world generated by modular map tiles that will be different every time you play. Discover areas where you can fight monsters gather resources trade with merchants pursue side quests and confront elemental powers. Your actions grant you reputation and wealth so you can develop your hero by unlocking new abilities and customizing your equipment.—description from the publisher

The Isofarian Guard

Rating: 8.7 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Card Game Exploration Fantasy Fighting

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The Isofarian Guard is a solo/co-op narrative driven adventure board game for 1-2 players.Welcome to Isofar a wild land severe in its beauty. The Isofarian people take great pride in their ability to flourish among the hostile wildlife and cruel elements of their mountainous home. As a member of the Isofarian guard life is never dull. You try to keep the peace among your fellow Isofarians (a never-ending job) as well as deal with constant threats from the aggressive Falmund Empire to the south.But now the old patterns are shifting. New forces are at work that will challenge the very underpinnings of reality. You will guide eight different Isofarian Guards throughout 5 interweaving campaigns as they deal with a power that threatens not only Isofar but the entire world.In The Isofarian Guard you will travel throughout the cities and wildernesses of Isofar on a beautifully illustrated world map fight off enemies using a unique and highly customizable battle system and use your wits to talk your way out of sticky situations. As you forge important alliances opportunities will arise for you to craft stronger gear gain new powers and step into the destiny you were called to.—description from the publisher

Too Many Bones: Unbreakable

Rating: 8.8 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting

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Too Many Bones: Unbreakable is the standalone conclusion to the Too Many Bones franchise.Join new characters Figment and Gale as they traverse the dangerous caverns beneath the land of Daelore using the game mechanics of Too Many Bones.

Paper Dungeons: A Dungeon Scrawler Game

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–8

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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Prepare your adventurers for a challenging dungeon exploration in Paper Dungeons a roll-and-write game that seeks to reproduce the feel of a dungeon-crawler.In the game you control a classic group of medieval adventurers: warrior wizard cleric and rogue. In each of the nine rounds you select three of the six rolled dice and use these results to raise the level of your characters produce magic items obtain healing potions and explore the dungeon to face challenges and collect treasure. You'll also find three large monsters waiting in the dungeon and you can fight them for glory.In the end whoever collects the most glory wins.

Level 7 [Omega Protocol]

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–6

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Fighting Horror Miniatures Science Fiction

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Game description from the publisher:LEVEL 7 [Omega Protocol] picks up right where LEVEL 7 [ESCAPE] left off. The Subterra Bravo facility has been thrown into chaos through the players actions in [ESCAPE] and now the government has sent in a top-secret highly-trained special forces unit to shut down the facility and eliminate everything remaining in the base.In [Omega Protocol] one player takes on the role of the Overseer while two to five other players take on the role of the elite Special Ops team. The Overseer's role in the game is to control all of the alien denizens and challenges the players face throughout the game. The players are trying to achieve specific scenario-based objectives by exploring a map that's laid out at the start and fighting off the hordes of aliens that the Overseer sends their way.Gameplay is based around adrenaline which is the currency that the soldier players use to perform actions. They generate adrenaline to do things such as move attack and perform special actions like activating an objective space. That generation also has a negative effect for them as that adrenaline transfers to the Overseer player who then uses it to spawn aliens create new threats and hurt the soldiers' chance of success during the scenario. The more actions the Special Ops players take the more resources the Overseer player has to work with.Characters in [Omega Protocol] are represented by miniatures and each Special Ops and alien character has different attributes powers and customizable skills and equipment.

Street Masters

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Card Game Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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THE GAMEPLAYStreet Masters is a 1-4 player cooperative miniatures board game inspired by classic fighting video games. Featuring over 65 highly detailed miniatures unique decks for fighters & enemies custom dice and lightning-fast gameplay Street Masters lets players match up powerful fighters against villainous organizations in a wide array of exciting scenarios. Designed by Adam Sadler and Brady Sadler the game offers modular and elegant gameplay set in a unique and exciting world of brutal combat.THE STORYWarriors from around the world known for their legendary fighting abilities and skills receive mysterious invitations to participate in a martial arts tournament. During the tournament the organization surrounding it reveals their true identity — The Kingdom — and their purpose to recruit fighters to join their militia or enslave those against them. While several of these warriors made it out in time many were never heard from again.Five years later a government project called Street Masters initiates in order to counter-act the war against The Kingdom now having divided and seized control over the world by several of its factions. Those who join the Street Masters project must work together to take down each faction crippling parts of The Kingdom before they're able to launch their end game.

Ninjato

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Fighting Medieval Political

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In 12th century Japan the Minamoto and Taira clans vie for power while retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa plays his rivals against one another. One of the three factions will triumph to impose the coming social order. In the shadow of these elite powers a few ninja scheme to exploit the chaos. Daring raids skill mastery and subtle intrigue are essential to establishing one’s honor. When the new era dawns one ninja will flourish as the Ninjato the Invisible Sword of the ruling family.

Hellboy: The Board Game

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Comic Book / Strip Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures

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Hellboy: The Board Game is a co-operative experience in which players face off against some of the comic's most famous foes. Up to four people take control of iconic BPRD members such as Hellboy Abe Sapien and Roger the Homunculus then explore gothic locations and uncover ancient artifacts.The game features pre-assembled plastic miniatures that accurately capture the look and feel of Mike Mignola's world famous comic series.

Here to Slay

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–6

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Animals Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.In this game you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monsters while working to avoid the sabotage of your foes. The game also includes items you can equip to your heroes 1V1 challenge cards and roll modifiers to tip the odds in your favor.The first person to successfully slay three monsters or build a full party with six classes wins the game!Every player gets to choose a party leader character to represent them throughout the game. Each party leader card has a class and a skill that gives you an edge over your opponents. Whether you enjoy fighters bards wizards or thieves you'll find a party leader that's right for your play style - but choose wisely because you only get one party leader for the whole game!Your heroes are brave adventurers ready to attack monsters and go head to head with your foes! The game includes over 40 unique heroes. Each hero card has a class and an effect and each hero’s effect has a roll requirement. In order to use a hero’s effect you must roll two dice and score equal to or higher than that effect’s roll requirement. Heroes take advantage of items magic and modifiers to increase their chances of making their dice rolls. In order to slay that monster you must roll two dice and score equal to or higher than that monster’s roll requirement. Be warned: Each monster has a roll range in which they’ll fight back and if you score within that range your party might be in grave danger…Don't like what your opponent just played? Throw down a challenge! Challenge cards can be played instantly to try to stop another player from playing a hero item or magic card. Playing a challenge card initiates a 1V1 challenge in which you and another player both have to roll the dice. If they win the challenge they still get to play their card but if you win the challenge you get to send their card directly to the discard pile!— description from the publisher

Deep Madness

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–6

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Adventure Fighting Horror Miniatures Science Fiction

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In a dark and claustrophobic deep sea mining site the uncovering of a mysterious “Sphere” is dragging everyone nearby into the endless madness. The fears deep within one’s mind are amplified and transformed into horrifying monsters from other dimensions torturing one's body and testing their sanity. Only those with extraordinary will and conviction can escape its devastating grasp. Deep Madness is a fully cooperative board game for 1-6 players with 66 amazingly detailed miniatures depicting a sci-fi horror world inspired by Lovecraft’s work and the Alien series. In the game players assume the roles of investigators venturing into the seemingly empty yet perilous deep sea mining site to find out the truth behind the lost contact event. Unimaginable horror and madness from the dark fear within is waiting.Deep Madness is based on multiple scenarios from a continuous storyline. Each scenario has its own unique board setup rules special effects and goals. From resolving fatal crises to struggling with overwhelming bosses the investigators will face various quests filled with strategical decisions and fierce combat. With each scenario achieved they are one step closer to the truth but also one step deeper into the world of madness. Each scenario of the game plays in a limited number of game rounds if the investigators fail to achieve the goals before the last round ends the game is lost and everyone is consumed. Each game round consists of 4 phases: Devour Phase Spawn Phase Activation Phase and Refresh Phase.In Devour Phase the Devour Marker progresses one step forward along the Devour Track indicating the world going deeper into madness. As the Devour Marker progressing more and more rooms (map tiles) are flipped to their madness side. These rooms will spawn monsters and provide various nasty effects to hinder the investigators or to boost the monsters.In Spawn Phase different types of monsters with unique abilities are spawned in the flipped rooms. Monsters do not show their existence in fixed locations they could be spawned right next to the investigators if they ventured carelessly.Activation Phase is the core of the game the investigators and the monsters take turns to act alternately. Monsters do not wait for all investigators to finish their turns like in other cooperative games but do act between them so careless planning would put the investigators who are later in the turn order into grave danger facing fatal attacks before they had a chance to act.In Refresh Phase some maintenances are performed and some special effects are resolved.In each investigator’s turn it is crucial that the player chooses 3 actions to take wisely. Each kind of action has its own value and every single decision could be life and death in Deep Madness. Unfortunately the correct decision is rarely obvious. Moving attacking searching exchanging items locking the doors and recovering sanity are the basic actions. Additionally each investigator also has his/her own unique and irreplaceable abilities to activate. Different combinations of investigators provide distinctive strategies and game experiences.Monster acts according to its own action pool during its turn. In Deep Madness monsters are highly characteristic not just in stats but also in abilities and behaviors. Different combinations of monsters provide unique challenges. And due to the intertwined activation mechanism even different turn orders of the monsters make each game session different. However no matter how the monsters setup is Deep Madness will be a very challenging game even death could be a strategy.In the game investigators battle the horrific monsters survive the harsh crises and above all save their own minds from the devouring of madness. They are given many chances to consume their own sanity to activate their abilities to use the effects of items to reroll the dice and etc. However they are vulnerable when the sanity is low. After an investigator with insanity tokens manages to kill a monster the monster will corrupt his/her mind by permanently flipping the insanity tokens into madness tokens. As the madness token cumulates horror haunts the investigator by resolving Madness Cards and each of them has unique negative effect and terrifying flavor text.

Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition

Rating: 8.5 | Players: 2

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Sports

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The latest in a long and glorious line of Blood Bowl seasons this represents the next step in three decades of evolution. With new and improved rules streamlined gameplay and a refined campaign system everyone's favourite game of fantasy football is back and better than ever.Play as the coach for a team of Imperial Nobility or Black Orc Blood Bowl players who battle it out on the gridiron in great arenas. Play for riches pride and to entertain hordes of your team’s devoted fans. You decide the line-up and choose the tactics but remember …. “It’s not the winning or losing that matters it’s the mayhem and violence that count!”

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Stronghold: 2nd edition

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2

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Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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Stronghold is a two-player game telling the story of a siege. Players take opposing sides: one has to defend the stronghold and the other has to break into the castle as soon as possible. The game board represents the stronghold itself as well as the surrounding terrain where enemy forces are placed and whence they proceed to the walls.The defender has a small number of soldiers manning the walls while the invader has an infinite legion of attacking creatures. A desperate fight takes place every single turn. The invaders build war machines equip their soldiers train them and use black magic rituals to achieve victory. Meanwhile defenders repair walls build cannons train soldiers and do everything they can to hold the castle as long as possible.If the invader manages to break into the castle before the end of seven rounds they win; otherwise the defender wins.This second edition of Stronghold features:• Ten objective cards for the invader and ten hidden defense plan cards for the defender; each objective encourages the invader to consider a particular move while each defense plan shows the defender different ways to surprise the invader • Shorter gameplay than the first edition with attackers being placed on the board during set-up • Gameplay limited to two players only replacing the team rules in the first edition • Streamlined rules and an enhanced rulebook • Improved components such as a larger game board and new artwork

Zombicide: Undead or Alive

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–6

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American West Fighting Horror Miniatures Zombies

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There’s plenty of things to test a person’s mettle out in the harsh Western territories. There are cattle rustlers trying to steal your stock. There are bandits looking to rob the 10:13 to Yuma. There’s all manner of critters and a desert environment looking to deal you the death card. Now the recently-dead have started rising from prairie graves to assault the living. This town is turning into cowpies.Zombicide: Undead or Alive brings the Zombie-blasting action to an all-new era and location bringing players to the middle of the mythical Old West. There’s new Survivor types like the Gunslinger Brawler Townsfolk and Faithful each with their own unique rules. Then of course there’s plenty of Zombies to destroy. New game mechanics like Balconies and the Train will test players in new ways.

Rune Age

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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Game description from the publisher:An age of innovation and discovery is at hand. With war on the horizon and whisperings of a prophetic storm approaching now is the time to gather all your strength and set out to forge your place in Terrinoth's book of legends!Rune Age is a deck-building game of adventure and conquest for 1-4 players. (The box says 2-4 players but 2 of the 4 scenarios include solitaire rules.)Set in the fantasy realm of Terrinoth (Runebound Descent: Journeys in the Dark Runewars and DungeonQuest) Rune Age puts players in control of one of four races vying for dominance in a world embroiled in conflict.Designed by Corey Konieczka Rune Age is a unique deck-building game that centers around scenarios. The four different scenarios included in Rune Age present alternate win conditions for players from an all-out war to determine the victor to a cooperative game experience where players all win or lose together. Scenarios not only dictate the win conditions they also determine which card types will populate Terrinoth (forming the central card pools) and which Event cards will form the Event deck. The Event deck contains thematic challenges enemies and happenings that are tied to the chosen scenario creating a new play environment each turn.Gameplay in Rune Age centers around players working to develop their individual deck of cards. At the beginning of the game each player begins with a small assortment of cards in their deck drawing five cards each turn to carry out their actions. Each player's deck represents their faction's military strength and capabilities. These decks will be formed with their faction-specific Unit cards and a central collection of Neutral Unit cards Tactics cards and Gold cards.While players begin with limited cards in their deck through cunning and strategic use of their available cards players can expand their deck to create a destructive force of their own clever design. Will you create brutal deck of formidable Units? Or will you rely on Gold and Influence to acquire neutral forces and powerful Tactics?

Monumental

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Civilization Fighting Territory Building

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In Monumental each player will control a civilization that will evolve through his city: a grid of 3x3 cards (coming out from the player's starting civilization deck) that can each be activated to gather various resources such as Science Military Production Culture and Gold that will allow them to trigger many actions. But there’s a trick: one cannot activate all their cards at once which means that tough choices will have to be made each turn in order to select the cards that are the most needed.The resources gathered from the activated city cards will allow the players to acquire cards from a common pool allowing them to get improved buildings technologies wonders etc. and therefore to leverage their civilization deck to new heights through more and more efficient card combos. As the common pool of cards progresses (either as players have acquired cards or because they didn't - which leads to one card from the pool to be discarded per turn) the game progresses through eras. Medieval cards are better than classical cards and industrial cards are even better but of course those cards are more and more expensive to acquire.A modular board at the center of the table holds each civilization's army. The board is made of Provinces to be conquered. Unoccupied Province's inhabitants are barbarians who will provide resources to the player who defeats them. Holding a conquered province also brings victory points.The player with the most impressive civilization at the end of the game will be remembered for all time (and they also win the game!).—description based on the publisher's

Skulk Hollow

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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Animals Fighting

THE GREAT RETURN Over generations and generations the ancient woodland of Børe prospered and grew. The world was bestowed with great spirit which lifted the animals of the land to new heights. Unfortunately over the years these clans lost touch with the spirit of the land and faction warring developed. The Foxen Kingdom of Skulk Hollow in the South The spiritual Red Pandas of Cupboard in the North the Mischievous Mice of Multon in the West and the colony of Blackheart Bunnies in the East. As skirmishes started breaking out across the continent lives lost there was a monstrous shake and then The Great Return. No one quite knows why but the Guardians have risen - but not the kind life-giving Guardians of spiritual legend. Dark ferocious versions that are now attacking all the kingdoms of the land.OBJECTIVE In Skulk Hollow two players take the roles of either a towering behemoth of a Guardian trying to eliminate the clans of foxes who have been causing havoc on the countryside or a band of foxen heroes out to vanquish the evil beast that has been terrorizing the land and reunite the four kingdoms of Børe.The Guardian wins the game by either eliminating the Foxen King or by gaining enough Tribute.The Foxen Heroes wins the game by eliminating the Guardian.GAMEPLAY Skulk Hollow is a 2-player asymmetric tactical combat game. Player use action cards to move their units summon and use special abilities. Taking down a guardian requires the Foxen player to leap onto the Guardian player board and take out different parts of the character.

DOOM: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–5

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Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures Science Fiction Video Game Theme

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Description from the publisher:DOOM: The Board Game is strategy board game of tactical combat for 2-5 players based on Bethesda and id Software's video game of the same name. Featuring two distinct player roles the game brings the epic battle between elite marines and Hell's most threatening monsters to the tabletop.DOOM immerses players in a fierce battle between legions of demons — which are controlled by one invader player — and a cooperative team of up to four marines. The game guides players through two cohesive operations during which the marines strive to achieve objectives like restoring power to the United Aerospace Corporation's facilities or manning expeditions right down into the pits of Hell. Meanwhile the invader commands their demons to slaughter the soldiers time and time again in an attempt to protect their fiery domain and destroy all of humanity.The game features custom dice double-sided map tiles and thirty-seven detailed plastic miniatures representing four marines and thirty-three demons. It includes two operations Black Bishop and Exodus consisting of six missions each.

Dice Throne: Santa v. Krampus

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Two new and original Dice Throne heroes battle in this exciting accessible stand-alone dueling game.Dice Throne is a game of intriguing dice tactical card play powerful heroes and unique abilities.It's a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game (1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all). Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly (yours your teammate's or even your opponent's).Dice Throne: Santa v. Krampus introduces two new heroes that can play against each other or any other hero in Dice Throne. Also compatible with Dice Throne Adventures!This is a stand-alone release supporting 2 players. Additional heroes are required to play with more than 2 players.

Hit Z Road

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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Fighting Horror Zombies

In the fast-paced and morbidly kitschy game Hit Z Road you and your fellow players embark on a road trip going south from Chicago along America's famous Route 66 — now infested by zombies. As you travel though a deck of adventure cards rife with dangers you battle zombie hordes drive abandoned school buses scavenge for gas and bullets and explore a darkened tainted American countryside full of shambling undead haunted carnivals and plumes of toxic gas. Your goal is to stay alive until you reach the safe sandy beaches of the California coast.Three different stages of adventure cards create an experience of increasing difficulty and ensure that each playthrough is unique. Each round begins with an auction that determines both player order and which cards you will encounter. Since the resources used for bidding are the same as those used to battle the oncoming zombie hordes your survival depends as much on your resource management as it does upon winning those bidding wars. The player who either accumulates the most points or survives the longest wins.Zombies of all types await with cannibals anti-personnel mines and radioactive wastes also being among the hazards awaiting the players. Who will survive the zombie onslaught?—description from the publisher

Galaxy Defenders

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–5

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Galaxy Defenders is a sci-fi cooperative tactical battle wargame in which 1-5 players fight together against an oncoming alien menace. Each player takes control of one or more agents with unique powers to defend the planet from the alien invasion. Gameplay revolves around a tactical combat system using custom ten-sided dice. Each player sequentially plays his Agent turn and then one Aliens turn. Players carry out their turns [agent and aliens] in clockwise order until the last player finishes his Aliens turn. Once done the game passes to the Event phase that will bring the players to the next round. Players may choose up to five agents:There is no Alien player in Galaxy Defenders; instead the aliens are controlled by the game system itself through an artificial intelligence system based on two types of cards:The combination of a unique AI for each alien species and the uncertainty about alien activation in a turn provides a realistic simulation of the chaos of battle and a sophisticated challenge for the players. Since having more agents brings more alien activations for the aliens the turn structure allows the level of difficulty to scale dynamically based on the number of agents in play. If agents die during the game the system recalibrates the difficulty to a reasonable and enjoyable level so you still have a chance to complete the mission.The battle for Earth will be carried out in a series of twelve missions organized in a completely story-driven campaign. Mission events influence future games in two different ways:With the downloadable Galaxy Defenders: Alien Mind variant you can transform the game into a competitive affair with one player becoming the alien mastermind and controlling the alien army and the card in play attempting to thwart each mission undertaken by the Agents. To do this the alien player completes his own game objectives obtaining new alien signals that can be teleported onto the battlefield. This variant which allows for play with up to six players can be used in a single mission or for a whole campaign of Galaxy Defenders. Using Alien Mind may increase the game difficulty and is suggested only for expert players.

Ascending Empires

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Action / Dexterity City Building Civilization Fighting Science Fiction Space Exploration

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Humanity has been at each other's throats since time immemorial. Now in another galaxy humans wage war amongst themselves again but this time with the aid of alien technology found on other planets. Ascending Empires offers a nice mixture of building exploring and development along with combat via a simple dexterity element. Ascending Empires is sure to sate the desire for a space empire building game that plays simply yet deeply.The last survivors of the Human race have fled to a new galaxy in fear of annihilation at the hands of an unstoppable enemy. Now having discovered the ruins of four long dead civilizations spread across the stars the race to develop technology based on the alien relics has begun. Humans will once again ascend to the stars to claim the galaxy.Players will colonize new worlds by building colonies cities and research facilities. They will develop new Technologies and build up fleets of Starships. Ascending Empires is a fast paced game that utilizes a dexterity based Starship movement and combat system and allows for many different strategies to be explored.

Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–5

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In the Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game you play as a heroic adventurer. With amazing abilities spells and magic weapons you must explore the dungeons beneath the Sword Coast where you will fight monsters overcome hazards and find treasure. Are you ready for adventure?Temple of Elemental Evil includes multiple scenarios challenging quests and co-operative game play designed for 1-5 players. The contents can also be combined with other D&D Adventure System Cooperative play board games including The Legend of Drizzt and Castle Ravenloft.Each player selects a hero such as a fighter cleric or wizard. On their turn each player can explore further into the dungeon (turn over new tiles) move through the already explored parts of the dungeon and fight monsters. When a new dungeon tile is revealed there is typically an encounter of some sort and new monsters to fight are added. Slain monsters reward the players with treasure and experience points allowing them to level up and increase their skills during play. Players must cooperate to stay alive slay the monsters and achieve the goal of their quest. Each scenario has a different goal from retrieving a relic to slaying a large boss monster.

Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Exploration Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction

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As vast and dark as a sunless void the Blackstone Fortress is a creation far beyond the ken of any race in the galaxy. In this age of darkness in a galaxy riven with strife and horror the desperate and intrepid alike search this Fortress for long-lost technologies that may be used to turn the tide of war.In Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress you and your friends take on the role of a group of disparate explorers delving into the labyrinthine halls of a vast and ancient space station. Only by working together and balancing your strength and skills can you hope to survive. With each expedition you will discover powerful archeotech and learn more of the Blackstone Fortress’ closely guarded secrets including perhaps the location of its greatest treasure. The game can be played solo or with up to 4 friends with the fifth player controlling the hostiles. At the end of each expedition the players return to the nearby port city of Precipice to rest recuperate and trade their loot for resources that will aid in their next adventure.Included in the box:Miniatures44 push-fit Citadel miniatures are included in Blackstone Fortress each supplied on pre-coloured plastic sprues:- 9 Explorers in red plastic: Janus Draik Rogue Trader; Taddeus the Purifier Ministorum Priest; Espern Locarno Imperial Navigator; Pious Vorne Missionary Zealot; UR-025 Imperial Robot; Dahyak Grekh Kroot Tracker; Amallyn Shadowguide Asuryani Ranger and the Ratling Twins Rein and Raus; - 35 Hostiles in grey plastic: Obsidius Mallex Chaos Lord; 2 Chaos Space Marines; 4 Chaos Beastmen; 4 Ur-Ghuls; 4 Negavolt Cultists; 2 Rogue Psykers; 4 Spindle Drones and 14 Traitor Guardsmen.BooksThe box contains 5 booklets full of rules background and construction guides for the miniatures:- A 16-page Rules booklet: this walks the player through games of Blackstone Fortress from setup to exploration with explanations of special rules and a quick reference guide; - A 16-page Combat booklet: this contains all the rules for resolving combat during games with easy to follow annotated examples and a quick reference guide; - A 24-page Precipice booklet: this details the actions that occur between expeditions with your explorers resting and rejuvenating; - A 24-page Background booklet: this provides details on the Fortress the explorers and the hostile forces they face; - A 16-page booklet of datasheets for using the included miniatures in games of Warhammer 40,000.Gaming ContentThe box also contains everything you need to set up and play a game of Blackstone Fortress including:- 40 double-sided board tiles to create the internal labyrinths of the Blackstone Fortress; - 234 gaming cards; - 9 Stasis Chambers – safe places for characters to rest between explorations; - A Databank and a Hidden Vault; - 70 markers; - 28 dice.-description from publisher

GKR: Heavy Hitters

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1–4

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Welcome to the biggest sport of the future – GIANT KILLER ROBOTS : HEAVY HITTERS!GKR: HEAVY HITTERS is an advertising-driven televised combat sport where mega corporations fight for lucrative salvage rights and advertising dominance in Earth’s abandoned cities. But more importantly they need you! Your skills as a pilot and tactician are needed to win gaining your Faction more fans and more importantly loyal consumers.You will be piloting a Heavy Hitter the name given to the largest fighting mechs in the battle zone. Flanking your Heavy Hitter in these high stakes sport matches are 3 unmanned robotic support units consisting of Combat Repair and Recon. Fighting head-to-head using your Heavy Hitter you control your entire team of GKRs strategizing your way to victory. Any dumb mech-jockey can shoot but can you STRAT? Guess we’re gonna find out!GKR: Heavy Hitters - A new boardgame set in the world of Giant killer Robots!The solo rules are included in the updated rulebook which comes with the game.Contents: 4 x Giant Heavy Hitters (139mm) 12 x Support Units (47mm) 10 x Buildings 317 x Cards 1 x Unique Hex-based Gameboard 8 x Pilots & Achievements Boards 4 x Energy Tracker Tokens & Dashboards 80 x Holo-board Tags 2 x Attack Dice 8 x Defense Dice 1 x Glory Hound Token

Welcome Back to the Dungeon

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting

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The sun is shining in the Abysmal Woods where you’re strolling without a care in the world your weapon at your belt dreams of adventure in your head. On your path you stop before a damaged dungeon door. It seems that great battles took place here a sure sign of coveted treasure inside.You recognize this dungeon from the ballads sung in your village! However you’re not the only one who wants to enter despite the warnings left around the entrance by the previous adventurers. Will you muster your courage to break open the door or will you let your opponents brave the monsters found inside? Let the adventure begin!Welcome Back to the Dungeon is a simple and subtle push-your-luck game in which you’ll need to adopt a show of bravado or outwit your opponents!

