Category: Industry Manufacturing

Bluffing Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing Math

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Rise

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Industry / Manufacturing

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In Rise you assume responsibility for the economic and social development of a city. There are not many limits to your possibilities: On various tracks you can influence how best to provide for your citizens' well-being whether through culture science or political relations — but all of this can be achieved only in accordance with respect for conservation of the environment and the satisfaction of the population.The game revolves around ten tracks on which you move your markers to gain further effects and gather influence. The unique and innovative card mechanism which includes events and tough decisions will change your decision making from round to round.Once twelve rounds have been played players count their points to see who was able to accumulate the most influence in the city.

An Infamous Traffic

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–5

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Negotiation Political Post-Napoleonic

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It’s 1833. The East India Company has just had its monopoly of trade revoked by an official act of Parliament. You and others like you see a golden opportunity for profit in China. For too long the Company’s polite deference to the Qing has smothered progress and stifled trade. There is real money to be made here and you intend to make it.An Infamous Traffic is a brutal economic board game for two to five souls brave enough to conduct the opium trade in the fracturing political landscape of 19th century Qing China. Initially you will need to rely on smugglers in order to get your products into the interior but if Parliament can be swayed perhaps an open war can make the trade more secure. At the same time you’ll want to be careful. If British aggression goes unchecked the region may become a failed state which could jeopardize your hard fought gains.Of course the massive wealth you’ll earn won’t be enough. Trade is still a dirty word among those in the top rungs of society. You certainly haven't forgotten how your business holdings were sneered at by some prodigal baronet during your brief stint at Oxford. They don’t understand. The empire they enjoy was built on trade not pedigree. So you’ll play their game snatching up the precious symbols of nobility with your hard won cash. Perhaps you can restore a beloved castle and stuff it full of the latest luxuries. The right marriage or government post would certainly guarantee your place in society. You might even be tempted to rob your own firm to get that extra edge back home.In any case there’s demand for opium in China and you intend to meet it.—description from the publisherSee the Living Rules. (Source)

Steam Works

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction

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Inventors and tinkerers abound in the Victorian era harnessing the power of clockwork steam and electricks to build machines capable of anything to give glory to Queen Victoria!In the steampunk worker placement game Steam Works you'll put your mechanics to work collecting components and power sources then you'll literally build devices by assembling those sources and components. What's more those devices in turn become action spaces for other players to use!Each player takes on an inventor persona with unique starting components or special abilities accessible only to themselves. But the heart of the game is in assembling modular component tiles into a device for other players to use. Sources may provide one or more of the three power types — clockwork steam or Tesla-style electrickal power — to the components connected to them which in turn provide a wide range of effects for gaining resources prestige points or more component tiles. Devices start simple with just two components (one source and one component) but devices with three four or more components will become possible — as soon as the players assemble a device to let it be possible. Because of the modular mix-and-match nature of the components the available action spaces vary widely from one game to the next providing great replayability: each game players will create devices never seen before!

Electropolis

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Environmental Industry / Manufacturing

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Electropolis is a strategic city-building boardgame. As the mayor of the ever-growing city you must plan out the best energy solution to meet the skyrocketing demand of electricity.The pros and cons of coal-fired plants green energy and nuclear power challenge you with tough decisions throughout the game. The dynamic turn order selection mechanic ignites an intense player interaction in pursuit of construction permits for specific zones and crucial tiles to be claimed.Should you act early to grab the stronger tiles or wait to be able to construct more buildings and expand your city? Outwit your fellow mayors and build the most magnificent city to win the game!—description from the publisher

Cupcake Empire

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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Cupcakes are at the height of fashion in the city. It's the perfect time to expand your business. Even though at the moment you only have one small Bakery the dedication and the level of creativity of your employees means that there are no limits to your ambition.Your task will be no piece of cake since your competitors share your same goals and they are not going to make it easy for you. Only those who work the most efficiently and effectively will manage to build their own cupcake empire.Cupcake Empire is mainly a dice game. Your personal board represents your business and the dice your workers. In each of the columns of the board you can carry out one specific action; create new recipes for cupcakes open new stores serve customers hire new workers etc. On each turn you will have to decide which column you are going to activate taking into account that the more dice there are and the more specialized they are the more effective the action will be. Through these actions you will increase your level of sales and production trying to get them to grow in equal measure since at the end of each of your turns your Income will increase by the amount indicated by the marker that is the furthest behind i.e. that has made the least progress.

Noria

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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A new era is looming on the horizon. The future of Noria is right in front of you and you must guide your flourishing trading empire into prosperity. Discover flying islands buy ships and build factories. Invest in prestigious projects and secure their success by passing on secret knowledge to politicians. For even above the clouds there is still room for improvement...Noria is the debut title from Sophia Wagner winner of the Spiel des Jahres fellowship in 2015. The talented young author created an entirely new steampunk universe specifically for this game and artists Michael Menzel and Klemens Franz have managed to bring her vision to life. At the center of the game is an innovative mechanism called wheel building. Each player has an action wheel consisting of three rings with slots for a number of different action discs. Over the course of the game players try to obtain new discs and manipulate the rings of the wheel to optimize their action selection. Additionally to ensure their investments bear fruit they also need to bribe politicians with knowledge.

Kohle & Kolonie

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 3–5

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In Kohle & Kolonie which is set in the 19th and early 20th centuries the players run small coal mines in the German Ruhr area (Essen Hattingen Bochum Witten) during the age of industrialization. They need to modernize these mines so that when these smaller mines are merged into larger ones they can be prepared to take control of the auction and therefore the larger mine. Additionally players have to ensure the availability of workers for their mines while also constructing and caring for a railway system that comprises infrastructure in the mines. Finally if players don't invest money or workers in their mines in order to secure them they increase their chance of suffering a mining accident which will lead to negative fallout when it comes time to bid for consolidated mines. Whoever best manages these tasks wins.

The Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–5

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Card Game Industry / Manufacturing World War II

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The world is again threatened with war! As the War Minister of your small nation you have been tasked with confronting aggression by developing atomic bombs for your country. Your spies have stolen the needed technology but you need to acquire the materials and personnel to get the job done before your rival nations do. Once someone has built 10 megatons of bombs the final round will finish and the player with the most bombs will win their nation’s survival assured!To do this you will be playing cards representing the training and use of teams of laborers scientists and engineers to complete various plans until you have assembled enough bombs to win!Stand alone game based on the popular Manhattan Project board game by Minion Games this is a simpler card-only game using dual-purpose cards in a quick and exciting race to completion.

Shipyard (Second Edition)

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Nautical

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We’re in 19th century sea transport is more and more important. Both corporations and naval forces require newer and newer ships. Try to put yourself in the role of their manufacturers. Hire employees buy accessories get favour of evaluating committees. Don’t forget to rent a canal and you can heave anchor.Players take turns beginning with a randomly selected player and continuing around the table clockwise. On their turn they will choose one of the available actions from the Action Track. The action will get the player something they need to help build their ships. On the player's next turn they will move that Action Card ahead of all the others and choose a different action.If a player completes a ship on their turn (ships consists of little cards depicting bows sterns and (preferably several) middle pieces with several options to add equipment or crew) it is taken out for a shakedown cruise in a canal during which they may score points for speed crew equipment or safety.As players take their turns the line of Action Cards will advance around the Action Track. When the lead Action Card reaches the Starting Space again the countdown marker moves down one space and play continues.The game ends when the countdown marker reaches the finish space. (It can also end early if the players run out of Ship Cards.) Bonus points are scored for Government Contracts and the player with the most points wins.The game lasts about 30 minutes per player.—description from the publisher

Union Stockyards

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–5

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Animals Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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Opening in 1865 the Union Stockyards became Chicago’s largest industry and one of the city’s top tourist attractions with a half million visitors annually in the early 1900’s. From the Civil War through the 1920’s more meat was processed here than anywhere in the world. During its height 40,000 mostly immigrant workers labored in “the busiest square mile on earth” where over one million livestock passed monthly supplying 80% of all U.S. meat. There were over 2,300 livestock pens and 130 miles of railroad within the “yards”.You play one the “Big Five” meat packers developing technologies to use every part of the animal while battling labor unions and manipulating the market to your advantage. Union Stockyards is played over six years (rounds) each beginning with an historical event affecting game conditions or adding an additional action. You select your actions through worker placement; however if you don’t pay your workers enough they may go on “strike”. You earn cash based on your profit margins when you slaughter cattle hogs or sheep. Your profit margin is your meat value minus the livestock cost. The livestock cost is the same for all players but your meat values will differ due to your engine-building decisions of constructing buildings establishing branch houses in eastern cities and improving your brand reputation. At the end of each year livestock costs (cattle hogs sheep) will be adjusted up or down depending on the demand that you created. Sometimes you may choose to slaughter certain livestock just to manipulate the market in your favor. Whichever packer accumulates the most wealth wins the game.

Phoenix New Horizon

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

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Civilization Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction

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In the year 2021 after years of seclusion underground humanity emerges onto the surface propelled by the development of groundbreaking new technology. Decades of catastrophic fallout from a nuclear disaster during the Cold War have laid waste to the known world compelling civilization to seek shelter beneath the earth. The pressing task now is the construction of regenerators which will generate new habitats to facilitate the resurgence of life and the reclamation of the Earth. A world brimming with hope awaits aboveground.Phoenix New Horizon is a Euro-style board game in which players assume control of a team of commandos tasked with the mission of recolonizing Earth. Throughout the game's four rounds players accumulate victory points by constructing regenerators and buildings bolstering the planet's population and achieving diverse objectives that vary between playthroughs.Players must adeptly allocate their commandos to various actions throughout the game while also specializing them to enable more potent abilities at the expenses of versatility. Fulfilling missions assigned by the governing authorities yields additional actions on a player's turn.—description from the publisher

Parfum

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Industry / Manufacturing Renaissance

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Who will be the most successful perfumer? Parfum takes the players to the wonderful world of fragrances. Using ingredients like vanilla lavender or violets the players distill precious essences in order to create unique perfumes. Only the player catering to their clientele's preferences will be able to sell their perfume. Each customer favors a specific fragrance which must be contained in a flask to induce them to buy it.

Findorff

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–5

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City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing Napoleonic Post-Napoleonic Trains

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Findorff is one of the 23 districts of Bremen the hometown of Friedemann Friese. Findorff has three “F”s and is named after Jürgen Christian Findorff (1720-1792) who was responsible for draining and surveying the bog in the north of Bremen for extracting the peat and for populating the bog with residents.In Findorff the game you build up the district of Findorff in the period from 1803 to 1916. Historically six major railway stations stood in Findorff during this period to connect to Hannover Hamburg Oldenburg and Bremerhaven. While they were all later replaced by a single big main train station you raise another three new rail stations at one of the two main roadbeds. Besides using boats on the peat canal this small railway helped to transport even more peat from the bog in the north of Bremen to Findorff. During the first half of the 19th Century peat was the most important commodity for heating the houses and for supplying energy to the industry. In the late 19th century (and in the game) peat lost its importance once when replaced by the energy-rich coal.Findorff offers an economic engine builder with a resource market for peat known from Power Grid and an innovative resource management required when building rail tracks and houses in Findorff. Your focus is on raising the right combination of the 25 historical structures from the period of 1803-1916. Do you raise the Chair Pipes Factory or the Slaughterhouse to gain a lot of thalers or smaller structures like Schools the Beer Hall or the Peat Skipper Shelter to win the game in small steps. You can even profit from the high mortality rate of this period by running a Cemetery.Only by adapting your strategy to your structures you honor Mr. Findorff and win the game when the roadbed to Hamburg is finished.Findorff offers a challenging solo game as well.