Dungeon Mayhem

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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In the action-packed Dungeons & Dragons card game Dungeon Mayhem you win by being the last adventurer standing.Play as one of four brave quirky characters — barbarian paladin rogue or wizard — battling it out in a dungeon full of treasure! With magic missiles flinging dual daggers slinging and spiked shields dinging it's up to you to prove your adventurer has the guts to bring home the glory!Illustrations created by Kyle Ferrin in the four decks of cards represent Sutha the Skullcrusher (barbarian) Azzan the Mystic (wizard) Lia the Radiant (paladin) and Oriax the Clever (rogue). Pick one of these characters and play their mighty power cards such as Azzan's Vampiric Touch to swap hit points with an opponent or Sutha's Whirling Axes to heal yourself while dealing crushing damage to the rest of the party.

Fireteam Zero

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Horror Miniatures World War II

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In 1942 four soldiers vanished from the training program of the newly formed First Ranger Battalion their names stricken from the roster. Chosen for their unique skills they would fight in secret against terrifying supernatural enemies and overwhelming odds. This is their story.Fireteam Zero is a cooperative game for up to four players who must cut a path through an endless swarm of deadly monsters in order to discover and defeat the ultimate evil behind them. Each player possesses a set of brutal combat skills that are represented by a deck of cards unique to that character. Play cards to devastate the creatures in your way help your teammates survive the onslaught or even reshape the tactical landscape with the proper application of explosive ordinance. The battle is fought across three maps of increasing difficulty each one bringing more and tougher enemies than the last. Players must search for and complete mission objectives in order to progress and bring them one step closer to the final showdown.Aiding them are two NPC Specialists one with an uncanny ability to sense the location and nature of the supernatural energy in the area and another with an encyclopedic knowledge of the arcane. Use the Specialists wisely or risk failure no matter how many monsters you defeat.Race against time as the creatures on the board become stronger and more cunning. The longer you take to complete your objectives the more Monster Twist cards are revealed each granting a new and terrible aspect to your enemy. In each set of missions you will face a different family of horrifying creatures each with their own special abilities and twist cards.Players must not only fight for their lives but at the same time they must make smart tactical choices with their teammates in order to make the best use of a limited resource the cards in their hands. Each card not only represents an action that they can take but also their health. Spending too many cards can leave you vulnerable while spending too few can result in being overwhelmed. Clever players will rely on each other to succeed.Fireteam Zero is a story-rich board game of squad tactics and horror. Each map can be played separately in about 45 minutes or together to complete an entire Operation in about three hours.Expansions:1) The Africa Cycle:Go head to head against the Thornspawn in this expansion!New Miniatures! Receive the Thornspawn an entire new monster family. Comes with 8 Scavengers 3 Wooden Men and Prime who is a massive 60mm tall boss figure.New Mechanic! Add Gear to your hero as you progress. Gear can be easily added to the core set and all other expansions as well.New Locations and Adventures! You'll encounter:An all new 3 Act Operation: Sticks and Bones. Plus these standalone missions:And you'll face these challenges using 4 new double-side map tiles giving you 8 new map sectors with all new terrain to explore!2) The Europe Cycle:Face the Bloodless in the Old Country!New Miniatures! Receive the Bloodless another entirely new monster family! Comes with 8 Spore Children 3 Saprophyte Soldiers and Black Tooth a towering boss figure over 60mm tall!New Mechanic! Enhance your Specialists with all new powers! Each specialist now receives their own deck unleashing fantastic new abilities. The Specialist decks have been designed to work seamlessly with the core set and all other expansions!New Locations and Adventures! An all new 3 Act Operation: The Dead of Winter. Plus these standalone missions:Conquer your enemies on 4 new double-side map tiles giving you 8 new map sectors with all new terrain!

Marvel Dice Throne: Scarlet Witch v. Thor v. Loki v. Spider-Man

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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In Marvel Dice Throne you become one of eight of Marvel's most famous heroes including Black Panther Captain Marvel Black Widow Scarlet Witch Loki Thor Doctor Strange and Miles Morales Spider-man! Every Marvel Dice Throne hero was painstakingly designed and balanced to provide the most thematic experience possible allowing you to truly embody your favorite heroes like no other game. Featuring all-new mechanisms and asymmetrical designs these are our most innovative and exciting heroes yet.Marvel Dice Throne is a heart-pumping fast-playing game of skilled card play and dice manipulation supporting multiple modes of play including 1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all.Attack your opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly (yours your teammate's or even your opponent's).All 8 heroes are compatible with the entire Dice Throne ecosystem Use upgrade cards to improve your hero abilities as the game progresses Play action cards strategically to manipulate dice and surprise your foe Features a deluxe highly functional Battle Chest storage system Each hero in the Battle Chest has their own beautiful set of custom swirl dice—description from the publisher

Pixel Tactics

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

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Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.Pixel Tactics takes place in the same world and uses many of the characters from Level 99 Games' BattleCON: War of Indines but its game play is entirely unrelated.

Aristeia!

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2

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Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction Sports

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175 years into the future humankind has reached the stars. As the hyperpowers vie for influence in the shadows citizens use their permanent connection to Maya the interplanetary data network to revel in a bespoke deluge of thrills. Of course no form of entertainment is as sought after as Aristeia! the Human Sphere’s favorite extreme bloodsport.Aristeia! is the new sports game by Corvus Belli that allows two players to take the role of a competition team manager in the greatest visual show of the Human Sphere.The game will come in a basic box including everything necessary to play: 8 character figures with their exclusive cards 8 Initiative cards 52 Tactics cards 3 booklets (Access Guide to Human Sphere How-to-Play instructions and Reference Guide) a reversible board (the HexaDome) dice counters and tokens.Aristeia! will allow players to choose their team and jump into action in the HexaDome the arena where the definitive blood sport of the Human Sphere takes place. Players will enjoy the dynamic and spectacular nature of Aristeia! thanks to the exclusive character cards and Tactics cards representing incredible combat feats.In little more than one hour players will enjoy a fun game that will immerse them in strategies and tactics that promise to become addictive.Furthermore for the most competitive players Corvus Belli will arrange a special organized play program for Aristeia! with an international ranking and tournament kits including promotional material and prizes for the winners.Aristeia! will have regular expansion packs with new characters each of them featuring their own special skills and new combos that will improve the game experience. These expansion packs will be independent and completely optional.

Tiny Epic Kingdoms

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Civilization Fantasy Fighting Medieval Print & Play

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You are a tiny kingdom with big ambition. You want to expand your population throughout the realms learn powerful magic build grand towers and have your neighbors quiver at the mention of your name. The conflict? All of the other kingdoms want the same thing and there's not enough room for everyone to succeed...In Tiny Epic Kingdoms a 4x fantasy game in a pocket-size package each player starts with a unique faction (which has a unique technology tree) and a small territory. Throughout the game players collect resources explore other territories battle each other research magic and work to build a great tower to protect their realm.Note the Deluxe editions now have their own entries: Tiny Epic Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition (first edition) Tiny Epic Kingdoms: 2nd Edition – Deluxe Edition

Sanctum

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Sanctum is a competitive strategy game inspired by hack-and-slash RPG video games. Each player controls one of four unique characters as they journey into the heart of the fallen city of Sanctum building up their skills and arsenals along the way to prepare for the final fight against the Demon Lord.Multiple players may survive the fight but only one may claim the glory of purifying Sanctum. Gameplay is brisk with the possibility for overlapping turns. The four characters all have unique skill sets and you’ll level up fast giving you frequent opportunities to choose new skills. Every decision counts.Though the game is competitive the goal is to destroy the Demon Lord not each other. So player interaction is a race rather than a fight: Who’s furthest along the board? Who will get to choose first when an equipment draft gets triggered? Who will gain the benefit of reaching the Demon Lord first? Who will get to that group of blue demons everyone wants? Who will unlock that achievement and claim the bonus?On your turn you choose one action:1) Move: Advance along the path toward the Demon Lord and engage some demon minions to fight later. 2) Fight: Fight all the demon minions you’ve engaged. If you kill any demons upgrade Skills and acquire Items. 3) Rest: Equip some of the loot you’ve won recharge the resources you use to fight and buy potions with extra Items you don't need.The final battle with the Demon Lord is tough. Even surviving can feel rewarding. But only the player with the most health at the end of the boss fight can truly claim the glory of his defeat!

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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5-Minute Marvel

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Fighting Real-time

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The Marvel version of the chaotically fast-paced cooperative card game 5-Minute Dungeon that lets a group of Marvel heroes battle past Marvel bosses all in less than 5 minutes! Fast and frenetic gameplay gets everyone involved and engaged. Cooperative gameplay encourages communication interpersonal interaction and teamwork. 10 Marvel heroes to choose from and 6 progressively difficult Marvel bosses delivers strong re-playability.In more detail players assume the role of one of ten superheroes each with special cards and abilities. Once the Jarvis-hosted five-minute timer starts the race is on to defeat all the villains in the mission. In order to defeat a villain players must match symbols from their hand with ones on the villain's card. At the end of each mission is a powerful super villain — and after the first super villain is defeated the campaign continues to the second super villain. Each super villain and each randomized mission gets harder until players reach Thanos the final super villain.

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

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Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting Video Game Theme

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Bring the fast-paced action of head-to-head arcade fighting games to your tabletop with the Exceed Fighting System which features fast-paced intuitive mechanisms and gameplay that's accessible to gamers and non-gamers of all skill levels. Choose your fighter from an ever-growing roster of diverse characters each with their own deck of special moves and supers. Play your cards to unleash fireballs dragon punches and deadly combos on your opponents!Titles in the Exceed Fighting System come in one of two forms: standalone games that contain decks that allow two players to compete against one another and individual decks. The standalone games are being released in seasons with each season containing sixteen fighters from various franchises or worlds that are packaged into four-character boxes. Any deck can be played against any other deck allowing you to compete across seasons and across worlds.

Pixel Tactics 2

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

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Pixel Tactics 2 is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.Pixel Tactics 2 takes place in the same world and uses many of the characters from Level 99 Games' BattleCON: War of Indines but its gameplay is entirely unrelated.

Valhalla

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–6

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Card Game Dice Fighting Medieval Mythology

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The end is coming and greatest warriors are standing to fight. To die in glory and reach Valhalla.Valhalla is a card game with dice placement mechanics. Each player takes role of a Jarl who builds a team of warriors and equips them to fight. In battles player roll dice to activate warriors and play special tactic cards. The winning party sends their activated warriors to Valhalla and whoever has the most points at the end wins the game.The game puts a classical war game concept on its head. In Valhalla the goal is to win a battle and send winning warriors to Valhalla.Custom dice add randomness and excitement to the game and wide variety of Jarls warriors and battle tactics ensure great replayability.—description from the publisher(Español)El final se acerca y los principales guerreros se aprestan a la lucha. Para morir gloriosamente y alcanzar Valhalla.Valhalla es un juego de cartas con mecanismos de colocación de dados. Cada jugador toma el papel de un Jarl que reúne un equipo de guerreros y los equipa para luchar. En las batallas los jugadores lanzan los dados para activar luchadores y juegan cartas de tácticas especiales. El grupo ganador envía a los guerreros que haya activado al Valhalla y quien tenga más puntos al fina gana la partida.

Haven

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

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Animals Card Game Environmental Fantasy Fighting Territory Building

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The mystical forest has been home and haven to beasts spirits and forgotten gods for thousands of years. While the Haven Guardian slumbers a nearby human village has grown into a city hungry to control the powers of the forest. Can the forest creatures discover enough potent lore to defend their ancient home from the oppressive city — or will the city use this lore to power their machines and turn the forest against itself?The battle for Haven begins!In Haven you and your opponent battle for control of a mystical forest. The Haven Guardian spirit of the forest sleeps deeply and can no longer protect its kingdom. One of you controls the city in an effort to master the vulnerable forest using stone lore and machines. The other plays as the forest and its creatures who defend their home with the aid of leaf lore and forest spirits.To obtain the power needed to oppose your enemy you must send seekers to compete for the lore controlled by elementals ancient beings who bestow the lore on those who seek it. Seekers also engage in combat for control of shrines on the board scoring you bonus points if you occupy a majority of shrines surrounding forest havens. When one type of lore is depleted or one elemental has left the board the Haven Guardian awakens and the player with the higher score masters the forest — or defends it from harm — and wins the game.

Funkoverse Strategy Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Dice Fighting Miniatures

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Face off in the ultimate Pop! battleIn the Funkoverse Strategy Game you combine your favorite characters and go head-to-head in four exciting game scenarios. Use your characters' unique abilities to gain points and achieve victory!Each turn you select one of your characters and perform two actions. Each character has access to basic actions like moving and challenges as well as several unique abilities that may be performed only by spending ability tokens. Funkoverse uses an innovative cooldown system — the more powerful the ability the longer it will take for the ability token to become available again — so players have to spend their ability tokens wisely. Each character in Funkoverse is unique so players are encouraged to try out different combinations of characters and items in order to discover their favorite synergies and powerful strategies for all four game scenarios.As of launch the Funkoverse Strategy Game consists of four-character sets and two-character sets. Every four-character and two-character set is playable as a standalone game and comes with exclusive Funko Pop! Figures that aren't available anywhere else a double-sided board tokens cards an item and dice. Sets may be combined with one another allowing players the freedom to play how they like!—description from the publisherLinked entries in the BGG database:

Flick 'em Up!: Dead of Winter

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–10

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Action / Dexterity Fighting Horror Zombies

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Flick 'em Up!: Dead of Winter pits players against zombies in a dexterity game that has you using tools in various ways to take out the undead while they in turn shamble somewhat randomly in your direction.Based on the best-selling Dead of Winter form your group of ten survivors and explore the city with ten scenarios. Shh! The slightest sound will wake the zombies! With the new — and terrifying — zombie tower you'd better be ready and rearing to go when the zombies attack! Will you be able to flick some zombies?Part of the Dead of Winter series.

BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2

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In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe players each take control of one or more giant walking war machines (BattleMechs aka 'Mechs) and battle until their opponent is destroyed or until the scenario objectives being played are completed.In 2019 the old BattleTech Introductory Box Set was replaced by two all-new box sets. The second of these (after the Beginner Box) is A Game of Armored Combat. AGoAC comes with eight 'Mech miniatures (made to a higher quality level than the previous generation of box set miniatures). The AGoAC rules cover introductory weapons and construction technology and the standard BattleTech ruleset for 'Mechs.An expansion for this set the BattleTech: Clan Invasion box set adds more advanced technologies and introduces the Clan factions.In terms of rulebooks the intended follow-on from this box is either the BattleMech Manual (for more advanced but still 'Mech-only play) or Total Warfare (for combined arms play featuring 'Mechs combat vehicles infantry air support etc).

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 2

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team – Octarius

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2–4

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While armies numbering millions clash on battlefields spread across a thousand worlds specialised teams of elite operatives are dispatched on dangerous missions to accomplish vital objectives from the shadows. These kill teams as they are known are picked from the most capable and independent of their kind using strange and esoteric skills to achieve what a mighty army could not.The new edition of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team has been redesigned from the ground up as the greatest tabletop skirmish experience yet seeing teams of experienced operatives engage in vicious close-quarters combat as they race to complete their missions. In this book you'll find the complete rules for playing Kill Team as well as a host of missions to embark on lore covering the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium and insight on the factions vying for dominance among the shadows.—description from the publisherThis boxed set includes:1x 96-page Kill Team Octarius War Manual Book23x Citadel Miniatures17x Terrain Pieces3x Combat GaugesDouble-sided Game MatTwo decks of 27 Tactical Ops cards10 dice

Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Starter Set features fan favorite characters like Spider-Man Ghost Rider Kingpin and more! Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man premieres the Sinister Six Allies Underdogs and other exciting mechanics!With gameplay that supports two players in epic dice battles Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man will let players build their own team of heroes or villains! The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Starter Set is perfect for the Dice Masters veteran or someone looking to jump into the game fresh!Introducing more than 30 heroes and villains (and their dice!) Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man will be sure to stick out as a highlight of your Dice Masters collections!The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Gravity Feed features fan favorite characters like Spider-Man Gwen Stacy Aunt May Blink The Sinister Six Agent Venom Cloak Dagger and more!Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man has brand new mechanics for Allies and Underdogs. Even when the odds are against Spider-Man he’ll surprise you with some new tricks!

Munchkin Marvel

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 3–6

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Description from the publisher:Munchkin Marvel fuses the classic card game fun of monster-slaying and role-playing with the most iconic characters from the Marvel universe. Created under license from Steve Jackson Games and in conjunction with Marvel Munchkin Marvel comes complete with new monsters (villains) allies (heroes) and custom S.H.I.E.L.D. Identification Cards.

Masters of the Universe: The Board Game – Clash for Eternia

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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When Eternia is threatened by Skeletor and his vile minions the noble Prince Adam holds aloft the Sword of Power and proclaims By the Power of Grayskull I have the power! transforming into He-Man!Masters of the Universe: The Board Game - Clash for Eternia is a competitive one vs many or fully cooperative action-driven board game. Choose to play as the Heroic or Evil Warriors use unique abilities on the battlefield upgrade skills and by the power of Grayskull win the fight for Eternia!Players use dice rolling and character stats to move over a hex grid board and control Castle Greyskull.

Vengeance

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Mafia Miniatures Puzzle

Description from the publisher:Step into the shoes of a hero that has been bashed and tortured by one or more of the four gangs in the game. You win by building up your hero scouting gang dens to find the baddies who wronged you then taking bloody revenge through action-packed fight sequences made up of dice based puzzles.Vengeance alternates between montage turns and fight turns. In montage turns players heal and upgrade their heroes through new abilities and items. They also go out scouting gang dens to find the bosses who wronged them and take revenge on them in the fight turn.The fight turn is the heart of the game. Players pick one of the scouted gang dens containing a boss who has wronged them and burst into the gang den to exact bloody revenge. Players gain VPs for killing the boss clearing the den from all the minions or for maximum points both. Players have three turns to do this and get out of the den in one piece.Fights are basically dice-based puzzles. In each round of the fight players roll a set of dice and decide the order in which they play the rolled results. Upgrade skills and items allow players to swap die-results for others or string together a number of results to perform enemy-slapping combos. Upgrades thus work towards mitigating the luck of the die-roll giving players more control over their Fight actions.Players score points by killing bosses who wronged them i.e. matching the figure on their vengeance card with one of the face down Boss cards attached to each den and/or by clearing all minions of a gang which matches the color of a vengeance card they have in play.At the end of the game players also score bonus victory points through three mission cards in play.

King of Tokyo: Duel

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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As night falls on Tokyo two massive silhouettes rise from the smoke snaking up from destroyed skyscrapers. There can be only one who will be crowned King of Tokyo either by annihilating their rival or by inspiring terror and awe from the crowds.King of Tokyo Duel is a two-player tug-of-war dice game in the King of Tokyo line. Choose your uniquely-powered monster and roll new dice to draw the fame and destruction tokens toward you...or smash your rival with new special power cards to become the ultimate King of Tokyo!—description from the publisher

Run Fight or Die: Reloaded

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Fighting Horror Miniatures Zombies

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Back from the dead and better than ever! Run Fight or Die: Reloaded is a revamped and refreshed edition of the Richard Launius game Run Fight or Die.In the game you play a hero trying to survive wave after wave of zombies coming straight for you! You play as a unique character with your own character traits including a minor major and super combo. You'll need them to fight off the zombies move closer to you every round. You run from location to location searching for weapons and survivors in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Survivors may bring new skills to help you in your desperate fight for survival or in some cases new challenges to overcome. You'll also need them along if you want to win as every survivor provides you victory points.This streamlined version removes several decks from the original game including the Fleeing deck and Event deck. Players rolls six dice instead of five and there are now different combos to mitigate against tough zombie-filled rolls. Additionally players can now use followers to soak damage coming in from zombies.The game ends either when one player dies the Town Line comes out of the locations deck or when the Mutant Zombie has been put down once and for all. Whoever has the most leadership points among surviving players wins.Run Fight or Die: Reloaded is a frantic first person experience for 1 to 4 players (will play up to 6 with the 5/6 player expansion).

Dragoon

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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You and your fellow dragons have lived peacefully on your island...until now. The invasion of humans has awakened your instincts to dominate and hoard as much gold as you can get your claws on!Dragoon is an action strategy game with an ever-changing landscape. Village and city tiles populate the map each round using a coordinate system. During your turn choose between claiming villages and cities that pay you tribute or destroying them out right for instant gold. Challenge other players in dragon-to-dragon combat before they lay waste to your empire or enter your cave to steal your riches. You’re never out of the game until the last gold coin is snatched up!When game night strikes with a mixed experience group Dragoon is quick to learn and get started. Gaming vets and newcomers alike can have fun competing as 2-4 playable dragons.

Bad Bones

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–6

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Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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You lead the good life at the top of your tower contemplating your peaceful kingdom and chatting with your charming neighbors. Life is absolute happiness. Well it was...Terrible skeletons have arisen with a creepy clatter from their graves across the realms' ancient cemeteries. Those scouts that return report endless streams of bony hordes marching toward each kingdom ravaging the lands as they come. Faced with this sudden threat even your once friendly neighbors seem to have turned against you as they withdraw to their keeps to defend their own frightened kingdoms focusing on their own villages and tower.Your kingdom is at siege by the living dead. You raise troops build walls lay traps prepare magical spells and even wake your pet dragon. Hopefully they can be slowed or if you're devilishly crafty they can be turned toward those traitorous adjoining kingdoms. In this battle your best asset is your brave and proud hero who stands ready to slay those piles of walking bones. Alas he can't fight everywhere so if things get truly desperate you could offer them your treasure to get some relief.The ivory invaders want somewhere to call their own to live out their death in peace and they have their eye sockets on you! Will you hold out or will your home become the retirement village of the damned...?Bad Bones is a game in which you must survive an invasion of ever more numerous and dangerous skeletons. The invasion cannot be defeated so you must outlast your opponents to win the day. At your disposal are a range of weapons that defeat slow or even deflect the skeletons towards the other players. The game ends when one player's tower or village is wiped out.A game turn takes place in four phases:1] Hero Movement and Combat: Move your hero and eliminate the skeletons from the destination square. 2) Trap Placement: Place or remove traps on your personal board. 3) Skeletons Move: Move the skeletons forward damaging your tower or your village if they move far enough. 4) Skeletons Spawn: Place new skeletons among the streams and on the edges of the player boards.Each phase happens simultaneously for all players on their own player board which means a game with up to six players can take only thirty minutes. Multiple copies of the game can be combined to play with as many players as you have space for and the game can also be played solo. The rules are simple to explain and understand with several strategic variations for experts.The basic game is competitive - the surviving player with the most points wins. The advanced rules include a cooperative mode where all the players must survive in which case they all win.

Bardsung

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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You begin with a single tile and a destination. What unfolds is a branching labyrinthine dungeon of dangerous enemies wandering monsters challenging puzzles and valuable treasure.Bardsung is a game of choosing your path as you seek to inspire the bard’s songs and live your legend. From your physical passage through the dungeon to your journey of building your character into a fabled hero your choices define your experience.Because dungeons are procedurally generated (like those in a roguelike video game) no two playthroughs will be the same. Lay tiles to build the dungeon as you go choosing your direction from the options at hand to seek loot and avoid threats.Encounter different enemies and challenges each time through Event Battle and Challenge decks that spawn new foes and throw curveballs in the form of poisoned weapons traps reinforcements non-player characters and more.Round length turns and enemy activations are governed by a dynamic marching order that will keep you on your toes encouraging you to adopt strategies that control the ebb and flow of initiative.As you continue your campaign level up your hero to upgrade their stats access powerful new abilities and enhance existing skills. You have the freedom to either follow your hero’s designated path or to create your own bespoke hero with a unique set of traits and arsenal of attack combos.Enter intelligent and dangerous combat where positioning and teamwork are vital for maximizing your attacks and working with your allies. Your abilities can’t be used over and over so choose your moment wisely. And beware for the same enemy will behave differently from one encounter to the next. Just like your hero enemies can level up evolve their attacks and can even learn to hold grudges against heroes who defeat them...Bardsung can be enjoyed as a cooperative game of up to five players or as an exciting solo player experience. Explore the dungeon in standalone sessions or as part of a far-reaching narrative campaign that evolves based on your decisions.An RPG dungeon explorer Bardsung takes the best elements of traditional roleplaying games and beloved dungeon-crawling classics and combines them with a dash of contemporary gameplay to create a powerful new experience.With swift setup and easy-to-grasp mechanics taught by an intuitive tutorial-based rulebook your descent into the dungeon will be quick.Inspire the songs. Live your legend. Become Bardsung.

Chaosmos

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Bluffing Deduction Exploration Fighting Science Fiction

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The universe is about to collapse and your final hope lies in an ancient mysterious artifact the Ovoid. Whoever controls this cosmic egg can shape the birthing of the next universe according to their own agenda. Players are secret agents from a handful of surviving worlds zipping from planet to planet in special “amnion suits” that allow for interstellar travel space combat and planetary landings.Each planet has its own envelope of cards. When you arrive on a planet you decide which cards you want to take and which to leave behind. Knowledge is the most powerful resource in the game and being able to predict the cards your opponents possess at any given time is a powerful advantage as you build up a handful of weapons tactical gear vaults and traps as well as cards that counter your opponents' cards. The best players will keep their hand fluid constantly changing tactics while they search from world to world for the Ovoid or find a safe place to stash it.Balance your hand of cards spend your turn actions wisely and cleverly use your special alien powers to stay one step ahead of your opponents. When the Chaos Clock reaches zero only the player who possesses the Ovoid will become master of the new universe.

BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Fighting Miniatures Video Game Theme

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In BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia players will play as either the Founders or the Vox Populi and will build up an army to fight for control of Columbia by taking ground and completing important objectives. At the same time they'll be using their influence to sway various events that arise. They'll also find themselves having to deal with Booker and Elizabeth who are running around Columbia creating havoc.The game has players combating one another stealing objectives from under each other's noses assassinating leaders destroying strongholds bidding against each other for control of unfolding events and more. The first faction to 10 victory points wins. Because there are only two factions the game can be played by two players in a head-to-head format or by four players paired off in two teams.