Arkwright: The Card Game

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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In the late 18th century the Industrial Revolution starts. The first factories were founded by businessmen like Richard Arkwright who ran the first factory for spinning wool with machines like the Spinning Jenny and the water frame.In Arkwright: The Card Game you run a business and will employ workers in your different factories to produce and sell goods. The more workers the more goods that can be sold — but be prepared for crises and some stiff competition.The game is played over three decades (1770/1780/1790) split up into four rounds per decade. On your turn you play new cards from your hand to open factories and upgrade existing ones select improvements improve factory quality build machines and employ new workers. You can also pay money to improve your shareholdings and take out loans if you require more money for production costs. After the actions phase you can improve your abilities by advancing your development markers on your player board or take one of the available development cards.Then the production phase starts where every player who owns a factory of the current good produces those goods. The market fluctuates with the general demand so the demand may be lower than the value of your current good lowering your profit. Workers must be paid and machines need regular maintenance so you can possibly lose money instead of turning a profit. Selling enough of one good improves your share value and there are bonuses for having the highest appeal. Lastly if you can’t sell your goods to the home market you can ship them overseas or store them for future rounds.After the final round of the last decade the game ends. Players then sell all goods left in their storehouses reduce the number of shares they hold by the number of loans they took and reduce their share value based on their personal shipping track. Each player then multiplies the number of their shares by their share value to determine their end score. The player with the highest end score wins the game.—description from the publisher

Bier Pioniere

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–4

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The history of beer brewing dates back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and over the centuries various cultures and regions have developed their own unique beers and especially Germany is considered a beer country.In the game Beer Pioneers set at the beginning of industrialization around 1850 2 to 4 players develop their own small home brewery into a large-scale brewery as brewmasters. In each turn they take an action by deploying one of their workers or their truck to brew an increasing variety of beers improving the brewing process with new advancements like refrigeration machines or beer filters or increasing the efficiency of their workers to name but a few. Action cards also play an important role and with beer deliveries and other actions they can earn victory points. Actions take place on the game board and their own player tableau the player order is important and influenced by the players bonus workers enable additional actions but must first be earned by placing the right worker on the right action space.Beer Pioneers extends over an indefinite number of rounds. Once a player reaches 20 victory points this is the final round and the brewmaster with the most victory points is the winner of the game.-description from the publisher

Merchants of Magick: A Set a Watch Tale

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–8

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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In Merchants of Magick which takes place in the Set a Watch universe you are the owner of a magic item shoppe crafting items and researching spells to sell to the Adventurers of the Watch.Each round four polyhedral dice are rolled then you select two of them to craft items or research enchantments for your shoppe. As you craft items and research spells you start stocking items and earn potions that let you manipulate the dice. Adventurers travel from shoppe to shoppe so you need to stock the exact items on the order cards in front of you. If you have an item an Adventurer needs you earn coin — but if you wait too long to fulfill an order Adventurers will become impatient and visit your competitor next door!After ten rounds the player who has earned the most coin wins.

Subatomic: An Atom Building Game

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Economic Educational Industry / Manufacturing Math

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Subatomic: An Atom Building Game is a deck-building game in which players compete to build a number of available elements which score them points.Each player starts with the same small deck of cards that consist of proton neutron and electron cards. They use these cards to build upon their current atom (by playing these cards face-up as subatomic particles) in an attempt to construct one of the available element cards. Alternatively players may use their hand of cards to purchase more powerful cards for later use (by playing them in combinations of face-down cards as energy and face-up cards as subatomic particles). Subatomic introduces a unique variation on deck-building with a highly accurate chemistry theme with the ultimate goal of building elements to score points but allowing many varying types of strategies.

Rockwell

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Exploration Industry / Manufacturing Number

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The Rockwell company wants to develop drilling activities but does not have the necessary teams in-house. Rockwell has decided to buy into specialized companies. In order to determine which one it will put on the most advanced and most profitable projects in the future Rockwell has elected to make them work together on a single important project: drilling through the depths of the earth’s crust to the core. The company who demonstrates the greatest expertise in the technical and financial management of this contract will ensure a bright future with Rockwell.Goal of the Game...Acquire the most Renown points at the end of the game. There are three ways to achieve this:Gameplay... Acquire more prestige than your opponents by the end of the game. The prestige is acquired through Production and Delivery tiles as well as in the final scoring which will award prestige points for different majorities. The game is divided into three phases that are repeated as many times as necessary until one of two conditions endgame is met: a majority of the players have reached the center of the earth with a drill crew a player has completed the nine Achievements. Then the current round is completed before determining the winner. Each player has two vice presidents he will deploy to act in Phase 1 2 or 3 in order to perform actions. The order in which the players’ vice presidents are deployed is determined by a closed-fist auction. This is the main phase. Players will move their drill crews are at a rate of one per round (there are four rounds before Phase 2). Depending on the position of your vice president if you deployed him to act in this phase you can corrupt opposing drill crews (in order to attract them to the same tile as your active drill crew) or hire a subcontractor (to increase your drilling power). Each tile of the earth's crust has a value indicating its resistance to drilling. If the sum of the drill crews who are present equals or exceeds this value the tile is excavated and turned over; then draw an Extraction card to see what resources you discovered which is evenly split between the players who participated in the drilling. The indivisible remainder goes to one of those players (prioritized by whoever has a mine on the tile then the player who has the greater drilling power then the one who ttriggered the drilling). Finally after the four rounds the mines laid on drilled tiles provide the resources printed on the back of the tile. Players with a vice president here can perform market transactions which is to say that they can buy or sell resources. In this phase players can make investments to get renown points and improve their drilling conditions in different ways… augment the drill crews’ power (maximum = 4) place mines in the game (maximum three mines) improve mine safety (in order to avoid wasting resources at extraction time) improve the movement of drill crews.

Legendary Inventors

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–5

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Lead a team of history's greatest minds to glory in Legendary Inventors a game in which 2-5 players each captain a group of four inventors working to bring their knowledge to life by creating useful objects to improve the world. Compete against rival teams to patent inventions and work to improve the knowledge of your inventors. The inventing team who has patented the most inventions or who has the smartest inventors wins.In more detail the game takes place over three ages with each age representing a different period of technological advancement and those inventions becoming more complex in each subsequent age. On a turn you either send one of your inventors to work on an invention or refresh your inventors to make all of them available again. When you send an inventor to work you apply that character's skills — Albert Einstein has a starting skill of four Physics for example while Johannes Gutenberg has a starting skill of two Mechanics — against the needs of the invention marking off what you've done with colored cubes.When an invention is complete the three players who have contributed the most reap the rewards of its completion! Players can choose to acquire and patent the invention by placing the invention card face up in front of them or they earn reward tokens to upgrade their inventors gain extra victory points and even add additional knowledge to an invention.As soon as all but two inventions in an age are complete that age ends and a new one begins. After the third age the team of inventors with the most victory points wins!

Mint Delivery

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 1–5

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Mint Delivery is a mint tin-sized pick-up-and-deliver board game designed to be quick-to-play and easy-to-learn.In the game players take the role of a mint delivery truck driver driving around the area taking orders for mints then delivering them. Each player has two actions on their turn such as moving loading their truck and upgrading the mints they are carrying.Once enough orders have been fulfilled the game ends. Whoever has fulfilled the highest value of orders will be deemed the employee of the month and win.

The Ruhr: A Story of Coal Trade

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Environmental Industry / Manufacturing Nautical Transportation

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In The Ruhr: A Story of Coal Trade the second game of Thomas Spitzer's historic coal trilogy you are transported to the Ruhr region in the 18th century at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Coal after being discovered in Haspelknecht is in high demand as cities and factories throughout the region are in need of this coveted resource. The Ruhr river presented a convenient route of transportation from the coal mines. However the Ruhr was filled with obstacles and large dams making it incredibly difficult to navigate. Trade coal for valuable upgrades and plan your route to victory along the Ruhr!In more detail the players transport and sell coal to cities and factories along the Ruhr river in the 18th and 19th centuries. By selling coal to cities and factories players acquire unique progress markers. In the beginning players have access only to low value coal. By selling coal to certain locations players gain access to high value coal. In addition to selling coal the players build warehouses build locks and export coal to neighboring countries in the pursuit of the most victory points.This game an updated version of Ruhrschifffahrt 1769-1890 includes the standalone expansion The Ohio: 1811-1861. In this game players transport and trade goods along the Ohio River during a time when Ohio was granted statehood and became heavily populated as its industries flourished. The Ohio is played in a manner similar to The Ruhr but with new and additional elements.

Captains of Industry

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 3–5

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As a captain of industry in the suitably titled game Captains of Industry you will vie for domination in the cutthroat arena of the marketplace. To do this you will:You will depend on your opponents to fuel your expansion as they exploit your production for theirs. Supply and demand are king in this player-driven marketplace!

Mechanica

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–4

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Industry / Manufacturing Puzzle Science Fiction

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Mechanica Inc. will make the world spotless with their Tidybots: ambitious vacuum robots made for global DOMINATION cleanliness! Humans are messy. It’s time they got some help!Build the best Tidybot factory and ship out as many Tidybots as possible to prepare for (the definitely harmless) OPERATION CLEANUP. The player who has sold the most money worth of Tidybots wins!Mechanica is a game of tile-laying and engine building. Each player buys puzzle piece-shaped machines and slots them together to form their factory. The different machines all improve the Tidybots your factory can make: building new Tidybots upgrading them copying them and more. There are many strategies for putting your machines together and everyone has fun trying to build the perfect factory!Players compete to buy the best machines for their factory at the best prices while running their factories shipping out Tidybots for profit completing specialty bot blueprints to fill their vaults with money and turning the rotating shop wheel.Awards & Honors:BostonFIG Fest // 2019 - Most Innovative

The Transcontinental

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Industry / Manufacturing Trains Transportation

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In 1871 with Canada only four years old the Prime Minister calls for a massive undertaking: a transcontinental railway to link the established eastern provinces with the newly-added western province. Between them lay the vast undeveloped interior. It would be a nation-defining project opening up the resource-rich Canadian shield the fertile prairies and the breathtaking Rocky Mountain Cordillera shaping not only the economy of the young country but its identity as well.The Transcontinental is a medium-weight Eurogame with worker-placement and pick-up and deliver mechanisms about the development of the Canadian transcontinental railway.Players are contractors who work to complete the railway. They send out telegrams along a linear worker-placement track — reserving those action spaces for themselves — then take turns in telegram order loading and unloading to a shared train that travels across the country. Players can use these resources to complete developments ranging from lumber mills and farms to cities and national parks or they can use the resources to bid to extend the railway. Powerful one-time-use ally cards themed around a rich and inclusive cast of Canadian historical figures allow players to make powerful combined actions.—description from the publisher