Yomi (Second Edition)

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Print & Play

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Yomi (second edition) updates the original Yomi game with slight rule modifications and balance tweaks in addition to adding ten new characters.Yomi is a fighting game in card form in which physical dexterity is replaced by hand management skills. Just like in a fighting game you have to know your character know the matchup and know your opponent. Each character has a deck that follows the same conventions as deck of playing cards. This makes it easy to learn the contents of your deck: numbered cards are normal moves face cards are special moves and aces are super moves.Yomi is a competitive card game specifically designed and balanced to hold up to tournament play with many years of playtesting and tournaments behind it. It tests the skills of valuation and Yomi. Valuation refers to your ability to judge the relative value of moves (or cards) as they change over the course of the game. Yomi the game's title refers to your ability to read the patterns that your opponent unconsciously falls into. It's designed for high level play to be as interesting as possible and as balanced as possible.The game ends when one player is reduced to 0 life or when one player draws the last card of their deck. In that case time is out and the player with the highest life wins.Note: This item contains: Yomi Starter Set: Grave versus Jaina Yomi: Midori versus Setsuki

Imperium: The Contention

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–6

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Card Game Civilization Fighting Science Fiction Space Exploration Territory Building

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Only one may wield the Void Scepter.Seize the Void Scepter in Imperium: The Contention the 4X card game. Choose one of six factions each with a preconstructed deck or build your own from a complete collection of over 300 cards! Expand your empire deploy your fleet move your ships into position and battle your enemies. Seizing the Imperial Capital may lead you to victory... or ruin.There are many paths to ruling the Imperium. Your favor represents your Imperial influence. Gain 8 favor or claim 8 worlds and the Void Scepter will be yours! Gain the Imperium's favor by destroying enemy worlds or through political intrigue. Employ politicians spies megacorps and mercs. Take the Imperial Capital by force and use the seat of power to convince the Imperium only you are worthy.Now is the time! Lead your civilization to new heights and claim the Void Scepter!—description from the publisher

Enchanters: Overlords

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Humor

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Enchanters: Overlords is a standalone expansion that comes with game-altering nefarious Overlords 6 new decks and a big box to fit all the contents from both the Base Game and the Overlords Expansion.In the Overlords Expansion the nefarious rulers of the Underworld lead the invasion of your Village themselves. Dire consequences await those who let Monsters invade their Village as do unique rewards for those who dare to face them.One Artifact to rule them all!15 minutes per player - a short and replayable game! 2 minutes to explain - simple yet deep gameplay! 1 minute to set up - just shuffle and play! 10 second player turns - no bookkeeping only action!—description from the publisher

Darklight: Memento Mori

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–4

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Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Darklight: Memento Mori brings old-school dungeon crawler action with original dark-gothic settings and deep strategic combat.Four Accursed (the players) bound together by a twist of fate must fight their way though randomly generated dungeons to find lost treasure and acquire the souls of those they slay to extend their own life and use it as currency to survive in a world left in ruins by the coming of demons.Each player will take on the role of one of the four dark heroes which must survive and find their way to the Quest Room in order to complete a specific objective and win their current mission. Many things will try to stop them from terrifying and grotesque monsters to unexpected traps or events lurking secretly in the dungeons.For those wishing to expand their playing experience the game continues through hazardous journeys where the Accursed must resolve player driven decisions which can prove fatal when the wrong choice is made. If they were to survive the journey they would find a settlement where they can gather their strength buy new equipment or participate in the many activities available such as jousting while building their own reputation to improve their standing with the locals.Darklight: Memento Mori is a living experience within a dark mysterious world full of deception and secrets.

League of Dungeoneers

Rating: 8.6 | Players: 1–4

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League of Dungeoneers (LoD) is a detailed Dungeon Crawl and party management game. The game is designed to be a solo/coop game but could be played with a game master as well. The main task of the game is to develop your characters both by gaining experience but also by finding gold equipment magic and legendary items that can help you in your quest. The game is set in its own fantasy universe containing many of the races and monsters that you would expect from a classical fantasy setting. You could either run the campaign supplied with the game or run any of the 22 single quests.All dungeons are procedurally generated and all monsters and treasures are randomized making the quests different every time you play them. There is however a theme for each quest you embark upon so don’t expect to find a goblin among the undead in a crypt. There are more than 50 different room and corridor tiles each with details about furniture and 5 different large seized objective rooms. All rooms have different furniture and a chest is likely to contain gold or magic items where for instance a bookshelf is more likely to contain magical scrolls.Party morale and sanity are two important factors to monitor in the game. Meeting fearsome monsters and springing deadly traps will take its toll on the mental state of your heroes and too much strain will give your heroes unwanted disorders such as claustrophobia arachnophobia or stress syndromes. This will make them less effective and maybe even a liability for the rest of the party. To remedy this you will need to rest in between quests. If you can’t afford to rest due to lack of funds maybe that stressed out Dwarf will have to stay behind during the next quest forcing you to solve the task with a skeleton crew.Characters are designed around several stats such as strength and dexterity but also around skills such as Pick lock or Heal. Depending on their profession the heroes will excel in some of these while being quite useless in other. Through levelling you will also unlock talents which will boost certain areas of your character and perks which are powerful boosts that can be used a limited number of times. There are more than 100 talents and perks in the game. As your heroes levels up the monsters they meet will be tougher as well.Combat is an essential part of the game and is designed to promote movement and prevent those bogged down battles of attrition. With several types of attacks available both for monsters and heroes combat becomes more flexible and less of a chore. Add to this the decision if you should evoke that special perk that could change the outcome of the battle or save it to the next.Finally each dungeon has a threat level. This will increase as the Dungeoneers make their way through he dungeon. Making noises such as bashing down a door or maybe screaming because of your stress syndrome is a bad idea. This will increase the threat level which in turn increases the chances of something bad happening. Maybe you will trigger a wandering group of monsters or set of a trap? It can also give the monsters unexpected boosts during combat.I've have received some question and I thought I would make some clarifications:Complexity: Medium+ I would say. There is quite a lot of information defining each character which of course makes things more complex. However the actual gameplay is pretty straight forward once you get the hang of it. A gaming session can easily be paused by just taking a picture of the setup.What miniatures can I use?: You can use tokens standees or any other miniatures you have. The tiles are supplied with miniatures about 28mm with a 25mm base in mind but can of course be scaled to any scale you want to.How many different kinds of monsters are there?: A little more than 80. Some of these are variants such as Orc Orc brute and Orc berserker for instance. There are also several special characters that you will face during the quests not included in this list.Can I use other tiles or a 3D-printed dungeon with this game?: Yes! This is a simple matter of making your own rooms and corridors table. There is even a template for this in the files section.This game does not focus on stream lining but rather on creating a detailed dungeon crawler experience. It will require more on the behalf of the player than some of the more modern designs but for me it's the perfect level of detail.-description from designer

The Hunters A.D. 2114

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction

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The Hunters is a cooperative miniatures board game for 1-4 players. Become a machine hunter and face the enemies in a brutal post-apocalyptic world.Players become the Hunters of machines that wander between human settlements and together hunt dangerous enemies. Each mission taking from 30 to 90 minutes requires an adequate choice of gear and tactics. The players can also lay deadly traps and prepare ambushes. A day and night system is used in the game which has a significant impact on the choice of equipment and enemies' action abilities.At the end of each mission players gain experience points allowing them to reach new levels of training and be better prepared for survival in the hostile world. The most precious prize though is the remains of the defeated machines used to construct the hunters' gear.All the missions combine into an outstanding campaign during which the players will have to make tough choices influencing their future fate. Each time they will be able to make different decisions allowing every mission to be an exceptional experience full of new emotions.

Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Fighting Real-time Video Game Theme

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From the popular Cuphead video game comes an all new fast action original cooperative dice game where players must roll dice to defeat iconic bosses. Featuring the classic hand-drawn 1930’s art style this card and dice game emulates the side-scrolling run-and-gun excitement from the video game. Work together to be quick and nimble to avoid the attacks and defeat the bosses to win. Includes custom art 8 Boss Decks custom dice and more!Whats Included:4 Player Boards 1 Center Board 1 Boss Health Tracker 24 Six-Sided Dice 20 Wallop Cards 16 Health Tokens 12 Parry Tokens 40 Coins 5 Time Tokens 8 Boss Decks (25-40 cards each) 1 Results Tracker 1 Pad of Save Sheets

Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–2

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Dice Fighting

Hoplomachus [ha-ploh-ma-kuss] or Hoplo for short is a hex-based tactical board game set inside a gladiatorial arena. One to three players each representing an ancient city/civilization thought to have been lost to the world are now on Rome's doorstep vying for a place in the prestigious arena games.Players have a very clear objective: Eliminate the opponent's champion. Champions start the game in the arena but are inactive and defenseless. They will not fight until the crowd is behind them. Each player takes turns drawing playing and moving gladiators from their hand and assisting them with tactic chips.Based on opponent's moves and play style each person will need to adjust their strategies. Defend your champ take over and hold the crowd favor areas assault opponent's champion cover deployment zones eliminate tacticians to reduce enemy options fight beasts to gain crowd favor the list of tactical possibilities is endless.Hoplomachus combines combat tactics chip (units) management level progression (though crowd favor system) team play player vs board and so much more.

Astro Knights: Eternity

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Fighting Science Fiction

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Many generations after the events of the original Astro Knights setting a group of rag-tag intergalactic scrappers find great power and responsibility forced upon them! Astro Knights: Eternity is a stand-alone cooperative deck-building game with several scenarios connected by a single ongoing narrative.Continuing the gameplay lineage of Aeon’s End player decks are never shuffled in Astro Knights with the collective goal of defeating that scenario’s Boss before it destroys that mission’s Homeworld or all the players seeking to defend it.In addition to the familiar structure of the first Astro Knights game players will be introduced to all-new mechanics throughout the narrative campaign along with refreshed elements from the Aeon’s End series.Can your team of unlikely heroes adjust their strategies to overcome the powerful and unpredictable enemies that threaten the stability of the galaxy?—description from the publisher

Pixel Tactics 3

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Pixel Tactics 3 can be played as a standalone game or used to expand previous Pixel Tactics games. It also comes with new play modes such as Epic Constructed (60-card decks) Cube Draft and more that you can access by combining all three Pixel Tactics games (plus any mini-expansions)! Pixel Tactics 3 contains 25 new heroes including:Pixel Tactics 3 is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.

Donning the Purple

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–3

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Ancient Civilization Economic Fighting Political

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It is the year 193 AD. The Roman Empire is not as great as it once was. Hordes of enemies are crossing the borders famine spreads throughout the provinces and the political intrigues are tearing the empire apart from within. The previous emperor was killed by his own Praetorian bodyguard and has left a power vacuum that the powerful families in Rome are trying to fill. Are you ready to don the purple yourself and take on the stressful job as emperor? If you fail the other families are ready to take over at a moment's notice. While they wait for your doom they won't hesitate to backstab or undermine you as much as they can. However you all have to work together as the fall of the Roman Empire is closing in.Donning the Purple is an asymmetrical king of the hill game with a bit of worker placement. Each player leads a powerful family in ancient Rome trying to get the most victory points during 4 rounds. If your family member becomes the emperor and manages to hold the position he can earn lots of points. However he will also become the target of the other players as they will try to dethrone him and become the new emperor themselves.

Funkoverse Strategy Game: Harry Potter 100

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Fighting Miniatures

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In the Funkoverse Strategy Game you combine your favorite characters and go head-to-head in four exciting game scenarios. Use your characters' unique abilities to gain points and achieve victory!Each turn you select one of your characters and perform two actions. Each character has access to basic actions like moving and challenges as well as several unique abilities that may be performed only by spending ability tokens. Funkoverse uses an innovative cooldown system — the more powerful the ability the longer it will take for the ability token to become available again — so players have to spend their ability tokens wisely. Each character in Funkoverse is unique so players are encouraged to try out different combinations of characters and items in order to discover their favorite synergies and powerful strategies for all four game scenarios.Funkoverse Strategy Game: Harry Potter 4-Pack is a standalone game that includes the characters Harry Potter Hermione Granger Bellatrix Lestrange and You-Know-Who. This set may be combined with others giving you the ability to assemble the team you want!

Neuroshima: Convoy

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2

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Card Game Fighting Science Fiction

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Moloch forces are heading toward New York to raze the city. This will end the resistance of the people and eventually break their defense lines. A swarm of steel-gray machines marches to the east destroying everything in its path. Day after day the horizon is decorated with new pillars of smoke. Fire will soon visit the place that used to be called New York.Unless soldiers from the Outpost army can stop this convoy of machines. The fate of New York is in their hands. Can they destroy all the Moloch machines before they reach the city? Can they slow down the convoy in a series of ambushes and small battles? They have to...Neuroshima: Convoy first published as The Convoy is an asymmetric two-player card game set in the post-apocalyptic world of Neuroshima. One player commands the convoy of powerful robots and his goal is to reach New York and turn it into ashes. The player has a deck of 35 cards: robots of Moloch (such as the Gauss Cannon Clown or Juggernaut) modules to attach to the robots (Network module Kasparov module) and special cards (such as Push back or Move). He plays those cards in the cities he passes while moving toward NY trying to turn human settlements into dust while preparing for the final battle.The other player commands the Outpost troops attacking the convoy and trying to slow it down. The Outpost deck also contains 35 cards: soldiers (such as Runner or HG) buildings (such as Bunker or EMP Cannon) and many special cards (Move Retreat Medic). The Outpost has to win a few battles slow down the march of Moloch as much as possible and prepare to welcome robots in New York City.

Pixel Tactics Deluxe

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.Pixel Tactics Deluxe is a perfect place to start playing the game. This large box contains enough cards for two players rules punch tokens and storage space for all the other Pixel Tactics games in print. Whether you're a veteran of the series or just looking to get your feet wet it's a great place to start.All 25 heroes in Pixel Tactics Deluxe are brand new!

BattleCON: Trials of Indines

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Card Game Deduction Fighting Video Game Theme

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Mechanically diverse cast of ten characters intended as a great starting point in to the World of Indines.

Proving Grounds

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Real-time

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Maia Strongheart stands alone against the world. A cabal of conspirators has framed her for the death of her own mother the Sun Queen and they intend to usurp the throne from her family. To prove her own innocence and reclaim her birthright Maia must step into the proving grounds to complete a trial that will stretch her combat skills to the limit. Will the Wizened's chosen daughter vanquish her foes in the arena? Or will she be overwhelmed by the conspirators and their evil aspirations?Proving Grounds is a real-time solitaire dice game that merges narrative and gameplay in a brand-new way. In this box you will find a novella Only the Strongest Has the Heart of a Wizened Queen written by Monica Valentinelli. This sweeping story sets the stage for the events of the game. Read the story of Maia Strongheart as she fights to ascend to the Sun Throne then recreate her extraordinary battle!Proving Grounds has a training game and six different gameplay modules. Once you've learned the basics add a single module or mix and match to your tastes. If you're feeling truly adventurous put them all together for a true test of your gladiatorial combat skills!—description from the publisher

Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances Core Set

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Fighting Video Game Theme

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Become the next Master Summoner in the battle arena game Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances an expandable tabletop game inspired by the popular mobile game Disney Sorcerer's Arena.Recruit from a battle-ready roster of Disney and Pixar heroes and villains — Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey Gaston Aladdin Demona Sulley Dr. Facilier Maleficent and Ariel — then combine the cards for your characters into a single deck. You take turns playing standard actions and cards from your hand to move your characters and attack opponents. If you knock out rival characters or occupy certain spaces near the center of the arena until your next turn you score points. When a player reaches 20 points or runs out of cards in their deck the game ends at the conclusion of that round and whoever has the most points wins.The rules for Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances Core Set are spread out across four chapters with each chapter building on what's come before to introduce players to new skills upgrades and abilities over multiple games. Multiple expansions will be released for the game line to allow for more team combinations.

Codex: Card-Time Strategy – Core Set

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–5

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Codex: Card-Time Strategy is a customizable non-collectable card game set in the Fantasy Strike universe that's inspired by real-time strategy video games such as Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Players each control three different heroes and have access to a tech tree that allows them to use different strategies each time they play.The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's base. To do this players build up an army of units and heroes. Players determine the exact composition of their armies as they play by adding cards to their deck based on the tech they've chosen to pursue.

Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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Comic Book / Strip Fighting Miniatures

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Something in the multiverse has shattered and now the universe is bleeding. Throughout Mega-City One there are reports of invaders wreaking havoc: Celtic barbarians in Ezquerra Block. Russian nobles in Apetown. And rumors of fragments of other universes scattered across the city waiting to be claimed.The worlds of Judge Dredd Sláine Strontium Dog and Nikolai Dante will crash together on tabletops in the miniatures board game Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter which features gameplay similar to that of Wildlands with Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter - Wildlands Crossover Rules allowing for them to be combined.The game brings some of 2000 AD’s most well-known characters to the streets of Mega-City One fighting for the shattered fragments of their own universe! Faction-specific action decks and new special character abilities give each group their own playstyle from the well-armed Judges with their explosive ammo to the bestial fury of Sláine and his Celtic allies. Playing to your faction's strengths and exploiting your opponents' weaknesses will be the key to claiming victory on the streets of Mega-City One.

Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Fighting Miniatures Video Game Theme

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Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game is a pre-painted miniatures game that uses the Universal Tactics System! This system allows 2 to 6 players to simulate fights across the iconic roster of Street Fighter by controlling their favorite characters rolling dice and playing cards from fighter specific 40-card battle decks!

Funkoverse Strategy Game: DC Comics 100

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Fighting Miniatures

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In the Funkoverse Strategy Game you combine your favorite characters and go head-to-head in four exciting game scenarios. Use your characters' unique abilities to gain points and achieve victory!Each turn you select one of your characters and perform two actions. Each character has access to basic actions like moving and challenges as well as several unique abilities that may be performed only by spending ability tokens. Funkoverse uses an innovative cooldown system — the more powerful the ability the longer it will take for the ability token to become available again — so players have to spend their ability tokens wisely. Each character in Funkoverse is unique so players are encouraged to try out different combinations of characters and items in order to discover their favorite synergies and powerful strategies for all four game scenarios.Funkoverse Strategy Game: DC 4-Pack is a standalone game that includes the characters Batman Batgirl Joker and Harley Quinn. This set may be combined with others giving you the ability to assemble the team you want!

Marvel Dice Throne: Captain Marvel v. Black Panther

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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In Marvel Dice Throne you become one of eight of Marvel's most famous heroes including Black Panther Captain Marvel Black Widow Scarlet Witch Loki Thor Doctor Strange and Miles Morales Spider-man! Every Marvel Dice Throne hero was painstakingly designed and balanced to provide the most thematic experience possible allowing you to truly embody your favorite heroes like no other game. Featuring all-new mechanisms and asymmetrical designs these are our most innovative and exciting heroes yet.Marvel Dice Throne is a heart-pumping fast-playing game of skilled card play and dice manipulation supporting multiple modes of play including 1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all.Attack your opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly (yours your teammate's or even your opponent's). All 8 heroes are compatible with the entire Dice Throne ecosystem Use upgrade cards to improve your hero abilities as the game progresses Play action cards strategically to manipulate dice and surprise your foe Features a deluxe highly functional Battle Chest storage system Each hero in the Battle Chest has their own beautiful set of custom swirl dice—description from the publisher

The Dragon & Flagon

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–8

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Fantasy Fighting Humor

The Dragon & Flagon is a tavern world-renowned for its most magical drink The Dragon. Legend has it that one sip of The Dragon can give a hero wondrous abilities beyond their wildest dreams — but with a tavern full of thirsty adventurers and only one flagon left things are bound to go wrong. Prepare your magic and grab your weapon because there's only one true objective in this brawl — and it's not just a sip of The Dragon. Only one can win and emerge with the reputation as the greatest fighter ever seen within the walls of The Dragon & Flagon!The Dragon & Flagon is a game of chaos and mayhem for 2-8 players. Throw mugs smash chairs swing from the chandelier sip from the legendary Dragon Flagon cast spells and pull the rug out from under your fellow adventurers as you attempt to build up your reputation and win the day!Play as one of nine unique characters in a 3D tavern environment that can be set up differently every time. Multiple play modes add even more variety.Will you leave with the greatest reputation from The Dragon & Flagon?

Munchkin Zombies

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 3–6

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Card Game Fighting Humor Zombies

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In a reversal of roles all players in Munchkin Zombies start out as zombies and the monsters are the normal people trying to stop the zombie invasion (such as the Action Hero Soccer Mom Fireman etc.). Unlike most Munchkin games there are no classes or races; instead you can have a mojo: Atomic Zombie Plague Zombie and Voodoo Zombie. As with Munchkin Bites! and Super Munchkin Munchkin Zombies includes powers – special abilities that you can play as you gain levels.Guest artist is Alex Fernandez who drew the Meals on Wheels card.Part of the Munchkin series.Munchkin is a satirical card game based on the clichés and oddities of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. Each player starts at level 1 and the winner is the first player to reach level 10. Players can acquire familiar D&D style character classes during the game which determine to some extent the cards they can play.There are two types of cards - treasure and encounters. Each turn the current players 'kicks down the door' - drawing an encounter card from the deck. Usually this will involve battling a monster. Monsters have their own levels and players must try and overcome it using the levels weapons and powers they have acquired during the game or run away. Other players can chose to help the player or hinder by adding extra monsters to the encounter. Defeating a monster will usually result in drawing treasure cards and acquiring levels. Being defeated by a monster results in bad stuff which usually involves losing levels and treasure.Note: The 2012 edition of Munchkin Zombies from Pegasus Spiele includes the first expansion Munchkin Zombies 2: Armed and Dangerous.

Lost Legends

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–5

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Fantasy Fighting

Lost Legends is a fantasy card game by Mike Elliott that combines a streamlined Euro game design and card drafting with an interesting fantasy theme and battle mechanic. Players take on the role of heroes trying to assemble an arsenal of equipment in order to vanquish a series of monsters that they will encounter.The game begins with all players choosing one of five heroes each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Each player fights their own monster; this is not a cooperative game. The monster each hero will likely face is revealed to them before players draft cards for their equipment. An interesting aspect in this game is you may if the conditions are right evade a monster in front of you and pass it to the hero next to you. But be aware if you do this you have to fight the monster you draw next!Players then select an equipment card drafted from a hand of cards and pass the remainder of the hand to your left to prepare for battle with the monster in front of them. The equipment draft continues in this manner until only one card is left in each hand which is discarded. Players then compare their drafted equipment to their monster to determine the result of the battle! The game consists of 3 levels filled with monsters to slay and new equipment to pick up.Players need Legend Points to win the game! These come in the form of trophies awarded for most monsters as well as sets of monsters slain. Can you defeat the monsters thrown in your path to glory and become the most Legendary?

Last Friday

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–6

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Deduction Fighting Horror Movies / TV / Radio theme Murder / Mystery

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Last Friday is a hidden movement hunting and deduction board game inspired by the popular slasher horror movie genre. In the role of young campers the players are challenged to survive a long weekend of terror – while one of them takes the role of the undying psychopath hiding in the shadows of the forest. In general the murderer's goal is to remain hidden and to kill off each of the campers while the campers are trying to fight back and kill the murderer before they are all killed.The game is played over four chapters — Arrival at the Camp The Chase The Massacre and The Final Chapter — and each chapter plays out differently as the hunter becomes the prey then comes back from the dead looking for revenge.

Flash Duel: Second Edition

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–5

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Flash Duel: Second Edition is a simple fast card game that simulates sparring matches amongst Fantasy Strike characters. The fight takes place on an 18-space linear track and it's all about striking from the right distance and getting to the right range. This edition contains 20 characters each with their own special abilities allowing for hundreds of different matchups.Part of the Fantasy Strike Universe.

HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–6

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Krasvetelia. The sun sets on this cold and desolate place. Once a beautiful land of craggy mountains fertile valleys and deep bottomless chasms it has now wilted like a rose in winter.The small kingdom tucked away from the rest of the world has had few rulers in its time. None certainly as evil as their current. It is rumored that Mirza Noctis came to power some two-hundred years ago. Eternally youthful the man is whispered to have controlled the bloodlines of this place carefully arranging unions between noble families and culling those of weaker bloodlines.Now the peoples of Krasvetelia live a harsh life starved of happiness. Writing is outlawed and the caste system in place prevents all but a handful of nobles from holding titles and land in Noctis’s name. Up until recently starving to death was most of Krasvetelian’s worries. But more and more people are going missing in this land. Devoured by darkness some say...The scholars left to themselves in their remote monasteries have recently unearthed a terrible secret: Mirza Noctis is working tirelessly his agents harvesting blood from the local populous. Years of unattachment to this land have left the people mostly unaware of his actions. But a terrifying fact is now clear: Noctis is working towards a massive blood ritual. He has all but locked away any tools that could be used to defeat him and the scholars worry he is just beginning. A greater threat is about to befall the land...—description from the publisher

Sonar Family

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Deduction Fighting Nautical Real-time

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In the depths of the ocean two submarine crews are engaged in a silent war enemies forever.SONAR Family is a submarine battle game in which two teams operate a different submarine. Each player plays a crew member: the Captain or the Radio Operator. The game comes with 4 Double-sided Captain Sheets and 4 Double-sided Radio Operator Sheets. These are maps that are dry erase and are used to track movement and find the opposing team to sink their submarine. The two teams are divided by a screen blocking the view of each team’s maps.If one of the two submarines loses its second structure point its team loses immediately. The team who sunk the submarine wins the game!

Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–5

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Wargame

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In the Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers players customize the battlefield by designing the map then placing terrain and powerful glyphs. Then players choose one of five different Planeswalkers and move their figure and unique creature squads around the map in a race to out-maneuver opponents and gain tactical advantages! Cast devastating spells summon powerful squads and tap into your unique Planeswalker abilities to defeat your opponents. Be the last Planeswalker standing to win!The game takes place on the drifting mana-rich world of Shandalar.

Posthuman

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fighting Science Fiction

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Our aspiration to omnipotence has led to the enhancement of our capacities so far beyond our species' limits that we created our genetic successors. Inevitably the evolved reached their first realization as a unified entity: the extinction of humanity as we know it.Posthuman pits you as one of the last human survivors in a world where nature is reclaiming the planet and our evolved offspring are working to eradicate us. Will you resist mutation and survive or give in to the inevitable and join the evolved?In the game players are humans on a solitary journey to a promised safe house. This journey takes them through ten zones with the zones being tile-based and randomly generated. As they travel they encounter each other other humans and posthuman mutants. Encounters with mutants may inflict scars and the more scars players have the less human they are and the more posthuman they become. Will they strive to cling to their humanity and make a run for the safe house winning the game? Or will they give in to the ever more tempting mutation join the posthuman and deny the win from the rest of the humans?

Necromunda: Underhive

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor Movies / TV / Radio theme

Get ready for a new generation of war in the underhive. Necromunda: Underhive a reworking of the 1995 title Necromunda is packed with content to get you started: a full board representing the sewers and confines of the underhive a rulebook character cards templates dice and your gangs.There are two full gangs in the box: one set of nimble warrior-women from House Escher and one set of gene-crafted brutes from House Goliath. Each of these miniatures is detailed characterful and true to the classic spirit of Necromunda — hairstyles and all! These gangs are multi-part kits with an enormous level of customization. There are weapons for any situation from classics like the stub gun to more esoteric choices like the repurposed industrial equipment of House Goliath or the chem-weapons of the Eschers.The set's gaming tiles and simple bulkhead scenery allow you to play games quickly and easily. As well as the underhive style of play covered by the boxed set there will also be ways to play Necromunda with the multi-level skirmishes that defined the classic version of the game.

Munchkin Adventure Time

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–6

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Party

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In Munchkin Adventure Time players can help Finn Jake Lumpy Space Princess and friends navigate the perils – and the rewards! – of the Land of Ooo. Will Oh my glob – look out! be the last thing Adventure Time fans hear from Princess Bubblegum? Or will Finn and Jake save the day with a sturdy sword and a hearty Slamacow!?Munchkin Adventure Time is both a standalone game and an expansion for other titles in the vast Munchkin family.Munchkin is a satirical card game based on the clichés and oddities of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. Each player starts at level 1 and the winner is the first player to reach level 10. Players can acquire familiar D&D style character classes during the game which determine to some extent the cards they can play.There are two types of cards - treasure and encounters. Each turn the current players kicks down the door by drawing an encounter card from the deck. Usually this will involve battling a monster. Monsters have their own levels and players must try and overcome it using the levels weapons and powers they have acquired during the game or run away. Other players can chose to help the player or hinder by adding extra monsters to the encounter. Defeating a monster will usually result in drawing treasure cards and acquiring levels. Being defeated by a monster results in bad stuff which usually involves losing levels and treasure.

Lobotomy

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures

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Take the role of escaped mental patients in this fully cooperative board game for 1 to 5 players. Enter the abandoned mental hospital from your worst nightmares. Each player controls a different crazy character with their own story and phobias which can become reality in any moment. There is one goal: to escape. But it is not easy when you think that all the staff are the evil monsters and the warden is the worst of them.Lobotomy is a scenario based adventure/dungeon crawler game. Lobotomy introduces such features as:All characters and monsters have their own awesome miniatures (with over fifty in the base set).

Combo Fighter

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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Bluffing Card Game Fighting Video Game Theme

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Called to an exclusive competition on an offshore oil rig by an eccentric billionaire the world's best brawlers and martial artists will compete for lavish prizes and the glory of proving that they are the strongest and most skilled.In Combo Fighter you will play as one of these fighters competing to become the ultimate champion. You will have your own unique 50-card deck and set of combos to bring against your opponents. Each hit removes cards from your hand and deck and the first to run out of cards is defeated!Key Points - Fast Fun Arcade style action card-game! - Learn in 2 minutes and each game plays in 10 minutes. - Many different fighter match-ups to try and wield against your friends.

Meeple War

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Exploration Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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Before these elegant little wooden figures served faithfully in Carcassonne City and many other playful treasures did you know that the meeples were originally battle vehicles for the four kingdoms of Lilliput? Embody yourself as one of the leaders of those kingdoms and re-enact (in actual size!) those tremendous battles of history. Develop your city claim new territories fight for glory and destroy enemy cities: It’s time for meeple war!To win Meeple War gain six victory points by fighting enemy armies destroying enemy cities and gaining control of areas. Over the course of the game you develop your city build powerful armies fight and destroy buildings. In this game of timing and strategy anticipation and diplomatic skill — or perhaps crying — is key to victory.

Batman: The Animated Series – Gotham City Under Siege

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–5

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Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Gotham City’s most infamous villains have put the city into peril once again. Now Batman Robin Batgirl Commissioner Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department along with the unlikely aid of Catwoman are all that stands between restoring peace and the total destruction of Gotham City!Designed by Richard Launius and Michael Guigliano BATMAN – The Animated Series: Gotham City Under Siege is a cooperative game for 1 to 5 players Each player takes on the role of a powerful Gotham City super hero and must defend the city over the course of four acts with each act inspired by episodes from the first season of the show. Players will need to work together to find the right balance between completing challenging story cards or taking down the villains and masterminds running rampant in the streets!

Fast Forward: FORTRESS

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor Math

A great fortress looms in the distance...and it must be yours! Accept the challenge against all others to conquer the Fortress!FORTRESS is a game about taking risks and out-witting and bluffing your friends to become the dominant ruler of the kingdom.You start a Fast Forward game without reading a rules booklet in advance! Just grab some fellow gamers and discover the rules while playing. The Fast Forward series uses the Fable Game system introduced in Fabled Fruit: With the presorted deck of cards you will discover all cards and rules as you play. It will take twelve games of FORTRESS before your group has explored the entire system. It can then be reset and played again by the same or different groups!FORTRESS is the second of four completely different games in the Fast Forward Series!

Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.WizKids has announced a Civil War set for its popular Marvel Dice Masters Collectible Dice Game. Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War will include Starter Sets Foil Packs a Team Box a Collector’s Box a Playmat and a Dice Bag. Release is planned for May.Based on the Marvel comic book Civil War storyline the set will include iconic characters from both sides of the conflict like Spider-Man Captain America and Iron Man. It will also introduce new mechanics for the game: Thunderbolts Enlistment and New Warriors.

Godtear

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–8

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Godtear is a hex based tabletop skirmish board game for two players. With its dynamic scenarios and pre-assembled pre-coloured miniatures it’s quick to start but hard to master!Godtear is a scenario driven game. Each scenario has its own rules but there are common rules that form the basis of all scenarios. Each scenario uses the scoring system below in addition to its unique scenario rules. During each turn of Godtear players compete to influence the momentum of battle allowing them to gain the upper hand. This is represented by moving the turn token on the battle ladder closer to that player’s warband token.Here are the ways a player can influence the tide of battle and move the turn token closer to their own warband token:• Knock out an enemy champion - 4 steps • Knock out a small enemy follower - 1 step • Knock out a large enemy follower - 2 steps • Make a claim action during the plot phase - 1 step • Have a friendly banner on an objective hex during the end phase - 4 stepsAt the end of the turn the player with the turn token in their half of the battle ladder wins the turn and gains the number of victory points shown on the reverse side of that turn’s turn token.The first player to have 5 victory points wins the game.

Munchkin Apocalypse

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–6

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Party

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Card Game Fighting Humor

Munchkin Apocalypse is a core set in the Munchkin series with an end of the world theme that includes natural disasters zombie takeovers Armageddon alien invasions nuclear war etc. And while this is still a standard Munchkin game where you try to level up by killing the monsters stealing the treasure and stabbing your buddy there's a new Seal mechanic that significantly changes the gameplay.Seals are a reference to the biblical seals of the Apocalypse. They can be opened and closed although it's typically more difficult to close them. Once seven Seals are open the game ends immediately and the player with the highest combat strength (excluding levels) is the winner. The Seal mechanic adds a sense of impending doom to the game meant to mimic the sense of impending doom for a real apocalypse. It also tends to create situations where the group works together to close a Seal in order to prevent a player from winning via the Seal mechanic. So there is more teamwork than in a regular Munchkin game.The balance of the deck is also different than the other Munchkin sets. There are a lot more Disaster cards which are equivalent to traps and curses so bad things tend to occur more frequently. Also there are more monsters especially high-level monsters. To offset this however there are more item enhancers and high-bonus items. It's been stated in the Munchkin forums that Munchkin Apocalypse is harder to play and is intended more for seasoned Munchkin veterans.Munchkin Apocalypse has four new classes but does not have races powers or other thingies. It includes Undead and Shark monsters which follow special rules.The game comes with 180 cards (92 Doors 76 Treasures 12 Seals). The Seal cards are a different size than the regular cards--they're square and are shorter but wider (2.75 x 2.75). The included d6 is orange with lime green pips similar in color to the orange dice in the +6 Bag o' Radioactive Munchkin d6.

Catacombs & Castles

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–8

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Action / Dexterity Adventure Fantasy Fighting

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Catacombs and Castles is a standalone game featuring a Catacomb team of heroes vs a Castle team of heroes. The game serves as an introduction to the Catacombs world and dexterity game system so it features simplified fast game play with some new mechanisms.As in Catacombs players flick pieces around a board to simulate combat with cards and special powers dictating how you can move and attack.Catacombs and Castles supports up to eight players competitively (in Team Mode) and up to four co-operatively (players teamed against an 'Overseer' player called Boss Mode). The game is compatible with the third edition of Catacombs serving as an expansion for that title with a new board and will be compatible with the Catacombs: Wyverns of Wylemuir expansion.

Warpgate

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–6

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Fighting Science Fiction Space Exploration

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Warpgate is a fast-paced game of hand management and area control. As a leader of a unique race of aliens lead them towards triumph.Move your fleets of star-ships on a hex-based modular game board establish colonies and outposts and engage your enemies in battles for the control of prized commodities. Research new technologies and grow your galactic empire.—description from the publisher

KeyForge: Dark Tidings

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2

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KeyForge: Dark Tidings is the fifth series in the KeyForge line. As always each deck in the line contains cards from three of the seven houses included in the line but for Dark Tidings the Dis house will be replaced with the Unfathomable which specializes in controlling their foes by exhausting enemy creatures. Some cards keep your opponent's creatures down making it difficult for them to muster a fighting force or reap enough æmber. Once your enemies are exhausted you can keep them out of commission with other cards or even wipe away their board.Each Dark Tidings deck also includes a high/low tide card. The card starts the game out of play but eventually one player will bring it into play especially since some cards in Dark Tidings can carry out their effects — or have a massively larger effect — when the high tide is on that player's side. Many effects can raise the tide but if they're not available the player with low tide can always suffer three chains to turn the tide in their favor.Dark Tidings also features the debut of evil twin decks a new type of deck. For example you may open a deck that's entitled Speaker Domitia's Evil Twin. This deck is an exact copy of Speaker Domitia a real deck that has been printed and can be found by another player out in the world. The crucial difference is that in an evil twin deck many of your creatures look a little different. Specifically in Dark Tidings many creatures have evil twin variants and if you find an evil twin deck every creature with an evil twin variant appears in that form. These evil twin creatures feature new artwork graphic design and abilities making them a significant departure from the original creature.

Reichbusters: Projekt Vril

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fighting Miniatures World War II Zombies

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Reichbusters: Projekt Vril is a fast and furious game with lots of weird science witty one-liners and heroic moments set during World War II. It is late December 1944 and on the face of it history has unfolded as we know it but that could be about to change.The Nazis have discovered a source of vril that has been brought back to the Reich for study. Vril is a source of energy that can control all types of matter. It can destroy like lightning or replenish life heal or cure. It is used to rend through solid matter. Its light is said to be steadier softer and healthier than that from any flammable material. It can also be used as a power source for animating mechanisms.If the Nazis work out how to harness this power it will be more potent than the atomic bomb. The secret Nazi experiments are not just a threat to the outcome of the war but to the entire world. Many different secret bunkers hold all manner of research into the properties of the enigmatic vril and we're sending you the Reichbusters on a mission to stop this research in its tracks!Players will choose from a selection of Allied Heroes and visit R&D to prepare equipment before venturing out on missions against the evil Vrilmeisters. Mission objectives will vary from mission to mission while secondary objectives could appear as the heroes explore the bunkers. Each mission will see the players facing off against more and more heinous enemies from re-animated corpses to dark experiments and from ferocious mutations gone wrong to the evil Vrilmeisters themselves.Each mission begins with the heroes infiltrating making the use of stealth hidden actions and minimising noise to make their way towards their objective undetected. Players will have to choose how long to remain quiet because time will be of the essence.Inevitably however the Nazis will discover the presence of the heroes and once the alarm is raised players need to be prepared for all hell to break loose. Once the objective has been completed the heroes must escape to report back their success however anyone left behind will be captured and unavailable in future missions if playing a campaign.Players will be able to take part in an ongoing Campaign of missions or they can set up a Raid with random maps heroes and Nazi faction to fight against.Game Play Reichbusters: Projekt Vril is a fully co-operative game so the heroes will either succeed or fail together.While remaining hidden players can choose the player order and on their turn players can take a number of actions including Moving Fighting Drawing Picking up Items & Interacting with board elements.In addition to base actions players will also have their hero specific card decks. These cards modify actions as they happen such as adding dice to attacks or making more tactical movement. The hero cards can also be used to take additional actions beyond your base actions.Each hero also comes with exciting Feats which can be used to turn the tide or secure that crucial objective right when you need to. On top of that each hero receives a number of “Heroics” at the beginning of the game. “Heroics” can be spent to automatically succeed at tests such as attacks. In desperate moments you can also use “Heroics” to prevent failed tests but this will find you running out of them fast!Throughout the game the players will find items that they can carry and use. Some of these will be things they are looking for as part of their missions. Other things will be useful stuff like medical supplies vril healing potions guns grenades etc.Custom dice will be used to decide the outcome of attacks defence and the impacts of noise created by players. Each card tells you how much noise it creates and how much Nazi activity it triggers. The more cards you play the more noise you generate and the more the Nazis act in response.The Nazi reinforcements will be relentless so the heroes need to complete their objective and escape before time runs out and they get overwhelmed by the Nazi forces and their vril tech.—description from the publisher

Dark Domains

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–5

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Card Game City Building Fantasy Fighting

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In Dark Domains each player takes on the role of a city leader attempting to expand the frontier of Harrows into the hinterland. Unbeknownst to the powers in Harrows some of those leaders namely the players are secretly evil to the core and in the thrall of the Necromancer. Once away from the bustling city and the oversight of the courts these overlords create domains that outwardly appear to be beacons of light and hope. Eventually however their true colors will come through and those upstanding pillars of the community will retreat to their lairs as the masquerade ends and their lands begin to decay into wastelands overrun by foul monsters and nefarious henchmen.But all is not peaches and cream in the lands of darkness. Harrows is home to the famous Torin Company and its never-ending supply of heroes and adventurers. Once the word reaches Harrows that darkness is afoot in the Domains it is only a matter of time before these nosy adventurers begin to seek out the dens of horror to stop the evil.Dark Domains is a worker placement game where 2-5 players attempt to create a Domain that provides them the most evil depicted in the game by skulls. Players must use Minions Henchmen Monsters & Magic to stamp out the good repel the Torin Company and cover their land in darkness.Tarot cards are used in the game as events to live up each turn and to regulate the phases of the game.

Blitz Bowl: Season 2

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Sports

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Welcome Sports Fans! Blitz Bowl – Season 2 is a fast-paced sports game that pits two teams against each other in a battle to achieve touchdowns complete Challenges and score the most points through a mixture of skill luck and aggression!The teams are small the games are fast and the action is intense as each player seeks to distinguish themselves in the eyes of Nuffle in the infamous Crush recruitment rituals. Blitz Bowl features a number of elements that will be familiar to fans of Blood Bowl so the two games are ideal companions to each other.—description from the publisher

Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege is a game that utilizes WizKids Games' proprietary Dice Building Game platform in which two players take the role of warlords collect and assemble their party of adventurer dice and battle in head-to-head gameplay. Each turn players roll the dice to see what resources they have available buy dice send their party members into the field and then strike at the enemy warlord. There are multiple cards available for each type of die so players get to choose which one to use. This lets players specialize dice to suit play style.Additional cards and dice to expand your collection can be found in expansion packs. Each Foil Pack contains two cards and two dice that players can add to their Dice Masters Faerûn Under Siege collections. Players can create teams of their favorite fantasy characters from the Forgotten Realms universe.The Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters line will consist of starter sets a Collector's Box booster packs play mats and a Party storage box.

Stellar Conflict

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Action / Dexterity Card Game Fighting Real-time Science Fiction

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Stellar Conflict is a fast-paced space combat game with real-time elements set in the Among the Stars Universe.In this game which reimplements the James Ernest and Tom Jolly design Light Speed players take over the role of an alien race taking part on a space battle. Each player has their own fleet and based on the size of the battle they choose which ships will be deployed for combat (deployment phase). Each race has its own power and abilities which grants it different advantages in combat.After both players have deployed their forces in this time-limited real-time phase the combat phase begins.The Combat Phase lasts a random number of Rounds based on which ships have been deployed on the battlefield. Each Round different ships fire their weapons and perform their abilities trying to destroy enemy ships and/or complete objectives.Stellar Conflict offers a more advanced deeper alternative to Light Speed. Each race has its own fleet of different ships and abilities guaranteed to offer lots of replayability.

Nightfall: The Coldest War

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–5

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Horror Zombies

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Game description from the publisher:Eastern Europe and the former Russian states are known as the birthplace of vampires werewolves and many fears that have been realized in Nightfall. Face those fears and bring tactics used in generations past to fight the darkness.Nightfall: The Coldest War is a stand-alone expansion to the competitive deck building game Nightfall. The Coldest War brings you a complete all-new set of cards with special powers and features a full set of 6 exciting new starting minions! The Coldest War also introduces Moon Phase cards that change the game globally as well as new fully illustrated Wound cards.Each card has a main color and two linking colors. If you can match the main color of a card to one of the linking colors of the previous card you can chain those cards together. Once a chain is started players all get an opportunity to link additional cards onto the chain during that turn.Cards in the chain resolve in reverse order: first in last out. Instant effects fire off as cards come off the chain doing damage to your opponents or bringing characters into play to defend you and attack your opponents.The object of Nightfall is to put wounds into your opponents’ decks and end the game with the least amount of wounds in your deck. But beware: the more wounds a person has the more enraged they become and the faster their deck works meaning more cards and bigger chains will come your way!

Vengeance: Roll & Fight – Episode 1

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Real-time

Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a real-time roll-and-write game in which the frantic action around the table mimics the kick-arse fighting action in the game-world! Set in the world of Vengeance and designed by Dávid Turczi Noralie Lubbers and Gordon Calleja Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a standalone game that transforms the fast-paced dice puzzles of the original Vengeance into roll-and-write mechanisms in which you're building combos striking off enemies and scoring points for an action-packed brain-teasing fighting game that's easy to learn and hard to master.The aim of Vengeance: Roll & Fight is to infiltrate a gang den carve your way through its rooms and kill the Boss while completing side objectives printed on the dens themselves.The game is split into three parts: planning fighting and montage. In the planning phase players roll and re-roll 4 dice in real time aiming to roll a combination of dice that match an ability they wish to trigger in the upcoming fight phase. Assigning dice to an ability allows players to fill their hand back to four dice from a large common pool and repeat the process as quickly as they can manage.Once the dice pool is depleted the fighting proper begins. Here players take a set of dice assigned to an ability and execute that ability moving their piece through rooms full of enemies and crossing them out when they are hit with the multitude of available abilities. Finally players heal and upgrade their characters bring new abilities and items into play to help them on their road to vengeance.Vengeance: Roll & Fight comes in two boxes: Episode 1 and Episode 2. Both episodes are standalone games with the same rules but with entirely different content: different heroes dens bosses abilities and items. Each episode accommodates up to four players so combining the two increases the player count from 1-4 to 1-8! Content in both Episodes can be switched like-for-like as you choose.

Seas of Havoc

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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Fighting Nautical Pirates

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In Seas of Havoc players take on the role of a unique captain of a ship in a naval combat game where players are competing for the most renown. Players can gain renown for discovering shipwreck and battling it out on the high seas.The game is split between a combat phase on the high seas and an island phase where players send out their skiffs to worker placements to gain resources improve their decks repair and upgrade their ship. During the combat phase Players will play out a hand of cards to maneuver their ship; navigating obstacles searching shipwrecks and firing cannons at their opponents. Multi-use cards offer options as the battle unfolds and card bonuses reward smart play.—description from the publisher

Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

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Card Game Collectible Components Fantasy Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme Video Game Theme

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Battle Academy is designed to be easy to learn and fun to play for all types of Trainers including children and parents that may be new to the Pokémon TCG. Pokémon has a unique ability to bring people together and we look forward to seeing families enjoy Battle Academy at their next game night as parents bond with their kids over one of their favourite entertainment brands and collectible Pokémon TCG cards.

Elekt

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–4

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Elekt is a tactical card game steeped in a dark fantasy climate of horror and intrigue. This tactical card game for 2-4 people features 100 beautifully illustrated cards depicting the ghosts and servants of Darkness who will fight for you in your attempt to seize the throne of the dark Ebionite Dominat as a new Emperor-Elekt. This game offers a lot of strategic decisions driven by intuition and cunning.Elekt is set in the post-apocalyptic techno-fantasy world of Klanarchia created by Michał Markowski and described in the RPG Klanarchia handbook.

Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

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Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Video Game Theme

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“Ruin has come to our family.”In this adaptation of Red Hook’s acclaimed Darkest Dungeon video game you strive to cleanse a manor and its surroundings of all manner of evil: hordes of the undead foul beasts and eldritch abominations... And finally either at death’s door or at your wit’s end you will have to uproot evil itself from the darkest dungeon.Darkest Dungeon is a fully cooperative dungeon crawl game in which players take on the role of adventurers. Although brave and determined adventurers are only human! They are prone to the madness and pain the twisted dwellers of the dungeons will inflict upon them. Death can occur but is not the worst fate: heroes can be driven mad and beyond help!The game is played in campaigns of 11 missions. To reach the Darkest Dungeon itself players will undertake 3 missions per threat level and vanquish the boss. Then they will be strong enough and face the horrors of the Darkest Dungeon! They may emerge victorious... if they dispatch the source of evil that plagues the land.For each hero select 3 skills out of 7 before heading into your mission (and level the heroes up to gain access to more skills). In each room pick the most suitable stance to best resolve the conflict! Then on each turn a player chooses two of the available actions of moving interacting with the environment changing their stance or using a skill (if eligible for their current stance). Triumph over encounters resist rampant madness and emerge victorious before throwing yourself into another battle. Between missions spend your time in the hamlet visiting various buildings to find relief from the physical and mental trauma you’ve just endured. Restore the hamlet to its former glory and it will reward you and help you to fulfill the ultimate goal.

Vampire: The Masquerade – CHAPTERS

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Card Game Deduction Fighting Horror

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Chapters takes place in Montreal after the appearance of the Second Inquisition and the fall of the Sabbat. Designed around three pillars — story strategy and roleplaying — the game merge the best elements of RPGs and board games in a totally new way. Players decisions will shape the adventure in a strong and mature storytelling.Roleplaying board game: Players have the agency to make decisions based on their character choices. They will create their characters and improve it over time with experience points.The game is composed of several sealed scenarios to unlock highly detailed tiles cards dice at least 10 miniatures (one for each playable character) and surprises!—description from the publisher

DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Description from the publisher:DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.In this game each player fields one of the superhero teams with each hero — Batman Superman Power Girl and more — being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice and a player can purchase dice only from his team. Each hero also has one or more character reference cards which show the special abilities for the characters based on the die rolls. Different versions of these cards are available in booster packs allowing for more customization of your team. Players use these dice to collect energy recruit new heroes and battle head-to-head. In addition each player brings two basic action cards to the game which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase these cards. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest will introduce new game mechanics: the “Allies” keyword as well as the “Iron Will” and “Vengeance” abilities. Over 30 heroes and villains make up the new card and dice for this expansion.

Flock Together

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Animals Fantasy Fighting

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Flock Together is a beautifully immersive cooperative experience for 1-5 players. During the game each player takes on the role of a unique chicken with asymmetric abilities and works together to drive off the invading predators before the third season ends.Every turn players choose their own strategy to progress their cause by selecting two of their eight available actions. Along the way players will also have to manage leveling up predator loot drops traveling grubs and adverse weather conditions. However players must plan carefully because as the seasons change every predator that is still alive grows stronger and gains new abilities.With eleven asymmetric characters to play and ten unique predators to defeat Flock Together offers immense variability that can be enjoyed with quick turns and an experience that lasts 25 minutes per player.-description from designer

Jagged Alliance: The Board Game

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Miniatures Modern Warfare Video Game Theme Wargame

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Description from the publisher:Jagged Alliance TBG is a co-operative board game with miniatures allowing you to take the role of your favorite Jagged Alliance mercenaries to battle Deirdranna and her minions in a game with uniquely variable combat tactics.With its modular map tile system and scenario creation and flexible progression Jagged Alliance allows for brief skirmish games or evening-spanning campaigns and allows you to build your own scenarios as well!Players can add extra movement and improve their odds of hitting in combat by spending fatigue or damaging weapons for greater effects. Mercs can then rest and repair or heal themselves but each turn resting will move the time counter forward to the next counter-attack from the enemy or a new event that will change the conditions of battle and/or add extra side missions to solve. Players have to manage the different threats and missions while advancing their main goal on the map which changes with each scenario.Mercs take their gear allies and experience with them through the campaign continually improving their mercs.Players can gear up and improve mercs free sectors from occupying forces to receive cash and better gear save grateful civilians to man your militia or stumble into roaming bloodcats as you try to fight Deirdranna's nefarious commanders and their plots which will escalate the more sectors you liberate. The game uses elements from combat games such as Dark Souls Imperial Assault or Conan and adds more tactical player decisions and influence such as terrain and cover and different evolving enemies as well as new merc skills and tons of gears and weapons and a meta gameplay managing your militia and defending your hard won sectors.Also: Bloodcats!Based on the Jagged Alliance Video game series

Arena: For the Gods!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–6

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Dice Fighting Mythology

Arena: For the Gods! has two phases. First players use their life points to bid for the best equipment mounts and weapons. Second they fight! When one player dies the game ends and whoever has the most life points left wins.All cards in the game have a mythological theme featuring some of the most famous members of various cultures' myths and histories such as Mjölnir Osiris and Quetzalcoatl.

Vs System 2PCG: The Marvel Battles

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

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In Vs. System 2PCG players choose a main character build a deck with exactly sixty cards and attempt to stun the other player's main character in a game of superhero battle. The first set — Vs System 2PCG: The Marvel Battles — contains characters only from the Marvel Universe but future sets may add other IPs.Vs System 2PCG: The Marvel Battles is superficially similar to the original Vs. System collectible card game but is a completely rebuilt game that takes some inspiration from the original. Combat has been streamlined the turn structure is different the resource system has been revamped and the game is no longer collectible with cards instead being released in a non-random format. A single box contains a full play-set of all cards.

Mutants

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Fighting Video Game Theme

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In Mutants 1-4 players have to mix and match genetics to create the ultimate warriors and demonstrate their prowess in the arena. By dominating the arena and freezing the most valuable mutants you gain Victory Points — and whoever gets most of them wins.In each round players take turns until all players have used every card in their hand. At the end of the round the player whose token is closest to the top space of the arena track scores Victory Points based on the round track. The game proceeds in this way for five rounds after which players reveal their archives and gain additional prestige based on the freeze value of the mutants they have placed there.The game is also provided with a solo mode called Uprising. You win Uprising if you defeat the boss. Unlike normal Mutants you do not win by gaining points. Instead each time you would gain points you will reduce the life off the boss by the number of points gained. If the Boss ever has zero (or less) life you win immediately!