Penny Press

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–5

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Industry / Manufacturing

Set during the tumultuous 'yellow journalism' years at the end of the 19th century Penny Press has players taking on the role of newspaper magnates such as Pulitzer and Hearst as they strive to become the dominant paper in old New York City.Players move up on the circulation track throughout the game by publishing newspapers and they are awarded bonuses at the end of the game for best covering the five news 'beats' or leading news categories of the day: War Crime & Calamity New York City Politics and the Human Condition.To publish newspapers players assign some or all of their five reporters to the popular stories of the day. When they're ready players 'roll the presses' to claim those stories where their reporters have a majority and assemble them on their 'front page' player mat. The score of each press run is determined by the current values in each of the five news beats. Stories also have 'star' values and the player with the most stars in each news beat gets that beat's endgame bonus.The end of the game is triggered when one player publishes his fourth (in a two- or three-player game) or third (in a four- or five-player game) newspaper. The player who moved farthest along the circulation track is the winner of Penny Press.

The Battle of Versailles

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2

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The Battle of Versailles was a fashion show held in 1973 in Versailles France that pitted five American designers against five French designers. The American designers including Anne Klein Halston Oscar de la Renta Stephen Burrows and Bill Blass were considered to be more innovative and less traditional than the French designers: Yves Saint Laurent Hubert de Givenchy Emanuel Ungaro Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The American designers ended up winning the competition and solidifying their place in the fashion world. The event was widely covered in the media and is considered a turning point in the history of fashion.In the game The Battle of Versailles players take the role of either the France or U.S. team facing one another by playing action cards to show off their best dresses to attract the most popular celebrities or to annoy the opponent by spreading bad gossip. They also compete to contribute more than their opponent to the reconstruction of the palace of Versailles.The French player has five actions per round representing the classic but overly-long show (2h 30min) that it put on while the American player has only three actions per round as their show was fresh innovative and short (only 37min). Correspondingly the game has different victory conditions:—description from publisher

Terminus

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–5

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City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing Trains Transportation

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Your transit company has been hired to construct subway tunnels and stops connecting the districts of the city. Will your project stay on track or will it go off the rails?Terminus is a resource management and subway development game for 1 - 5 players featuring a rondel and variable marketplace.During the game players will circle the city taking actions to:-Purchase developments upgrades and materials -Lobby Projects and Agendas -And build stops and rails for their subway linesWhile the economy shifts and resources become more scarce players must try to outwit each other and earn prestige by fulfilling public project objectives and their own private agendas.The player who's earned the most prestige wins the game!—description from the publisher

Feierabend

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–6

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Economic Humor Industry / Manufacturing Political

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Welcome to Feierabend a.k.a. Finishing Time the after-worker placement game for 1-6 players.In Feierabend you are playing a team of workers (female male and non-binary too). Each day you leave work stressed and look for some fun in the evenings — but thanks to a 70-hour work week and a low income you don't have many possibilities for relaxation. Sure you can head to the pub for drinks go on blind dates to find a partner or fish or jog outside but this is not a good work-life balance. It's a rat race.If you really want to relax you need a higher income for you and your fellow workers — and the women on your team should be paid the same as the men. You want to work fewer hours each week and taking a vacation would be good too. Let the union help you fix this depressing lifestyle. This change might stress your employer of course but they already earn enough to be able to de-stress their life.Each turn place one (or more) of your workers on any available after-work spaces to gain relaxation. Taking leisure time doesn't cost anything but going to town for amusement requires you to spend hard-earned money. Going on vacation for real relaxation is out of the question until your employer is convinced to grant your workers some time off. When your workers meet partners you gain access to even better relaxation options.At the pub workers can relax and have drinks in front of the bar — or they can earn additional income and suffer more stress by working a second job there. You'll want to visit the union office too to strike for better working conditions. If you have enough strike tokens you can force your employer to reduce working hours increase your income close the gender gap or even send you on vacation.After all your workers have been placed and taken their after-work actions they are forced to return to work. You place them all on your factory where they then suffer stress earn income and gain strike tokens from the union depending on the current working conditions.The end of the game is triggered once a team gathers at least 40 relaxation. (In this game relaxation is considered to be a currency.) Your workers are then placed on after-work spaces and go back to work one more time after which the most relaxed team wins Feierabend.Create a better (that is more relaxing) life for your workers and their partners. Which team will relax the best and win the game? But really every team is a winner since they fought for better working conditions. Workers unite!

Ruhrschifffahrt 1769-1890

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Nautical Transportation

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Until the second half of the 18th century most people thought that larger barges could not navigate the Ruhr River. However the convenient route meant that attempts were conducted to transport the coveted coal resource along the river at the beginning of the industrial revolution. The first coal barges reached Kettwig in spring 1770. A little while later barges reached the Rhine mouth at Ruhrort. The empty barges were drawn upstream by horses afterwards.However the Ruhr was not generally navigable in this time. Large dams at mills and low dams for fishing were common. At these spots the coal had to be transferred from one barge to the next. This decreased the quality of the coal considerably – sometimes only coal dust reached Ruhrort. Only the building of 14 locks between Witten and Ruhrort changed this.The Ruhr remained an important route for coal until the end of the 19th century. At that time the railway superseded it.In Ruhrschifffahrt 1769-1890 2-4 players transport and sell coal along the Ruhr river in Germany as profitably as possible. Progress markers are helping them. The position of each player's Ruhr barge is most important; the player furthest upriver is allowed to conduct his action first in each phase of a game turn.