Champions of Hara

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Puzzle

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Beneath the roots way way down through the layers of what was past the golden stove and even deeper than darkness…the sky opens back up. At the core of everything in the belly of the soul you’ll find Hara. Look to it when you are tired scared or hungry. Call out and it will find you.Champions of Hara is an adventure board game in which 1-4 players race to protect a dying world. Players will contain destructive energy by defeating monsters closing rifts and exploring the six different zones within Hara. In order to rise to the challenge players will need to unlock new abilities and collect powerful items. Each session takes approximately 30 minutes per player.In versus mode players will compete against one another in arena style combat. The winner is offered a powerful blessing by Hara’s stewards: a single wish to shape the future. However wishes are no simple matter. In co-op mode players will work together to overcome the fallout from the champion’s wish facing off against corrupted foes and solving scenario based challenges.

Lobotomy II: Manhunt

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures

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Lobotomy 2: Manhunt is the sequel of Lobotomy. In this cooperative survival horror board game. Each of you will play as a patient of a mental asylum. The monstrous staff will do everything to keep you in so you will have to use your unexplainable powers to escape. Be sure to find the difference between reality and delusions before it is too late.

Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Sports

Smaller in scale but no less bloody the six-a-side version of Blood Bowl gets a new season bringing you more gory gladiatorial action on the gridiron. With streamlined rules that are simple to learn but rewarding to master you can get into the game at a breakneck pace – quite literally for some players.This season two new teams are ready to tussle in a tumultuous try-out – six Human players form The Reavers while six Skaven make up The Scramblers. You’ll also get a pitch cards dice and everything else you need to play an action-packed strategic sports game for two – in less than an hour.—description from the publisher

Cthulhu Wars: Duel

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

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Fantasy Fighting Horror

The Old Ones have risen. Monsters walk the Earth. Humanity is finished but the struggle continues. Which Great Old One will rule the ruins of Earth? Now you take charge!Cthulhu Wars: Duel is a fast-moving two-player strategy game in which you play as Great Cthulhu himself or the Black Goat a cosmic goddess of hideous fertility. Each side is strikingly different with unique units abilities and strategies available.In Cthulhu Wars: Duel the giant plastic miniatures have been replaced with cardboard standees. This not only allows the game to be more affordable but also makes it travel friendly and saves table space. This means you can drop a box of Cthulhu Wars: Duel in a bag and take it to your game night with minimal space requirements. Cthulhu Wars: Duel also doesn't take up as much table space as the original allowing it to be played in smaller spaces. In short this is the most accessible version of Cthulhu wars ever made!—description from the publisher

Legendary Encounters: The Matrix

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–5

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Card Game Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme Science Fiction

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Legendary Encounters: The Matrix is a deck-building card game based on The Matrix trilogy of movies. Fight against notorious adversaries such as Agent Smith the Merovingian the Twins the Sentinels and more. So long as the Matrix exists humankind will never be free.In the game players take the role of Neo or other heroes to save the human race from extinction.

Vampire Empire

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2

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Bluffing Card Game Deduction Fighting Medieval

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In a foreboding castle somewhere in central Europe a strange fear has descended upon the inhabitants. One morning the body of a young girl was found as pale as a sheet of paper dry and totally drained of blood. Vampires are on the prowl! Who is the monster who murders innocent during the night? Before the truth will be discovered more than one person may face unjust accusations thrown out by the devious servants of darkness. Will the vampires be successfully caught before they endanger the entire society or will the castle and city fall forever into darkness?Three characters in the castle are vampires. A human investigator is trying to determine which three of nine characters he encounters are in fact monsters hiding in human form so that he can eliminate them. The head vampire on the other hand must bluff cleverly present confusing clues and trick the humans into attacking innocent citizens. By doing this the vampire can kill the most important characters in the city or conquer the castle.Vampire Empire is a two-player card game with a lot of bluffing and player interaction. In this very thematic setting each player possess a unique deck of cards granting different powers and each player had different goals to win the game!

VOLT

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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WELCOME TO THE ROBOT ACTION! Today we witness the most incredible steel gladiators of this year's Robot Fighting League season in all their glory and magnificence. The battle robots are gathered in the arena and the crowd is screaming for some laser-blasting action in this title match. The operators are starting up their control hardware and we expect nothing but a whole new level of cybernetic devastation. In the end there will be only one operator to rule the arena... LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!In VOLT each player takes the role of an operator controlling one robot to challenge other players. By programming three steps ahead players try to anticipate the moves of other robots aim to destroy them or try to control spaces in the arena that get them victory points. VOLT includes an easy-to-begin training guide but still leaves experienced players with plenty of different modules to make their robot battles even more exciting and merciless.Plan your next steps ahead by quickly grabbing a starting number in order for your robot to run or shoot at just the right moment later on. Push the other robots into pits or shoot them away with your lasers to gain victory points. Sounds simple – it is simple well at least the rules. But destroying the others without taking damage yourself is quite the hefty challenge. Fortunately destroyed robots don't have to wait long for their next foray into the ring. They reboot in the next round.VOLT is a completely revised and extended edition of Emerson Matsuuchi's game VOLT: Robot Battle Arena that also includes AI rules for a game with 2-3 players and a Championship mode.

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting Horror Miniatures

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Warhammer Quest is a co-operative game that sees you and your friends take to the streets of the Cursed City of Ulfenkarn to fight the hordes of the undead. If you’ve played a Warhammer Quest game before you’ll recognise the rules but the mechanics have been updated to be more immersive and deadly.Some time ago Radukar the Wolf saved Ulfenkarn in its darkest hour but his benevolence didn’t last. Claiming the Ebon Citadel he surrounded himself with fiends lackeys and fellow creatures of the dark forming his Thirsting Court. For a time peace reigned. Then came the Shyish Necroquake and the Wolf found himself infused with dark power.Sallying forth from his castle Radukar and his court embarked on a murderous rampage. Some were deemed worthy of the Blood Kiss and were turned into vampires themselves – countless others were left as corpses strewn across the streets. The city now stands on the precipice of total doom. Are there any that would risk their lives and their very souls to save it?In Warhammer Quest: Cursed City you and your friends take on the role of a group of adventurers trying to lift the curse that has befallen the city of Ulfenkarn. Undead creatures stalk the streets.Each player chooses one of eight heroes to play. The heroes come with their own distinctly sculpted miniatures and background story.Warhammer Quest: Cursed City is a campaign game in which the players must overcome a series of missions. With each mission you will learn more about the curse and your nemesis.Players roll dice at the beginning of their turn that they can turn into specific actions of the hero that they're playing. Only by working together and balancing their strengths and skills can the heroes hope to survive.The game comes with 60 new miniatures rulebooks cards tokens and more.The miniatures include:8 Heroes: - Jelson Darrock Witch Hunter - Qulathis the Exile Vampire Hunter - Emelda Braskov General - Dagnai Holdenstock Kharadron entrepreneur - Glaurio ven Alten III Duelist - Cleona Zeitengale Missionary - Octen Glimscry Necromancer - Brutogg Corpse-Eater Ogor Mercenary5 Overlords: - Gorslav the Gravekeeper - Watch Captain Hagrim - Torgillis the Chamberlain - Vrykos Blood-born - Radukar the Wolf38 Additional Adversaries: 6 Dire Bat Swarms 6 Corpse Rat Swarms 2 Kosargi Nightguard Ogor 10 Ulfenwatch Skeleton Warriors 10 Deadwalker Zombies 1 Vargskyr Vampire 3 Vyrkos Blood-born Vampires10 Mysterious Object Marker Miniatures

Dead Man's Doubloons

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–6

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Nautical Pirates

Welcome to Dead Man’s Doubloons an action-packed board game in which players take on the role of a legendary pirate ship captain hell-bent on winning the race to endless riches of buried treasure. Fragments of treasure maps gold doubloons and precious jewels can all be stolen as can the reputation of rival ships! Once the buried treasure has been dug up ship captains return to their vessels to engage in a final epic battle on the high seas!As the game begins pirate ships skirmish with one another while navigating the reefs surrounding the mysterious island desperately searching for treasure map fragments and pillaging whatever they can. Meanwhile the ships' captains and their landing parties follow one of several possible paths leading to the buried treasure discovering additional riches and perilous obstacles along the way. Only the savviest of captains will manage to locate and dig up the legendary treasure.Having collecting their precious loots the captains return to their vessels to engage in the final battle. Defeated vessels become ghost ships with cursed treasure though with careful planning they may still emerge victorious. Once the captains have laid waste to their enemies and exhausted their options the game ends and the richest pirate wins!

Super Fantasy: Ugly Snouts Assault

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–6

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Exploration Fantasy Fighting Humor

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Super Fantasy is the first hack'n'slash board game in which up to six players take on the roles of brave and unique heroes. During each game players embark on tricky and mighty quests into ever-changing dangerous caves and dungeons swarmed with monsters and terrible creatures that try to slaughter them while heroes try to gain treasures as well as better equipment in order to complete the missions.Since hordes of monsters repeatedly cross the path of our heroes bloody clashes are inevitable in order to achieve victory! That is why Super Fantasy uses a simple yet unique dice-based system. Players have a pool of six dice to roll that they manage according to the action they want to perform (such as movement attack etc.) and its effectiveness. Each face of the dice shows either a 1 2 or the Special Power symbol and the sum of the results shown represents the effectiveness of the action performed by the heroes. Every time the Special Power symbol occurs the hero can choose to charge one of his abilities; once fully charged the hero can unleash its power against the enemies!Super Fantasy features double-sided modular board pieces for creating countless scenarios combinations six mighty heroes and three unique and powerful abilities for each hero throwing players into a fast-paced world in which anything can happen!

The Ares Project

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Fighting Science Fiction Wargame

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In The Ares Project 2-4 players are competing to see which of their factions will lead mankind into the future. Each faction has its own deck of cards buildings upgrades attacks special powers and a screen behind which a player will play cards. Your opponents do not know what you are building. When a player lays down an attack card he chooses an opponent the players drop their screens and they battle for control of the Frontier i.e. the center of the table. Whoever controls the Frontier scores points and also has the ability to attack player bases directly. Eliminate your opponent to win instantly or have the most points when the game ends.

Attack on Titan: The Last Stand

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme

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In Attack on Titan: The Last Stand one player takes on the role of a Titan while the others represent the human heroes fighting it. The Titan piece is a vertical game board element that the hero game pieces climb in an effort to take it down.ACD Distribution provides the following detail:It's all come down to this. Titans have broken through Wall Maria and are heading for the supply depot in Trost. If the depot falls all the resources needed to continue fighting off these monstrous aberrations will be destroyed and all hope for the last remnants of mankind will be lost. It's up to you and your team to fend off and fell the Titans before they can succeed! Are you ready for the last stand?Play as your favorite Attack on Titan Character... or as the Titan!During each round of the game the Titan player chooses two Attack cards to play: One face up and one face down. The other players then roll their dice and try to avoid these Attacks but knowing only what one of them is. The other will be a surprise so players will have to use their wits to figure out what they need to avoid it. Protect your very lives and the castle walls to save the day!Positioning is key! The Titan and the castle walls create a vertical playing surface. Move your character up and down as you see fit to avoid Attacks or tactically position yourself to land a devastating blow on the Titan. Tactics Cards can be revealed and utilized or passed on until later. Your goal is to weaken the Titan so that it's susceptible to a kill shot. But watch out! The Titan has lots of tricks waiting for you...

Core Space: First Born

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–6

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Adventure Exploration Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction

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Core Space: First Born is a sci-fi miniatures board game in which you control a band of Traders venturing into the ancient First Born temples.The game takes place on the highly- detailed 3D board included in the box. Your Traders must explore the area fulfil their objectives salvage what they can and then escape back to their ship spending their earnings on desperately-needed repairs.The exciting campaign system will track your crew from game to game developing their skills upgrading their equipment and immersing you in their story.First Born is based on 2019’s cyberpunk bestseller Core Space but is a fully standalone starter set playable by new and existing players alike. It retains the same simple core mechanics and Battle Systems' unique ‘real search’ system while seamlessly integrating this new and mysterious alien race.

SUPERHOT: The Card Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–3

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Card Game Fighting Video Game Theme

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A bullet misses you by millimeters. A dozen more come from every direction. Armed red guys are everywhere. You take a breath check your options...and play a card.Part strategy part shooter and undeniably stylish SUPERHOT is the bestselling independent FPS in which time moves only when you move. After its Steam and Xbox One releases SUPERHOT is taking its unique game mechanisms to the world of tabletop games.In the micro deck-building SUPERHOT Card Game based on Agent Decker you use abilities and items to deal with increasing threats. Threats you eliminate are added to your hand giving you improved abilities and more options while bringing you closer to victory — but you need to be careful because the more cards you use the faster you move through time (represented by a line of obstacles moving in your direction).In more detail you need to interact with obstacles — whether killing them or knocking them out — to increase your future possibilities for interaction or to give you more time before bullets appear! The cards that you use are discarded to the obstacle pile while cards you pass by are placed in your personal discard pile creating a mini-deck of cards. The game has three types of obstacle cards: enemy scenery and objects with each type giving you different abilities when they're in your deck.

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 3–6

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor

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Munchkin Pathfinder which includes 168 cards and uses the setting of the Pathfinder role-playing game from Paizo Publishing can be played as a standalone game or combined with any other core Munchkin game. That said while Munchkin Pathfinder includes Classes and something new for this set – Factions – the game does not use Races.As for what you'll find in the set you can try out new classes like Alchemist and Witch; join a faction to become an Eagle Knight or a Red Mantis Assassin; or arm yourself with the T-Bone Stake and the Armor of Insults. You'll need those latter items to defeat the Ghoul Friday the Whispering Tyrant and especially Lamashtu the Mother of Monsters. But first you'll have to fight your way through all those goblins...and kill them and take their stuff!Munchkin Pathfinder Deluxe contains the same cards die and rules as Munchkin Pathfinder but also includes a game board pawns and plastic stands. Munchkin Pathfinder Deluxe also features a brand-new mechanism — Factions — and a new D6 for the iconic Pathfinder Goblin.

Pixel Tactics 4

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

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Pixel Tactics 4 introduces a brand new mechanic of Traps! The set has a theme of counterplay and counter-counterplay with many cards designed to surprise and intimidate your opponents.

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Melee at Murdershroom Marsh

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–6

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Fantasy Fighting Humor

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Melee at Murdershroom Marsh ratchets up the EPIC with several new innovations:

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Marvel StudiosPhase 1

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–5

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Welcome to Legendary the Marvel Deck-Building Game! Evil Masterminds like Loki and Red Skull lead a horde of powerful Super Villains planning dark Schemes to destroy the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Only you can stop them leading awesome Marvel Super Heroes like Captain America Iron Man and Thor!In this game for 1-5 players each player starts with their own deck of basic Hero cards. At the start of your turn you play the top card of the Villain Deck showing how Villains invade the city capture Bystanders and create special events. Then you play Hero cards from your hand to generate Attack Recruit Points and special abilities. You attack with your Heroes to defeat Villains. You use Recruit Points to recruit better Heroes to add to your deck.Whenever your deck runs out of cards you shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck including all the new Heroes you recruited. This way your deck gets stronger and stronger over time. Build up enough Power and you can defeat the evil Mastermind! But be careful: if the players don’t defeat the Mastermind quickly enough then the Mastermind will complete their dark Scheme and win the game for evil!In Legendary: Marvel Studios Phase 1 the Avengers are back in a new setting with images straight from the Phase 1 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Iron Man Incredible Hulk Iron Man 2 Thor Captain America: The First Avenger Avengers). Black Widow Iron Man Captain America and more face off against the Villains of the first six movies. Three Masterminds including the all new Iron Monger and his Iron Foes try to complete their evil schemes. This nearly 400 card sets comes with a full color rulebook and an updated playmat.—description from publisher

Gorechosen

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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From the publisher:Are you ready to prove yourself Khorne’s mightiest most ruthless champion? Gorechosen gives you the chance! This brand-new boxed game from Games Workshop lets four players slug it out for brutal supremacy in brutal pit fights. The box includes four plastic multi-part Citadel miniatures: the Exalted Deathbringer of Khorne the Skullgrinder the Slaughterpriest and the Aspiring Deathbringer with Goreaxe and Skullhammer – four iconic champions of Khorne.The game itself is a simple cunning and laugh-out-loud mix of subtle strategy and straightforward brutal combat and four players can play through a game in about an hour. 24 action cards let your chosen fighter pick from a variety of painful attacks and gambits (our favourite being the humble Shove should your victim happen to be standing next to one of the fire pits present on the game’s board) while 16 injury cards present in gruesome detail the inevitable results of standing in a spiked pit with three other crazed madmen. And the fun doesn’t stop with the feuding – players who have been knocked out can still influence the game thanks to special Fate of the Slain rules. Full rules for these fighters are presented on four fighter sheets and rules for four more (with miniatures available separately from Games Workshop) are included inside the game’s rulebook.Each fighter has a unique Kill Zone which dictates what they can hit and how powerfully. The Slaughterpriest in the box for example has enormous reach forwards with his axe (because it’s flipping massive) but is weaker when to the sides. (You can imagine an overhead chop rather than a sweep around him.) Each fighter also keeps track of his wrath using the Wrath Track. Wrath can be spent to make actions and is usually accrued when fighters are wounded – injury cards which are received when combatants are damaged affect wrath in this way.Wrath also has an effect on who goes first because the angrier fighters are the more chance there is they will act first! Each turn fighters put in a number of initiative cards equal to their wrath (each player has a unique design of initiative card) then the top initiative card is turned over dictating who will act. After that player has made an action the next initiative card is turned over and so on and so forth.

Transformers Trading Card Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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Card Game Collectible Components Fighting Science Fiction

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The Transformers Trading Card Game is a battling card game designed for two players. Players build a team of Transformers character cards and power them up with a customizable deck of battle cards. Transformers character cards — such as those in the Autobots Starter Set and Booster Packs — are twice the size of standard playing cards; they can be flipped from bot mode to alt mode and back and they feature premium printing treatment on one of their sides. The deck of battle cards features Action and Upgrade cards to enhance Transformers character cards.

Thorgal: The Board Game

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Mythology

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Thorgal: The Board Game is a cooperative storybook adventure game. Players take on the roles of Thorgal his wife Aaricia their son Jolan and Kriss —a deadly female warrior— and go on a series of adventures. The game consists of 7 stand-alone scenarios each taking roughly 90-120 minutes of play. Scenarios do not form a campaign nor have any legacy features so they can be played by different playgroups and over an extended period of time.Thorgal: The Board Game comes with a book of maps. Each scenario is played on a different map that players explore while fulfilling scenario goals and promises completely different adventures hidden opportunities side quests and vivid characters. Players are free to choose whether they travel in one group or split to cover more areas at the same time. Each character gains experience during the game and advances their abilities. Characters gather resources and craft objects to help them survive in the dangerous world.There is a storybook containing narrative descriptions of the encounters that Characters make in each scenario. The adventures described in the book are specific to each scenario and Character with randomized elements offering higher replayability and allowing for repeated play. There are also Side Plots players can pursue to gain benefits and reveal additional pieces of the story.Thorgal: The Board Game also has a unique action selection mechanism. In this new mechanism actions have varying power depending on which other actions have already been taken. Players must carefully plan their strategy and sequence of actions taken as this directly impacts the strength of the effect of each action.—description from the publisherThe Gamefound edition has more content.

Sakura Arms: Yurina Box

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2

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Choose two goddesses and combine their powers to form your own unique deck. Challenge your opponent to a fast tactical elegant duel beneath the sakura.Sakura Arms is a stylish dueling card game from Japan that combines gorgeous art deep tactics and huge variety to minimalist duels. Setup is quick play is simple and the system of combining patron goddesses to build your deck provides unlimited variety.Level 99 Games has teamed up with Bakafire Party to bring an all new production of the legendary Sakura Arms to English. The new edition features an enhanced rulebook and tutorials quick start setups for each goddess and improved production quality.—description from the publisher

Krosmaster: Quest

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–6

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Unlike the head-to-head battles of Krosmaster: Arena Krosmaster: Quest can be played cooperatively (with one player as the demon and the rest of the players working together) or as a competition as players look for treasures on tiled boards. The box includes seven new Krosmaster figures with character cards (two exclusive) more than 600 pieces 16 terrain parts (which can be used in Arena) more than 40 settings and 6 special dice.

Twin Tin Bots

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–6

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Abstract Strategy Fighting Humor Industry / Manufacturing Racing

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The robot was advancing fast towards the base loaded with crystals – but the opponent team's robot was nearing. 'Bzzzzt!' Lightning sparked briefly and the Bot changed course to unload the crystal a few meters from his base his programming slightly jammed by the shock wave. The opponent Bot immediately loaded the crystal and proceed to rejoin his base; two other Bots were nearing and they didn't look too friendly! The mechanic sighed heavily as he knew this would inevitably end up in a melee damaged Bots and long hours in the repair shop afterwards...In Twin Tin Bots the robot-programming game for the new generation many corporations have invested in crystal mining after they were discovered as a potent energy source. They designed and improved robots to harvest crystals and a few people can now run a big crystal harvesting rig. Many teams work on the same harvesting plant but the game's always on to bring more crystals back than the others.In the game each player programs two robots to harvest crystals from the game board and bring them back to his base. The catch is that robots repeat their programming but changes to the program from turn to turn are limited. Robots can also interact with other robots so even the best laid plans can end up slightly different than expected.The player who harvests the most valuable crystals wins.

One Card Dungeon

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1

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Fantasy Fighting

One Card Dungeon is a solo dice-placement dungeon crawl played on a single card. Fight through 12 increasingly challenging levels to reach the final prize - the Sceptre of M'Guf-yn.Both the Adventurer and the Monsters are represented on the map by Dice with the value on top showing their current health. Each room has one type of Monster with anywhere from 1 to 4 of that monster to defeat in each room.The basic game mechanic is rolling three dice then assigning one dice to each of your Movement Attack and Defense. Adding together your skill levels in each of these areas with the dice you have assigned gives you a total number of points in each of these areas to spend for example if you have a Movement skill of 3 and assign a 4 dice to it you would have 7 Movement points to spend that turn.After each room you may upgrade one of your four skills - Movement Attack Defense and Range.—description from the designer

JAB: Realtime Boxing

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2

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Card Game Fighting Real-time Sports

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JAB is a skill-centric strategic boxing card game. In JAB you get direct control over your boxer's fists providing an experience as close as possible to real boxing without getting punched in the face. JAB is played in real-time meaning there are no turns.To win the game get a knockout by throwing staggering haymakers at your opponent until he eats canvas or strategically win more rounds than your opponent by impressing the judges with your beautiful technique.JAB attempts to innovate the real-time genre by challenging a player to be constantly making decisions rather than simply recognizing patterns or performing calculations. The game also measures your ability to calmly manage your focus in a chaotic situation.

Deadzone

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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Deadzone is a dynamic tabletop miniatures skirmish game set in the distant sci-fi universe of Warpath in which two players take command of a crack team of upgradable elite troopers from one of four factions including powerful heroes troopers heavy weapons and specialists. You can even upgrade your troopers by collecting equipment and new weapons from the Battlefield such as Machineguns medipacks grenades and more. But beware – you could be triggering a booby trap!Deadzone marries the frantic action and fun of a tabletop game with the simplicity and elegance of a board game to create a truly innovative experience. With the Deadzone box players take control of either the stalwart Enforcers or the horrific Plague battling it out over scarce resources by combining deadly actions and an innovate Battle Card deck to lethal effect. Shoot to kill or claw your way through flesh as it doesn't matter how many should die in this urban landscape so long as players achieve their objectives.All of this is set against a sci-fi backdrop brought to life using a grid-based gaming mat depicting the urban warzone that can be built up using Barricades and Buildings from the new modular Mantic Scenery Range adding a vertical dimension to your games. No two games need ever be the same!

Cyclades: Legendary Edition

Rating: 8.5 | Players: 2–6

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Ancient City Building Civilization Fighting Miniatures

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In the Cyclades archipelago off the shores of a divided Greece players develop their cities and compete for supremacy under the watchful gaze of the gods.In Cyclades: Legendary Edition designers Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc have reworked the Cyclades base game and its many expansions to make gameplay more dynamic and fluid.The game features a strategic bidding system that defines the actions available to each player on their turn. You must balance your finances to optimize the various actions provided by the different gods with each player gaining the support of only one god each turn. The game features a shorter and more dynamic bidding phase than the original Cyclades thanks to a new exponential bidding scale. Six gods are available instead of the five increasing the variety of actions available:Players now use landscape tiles to assemble the modular game board during set-up allowing for ever-changing maps and game strategies. New creatures and heroes are available in the base game offering new strategic opportunities to build metropolises and gain decisive advantages on the battlefield. Your goal is to be the first to control three metropolises which can be obtained as follows:Cyclades: Legendary Edition features three game configurations:

Assault on Doomrock: Ultimate Edition

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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A complete and updated version of the cooperative fantasy board game where you can die from an arrow in the knee poor decisions and dry jokes.A three-act fantasy adventure campaign featuring exploration and combat now with v4.0 rules numerous enhancements and improvements integrated expansions and twice the amount of content released for the game previously.While exploration is focused on creating meaningful decisions with impactful results combat in Doomrock is highly tactical and aims to be fair by introducing a minimum amount of output randomness and rewarding experienced play; all while giving a hardcore challange.—description from the publisher

Pixel Tactics 5

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Card Game Expansion for Base-game Fantasy Fighting Video Game Theme

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Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.Pixel Tactics 5 takes place in the same world and uses many of the characters from Level 99 Games' BattleCON: War of Indines but its gameplay is entirely unrelated.For ease of distribution these were combined to make Pixel Tactics 5.

Homeworlds

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2

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Abstract

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Abstract Strategy Fighting Political Science Fiction

Homeworlds is a deep abstract strategy game of perfect information resource management and galactic war. Can you destroy your opponent's Homeworld before their space fleet reaches yours?Originally Homeworlds was played with a full 60 pyramid (“classic icehouse”) game set and could be played with 2–6. The original two players variant rules were called Binary Homeworlds.This new standalone 2 player edition contains 36 pyramids in 4 colors which each provide specific powers in the game (red for attack yellow for movement green for growth and blue for transformation). Using just 36 pyramids Homeworlds is actually a 4X conquest game (Expand Explore Exploit Exterminate).—description from the publisher

Kung Fu Zoo

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Action / Dexterity Animals Dice Fighting Sports

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If you hung around your local zoo after it closed for the night you'd see the nighttime rituals of the exotic animals you visited during the day. You'd see cages being cleaned and souvenir stands being restocked. If you were lucky you might catch an impromptu seal show or moonlight nightingale concert.And if you stayed late enough long after the last employee had left for the night you just might see the greatest and most secret of all zoo attractions—the late-night Kung Fu fights!Welcome to Kung Fu Zoo!Kung Fu Zoo is a dice-flicking dexterity game for 2-4 players. You control a team of highly-trained animals from crocodiles to zebras in a Kung Fu battle against your rivals. Who will be tonight’s champions of the zoo? Grab some dice and find out!In Kung Fu Zoo players use six-sided animal dice to do battle in an enclosed arena. There are two gameplay variants: Cage Battle and Points Match. In either variant players start with a team of dice-animals. But the similarities stop there. In a Cage Battle players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to knock your opponent’s animals onto their backs (stunning them) or through holes on the board (the “cages”). You win the match when all of your opponent’s animals are stunned or in cages. The first player to win three matches wins! In a Points Match players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to score 21 points before your opponent. Points are awarded at the end of each round based upon the position of your dice that are left on the board.