Pay Dirt

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Environmental Industry / Manufacturing

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Pay Dirt is an engine-building worker placement game set in frigid Alaska for 2-5 players. Players are competing to manage and grow their entire mining outfit while acquiring the most gold before the ground is too frozen to dig. The Alaskan countryside is an inhospitable environment so players will face hardships that affect their entire outfit – not to mention the ever-dropping temperature that will shut down their operation.In Pay Dirt players start with a small basic crew an unimpressive claim mediocre equipment and just a little bit of cash to make a go in one of the toughest competitions this side of the globe. Gold mining isn’t cheap and players will have to sell their gold throughout the game to keep the equipment running and their workers happy. Through clever use of their equipment and workers players can make their mining outfits more efficient and dialed in to their preference of play. Will you recruit heavily and stack your camp with workers or will you keep your eyes on better and more efficient equipment? Will you have what it takes to hit to strike it rich and hit pay dirt?

Stellar Horizons

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–7

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Civilization Economic Exploration Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction

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Stellar Horizons is a build your own space program game in which you lead one of seven Earth factions to explore and develop our solar system. Designed by a real-life space engineer with a PhD in long-duration spaceflight from MIT Stellar Horizons is intended to be a plausible representation of the first steps of humanity towards the stars between 2030 and 2169 with each turn representing a year of time. You control your faction's space program outposts and fleets spanning across the solar system although you also have some influence over your faction's politics back home on Earth as space development becomes more important.Movement is based on real physics. You move from orbit to orbit or conduct long range transfers to move between planetary systems like Earth Mars or Jupiter. As you send out robotic explorers and crewed vehicles to explore the solar system they bring back valuable data to further your scientific research. Technologies are intended to represent plausible extrapolations of existing development during the next 150 years: there are no transporters or warp drive but you will be able to develop rockets powered by fusion and even anti-matter. In the engineering and biology domains you'll eventually be able to construct space elevators and put your crews into safe hibernation for long journeys.You'll have access to a wide variety of robot explorers and crewed ships. These range from tiny probes intended to merely take photographs as you fly past Jupiter to giant destroyers cruisers and battleships which ply the space lanes with peaceful or hostile intentions. New ship types become available as you gain access to better technology over the course of the game.You'll be given a budget to spend on Earth and can also build bases to harvest minerals organics and fuel to expands your economy. You can also forge diplomatic relationships with players and non-player factions alike and trade resources at their bases to earn extra cash. Each of the seven factions has different strengths weaknesses abilities and available ships based on their unique geopolitical situation. Military conflict is certainly possible but not always encouraged. Stellar Horizons features more diplomatic technological and economic competition than outright combat although neglecting warships entirely leaves you vulnerable to pirates trade embargoes and sneak attacks by rogue players and factions.Stellar Horizons includes short co-operative and competitive scenarios lasting an hour or more and campaigns lasting a day up to about a full weekend for experienced players. Up to seven players can play at a time and the game is most fun with at least two but there are also one-player scenarios and the campaigns are highly suited for solo play. There are three ways to win the campaign: be the first to develop an Interstellar Colonizer terraform a world or achieve dominance in space over your rivals.

Ground Floor (Second Edition)

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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In Ground Floor one to five players adopt the role of entrepreneurs responsible for the survival of their young start-up company. As CEO a player uses their limited time to manage their business. Time is money so they have to spend it wisely!Does a player need to hire staff or refine production? What about launching a marketing campaign? Anything is possible with effective use of time money and information — but in order to reach that corner office of your skyscraper a player has to start with everybody else...on the ground floor!The second edition of Ground Floor features gameplay similar to the original edition but it's been streamlined and shortened. Other changes include a new stock exchange city building new improvement tiles Automa rules for solo game play and most of the Overfunding Achievements expansion.

GoblinsInc.

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Thematic

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

Goblins Inc. is a corporation dedicated to building unstoppable giant doomsday robots and it's looking for a new Boss. Do you have what it takes?Team up with your greed-driven fellow goblins and build the ultimate doomsday robot. Meet other teams in epic battles and blow them up but always remember only one goblin can win because there is no G in team work!The game plays over two rounds in which you partner up with each of your fellow players to try to build the ultimate giant doomsday robot – but the other players don't know which hidden agendas you must complete to impress the Boss! During the four phases of the round the teams take turns designing building and piloting their robots in order to destroy the other team and get one step closer to becoming the next Boss of Goblins Inc.

Yinzi

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Farming Industry / Manufacturing Transportation

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China experienced the greatest economic expansion in its history during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The silver trade between the Americas and Europe and onward to China had a profound effect on the world economy – it may be considered the beginning of a global economy.In China social mobility led to the growing of cities especially in the lower Yangtze area which was at that time responsible for the main production of wheat for the whole country. In addition to wheat and rice other crops like tea fruits and sugarcane were grown on a large scale. Immigrating peasants changed their profession to become merchants and artisans. Many people from the countryside were employed in private or state run factories producing commodities like paper porcelain refined sugar or silk textiles.Trade and commerce thrived in this liberalized economy and was aided by the construction of canals roads and bridges by the Ming government. Ming China saw the rise of several merchant clans who owned large amounts of wealth.In Yinzi — yínzi meaning silver — the players represent merchant clans developing parts of China in the late Ming period in the early 17th century along the last 200 km of the Yangtze river before it reaches the China Sea.The players plant crops sell goods to the rural or urban markets develop raw materials build and upgrade factories and sell their goods to ships already waiting in the port. In order to reach the port the players need to improve their river transport capabilities along the Yangtze.

Galactic Cruise

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–4

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Aviation / Flight Economic Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction Space Exploration

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Hello and welcome to Galactic Cruise. Here we offer our guests something special: the comfort of a luxury cruise with the innovation of space travel. As the first company to offer extended-stay space vacations we are excited to have you working for us! As a supervisor of this company you’ll be expected to not only build these ships and satisfy our guests but also to help the company thrive by enhancing our company network inventing new technologies and growing our workforce. We are a united company and you’ll often find that what another supervisor does will make your job easier. Let me be clear though this is a competition. Our current CEO will be stepping down in three years and the supervisor who comes out on top will take his place.On your turn you will either place a worker to take two actions in the ever-expanding network launch a ship and send one of your workers to space as a pilot or recall all your earthbound workers to collect funding bonuses. Actions include acquiring blueprints constructing ships attracting guests and building developments–connections between locations that increase action selection throughout the game. You will also be affecting resource markets that ebb and flow with the actions of all the players.When you launch a ship one of your workers will accompany it as a pilot navigating the ship to various destinations and “days in space,” where guests will reward you for all your hard work.Throughout the game you will also be competing with your fellow supervisors to complete company goals which will earn you progress cubes throughout the game. Progress cubes are also placed when you launch ships and when a certain number of cubes are placed onto the company’s progress track the game ends and the player with the most Victory Points becomes the new CEO of Galactic Cruise.Do you still think you have what it takes to work for us? You do? Great. Let’s get started.—description from the publisher

Little Factory

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–4

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Little Factory first released as Goods Maker is a resource management and building construction card game for 2-4 players with a playing time of about 30 minutes.Players increase their assets by processing resources into other resources such as turning wood into wood or charcoal or turning charcoal and flour into bread. If you increase your assets you can build a building and use that building to acquire resources and victory points more quickly.The more buildings players construct the more actions that become available on future turns. On a turn players take one of two actions:In addition players can use the effects of each building they own once per turn (including on the turn during which they were acquired). An example of a building effect is: exchanging a thread card in hand for cloth available in the play area. Chain together cards buildings and actions to create more victory points. The player who collects 10+ victory points first wins!

Lata

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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The Portuguese canning industry developed throughout the 20th century going through periods of great splendor and of extraordinary importance in the social fabric of communities close to fishing centers. After the huge growth due to the immense supply of troops in Europe that World War II brought the industry went through a period of stability with the consolidation of the quality of the products and the establishment of markets abroad.Lata (tin can in English) is the name of the raw material for the containers in which the fish is packed and it also turned out to be a popular designation for the product. In this game players manage local canning companies in the 1950s and produce and sell the famous canned sardines or canned mackerel the two main canned fish in the first decades of the industry before the appearance of the very popular tuna.The game takes place over six rounds. In each round players buy a batch of fish tomato or olive oil which they then can use in their factory. These preserves will then be sold to markets. This operation will result in money that will be used to buy scorecards and increase the factory's production capacity.The order in which each batch of raw materials is chosen is given by an auction of action points that players secretly make by sliding their disk to the left on the action track of their individual board. Whoever gives up more opportunities for action chooses the best lot but it is clear that having more possibilities for action is vital to produce more and reach the best markets!The player with the most victory points (VP) which are awarded at the end of the game by the scorecards wins.Lata is the second game in the Quinas Collection following the success of Café the first game in the line.—description from the designer

Lovelace & Babbage

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Industry / Manufacturing Math Number Real-time

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In Lovelace & Babbage players adopt the roles of 19th-century computing pioneers including Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Each player has their own unique abilities and subroutines providing asymmetric gameplay and new challenges.Programming an early mechanical engine players complete tasks for famous 19th-century patrons who award influence in areas such as art science and engineering. Turns take place in real-time with players competing over a mix of personal and shared goals as they all program the engine simultaneously. Speed and accuracy are both rewarded so different play styles and levels of ability can all succeed.

The Grand Trunk Journey

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Trains Transportation

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In The Grand Trunk Journey players represent managers of various railway companies delivering goods to four ports and twelve cities in Eastern Canada and the U.S.To do this they use cards that consist of rail equipment and locations to move their train between those locations to pick up and deliver the goods in supply and demand. This movement of their trains is recorded on the time track which indicates how many day players are spending for actions. Efficiency is important as is the ability to deliver specific goods just in time to certain destinations.Who will manage their railway most successfully?The Grand Trunk Journey bears the label The Griffintown: Series #1.—description from the publisher

Forges of Ravenshire

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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Grab a hammer and some steel it’s time to forge! The Blacksmiths Guild of Ravenshire is in need of a new Forgemaster. You and your fellow smiths are competing to see who can make the most money and become the new Forgemaster.Forges of Ravenshire is played over 4 seasons or rounds. Each season starts with the gathering phase where players will acquire contracts recruit guild members and gather resources. Players roll their dice workers and place one of them on an available location to gather resources. Then retrieve a different dice worker to gather even more resources. However the various workers are from different guilds and when retrieved will activate the guilds you have invested in. All players will take turns placing one of their workers and retrieving another worker 3 times.After the gathering phase is the production phase. Take those 3 dice workers you have taken and now place them on different areas of your forge to gather more resources make charcoal or steel and forge contracts to make money.At the end of every season check to see if any special titles have been earned. Titles bring prestige and hard-earned money.Finally roll your 3 dice workers again and prepare the county of Ravenshire for the next season.—description from the publisher

Future Inc.