Munchkin X-Men

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 3–4

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Description from the publisher:Join the X-Men on a thrilling adventure to defend mankind from renegade mutants. Munchkin X-Men combines Marvel's beloved collection of X-Men comics with the role-playing fun of Munchkin.In the game players take on the role of students attending Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and team up with Professor X Wolverine and more super-charged mutants to take down the likes of Sabretooth Juggernaut and the almighty Magneto. The game includes 128 Door and Treasure cards four player Role cards four level trackers game rules and a custom die.

Invaders

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

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Card Game Fighting Horror Science Fiction

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Earth is in mortal danger!Invaders is a card-driven board game of warfare and horror featuring asymmetrical game-play for two players. In the game the players take on the roles of commanding forces on opposite sides of the conflict.One player leads the extraterrestrial conquerors whose goal is to transform the Earth and subjugate its inhabitants. The Invaders possess unthinkable weapons and unknowable technologies. More so within their galactic armada the aliens hold bound a terrifying array of eldritch creatures engineered specifically to sow the chaos and destruction that heralds the arrival of their masters.The other player commands the unyielding forces of a united Earth. In the shadow of a planet-wide scourge the nations of the Earth have joined forces to confront the arrival of a doom spawned on the other side of the galaxy. The Terran alliance is a desperation-forged bulwark upon which the invading forces crash and are repelled time and again. Outgunned with salvaged or untested technology and one foot in the grave the determined network of military machinery elite strike-teams warfare scientists and neighborhood militias are surprisingly capable of bloodying the Invaders' noses whenever the two forces meet.The eponymous Invaders seek to destroy the forces defending the Earth and exhaust their reserves. They do this by defeating the defending forces at key locations while also causing the Earth player to disrupt cards from their deck to their discard pile. The Invader must be cunning when deploying their creatures and war-machines or enacting their schemes as the cost to bring assets into the war often involves the discarding of other assets.Mankind must work desperately to defend critical resources and locations from the corruption and incursion of the alien threat. They do this by building formidable and deadly defenses predicting where the alien player will strike and setting traps designed to deprive the Invaders of key units and wear-down their options. Like the Invader the humans need to be clever in what they deploy and how they deploy it because their heroes may be bold but they are small in number and the Invaders are inexorable.Invaders is a science-fiction game piled thick with the trappings of war and horror. It is steeped in difficult decisions but built upon a simple elegant set of rules and because of this you will find each game telling a slightly different story each time you play. Both sides use cards to represent their units plans resources and events but as this is an asymmetrical battle game the way in which those cards are played and how they forward their owner's goals are very different. Regardless knowing when to let an asset go in favor of a better one how to exploit a weakness in your enemy's ranks and where to press an advantage or feint a trap will be key in seeing your side emerge as the victor from the morass of galactic war.One question remains: Which side are YOU on?

Might & Magic Heroes

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Fantasy Fighting Video Game Theme Wargame

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In Might & Magic Heroes: The Board Game each player becomes a leader of one of four different factions hoping to conquer and govern the realms of Ashan.At first players control just one hero a small army and a city — but with every passing round their heroes gain experience and grow in power armies become more numerous and small towns turn into enormous capitals. Players recruit new characters take control of mines that produce resources and gold for their factions defeat monsters prowling the game board and search for magical artifacts. As time passes they inevitably approach the final confrontation of great magical kingdoms. The winner must prove that his faction is the best developed boasting many heroes multiple armies and a large capital. Whoever manages to acquire the most power becomes the new heir and the supreme ruler of the realm of Ashan — and by achieving this wins the game!

Dark Darker Darkest

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures Zombies

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Dark Darker Darkest is an intense cooperative survival horror game in which a team of urban survivors try to fight the darkness in an unsettling location: the house of Doctor Mortimer which holds the antidote to a virus turning the world into an army of undead.Players must gather the optimal tools to open doors control destructive fires that slowly destroy the locations of the game and battle the endless hordes of terrifying creatures that will do anything to slaughter this fragile group while outsneaking lurking creatures and the eye of the ever-present security cameras guarding the secrets of the house.The game uses innovative mechanisms for group-forming and mixes item management (using a color-code system) exploration stealth and icon-driven combat to form an intense tactical experience in a strongly thematic setting riddled with surprises and variation. All the creatures and other challenges are controlled by the A.I. of the game system. The board is modular creating a unique narrative experience for each session.Can you fight the darkness?NOTE: The Designer has uploaded a Revised Set of Rules in the Files Section that greatly streamlines play. As of now boxed copies only have the older ruleset.DARK DARKER DARKEST Un jeu coopératif de survie et d'horreur.Une équipe de 2 à 5 survivants doit explorer la demeure étroitement gardée du docteur Mortimer afin de découvrir son laboratoire de le déverrouiller et de mettre la main sur l'antidote. C'est la seule façon de mettre un terme à cette apocalyptique invasion de zombies. Pour déjouer le système de sécurité l'équipe doit dénicher de l'équipement dans la maison afin de déverrouiller les portes. Les codes des portes permettront finalement aux joueurs d'ouvrir le labo... où ils découvriront qu'aux hordes de zombies aux créatures enragées et aux incendies qu'ils ont dû affronter jusqu'ici s'ajoute une créature abominable la Némésis dont ils devront venir à bout au cours d'un final spectaculaire. Les joueurs coopèrent et luttent ensemble contre le système de jeu a fin de déjouer les pièges du laboratoire !• Un jeu de zombies coopératif. • Une grande re-jouabilité. • Une mise en place modulable

Worldspanner FactionsSet 1: Heroes

Rating: 8.7 | Players: 2–8

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Science Fiction Wargame

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Worldspanner Factions is the grand successor to the Duel of Ages series of games. A combination of tactical RPG and adventure Factions carries on the tradition of intensity and uniqueness. Two decades have proven that you've never played a game like this.Two teams of heroes from past present and future descend into the Worldspanner Arena and compete to earn the most glory by acts of renown--and by facing down the enemy. Earn the alliance of one of the six factions or the queen mother of the Games. For 2-8 players who divide into two teams. In effect a co-op game with excellent opponent AI (unless your friends dump-statted INT).The teams take turns conducting an action with each hero--move attack unleash a minion. This is followed by reactions from the opposing team after which the current team conducts adventures. Play continues for 9 or 12 turns after which objective points are tallied. Most objective points are earned from non-combat activities such as alliances with the different factions.Contains 49 heroes 90 treasures and a selection of map pieces making each play different--new teams gathering new treasure on a completely new map. Expansions bring both the treasure count and the hero count up to 360--The Full Degree.With a ruleset significantly streamlined from Duel of Ages Factions has half the rules word count of Duel of Ages I and over a third less than DoA II. Factions is now a game system capable of pulling in a universe of heroes (and their miniatures).

Wiraqocha

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Dice Fighting Science Fiction

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We are in the early XXth century but the world is not as we know it. In 1895 exploring Amazonia Auguste Copperpot discovered a gate to a lost valley occupied by a primitive civilisation. Wiraqocha Valley was the name he gave to this remote Eden. This world enclosed a treasure that was going to revolutionize modern sciences namely the Somnium an orange luminescent crystal showing amazing properties. It can be used as fuel affects matter and even time. Immediately this virgin land became a new Eldorado for European colonists. Empress Victoria II decided to send several conglomerates to share this promised land and reap the fruits to her benefit. Zeppelin fleet full of scientists adventurers and looters clouded the Atlantic sky.Wiraqocha Valley is represented by an adjustable board consisting of 22 hexagonal tiles each of them being identified by a number from 1 to 12 or a dice combo (pairs or straights). In his turn each player rolls some six-sided dice combining them to take possession of territories or to protect from the opponents the ones he already owns. Every hexagon affords resources or special capacities which are means to influence die results to fit one’s strategy. There are three ways to win: bring back a huge cargo of Somnium to the Empress; acquire enough scientific knowledge to build the Leviathan a terrifying weapon serving the Kingdom; or find in the temple depths the four relics that will allow you to reach Wiraqocha’s treasure.

Epic PVP: Fantasy

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Epic PVP: Fantasy is a head-to-head battling card game. At the start of the game each player chooses a class deck and a race deck then shuffles them together to create unique character combinations such as a Human Paladin or Goblin Druid. Each combination creates unique tactics and strategies to use when you battle.The goal of the game is to defeat your opponent by reducing them to zero life. Players do this by playing moves that act as both attacks and blocks as well as with special cards and abilities granted by the player's choice of class and race.During a turn a player adds cards to their aggression pile then chooses how many cards to draw from their aggression pile into their hand. The player uses the aggression provided by the cards that remain in their aggression pile to play move cards to block incoming enemy attacks. If an attack isn't blocked the player takes damage specifically one damage per unblocked enemy attack. Then all the moves played by that player become attacks for the opponent to deal with on the opponent's next turn. There's more to it than that but those are the basics...

The Ratcatcher: The Solo Adventure Game

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1

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Adventure Animals Exploration Fantasy Fighting

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The Tail so far...The Kingdom of Brie has made a breakthrough of stunning proportions in the field of magical cheese! This new cheese seems to be able to do anything and everything including attracting the attention of every rat from across the world. The Kingdom is now suffering a rat plague-infested from top to bottom with a ravenous horde of ill-tempered rodents all hunting for the Magic Cheese.You are the Ratcatcher! The only person capable of dispelling the plague suffered by Brie and returning the realm to peace. You know the ways of the rats and must use all your skills bravery and cunning in order to defeat them. But beware: The rats are beginning to change and it's not for the better so hurry!The objective is Snatch the magical cheese eliminate the rats. Easier said than done.During a players turn they will race to explore the randomly generated city use their limited actions to out wit and out play the vast rat horde. The player is greatly outnumbered by the AI-controlled rat horde so they will need to use all their unique skills and traps to stand any chance of claiming victory.The AI has the numbers on its side but it also has the “Nemesis rat”. These great beasts are already imbued with the mass amounts of magical cheese it has caused mutation and psychosis the player must face this nemesis to put an end to the rodent invasion.—description from the publisher

Maladum: Dungeons of Enveron

Rating: 8.9 | Players: 1–6

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Maladum is a fantasy miniatures board game in which you control a band of adventurers seeking their fortune in the ancient dungeons of Enveron. They must fight off the Revenant hordes as they search for valuable artefacts and negotiate with a varied cast of NPCs.Maladum is built on the bestselling sci-fi game Core Space but has been overhauled and updated to accomodate the fantasy theme and rich lore. Like Core Space Maladum takes place on a detailed 3D board of award-winning Battle Systems terrain included in the box!Your Adventurers will return to the town between games where the exciting campaign system will track your party's fortunes developing their skills upgrading their equipment and telling their story.—description from the publisher

Field of Glory: The Card Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2

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Ancient Card Game Fighting

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Field of Glory: The Card Game is a quick-playing game for two players inspired by Field of Glory the miniatures rule system designed by Richard Bodley Scott for ancient and medieval tabletop battles.The game is split into two parts. You first decide with which units to fight constructing a deck of 24 unit cards. You then fight a battle across a battlefield made up of five terrain cards; to win the game you must take control of three of these terrain cards. The army cards represent the main troop types of the period such as heavy infantry light cavalry and elephants each having its own strengths and weaknesses. To be able to play units onto the battlefield you must discard other cards to pay the movement costs involved giving you a number of difficult decisions to make.Field of Glory: The Card Game is of medium complexity and should take 20-30 minutes to play.

Reload

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme Science Fiction Video Game Theme

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In the near future the mega-corporations of the military-industrial complex have invested trillions developing cybernetically enhanced clone soldiers for off-world exploration. Seeking to build robust teams for future missions — and more importantly to land lucrative government contracts — they have created special training islands. On these islands they are able to simulate all of the deadly conditions their soldiers may face on remote planets.To fund these expensive programs and the military-grade innovations built into their test subjects the arms manufacturers have teamed up with media moguls to create and promote broadcast competitions live from the islands' training grounds. Thus was born RELOAD the biggest TV show on the planet with the most charismatic and capable subjects competing in front of millions of avid viewers to win fame for themselves and fortunes for their creators.In Reload you get to engage in this battle-royale experience thanks to an innovative action dice system that offers fast-paced play and the freedom to explore the island while fighting for fame.

Rumble in the House

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 3–6

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Bluffing Deduction Fighting Humor Party Game

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Living together in a small house is difficult and sometimes trouble arises. It's time for a big rumble in the house! Will you able to beat the other characters out of the house stay inside and keep your identity secret?Rumble in the House is a game of bluffing and deduction for the whole family. Each player secretly owns two of the twelve characters in the house and each character starts in a different room of the house. On a turn a player either moves any character that is alone in a room into an adjacent room or starts a fight in a room that contains at least two characters. Well it's not much of a fight really as the player removes one character from the room and places it in a line with other removed characters. Once a single character remains the round ends. The first two characters removed are worth zero points while the third through eleventh characters are worth 1-9 points; the character that remains in the house is worth ten points. Each player collects points only for his most valuable character.The player with the most points after three rounds wins.

Exceed: Red Horizon – ReeseHeidiNehtaliand Vincent

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2

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Exceed is an easy-to-learn 2 player head-to-head fighting card game. Matches take approximately 10-20 minutes with decks that are small enough to fit in your pocket.Exceed is broken up into Seasons each Season contains 16 new fighters from various franchises packaged into 4-character boxes.This set features 4 characters from the world of Red Horizon: Reese Heidi Vincent and Nehtali as well as all materials you need to play.

Dice Hunters of Therion

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fighting

In Dice Hunters of Therion a.k.a. Würfelhelden players slip into the role of a dice hero and take hold of the villains who are up to mischief in the kingdom. With their dice players secure the rewards or find valuable treasures. With courage and the favor of the dice they will succeed in claiming glory and honor in the name of Therion.

Harmony

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Card Game Fantasy Fighting

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The seasons have been torn from their usual cycle! The essence of each is dispersed through portals confusing the creatures who now wander lost in eternal chaos. Only one possibility shines on the gloomy horizon: recover the relics of the seasons and return them to the heart of the forest shrine to restore its harmony.Harmony is a cooperative game with an indeterminate number of rounds where players must explore a deck to recover the four lost relics and restore balance to the Shrine of the Seasons.Through hand management collaboration and unique deck-building (where cards change hands) players travel a perilous path facing enemies and events.The group's ultimate goal is to cross the final portal with all the relics in their possession while managing resources loss of life and time (as the game becomes more dangerous the more rounds played) to avoid defeat. The fate of the forest is in your hands!—description from the publisher

Dungeon Rush

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–5

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Action / Dexterity Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor Real-time

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In Dungeon Rush players are adventurers rushing through a perilous dungeon to root out evil earning coins and improving their abilities along the way. After three levels (with three rounds of monsters in each level) they face the Dungeon Lord and the Dragon.Each player has two heroes one for their right hand and one for their left. Players simultaneously reveal two dungeon cards each and quickly put their hands on the cards they want their heroes to fight. If you win you claim the card as loot or equipment that increases the abilities of your hero. Equipment cards are placed partly under your hero card with the ability symbol sticking out. This way the four different types of abilities — Melee Ranged Magic and Stealth — are built up in one direction each out from your hero.For particularly strong monsters your heroes can combine their power by hitting the monster with both your hands.

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Description from the publisher:Hammerhal. Built in the glorious image of Azyrheim the seat of the God-King Sigmar’s power. Within its walls can be found danger and beauty faith and intrigue poverty and fortune. From the gleaming crystal spires of Goldenpath to the mist-shrouded vineways of Ghyra-un-Tyr there is seemingly no end to its marvels. Yet most who witness this splendour know little of the danger and menace that fill the outer districts of the city and that which lurks below…A band of heroes has been brought together by circumstance and are bound to hunt down and nullify a sinister Chaos plot in the dungeons and catacombs below Hammerhal. Lord-Castellant Arvios Sunhelm his Gryph-hound Archimaine and Cogsmith Golnir Coalbeard are joined by Loremaster Alnaryn and Fleetmaster Vizrin Kyre as they quest to uncover the Chaos Sorcerer Lord Redomir and put a halt to the vile corruption of the First City of Order.Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal is a boxed game for 2-5 players set in – and below – the splendid city of Order Hammerhal. Up to 4 players can quest in the catacombs and dungeons below the city while another acts as gamemaster setting fiendish obstacles controlling the antagonists and setting the story – it’s up to this player to take charge of revealing the secrets each dungeon has to offer.After each adventure the heroes can spend time in the Cinderfall district of the city visiting shops resting and taking part in the various shadowy delights Hammerhal has to offer! Your characters level up and increase their skills as you play and Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal is completely compatible with the Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower Hero Cards – any miniatures or rules you already own for that game can be used here.Speaking of miniatures Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal includes an impressive 31:As well as this the box includes a 72-page guidebook a 32-page adventure book for the gamemaster to use 18 double-sided board sections 55 cards 12 dice and a variety of counters and markers for tracking your heroes as they gain experience and skills under the city of Hammerhal.

Skull Tales

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Nautical Pirates

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25th August 1703It still smells like burning gunpowder. The deck is completely full of remains of combat after the boarding. We could be enjoying our looting in Isla Tortuga but our Captain insisted on coming to this goddamned island instead.In the meantime our gunner ‘Mad’ Harry does not stop telling us stories and legends about some fantastic creatures that dwell in this place. The Doctor seems uneasy grabbing the hilt of his sword sweating a lot more than usual after listening to Harry’s tales.-Old Sanders lost his leg after having cut it himself. He escaped alive from the jaws of that shark-headed abomination in human form …- Harry was explaining at the same time he was miming with all his body doing so acting out the scene with his eyes moving all directions as if they were about to jump off his face in a way of magnifying the facts.-I would not like to lose my leg…or my arm or any other limb from my body. I appreciate every single limb and organ of mine- was murmuring the Doctor who was more and more nervous. –Do you think there will be more monstrosities like those?The conversation was interrupted by the sound of two swords pulling out from their sheath together with the cracking in the wood due to a firm step. It was the ruthless Mary Jane who with a satisfied smile in her face expressed her wish. –That’s what I'm looking for…Williams the Lookout's logbook.Yo ho ho! Skull Tales is an adventure game in which each player performs the role of a pirate character in order to fulfill any pirates' dream: to become the ship's Master and to reach the most precious booty.Pirates will have to fight against any kinds of fantastic enemies by solving mysteries by sailing the Caribbean Sea and exploring islands... all aimed to conquer the highest score in prestige points (PP) and of course to reach the long awaited dream of becoming the Master. How is that? Each character will use different abilities to solve mysteries in each scenario or island (by means of modular boards) to fulfill secondary missions; they will roll dice and play cards in order to move fight enemies or sail depending of how many PP they still have left. All in a cooperative way to escape alive from all this because dead men tell no tales...

Posthuman Saga

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Exploration Fighting Science Fiction Wargame

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You are a survivor in a near-future Europe that has collapsed under the weight of its own political errors in the wake of a bloody class-war fueled by genetic modifications. In Posthuman you journeyed to the last bastion of organized human society in the area: The Fortress. A year down the line you have become an active part of that society and honed the skills you need to fulfill your role there but the mutants are gaining ground...Posthuman Saga is a standalone survival game in the Posthuman universe. You play a seasoned member of the Fortress' militia sent out beyond the defensive perimeter to explore and hopefully reconnect with outposts the Fortress has lost touch with while searching for scavengable sites along the way. You have to forge across a crumbled land where resources are spare and mutants roam the ruined mansions and forests alike.Like the initial Posthuman this is a sandbox-style survival journey but the game system in Posthuman Saga differs from that of the first game in the series. Players win by completing various objectives that suit different characters and playing styles. It has an emphasis on tactical choices on two levels: the journey expressed through an innovative modular tile map puzzle and the individual story and combat encounters. The latter are fast card-based affairs involving tough choices with future consequences. Posthuman Saga boasts over one hundred finely crafted story scenes with a simple push-your-luck mechanism that supplements the emergent narrative afforded by the game. Mutation is a way of life in the Posthuman world and it can have its advantages but it can easily get out of control...—description from the publisher

La Bête

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Age of Reason Fantasy Fighting Horror

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--- The Beast of Gévaudan is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal (or animals) that terrorised the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the modern-day department of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire as well as the Auvergne and south Dordogne areas of France) in the Margeride Mountains of southern-central France between 1764 and 1767. The attacks which covered an area spanning 90 by 80 kilometres (56 by 50 mi) were said to have been committed by one or more beasts with formidable teeth and immense tails according to contemporary eyewitnesses. Most descriptions from the period identify the beast as a striped hyena wolf dog or wolf-dog hybrid.Victims were often killed by having their throats torn out. The Kingdom of France used a considerable amount of money and manpower to hunt the animals responsible including the resources of several nobles soldiers royal huntsmen and civilians. The number of victims differs according to the source. A 1987 study estimated there had been 610 attacks resulting in 500 deaths and 49 injuries; 98 of the victims killed were partly eaten. Other sources claim the animal or animals killed between 60 and 100 adults and children and injured more than 30. The beast was reported killed several times before the attacks finally stopped.

The Undercity: An Iron Kingdoms Adventure Board Game

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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The Undercity puts a spin on the classic dungeon crawl adventure setting it within the vast underground labyrinth of one of the Iron Kingdoms’ most famous cities.This board game for two to four players comes with a seven-adventure campaign. The players play one to four characters from the Iron Kingdoms universe as they try to weed out a nefarious evil that has been lurking in the Undercity of Corvis.All players will be playing on the same team and the game requires no game master. The players work together defeating enemies achieving objectives and gaining experience that can be used to give new skills to their characters that can be used in subsequent adventures in the campaign.The game will come with almost 40 different miniatures with 16 different sculpts. The four heroes are Milo Boggs (the alchemist) Canice Gormleigh (the gun mage) Gardek Stonebrow (a trollkin warrior) and Pog (a gobber mechanic) that controls a light warjack named Doorstop.Each character has a starting stat sheet but players can purchase character ability cards with XP gained from the adventure to enhance and customize their characters.Combat is based on rolling dice against opposing attributes. Players will be able to use feats and abilities to give boosts to these dice rolls similar in many ways to other games based in the Iron Kingdoms.

Warhammer 40,000 (Sixth Edition)

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–12

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In the Grim darkness of the year 40.000 there is only... WAR.In a Dystopic future age engage as one of the SPACE MARINES chapters to uphold the emperor of humankind honor and glory or one of the foe factions to humanity like the alien Orks Tau Empire Voracious Tyranids Ancient Necrons Deceiver Eldars or join the power of the corruption within Chaos Workshipers and his demons that seek to seduce the mortals.This is the 6th edition of Games Workshop very popular tabletop miniature game; Warhammer 40,000.Within this new rulebook you´ll be introduced to the new game mechanics and Universal rules to the 40K universe. Also a guide to assemble paint and collect your army of choice; and how to field your armies to play battles.Gather your army and prepare for the Battle!

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Panic at the Pleasure Palace

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor

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Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Panic at the Pleasure Palace the fourth game in the Epic Spell Wars series takes the trademark humor-filled mature gameplay and artwork to a new level for 2-6 players. Magically transmitted diseases (MTDs) are a powerful addition to the proceedings leading wizards to suffer Crotch Krakens Genital Harpies and Gorgonorrhea among other enchanted afflictions. MTDs also give players glyphs that lead to spells that are more epic than ever. In addition players vie for control of the standee which protects them from the MTDs that might come their way.—description from the publisher

Knight Fall

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–6

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Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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In Thornmar Abbey an ancient order of holy knights watches over a sealed portal to the underworld. The knights must protect the elders—ancient sages who sustain the seal. After decades of peace the seal has weakened and demons are emerging from the rift. The demons seek to battle past the valiant knights and kill enough of the elders to fully break the seal before morning. Imbued with the power of the gods only these brave knights stand a chance of protecting the elders and stopping an army of monsters from flooding into the world.Knight Fall is an asymmetrical team game for one to six players. One team controls the knights who must protect the elders and withstand the demons until dawn. The other team controls the demons who seek to break the seal to the underworld before morning. During the game you choose a unique knight or demon each with a variety of special powers—such as the Flame Knight’s ability to surround his foes in fire or the Bone Crusher’s power to summon skeletal minions. The cards you play from your hand to perform actions can each be used in different ways and a set of unique location tiles allows you to create the monastery with a different layout every game.Knight Fall also features a campaign mode for one to two players. In this mode you read stories while exploring the map of a haunted valley drawing your path as you travel. Wander through crumbling churches a sinister forest and a dark mountain to stop the demons before the final battle at Thornmar Abbey. You must do whatever you can to keep your Knights alive; the death of each knight means one fewer hero to combat the invading demons in the final battle!–description from designer

Deadzone (Second Edition)

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2

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HUMANS AND ALIENS COLLIDE ON WORLDS ERASED FROM EXISTENCEIn the future unthinkably powerful mega-corporations own and govern entire planets outright protecting their interests with vast private armies. Now an even greater danger is sweeping the galaxy * a hideous mutagen wiping out entire sectors of space. To stem the carnage highly classified Containment Protocols are enacted blockading the infected system and wiping it from navigational charts forever. Here with the veil of civilisation lifted rival factions descend into furious conflict each with a unique claim on the chaos of the Deadzone!Deploy elite Enforcers to mercilessly hunt down the rampaging Plague army as it surges ceaselessly towards total contamination; Oversee the ransacking of abandoned districts by the hulking Marauders as the terrifying Veer-Myn single-mindedly set about bolstering their own numbers; Plunder natural resources with the tech-heavy Forge Fathers as the eclectic Rebs scavenge for discarded gear or simply scheme in secret as the mysterious Asterians pursue goals known only to themselves. As your collection grows where will your loyalty lie?A tabletop wargame without the hassle Deadzone strips away unnecessary complications leaving you free to enjoy the excitement and tactical depth of futuristic battle. Starter armies of two rival factions are included in this set kicking-off your collection of Enforcers and Forge Fathers along with everything else 2 players need to get right into the action. Assemble your finely detailed miniatures and get ready for fast paced easy to learn mission-based skirmishes in a brutal future!

Talisman: The Magical Quest Game – 5th Edition

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–6

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Adventure Exploration Fantasy Fighting

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The otherworldly artefacts known as Talismans have once more descended onto the mortal plane signaling the dawn of a new era— and the need for a new ruler!In Talisman: The Magical Quest Game – 5th Edition set forth on an epic adventure racing to be the first to obtain a Talisman reach the Crown of Command in the center of the board and defeat the elder dragon to win.—description from the publisher

Dungeon of Mandom VIII

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting

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Dungeon of Mandom VIII is a press-your-luck dungeon delve in which 2-4 players take turns essentially daring each other to go into a dungeon with less equipment than they start off with while filling the dungeon with monsters. Players can win the game by winning two rounds or get eliminated from the game by losing two rounds.The game is played in rounds. Each round the player sets up the base character — one of eight heroes in the box — and all the equipment this character has. This one character represents every player being a fully-equipped dungeon delver.The start player (the person who challenged the dungeon last or the last player to be in a dungeon) can choose to draw a card from the monster deck or pass their turn. If they choose to draw they can do one of two things: (1) keep it and remove a piece of equipment or (2) place it face down in the dungeon. Placing it face down in the dungeon creates the dungeon deck and fills the dungeon with monsters that the challenger will have to face later. If they choose to pass their turn they cannot participate in the rest of the round. Once only one person is left after all the other players have passed their turn that player then becomes the challenger and must go into the dungeon with only the equipment currently on the character.The player then flips cards off the dungeon deck and fights the monsters within. Some equipment allows you to null the enemy damage or be able to withstand it by increasing your HP. If the player survives the dungeon with at least 1 HP they win that round; if not they lose. The players then reshuffle all the cards to make a new monster deck and use the same or a different hero to start the boasting once again.The game ends when someone has won twice or one player is the last person standing.Dungeon of Mandom VIII includes the material in the original Dungeon of Mandom as well as seven new heroes seven new monsters and forty new pieces of equipment with those items having previously appeared in Welcome to the Dungeon and Welcome Back to the Dungeon.

ORC

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2

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ORC is a short game consisting of 6 battles. On your turn you must perform the following actions in order:1. Deploy Orcs: Play 1 card from your hand to a Territory that has not yet been conquered. 2. Draw Weapons: Choose ANY Stockpile(s). Draw card(s) as follows: A. Draw 1 card into your hand if you deployed 2 Orcs. B. Draw 2 cards into your hand if you deployed 1 Orc.A Territory battle occurs immediately after the Stockpile next to a Territory is exhausted. Then players total their deployed Orcs at that Territory and a victor will be declared. Orcs that fight in battle will not score points they only help conquer Territories. Scoring occurs at the end of the game when all Stockpiles have been exhausted. The player who conquers the most valuable Territories and holds native Orcs in their hand (matching those lands) is the winner!From The Box: Players use Orc clans to dominate territories and earn the most victory points in this strategy game for 2 players. You’ll need to carefully plan your attacks and balance your clans in order to win the game!Number 9 in the Pack O Game series.

Crown of Ash

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Fantasy Fighting Medieval Mythology Territory Building

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Crown of Ash is a strategic worker placement and area control game for 1 to 4 players.The promise of a dreamless sleep was a lie. The Lords awoke after a hundred years of staring into deepest depths of oblivion; every moment wracked by nightmarish dreams. They no longer cared for peace but now desired power.The bleak slumber had revealed an ancient secret to them the arcane knowledge of necromancy. It gave them the ability to build armies from the wastes of their lands. Those fallen in the first war would rise again and march into a bloody second a devastating conflict that would determine who at last would lay claim to the Crown of Ash.Players take on the role of vengeful necromancers. Sending out their loyal minions to do their bidding.Gathering resources to the raise powerful undead armiesBuilding mighty structures offering better resources and earning influence over the landMarching your undead army into battle to take other players structures and defend your own with all your mightOver 4 rounds players will earn influence points based on the structures they control the player with the most influence at the end of the game will take control of the kingdom and rule for the rest of time.—description from the designer

Disc Duelers

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–21

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Action / Dexterity Fighting Racing Sports

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In Disc Duelers players control a team of 3-5 characters which are drafted during the initial set-up. Each of the 52 characters is represented by a card and a disc. The card shows ratings for movement and attacks plus a special ability. The game can be played on any flat surface although a four-foot-square table is recommended. Players place everyday objects on the table to act as terrain.On his turn a player activates a character. He may then move and attack by flicking the corresponding disc. A moving disc that hits terrain suffers no damage but hitting other discs causes one damage to the active character. An attacking disc suffers a point of damage if it hits terrain and causes a point of damage to another character if it hits its disc. Knocking a disc into terrain or off the table inflicts an additional point of damage. A character is eliminated when it takes five points of damage. A character's ratings determine how many times it can move and attack each time it is activated. Optional item cards if used can be acquired during play and provide additional actions.Disc Duelers includes several play options including classic elimination point capture (points scored for eliminating a character but that character returns to action) soccer or volleyball with a neutral disc representing the ball and a race.

Bantam West

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure American West Exploration Fighting Miniatures

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Welcome weary traveler to Gallow Springs - the only civilized town on the entire Dethelm Frontier. Surrounded by bandits predators and cultists only the toughest survive. If you’re going to last you must find a source of income purchase new gear build shelter recruit a posse and protect your homestead. Do you have what it takes?Bantam West is a competitive open-world board game with role-playing elements for 1-4 players. Begin life anew as one of four Deadly Strangers who all just arrived in the outlaw town of Gallow Springs. Spend your Grit to work fight build and burn to become the most Notorious. It’s time to tell your own story...Set in a Western sandbox you are given total freedom to form a plan and play on your character's strengths weaknesses and personality to outperform the competition. Whether you live the life of a powerful merchant an agile gunslinger a malicious arsonist or a stealthy thief there is a unique way for you to come out on top! Along the way be on the lookout for enemies and rival players who aim to fight you burn your cabins down and steal your hard-earned wealth!—description from the publisher

Heroscape: Master Set – Age of Annihilation

Rating: 8.8 | Players: 2

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Wargame

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The Heroscape: Age of Annihilation Master Set contains a generous amount of content including 20 new highly detailed fully assembled unpainted miniatures. Players will be able to draft their armies and play through scenarios that take place during the Battle of All Time. The Heroscape: Age of Annihilation Master Set is for both newcomers and players of yesteryear. It is also compatible with previous and upcoming Heroscape content.There is another version a pre-painted Heroscape: Age of Annihilation Master Set Premium Painted Edition.Features 20 brand new highly detailed unpainted miniatures for Heroscape! Includes interlocking Laur wall terrain! 74 locking hex tiles! Features 9 new scenarios to support hours of gameplay! Compatible with previous and upcoming Heroscape releases! Master Set supports 2 players supports up to 4 players with the addition of a Battle Box or Master Set.For Ages: 8+ Game Type: Miniature Game Players: 2 players [Supports up to 4 players with the addition of a Battle Box or Master Set.] Game Length: 60-120 minutes

WWE Superstar Showdown

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–6

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Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Description from the publisher:WWE Superstar Showdown features six of WWE's greatest superstars — Daniel Bryan Roman Reigns John Cena Big Show Randy Orton and Big E — in a game of miniature combat driven by specialized card decks that highlight the unique style and signature moves for each WWE superstar.A single match in WWE Superstar Showdown can be played in as little as ten minutes. The game expands with rules linking a series of matches to form an event creating a longer and more in-depth play experience. With four different match cards players can play a variety of different matches further augmented with stipulation cards that introduce special rules to the contest. Players in an event can improve their superstar between matches by earning and adding powerful bonus cards to their superstar decks.Can you dominate the ring? Will your team go down in history as the greatest phenomenon the world has ever known?

Death Roads: All Stars

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–5

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Fighting Miniatures Racing Science Fiction Video Game Theme

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In 2082 mankind is divided. The rich and the lucky ones live in large automated metropolises. The poor dwell in the outlands struggling to survive. What gives a chance for a better life is the Death Roads car tournament the main prize of which is citizenship. However drivers' lives are at stake! Are you ready to risk it all in the Divided States of America's most daring trial?Take part in a dangerous race! Pick your car a driver and a set of deadly weapons. Your decisions will determine which unique cards you will be able to play so be prepared for every possibility. Adjust your gear accelerate shoot and bash your opponents; do everything you can to be the first — or the only one — on the finish line!A crazy and deadly drive from West to East Coast will be full of unexpected road events. You will also have to be careful about the skids that can ruin your plans. In Death Roads: All Stars every move is important and can bring you closer to victory or demise.—description from the publisher

Battlecrest: Fellwoods Base Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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Card Game Fighting Print & Play Science Fiction

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What is the mark of a true champion? Legendary heroes clash across the Neververse to find out.Battlecrest is a card-based tactical skirmish game for 2 players (1-4 with expansions). With perfect information players must truly outwit their opponent to win.Characters are composed of 6-card sets featuring a hero card a health tracker and action cards. Occasionally a minion or item will replace an action card.The map is built of 6 cards as well with the cards randomly placed in a set pattern.Players take turns maneuvering their characters around the dynamic and often dangerous map while unleashing powerful attacks. As action cards are used they open up new possibilities and empower the character’s battlecrests. Build up to decisive strikes or refocus to get powers back. Every character has a unique set of actions and preferred tactics so no two battles play the same.Shots ring out in the overgrown forest. A rugged pirate festooned with weapons of war stomps into view. He scans the nearby treeline with practiced rigor. In the gnarled canopy above a celestial goddess calls for an ancestral blessing against this implacable foe. With a divine roar she drops to the ground below swinging her ornate staff with the strength of a thousand lifetimes at her waiting target…The Fellwoods Base Game includes two heroes Akhena and Mutiny (and his minion RIG) and the Fellwoods map. All in just 18 cards packed in our little wallets. No additional components are needed to play.The Fellwoods is a large enchanted forest covering a remote mostly unknow planet. Enormous hulking trees dense moss and vines and shrouds of mist lock the secrets of the forest within. Wild Magic is very much alive here protected by guardians and spirits.Akhena is cosmic energy personified. A font of ancient knowledge provides her with a flexibility that mere mortals lack. In battle she draws guidance from powerful ancestor spirits giving her both durability and strength in equal measure. To defeat her is to defeat mortality itself for what could be more deadly than a living goddess?This rugged raider has seen better days but that won't stop him. He's got a head full of schemes and an array of ill-gotten loot to keep him going. Wily and clever Mutiny knows better than to pick a fair fight. The best battles are the ones that end in a single shot from afar with his clockwork RIG helping to pin the target down. Less fuss that way.

Dark Rituals: Malleus Maleficarum

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–5

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Fantasy Fighting Horror Medieval Miniatures

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As the many planes of existence turn and churn occasionally worlds come into alignment. For brief moments in the multiverse's timescale these Conjunctions allow objects to slip from one world to another sometimes unnoticed sometimes causing chaos.One such Conjunction occurred between Earth and Neemoss during the Dark Ages. Two dimensions could not be more different. Physics in this alternate plane is more akin to magic and its corrupting effects create worlds of monsters and cruelty. When items from Neemoss appear on Earth they are still imbued with their magical essence which is soon discovered by healers alchemists fakirs and all manner of snake-oil peddlers. But things become decidedly worse when the Conjunction strengthens and the first Witches from Neemoss cross into our plane of existence.Help the Heroes master their newfound magical powers as they defend their lands from the malevolent Witches and the disciples they summon. Or control the Witches as they complete their rituals to ravage the Earth!Dark Rituals: Malleus Maleficarum is an asymmetric “One vs Many” miniatures board game for 2 to 5 players with an expansion for a solo mode where one player controls the Witch Master. In one vs many a team of people control a small band of Heroes defending villagers from a single player controlling the vile Forces of Evil. All players manage a pool of stamina that is used to pay for their character’s actions. Game play is dynamic with little downtime: turns alternate between the two forces with a player on each side taking one or two actions each turn so long as they still have stamina.Play is organized around scenarios with unique objectives. The scenarios can be linked into a longer campaign or played individually if your group is more casual. Story driven scenarios game mechanics detailed miniatures and lush modular boards bring the game world to life.Can you use the magic of Neemoss to defeat the invading horde? Or will you complete your Dark Rituals to summon the ultimate evil?—description from designer

2D6 Dungeon: A Dungeon Crawler

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1

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2D6 Dungeon is a classic style dungeon crawl print and play roll and write game designed for solo play. In it you explore randomly generated dungeons fight monsters and collect treasure as you gain experience and levels and strive to become a legendary adventurer. Every adventure and dungeon is unique.You are an adventurer who has that special quality which marks you out as exceptional. You have heard that there is a dungeon located nearby and after searching have discovered the entrance. This is your opportunity to make your fortune and although you know the challenges ahead will be difficult you sense you have what it takes to become a legend!—description from the publisher

Dustbiters

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2

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Dustbiters is a quick and furious card game about rival car gangs racing to outrun a giant dust storm.Last car standing wins! It's 100 miles an hour in the dirt and you're gonna need all the cunning trickery and horsepower you've got!Dustbiters is a two player card game where each player controls several cars in a convoy. The goal is to destroy (or outlast) all of your opponents cars.But beware at the end of each turn the car at the back is destroyed by the dust storm!—description from the designer

KeyForge: Winds of Exchange

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 2

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Card Game Collectible Components Fantasy Fighting

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Winds of Exchange adds loads of new content for the game and the best part is the set is already completely developed! In fact if the algorithm was not broken the set would already be well on its way to stores this fall. This means that when we do relaunch KeyForge in the future Winds of Exchange will be ready to produce and hit store shelves.In addition to a whole new batch of cards and mechanics Winds of Exchange also introduces the game’s eleventh house the Compacts of Ekwidon. This is a mercantile house founded by the asymmetrical Getrookya and it’s all about themes of trade and exchange. Joining the Ekwidon are six returning houses including Brobnar Sanctum Saurians Star Alliance Unfathomable and the long-awaited return of Mars!—description from the publisher

Car Wars (Sixth Edition)

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–4

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Fighting Miniatures Racing Science Fiction Sports Wargame

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Car Wars is a game featuring arenas and freeways of the future in which the right of way goes to those with the biggest guns. Players build their vehicle — complete with weapons armor suspension and upgrades. Then they take them onto the road or into the arena. Sixth Edition is a streamlined update of the classic Car Wars. Quicker to build your car quicker to learn to play quicker to jump right in.

Bushido

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Bushido is a game of dueling martial artists testing their training against one another. One shall prevail and prove their techniques superior. The other will return to studying until they are strong enough to win.Players begin with a card draft which represent the training of their fighters.After training players play a series of round wherein they play technique cards from their hands or change their guards in order to create a pool of combat dice which they hope to use to strike their opponent or defend their attacks.In this game damage escalates quickly so players must be able to block evade and strike simultaneously to try and keep the momentum of the encounter in their favor.The game ends when one warrior has bested the other.

Sorcery: Contested Realm

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 2

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Two players take the roles of Avatars assemble their own decks and then cast a variety of elemental spells summon powerful minions and shape the world around them from their Atlas to increase their dominance and ultimately banish their foe.Sorcery is a realm contested by Avatars with one goal: to be the last Avatar standing. In order to win a player must first put their opponent’s Avatar at Death’s Door by reducing its life total to 0. After that the player must then deliver the final Death Blow to the dying Avatar which rewards them with the win. A player also wins if their opponent attempts to draw a card from an empty deck—either the Atlas or Spellbook— or if their opponent surrenders.Sorcery: Contested Realm is played over a series of turns. Players take their turn one at a time following 3 phases:Start Phase Untap Step: Untap your Avatar minions and relics. Draw Step: Draw a card from your Spellbook or Atlas. If you are the first player skip this step on your first turn of the game. Start Step: “At the start of turn” abilities trigger.Main Phase You may in any order: Cast spells; Activate abilities; Interact with relics; Move with a minion; Attack with a minion;End Phase Rest Step: Remove damage from all minions. End Step: “Until the end of turn” abilities end and the turn passes to your opponent.

Critical Mass: Patriot vs Iron Curtain

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

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Card Game Fighting Science Fiction

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Critical Mass is a fast-paced mech combat game. Players go head-to-head in this fighting-strategy game with deck-building aspects. Players choose their favorite mech to battle it out with each mech offering a different loadout of cards to start the game and unique powers.Each turn players play a card face-down. When both players have chosen a card they reveal them. Cards resolve based on their speed if they haven't been interrupted. Weapons deal damage and interrupt the enemy while defending avoids weapon hits. Upgrading offers you additional cards to add to your arsenal but is vulnerable to being interrupted. Lastly recharge reloads spent cards.As cards are played they go to their owner's cool-down pile where they remain until they're reloaded. As players take damage the armor on their mech is destroyed. When enough armor is destroyed an armor core becomes vulnerable and can be destroyed to stun that mech for the next turn. The game ends when a mech's armor is completely destroyed down to the last core.

Ylandyss

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Ylandyss is a deck building fantasy game. Some cards will be available every turn and players will fight to earn the resources they need to buy them and the position in how to do it. The structure of the game and the design of the cards allows the players to try different strategies to win may it be by brute force or by a clever combination of cards (or a well balanced mix of both!). No one can win every round: to choose wisely when is the best moment to fight and when is better to step aside will be the key to win.

Funkoverse Strategy Game: Jurassic Park 100

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Fighting Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Hold on to your butts! And face off in the ultimate battle of epic proportions.In the Funkoverse Strategy Game you combine your favorite characters and go head-to-head in exciting game scenarios.Each turn you select one of your characters and perform two actions. Each character has access to basic actions like moving and challenges as well as several unique abilities that may be performed only by spending ability tokens. Funkoverse uses an innovative cooldown system—the more powerful the ability the longer it will take for the ability token to become available again—so players have to spend their ability tokens wisely. Each character in Funkoverse is unique so players are encouraged to try out different combinations of characters and items in order to discover their favorite synergies and powerful strategies for the different game scenarios.

Ninja Taisen

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2

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Dice Fighting

Ninja Taisen is a two-player dice-driven open information abstract game with a random set-up. Both players have identical sets of ten fighters with three fighters in each of three colors with values 1–3 along with a tri-colored boss valued at 4; these fighters are placed in small stacks of varying size onto a line that's eleven steps long. On a player's turn he rolls the three colored dice and can make up to three moves accordingly with the blue die moving a blue fighter etc. Moving a fighter that has other fighters on top of him moves these other fighters as well.If as a result of movement his fighter (or stack of fighters) encounters an enemy a fight between the two top cards in each stack occurs the result of which is decided primarily by the color (via a rock-paper-scissors mechanism) and secondarily by the number (highest wins). If the boss wins a fight its power is reduced by the enemy's power for the remainder of the current fight; if two fighters draw they both retreat one step toward their own village possibly precipitating other fights on the same turn. The fight continues until either pile is depleted.The first player to either defeat all of the opposing fighters or reach the end of the line (and clear out the opponent's fighters in his village) wins.

Maul Peak

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2

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BILLOWING SMOKE FROM THE NORTH - As battles wage through Skulk Hollow a thick dark haze appears around Maul Peak. The smell of war wafts down through the valley as clouds of wrath engulf towns and villages. As fate spreads the smoke far and wide destruction follows. A foxen scout their fastest is hastily dispatched to learn more...Maul Peak is a two-player asymmetric tactical combat game in which players take the roles of either a tribe of bears or a towering behemoth of a Guardian.Maul Peak is a standalone sequel to the original game Skulk Hollow and all Guardians / Heroes can be pitted against each other. All new guardians work with the original Foxen Heroes & Map Bears vs old Guardians Bears vs new Guardians — you name it!—description from the publisher

Liguria

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 3–4

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Fighting Nautical Renaissance

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Description from the publisher:In Liguria players take the role of merchants who sail the Ligurian Sea to discover beautiful and exotic colors. By trading conquering and engaging in diplomatic relationships they can earn valuable prestige points. Fulfilling contracts with the bishop can prove very lucrative...Make sure to collect all special colors in the various harbors and bring them back home to make your cathedral stand out the most.Liguria is a prequel to the award-winning game Fresco. As a standalone game it tells the story of how the colors came to the markets of the Ligurian cities to paint the beautiful frescos.

Opale

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

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Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting Nautical

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The maleficent witch has trapped Azura the giant dragon and guardian of the Kingdom of Atlea in stone with the help of the Opale. Without protection the kingdom is on the verge of war. The insurgents creatures of darkness are difficult for the Atlea’s guardians and emissaries to repel. As a disciple of the giant dragon you must enter the conflict to awaken Azura.Opale is a fast and addictive game for two players. Play your cards at the right moment to score more points and change the destiny of the Kingdom of Atlea.On a turn a player plays one or more cards with the same motif then refills his hand to five cards. The cards are always played onto the part of the game board that has the same motif. By laying out cards a player collects point cards that are already present.Opale is the new edition of Dragonheart with two variants from the designer.

Way of the Samurai

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1

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Card Game Fighting Medieval

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In Way of the Samurai you play the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi to live epic battles. This is a solo card game with simple and fluid mechanics.Way of the samurai offers strategy risk taking deck building and combinations.A game lasts on average 20 minutes but can vary between 1 and 30 minutes. The set-up is extremely fast and the game has a high replay value.The game is offered in a compact box and easy to carry. The rules will be in English and French. There is no text on the cards.A game takes place in several rounds. Each round allows you to make two attacks. Each attack is represented by playing a sequence of three action cards. Cards allow you to gain strength technique or guard. It's up to you to establish a strategy for each attack. Will you attack your opponent distract him or defend yourself ?Ki tokens help deepen your strategy. By using them you'll develop skills that will make the difference.Depending on your attacks you will have the opportunity to create combos to unlock special action cards.There are several different opponents as well as a competition mode. This one will propose you to try like Miyamoto musashi to defeat dozens of samurai during one memorable fight ...—description from the publisher

Infinity N4: Core Rules

Rating: 8.7 | Players: 2

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Infinity N4 is a 28 mm metal miniatures game simulating special operations and skirmishes in a high technology sci-fi universe. an exciting and action-packed near-future where secret missions black ops and covert actions determine the destiny of the Humankind.Infinity N4 recreates direct action operations which are quick lethal and very risky. The player assumes command of a small group of elite troopers engaging in undercover and clandestine operations.Infinity N4 is an innovative game system dynamic and entertaining which allows all players to participate during the entire gaming sequence. It possesses a great amount of realism and flexibility providing players with a wide variety of tactical and strategic maneuvers to employ during the game.Infinity N4 Contains two full-color books in a slipcase. With improved and streamlined rules new troops more background to set the scene and introducing O-12 and its Sectorial Army Starmada Infinity N4 goes one step beyond!

Uncharted: The Board Game

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Card Game Fighting Video Game Theme

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Welcome to the world of Uncharted: The Board Game! In this game you take on the role of a treasure hunter and compete with other players to gain the most Victory Points. The variety of cards that you collect represent skills and items necessary for or sought after by treasure hunters. You can increase your chances of winning by adding useful cards to your play area. Venture into dangerous ruins search them thoroughly and defeat waves of enemies to become a legendary treasure hunter!

Lifeform

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Fighting Horror Science Fiction

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++++Incoming Transmission++++++++ Received: 24/09/2195++++++Source: Antares binary system 876/ 978+++''ID: Industrial Salvage and Mining Vessel Valley ForgeCrew: 12 Human Androids: 1 Andromech 580-A “Demigod” class Engines: Hagfish Twin FTL J-3000 Tachyon Shunters Navigation: SIS-TER 6000 Mainframe Cargo: 2,000,000 tons of Mineral Ore; 3 tons of Trimonite Logged Flight Plan: Thedus to EarthMessage begins:+++Mayday Mayday! This is the ISMV Valley Forge – comms systems failing scanners malfunctioning… one of us is missing. Several of the crew are also claiming to have seen an alien lifeform. Ore-payload canister M-CXC-3790 ruptured when taken for processing. Doctor Chandra claimed it cracked like an egg before she vanished (possible space psychosis). Request advice and rescue boat. Comms out.+++++Message Appended- Received 24/09/2195+++++Oh god! Two of us are dead and two are still missing. We’ve got to get out of here! The captain has ordered Palmer to prime the auto-destruct. It mustn’t get back! Save our souls.Lifeform is a game of survival horror for two to four players in which one player takes on the role of an almost invincible utterly hostile alien while all other players take on the roles of the crew of commercial mining starship Valley Forge. During each game the crew outfitted with glitchy handheld sensors disrupted by a proximate nebula search their labyrinthine vessel for equipment weaponry and supplies to load onboard escape shuttlecraft Remora. Along the way the alien lifeform will ruthlessly attempt to stop the crew from carrying out this plan.The crew and alien lifeform both have a unique deck of cards and each card has symbols on it to indicate possible actions. The alien can move around the starship attack cocoon activate a malfunctioning android sabotage equipment and the vessel's wiring scurry into vents and more; while the starship crew can fire flamethrowers search move or run protect themselves with shock-prods hide shut security doors and other actions.Lifeform is a standalone dice-less game that tells of twelve commercial astronauts working on a battered mining starship far away in space and time who encounter an awesome galactic horror. Featuring an innovative self-destruct game mechanism and alternate playable endings depending on crew success Lifeform presents a tense suspenseful adventure with each and every game.

ELO Darkness

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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ELO Darkness is a complete customizable card game in which two players (or four in the team vs. team mode) fight against each other in an epic MOBA-inspired arena.Each player controls a 40-card deck representing a team of five heroes (divided into five different classes). Players can delve into the deck-building aspect of the game by customizing their own Team and play style. Heroes can be picked through an initial draft mode in which players alternate selecting among 30 different characters.No dice are involved in the game. Randomness is limited to the draw and is mitigated by the Farming and Backing phases in which players can manage their hand and retreat from their position on the map in order to draw more cards from their deck.Hero cards can be used for multiple purposes: they can be played during combat or they can be discarded in order to gain Experience points and gold used to buy and upgrade powerful items during the game.Combat takes place every turn on each Lane and is determined by a simultaneous action selection mechanism and a back-and-forth phase in which players take actions like playing Gank cards or activating combos and special abilities.In addition to increase tension during the match there are also objectives (monster cards) that player can conquer through a simultaneous resource bidding occurring during specific turns.The final goal of the game is to invade the opponent's base on the map destroying the enemy towers and breaking through one of the Lanes on the board.

Fire!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–2

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Card Game Fighting Video Game Theme

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The Aliens attack and only you can defend Earth. Charge your Weapons and destroy all Aliens before you lose too much energy! Level by level danger raises ... are you ready to accept the challenges and win all 9 Levels?In Fire! you can play either in Solo Mode playing all 9 Levels on your own or in Team Mode fighting cooperatively with a friend against all Aliens!Fire! uses the Fable Game™ system introduced in Fabled Fruit. With the presorted deck of cards and a rules booklet separated in 9 sections you will discover all 9 challenging Levels step by step. You can reset the game at any time and play it again!

Kharnage

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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Kharnage is a fast and fun fighting game in a med-fan world in which you are the warchief of the mighty humans the strong (and alcoholic) dwarves the amazing horde of goblins or the ferocious orcs (and their giant!). Your goal in Kharnage is to take control of something strategically essential astoundingly beautiful and envy of all other nations: a hill. Yes just a hill. Admittedly it is a nice hill. It may have a very commanding view of the surroundings or it may not. You won't know until you get up there! To do so you're going to have to drive off the armies of the other players by simply causing as much mayhem and bloodshed as possible.Each turn you choose one battle card. The player with the lowest initiative value begins and:The next player then begins their turn doing the same. After all players have taken their turn the player who destroyed the largest number of units wins 5 domination points the second 3 domination points and the third 1 domination point. The last one has only their eyes for crying.Each time a player totally destroys an opponent army they must yell KHARNAGE! loud and clear and stomp the table. They then take a Kharnage token worth 1 domination point. The other players must cheer them on by yelling YEAH!; if not they lose a Kharnage token if they have one.After four rounds the warchief with the most domination points wins!

RWBY: Combat Ready

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–5

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Fighting

RWBY: Combat Ready is an exciting cooperative game for 2-4 players with adapted rules for 5 players . It captures the flavor and excitement of the animated web series RWBY from Rooster Teeth with fast-paced battles where all players are actively involved and engaged at the same time.Players play as one of the four main heroines in the series: Ruby Weiss Blake or Yang. Each of them have their own separate deck of cards representing their attacks actions and moves. Each character plays a little differently using their own unique tactics and strategies. Players record their key stats on their Scrolls (player tracking boards) including their Aura (health) Experience Battle Fury and their Semblance (unique special ability).Before each game players choose a scenario to play from the scenario book. Each scenario will have them fighting one or more battles. Battles are against a particular Villain with a particular set of rules and may include one or more objectives. No two battles are ever the same!

Bang! The Dice Game: The Walking Dead

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 3–8

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Bluffing Comic Book / Strip Deduction Dice Fighting

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The Walking Dead Bang! Dice Game allows players to face off against one another in this fast-paced stand-alone version of Bang!Roll shoot Bang! Test your survival skills with this fast moving version of BANG! The Dice Game: The Walking Dead. Based on the world's best-selling shoot 'em up card game Bang! where players battle one another for supremacy! With each roll of the dice Walkers get closer to overrunning the Survivors can you survive?

Dice Conquest

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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Take on a gauntlet of terrifying monsters either solo or in a group of up to 4 classic fantasy characters with a set of 7 included polyhedral dice as your weapons! Can you survive long enough to defeat the mighty dragon Kalterstorm?Each round you’ll draw three new monster cards joining any leftover from the last round. Then a player rolls all available dice and players begin their turns. On your turn you place any available die on a monster doing that die’s value amount of damage. If the value matches your character’s critical hit number you get to use your special ability as well! If the total damage is greater than that monster’s health you defeat the monster collect an item (if any) and move the dice back into the pool. But it’s not always so simple! Many monsters have special requirements like the Ogre who must be defeated before you can even target other creatures! Or the Gremlin who can only be defeated with three damage EXACTLY!It includes 8 Hero cards to try in different combinations as you attempt to survive to the end. Once you do you can mix in more and more of the included Trap cards for an added challenge!Dice Conquest is designed by Stephen Avery and Eugene Bryant and features illustrations by Mirco Paganessi. It includes a beautiful set of 7 polyhedral dice but players are also free to swap in their favorite set of dice instead!—description from the publisher

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2

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Fighting Video Game Theme

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RUMBLESLAM

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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RUMBLESLAM was designed to be a quick and fun game that you can play within an hour and has evolved into so much more. It is fast paced and all players are always active so no one gets bored waiting for their next go.Battle one on one or team up with a friend to play against a pair of opponents. The more fighters in the ring the more action! Your team of wrestlers must try to eject the opponents team from the ring something that gets much easier after a successful knockout!RUMBLESLAM sees players tactically moving miniatures around a 1ft x 1ft board/ring you'll have an array of choices at your disposal to help win the match whether its performing dexterous wrestling moves a punch to the face or even spending your action points to get the crowd fired up in your favour giving your team that much needed boost to win the game. Players will use dice rolls relevant to a stat on a wrestlers character profile card to try and knockout the opponents team which will make ejecting them from the ring much easier.

Omen: Edge of the Aegean

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2

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Ancient Card Game Fantasy Fighting Mythology

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You are a child of Zeus poised to conquer all of Greece but first you must prove your worth to the gods as there is another who contests your claim. To determine who shall rule gods have devised a contest and lent their most powerful forces to both sides of the conflict.Omen: Edge of the Aegean is a stand-alone head-to-head card game in the Omen Saga collection of games and features a streamlined way to play. You will manage your economy and hand of unit cards each turn as you tactically play units to cities or for their unique abilities. Plan your strategy to take advantage of the combined strength of your units to win war-torn city reward tiles utilize their abilities and defeat your opponent. Gain the most victory points at the end of the game to rule over these lands!Key Points - Head to Head demigod battles for supremacy of ancient Greece. - Tactical battle card-game where every unit has its own unique ability. - Streamlined rules and fully compatible with any other game from the Omen Saga collection of games.

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Vengeance

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Dark Vengeance contains 48 miniatures Dark Angels and the Chaos Space Marines of the Crimson Slaughter - all of which are snap-fit plastic models - this means that glue is optional. It contains enough miniatures to start a Dark Angels army including: a Company Master armed with bolt pistol power sword and combi-weapon; Librarian Turmiel who carries a bolt pistol and force sword; Veteran Sergeant Raphael and his Tactical Squad; Deathwing Terminator Squad Barachiel; Sergeant Arion and a Ravenwing Bike Squadron that comes equipped with twin-linked boltguns. All are resplendent in the iconography of the Dark Angels. From the finely crafted purity seals to studded power fists to the Librarian with codex keys and ornate sword through to the Bikes with angel-wing panels they are among the most sublime Space Marines ever sculpted.Ranged against the Dark Angels is the Crimson Slaughter. These Chaos Space Marine models contain attributes that will leave you slack-jawed in awe. Warp distress shows through on every detail of armour on the models. Horrific maws can be seen on swords armour and guns. Faces emerge from flesh as bones jut outward. Dozens of miniature eyes of Chaos peer outwards; jagged or ribbed horns curl in all manner of directions. There are macabre brain-like surfaces grills chains and skulls and even more textures. The full Crimson Slaughter line-up includes: Kranon the Relentless Chaos Lord - armed with power sword and plasma pistol; Mortis Metalikus: Helbrute armed with multi-melta and power fist; and Draznicht's Ravagers: Chosen. They stand alongside Chaos Cultists made up of Sect Anarkus which carries close combat weapons and Sect Tetchvar which carries ranged weapons such as autoguns. Both units are garbed in sinister-looking cloaks masks and hoods.As if these models weren't enough Dark Vengeance comes with a full-colour 168-page mini Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook 6th edition; a complete Assembly Guide; a quick-play reference guide; an army roster sheet; dice templates and a how-to-play booklet including six scenarios to enact on the tabletop.Dark Vengeance is quite simply astonishing value for money. Whether you want to start a Dark Angels or Chaos Space Marines army wish to add to your existing collection of models or simply gape at beautiful miniatures then this is an essential purchase.

Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction Video Game Theme

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Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery! is a co-operative combat-action board game.You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to face off against his collection of skags bandits and assorted psychos. You can play a one-off battle filled with explosions slaughter-splosions sauce-plosions and loot-splosions!!! Or play a series of deadly fights in campaign-mode that will see your Vault Hunter level up between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear advance your character using unique skill trees equip epic new guns and enter the next game even more BADASS than before!!! Just make sure your tough enough to take on the final boss an Ultimate Murder-Machine hellbent on sending you back to the borderlands as moist and meaty skag-snacks.

Giga-Robo!

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Dice Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction

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Giga-Shards: techno-organic energy sources lethally harvested from living beings; blended with human DNA they transmute raw emotion into incredible power and make possible giant war machines with unimaginable speed and strength. The Zoider Armada a galaxy-conquering alien force has discovered this unique energy and has invaded Earth-space to abduct and dominate the human race. All seems lost but Earth finds a way to fight back—with the Zoiders own giant robot prototypes! The pilots who control these robots have goals of their own though and each competes with the others in a race to control the Giga-Shards. Some hope to defend Earth others seek only revenge and still others seek power to achieve their own mysterious ends...Giga-Robo is the customizable card-driven miniatures game of giant robot combat. Choose from a powerful roster of pilots and robots create a custom build of attacks and abilities and battle across a fully destructible city!Act on every turn — Respond to attacks with any card in your hand and gain resources from taking damage—you're never on the sidelines!The battlefield is a weapon — Smash your opponent across the map through buildings and hazards changing the terrain as you play!Dynamic cooldown system — Plan your turns and set up powerful combos by tracking when each of your cards will return to your hand!Unleash your fighting spirit — win your opponents’ Giga-Shards — forge your fate in combat!

The Battle of Five Armies Collector's Edition

Rating: 8.8 | Players: 2

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Novel-based Wargame

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The Battle of Five Armies is a stand-alone board game for two players which recreates the fierce struggle witnessed by Bilbo Baggins at the end of his quest for the Lonely Mountain in “The Hobbit” the world-renowned masterpiece by J.R.R. Tolkien. Developed by the same designer team of the awarded War of the Ring board game (Francesco Nepitello Marco Maggi and Roberto Di Meglio) The Battle of Five Armies is based on the mechanics first used in that game merging action dice and event cards. The system is further enhanced by the addition of the “Fate Track” mechanic handling the arrival of the allies and the triggering of special events. All the key characters in the battle – Bilbo Gandalf Thorin Dain the Elven King Bard Beorn Bolg – are featured with powerful special abilities and unique sculptures.This Collector's Edition will include a high-quality version of all the components featured in the regular and now out-of-print version of the game complemented by 126 hand-painted figures in a special deluxe packaging and with a limited edition certificate of authenticity. It will also include The Fate of Erebor a previously unreleased mini-expansion including rules and components to reflect the outcome of the game in your games of War of the Ring Second Edition.The Battle of Five Armies Collector's Edition will have a single print run with a single print run of 1500.The Collector's Edition of The Battle of Five Armies includes: - 126 painted figures - deluxe large size game board - special hardcover edition of the rulebook printed on high-quality textured paper - 2 deluxe player aids - 13 limited edition action dice - 10 limited edition combat dice - 92 tarot-size limited edition cards - 11 deluxe cardstock character and unit cards - 3 cloth recruitment bags - 1 fate token bag - 170 deluxe counters - War of the Ring: The Fate of Erebor rules and components - numbered Certificate of Authenticity—description from the publisher

Dragon Eclipse

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Animals Card Game Fantasy Fighting

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Enter a magical world of mythical beasts and ancient dragons in Dragon Eclipse the exciting new board game for 1-2 players! Uncover the secrets of the eclipse that changed everything and discover the dangerous and treacherous world that awaits you.Explore a vivid and immersive world filled with majestic and unique creatures you can battle tame catch and train. Each creature has a unique deck of cards you can use in combat and special abilities offering endless tactical possibilities to master.—description from the publisher

Zeppelin Attack!

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Aviation / Flight Card Game Fighting

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Take over the world in Zeppelin Attack a deck building game set in the world of Evil Hat Productions' Spirit of the Century. You play villainous masterminds bent on world domination. To win you must build a powerful deck of Zeppelin cards weapons defenses and operatives and then use these to fight your opponent’s Zeppelins. The player who gets the most points from winning battles and acquiring valuable cards will win the game. There’s only room for one ultimate criminal overlord: you. Bring your zeppelins.

SPELL

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2

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Abstract

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Fighting Puzzle

Every hundred years the catacombs of the Council Palace tremble with unleashed magic invoking powerful creatures and even changing the terrain itself. A challenge takes place between two powerful sorcerers to determine who presides over the Council for another century. Will you defeat your rival in this magical challenge? Will you become the next Great Wizard?SPELL is a dynamic game for two players who play powerful wizards in their quest to earn the respect of their peers through a logical challenge. You have to demonstrate your intelligence by completing more magical patterns than your opponent using the creatures you summon your powers to change the ground beneath your feet and the advantages of the patterns you complete.—description from the publisherCada 100 años las catacumbas del Palacio del Consejo tiemblan con la magia desatada que invoca poderosas criaturas y cambia incluso el propio terreno. Un desafío entre dos poderosos hechiceros para presidir el Consejo durante otro siglo. ¿Vencerás a tu rival en el desafío mágico? ¿Te convertirás en el siguiente Gran Mago? SPELL Es un dinámico juego para 2 jugadores a partir de 12 años que encarnan a 2 poderosos magos en su pugna por ganar el respeto de sus compañeros mediante un desafío de lógica. En SPELL tendrás que demostrar tu inteligencia completando más patrones mágicos que tu rival utilizando las criaturas que invocas tus poderes para cambiar el suelo bajo tus pies así como las ventajas que te otorgan los patrones que completas. Un juego en que se aúnan la lógica los combos y la visión espacial para crear un titulo que aprenderás a jugar en 5 minutos pero te costará bastante dominar.—description from the publisher (Spanish)

Bellum Magica

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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Each player represents an evil lord. Recruit creatures ranging from simple goblins to terrifying dragons and assign them a task in your kingdom: some will go to gather resources and explore the surroundings while others will join your army to attack the human kingdom and other players.Collect chests full of treasures and become the richest and most powerful evil lord of all time!But how to do it?The first player with 10 or more chests ends the game and the player with the more values in those chests wins the game!—description from the publisher

Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters is a dice-building game patterned after Quarriors! that features custom dice representing various characters from the 4K Media show.In the game each player brings a set of dice to the table; these form his team from which only he can purchase dice. In addition each player brings two basic action cards which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase them.During a turn a player draws and rolls a number of his dice purchases additional dice and fields character dice to attack the other player. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters is one of several planned Dice Masters games all of which can be intermixed (or played alone).

Gauntlet of Fools

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 2–6

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Gauntlet of Fools is an adventure game of skill and fortune for 2-6 that plays in under 30 minutes. Choose your hero from hundreds of possible combinations. You'll make ridiculous boasts to get the best hero – but every boast comes at a cost. How awesome is your knight with a flaming sword after you boast that he'll fight blindfolded with a hangover?You'll find out in the gauntlet: fifty encounters that will kill you. That's right. You will die fool! But even a fool wants his gold and the monsters have it. Roll a handful of dice slay a monster get its treasure. Die with the most gold to win the game.The contents of Gauntlet of Fools is:20 class cards 20 weapon cards 50 encounter cards 30 dice 30 boasts tokens (5 of each) 20 wound tokens 50 gold tokens ..1-value: 24 tokens ..5 value: 12 tokens ..10-value: 12 tokens ..25-value: 2 tokens 41 ability tokens 28 penalty tokens 30 bonus tokens Playmat Rulebook Play example appendix

Dungeon Crusade: Book I – Genesis of Evil

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–12

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Welcome to the world of Avalon!Dungeon Crusade is a solo/co-operative sandbox dungeon crawl. Inspired by the classic age of board games role-playing games and video games but fitted with new and fresh mechanics.In Dungeon Crusade your party will enter an ancient dungeon located beneath a village to stem the tide of evil beleaguering the poor villagers. Each time you visit the dungeon you will have an over arching goal that you need to achieve but you can also pick up side quests and even some odd jobs from the tavern to further modify your adventure!6 stalwart Heroes are accompanied by their trusty fetch hound Albus. Each Hero has strengths and weakness' and it is up to you to decide if you will split the party to cover more ground or stick together in case a larger threat presents itself...In the dungeon you will encounter wandering monsters who move about the board. Beware! These monsters might turn into raiding monsters and make their way to village.You can mine for minerals to craft enhancements for your weapons. You can seek out and hunt down rare and legendary artifacts. You can send Albus back to the village to get a potion in a pinch.If your quest is successful then the village celebrates in your honor and throws you a grand feast and presents your party with gifts. You can shop around for new gear from the ever changing marketplace gamble some gold in the house of chance visit a temple and pray for assistance and more!Don't get too comfortable because evil never rests and you'll find yourself back in the dungeon facing tougher challenges but hopefully better armed!

Infinity: Operation Icestorm

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 2

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The war goes to the frozen World of SvalarheimaOperation: Icestorm introduces 3rd edition rules and is a perfect starter set for players wanting to get into Infinity N3: Core Book game providing forces of Pan Oceania and Nomads to engage in combat against one another.Infinity is a game with 28mm high metal miniatures that simulates combat and special operations in a science fiction environment with Manga aesthetics.The box contains a game mat and a selection of scenery. Their inclusion in this box set means players instantly have everything they need to get their table ready for playing Infinity.Note: Operation Icestorm is a two player starter kit which contains a booklet on how to play the game. The main rules are available for free online or in a printed book for purchase.

Shardhunters

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Fantasy Fighting Horror Zombies

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The Shardhunters card game is set in the world of Unseen Domains a gloomy version of the 17th century Europe where people infected by a witchplague return as zombies after their death. In this new world order the rare and highly valued blood crystals are sought-after by fearless adventurers called Shardhunters whose bold search for the crystals in the wilderness cannot even be hindered by zombies werewolves nor bandits.The players can hire adventurers from the tavern deck with the help of blood crystals. Every heroes unique skill or their combination of helps to gather further crystals. The battles between heroes and creatures are rapid but almost unrepeatable where besides luck the key to success lies in good tactics and knowing you opponent. During the encounters everyone receives cards from the monster deck which have only two attributes that need to be studied: a value and a colour. During the battle rounds which account as quests for the heroes everyone plays these monsters simultaneously which means nonstop action and no idleness. The game ends when a player is in possession of seven adventurers and then plays a successful quest .Gather crystals organize your strongest heroes and gain victory over the opponents team.

Dark Dealings

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–6

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For Overlords of evil doom and sorrow life is not fair. The local races hackneyed halflings and dullard dwarves fail to appreciate the time and toil that goes into perverting the laws of nature and defying death itself.And now after a few singed villages and poisoned wells the locals are coming for you and your magical brethren. Stout Heroes of the land mighty warriors and dexterous thieves pious paladins and wily wizards have banded together to bust down your gates and evict you from your dark castle.Luckily you are in contact with Dark Masters beings man was not meant to know. They are ready to provide you dastardly traps potent spells and decaying corpses for reanimation if you can demonstrate your bravery by facing the toughest Heroes.Now it’s a competition to see which Overlord can withstand the siege. Well... you never liked your neighbors that much anyway.Dark Dealings is a quick drafting and combat game for 1-6 players. You first draft Heroes then use them to bid for the Defenses that will eventually be their downfall. Players then take turns flipping and fighting their previously drafted Heroes. The last Overlord standing is the winner!

Shadows of Brimstone: Gates of Valhalla

Rating: 8.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Horror Miniatures

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In Gates of Valhalla players take on the role of a group of Norse Vikings exploring the icy crags and snowy forests of the Norse Lands filled with snarling beasts and mythological creatures emboldened by the power of the Dark Stone.As a Team of Viking Heroes you can play as the stalwart Jarl Chieftan leading his clan from the front of the pack the classic Raider armed with shield and axe to pillage and plunder the frenzied Berserker unleashing his bloodthirsty age in a flurry of death or the Huscarl honor guard firing her Viking Bow before charging valiantly into the fray.New Enemies include Trolls beastly creatures that regenerate even the most grievous of wounds while hurling large stones and tearing at the Heroes with brutal claws Gremians a horde of mischievous little goblins that swarm the Heroes to slice and slash and claw and bite Centurions robotic soldiers armed with power swords and shields to fight off intruders and the terrifying Frost Giant a towering behemoth that smashes the Heroes with his tree trunk club before charging across the field of battle in a frothing frenzy!This set also features brand new material for the Targa Plateau OtherWorld (first introduced in the City of the Ancients Core Set) an ancient alien city frozen and abandoned for millennia save for the robotic constructs that awaken to defend the icy halls. The Heroes will explore a new region of Targa - The Library with new Map Tiles Encounters Artifacts World abilities and Enemies to battle letting you explore the frozen city for the first time or expanding your existing collection.Includes everything you need to play a group of Viking Heroes and explore the alien Library on the Plateau of Targa or adventure in the Norse Lands on Earth. Includes 4 Viking Heroes 12 Gremian miniatures 6 Centurian miniatures 3 large Troll miniatures 1 Frost Giant XL miniature 3 Viking Warrior Ally miniatures and 3 Targa Librarian miniatures with bases; plus dice map tiles cards rulebook and reference sheets.—description from the publisher

Munchkin Conan

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 3–6

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Fantasy Fighting Humor

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Munchkin Conan is a 168-card core set in the Munchkin family of games with 101 Doors and 67 Treasures. Unlike other core sets it lacks unique card backs instead using the standard card back from Munchkin. The included Munchkin-head d6 is yellow with dark red print.In Munchkin Conan Robert E. Howard's epic hero gets the full Munchkin treatment. Play a Cimmerian Warrior or a Stygian Wizard! Wield the Sword of the Phoenix and poison your foes with Black Lotus! Slay Thoth-Amon's minions Pict raiders and abominable monsters and hear the lamentations of their women! On many of the cards the publisher provides context by including relevant quotes from Howard's work.Munchkin Conan has a new type of card – birthright – and the mechanisms are similar to that of classes and races in that you can have only one in play at a time; you may discard a birthright at any time but may play one only on your turn or when you first get it. The Munchkin Conan core set comes with two birthrights: Noble which allows you to have an extra Comrade (see below) and Barbarian which allows you to ignore all Usable By and Not Usable By restrictions on items. There is no birthright analogue to Super Munchkin or Half-Breed.Speaking of races and classes the races in Munchkin Conan are Kushite Zamoran Cimmerian and Stygian; when playing a blender game they are all considered to be human unless the other sets have non-human races. The classes are Cleric Thief Warrior and Wizard and are identical to the fantasy Munchkin classes with the same names.The Munchkin Conan hireling is called a Comrade. Comrades fall in the same class as the Hirelings Minions Mooks Sidekicks etc. that come with other flavors of Munchkin. Each Comrade is associated with a class or birthright and gives you some of the advantages of that class/birthright. Comrades can carry an item for you even some that you can't legally use yourself and their gender matters. They also have the standard Hireling ability to sacrifice themselves to give you an automatic escape when running away.Part of the Munchkin series.

Of Dreams & Shadows

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–6

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Adventure Fantasy Fighting Horror

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The signs have come. Shadows flicker and stir in the Hollows. A chill has settled in those ancient ruins and expedition pack animals refuse to enter the underworld realm. There are new sightings of large beasts roaming the countryside and strange unnatural calls fill the night air. Hunters have gone missing without a trace and it is no longer safe to explore very far into the woods.My sisters wake from the same nightmares. A skeletal hand pale and white as snow grasping out from darkness. Thousands of red-eyed crows flying over a field of dead. A bloody maw gaping open with rows of gleaming teeth the size of daggers. I see these images in my own dreams and I fear for what is coming.~SeleneOf Dreams & Shadows is a cooperative board game for up to six players who take on the role of Champions trying to save their realm. Set in a dark fantasy world the players will journey from the underworld ruins of a long-dead people to the heart of untamed forests where otherworldly creatures dwell.As they direct the actions of their Champions on the game board the players will participate in a collaborative story. Scenarios introduce encounters and conflict which are resolved through passing a test or making a choice. The consequences advance the storyline and drive a unique experience as part of the story changes based on each outcome. Failing a test could have dire results such as receiving one of several types of debilitating Afflictions. Many Scenarios will also present players with a moral dilemma where a decision could aid their cause but not without sacrifice.Opposing the players is one of three selectable Villains. Beings of myth and legend the Villains have their own host of deadly servants to face in combat. Developing flexible tactics and teamwork among players will be crucial as there are over 30 different enemies each with their own special ability. You must band together with your friends if you hope to survive.

Vengeance: Roll & Fight – Episode 2

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Real-time

Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a real-time roll-and-write game where the frantic action around the table mimics the kick-arse fighting action in the game-world! Set in the world of Vengeance and designed by Dávid Turczi Noralie Lubbers and Gordon Calleja Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a stand-along game that transforms the fast-paced dice puzzles of the original Vengeance into roll-and-write mechanics where you’re building combos striking off enemies and scoring points for an action-packed brain-teasing fighting game that’s easy to learn and hard to master.The aim of Vengeance: Roll & Fight is to infiltrate a gang den carve your way through it’s rooms and killing the Boss while completing side objectives printed on the dens themselves.The game is split into three parts: planning fighting and montage. In the planning phase players roll and re-roll 4 dice in real time aiming to roll a combination of dice that match an ability they wish to trigger in the upcoming fight phase. Assigning dice to an ability allows players to fill their hand back to 4 dice from a large common pool and repeat the process as quickly as they can manage.Once the dice pool is depleted the fighting proper begins. Here players take a set of dice assigned to an ability and execute that ability moving their piece through rooms full of enemies and crossing them out when they are hit with the multitude of available abilities. Finally players heal and upgrade their characters bring new abilities and items into play to help them on their road to vengeance.Vengeance: Roll and Fight comes in two boxes: Episode 1 and Episode 2. Both episodes are stand-alone games with the same rules but with entirely different content: different heroes dens bosses abilities and items. Each episode accommodates up to 4 players so combining the two increases the player count from 1-4 to 1-8! Content in both Episodes can be switched like-for-like as you choose.

Shinobi WAT-AAH!

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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Game description from the publisher:The Empire of the Moon faces many threats. The Rift has reopened providing passage for the creatures that have lurked in Shadow for millennia. But the danger also comes from within as the Emperor son of the Moon is getting old and his formerly loyal lords are now trying to seize power. In order to do this they make their appeal to the warriors known as ninjas adepts of the way of Shinobi. The clans are finally prepared for war!As a lord with a thirst for power in Shinobi WAT-AAH! you plan to place your honorable posterior on the imperial throne. In order to do this you will appeal to the large clans of ninjas who will enable you to impose your military strength upon your enemies. To put it simply your goal is to put a big WAT-AAH! in your enemies' faces!Shinobi WAT-AAH! includes two game modes:

Sakura Arms: Yatsuha Box

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2

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Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–8

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