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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Welcome to Future Inc.! Invest in the best factories to produce and sell your products keeping an eye on the competition and reacting to market demand in order to become the most successful entrepreneur of a near future.Future Inc. is an economic card game played over five rounds each of them divided into three action phases and one market phase.Players take turns in action phases buying factories and promoting the commodities they are most interested in. Then when a market phase takes place players compete to sell as much products as possible.After the market phase of the last round the game ends. Each player adds their profit so far to the total value of their factories determining their score. The player with the highest score is the winner.—description from the publisher

Import / Export: Definitive Edition

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–6

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Bluffing Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing Math

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Import / Export is a role selection game with a passive and active economy driven by player decisions. You have the power to gain over one hundred unique powers by exporting shipments of goods specializing into a varied tech tree and unlocking advanced game engines that will be completely unique to each play!Once your shipments enter the open sea someone can trigger an Import action where everyone will hold a silent auction to buy your containers and either allocate them as a future end game investment or an immediate boost to their available actions for specific roles.The end goal of the game is to have the most credits which will be a combination of your physical credits passive credits that were saved as imported goods plus any bonuses from completed shipments.This edition includes: 55 metal ten-foot shipping containers 45 metal 20-foot container credits 12 metal ships with flat loading surfaces updated rule book and multi-language card power sheets updated artwork 167 bridge-sized cards 100 single good-type base cards 15 Kickstarter Expansion cards 15 Capital Expansion cards 10 J Expansion cards 10 Tokyo Expansion cards 3 bonus cards (part of the original Captain's Edition) 8 brand new bonus cards (one market card) 6 shipment payout cards that double as small harbors 6 unique harbor cards and 1 supply island card that flips to the Port of Tokyo. Digital rule books available in 8 languages online.—description from the publisher

Dwergar

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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Welcome to Dwergar– a fantastic mine full of dwarf miners engineers and blacksmiths absorbed in their life passion -work! Stepping in you feel the temperature rise and smell the melted metals. The sound of the sledgehammer is resonating through the halls of the great dwarf mine city. Each guild of outstanding builders and miners try to demonstrate their efficiency and skills by collecting rich ores and precious gems. Then they use them to build magnificent structures around the Dwergar mines. It is well known that the mining shaft in this legendary mine is always working and only the masters of a mining profession can earn the privilege to work here. You are one of them. Can you prove that you deserve this honor? The unique meeple distribution system and innovative mechanism of mining the resources will allow you to experience the classic worker placement game in a new innovative way! You are a leader of the dwarf guild who works in a mine. Your task is to collect all kinds of resources (stone iron gold gems and a short-term action resource – heat). These supplies will help you build the infrastructure of the Dwergar mine by following architects’ orders presented on the cards. The goal of the game is to collect those cards. You exchange the resources for the cards and these in turn will bring you the victory points. The simplicity of the rules and the depth of the gameplay make a medium complexity game that can satisfy families as well as avid gamers. The game lasts 10 rounds. After that the dwarf guild with the most points wins! -opis od wydawcy

Wings for the Baron (Second Edition)

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 3–5

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Aviation / Flight Industry / Manufacturing World War I

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It is 1916 and the First World War continues with no end in sight. With the war a bloody stalemate on the ground the combatants have turned to their developing air forces to achieve victory. Wings for the Baron allows 1-5 players to take the role of German aeroplane manufacturers supplying the machines needed to drive the Allied air forces from the skies and ensure German victory. Compared to the first edition it features expanded and streamlined rules a fifth player an advanced game featuring reconnaissance and bomber aeroplane development.

Forged in Steel

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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American West City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing Territory Building

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In the multiplayer card-driven city-building strategy game Forged in Steel players take on the role of a prominent family in a burgeoning Colorado county in 1900 as turbulent social and technological changes are about to reshape the way all Americans live. Each family seeks to control one of four sectors (mining industry city or commercial) while also striving to be Mayor to control the appointment of other players to offices.The game takes place over three eras (turns/decades) each with multiple phases in which players are dealt eight cards — all with historic black-and-white photos from Colorado — and must discard one and bank two for their final turn. Cards are used to either play Municipal Muscle points to build buy or seize structures or used for the event listed on every card. Cards can also be used to set yearly Headlines or Themes which evoke a movement in American society or technology and change VP awards or other variables in the game. Structures are scored by multiplying the amount the sector tracks have advanced by the number of buildings owned. Different tracks progress differently.Finally players can build parks civic buildings hospitals and police stations. These buildings in turn affect further play and cause neighborhoods to have more political votes at turn's end increase VPs for proximity or protect against certain negative cards.Forged in Steel is an organic building game in that all builds change the landscape and players may build only adjacent to where others have built the grid/network. At turn's end the game decides how many immigrants come seeking jobs based on how many factories and commercial buildings were built that turn. Too many? Unrest grows and there could be a riot undermining all of your recent city-building efforts. The National Guard will step in to help you of course but they are usually outnumbered and there's often fighting in the streets so be wary of not contributing to the Unrest Track.Can your family negotiate the turbulent changes of the early 1900s and become the local political and economic powerhouse? From the New Deal Women's Suffrage City Beautiful and Spanish Flu to sidewalks and paved streets all aspects of a 1900s western American city are incorporated and players will learn about the rise of those developments that changed cities labor industry and society forever.

Stephens

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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After the big earthquake of 1755 that tore down Lisbon and most of Portugal's southern coast it was necessary to rebuild an entire nation. The demand for window glass increased so much that William Stephens a British businessman saw the opportunity to expand his business in Portugal by investing in the glass industry.In Stephens players compete amongst one another in the role of master glassmakers working at the famous Stephens Factory to become the most prestigious figure in town...after Stephens of course. Through clever and cunning planning all players will develop their works invest in new businesses and promote the creation of jobs. Through a unique action-selection mechanism on their turn players choose from a variety of options either by activating the Stephens factory or by activating one of their personal investments.The game ends when the Napoleonic forces arrive in town at which time the player with the most prestige wins.

The King's Will

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Farming Industry / Manufacturing Medieval Territory Building

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In The King's Will players must discover the victory point conditions over the course of the game while also deciding on their own individual scoring.Publisher's description:In AD 962 Otto the Great becomes Holy Roman Emperor. In this age of the 'itinerant kingship,' the king did not rule from a capital but travelled from palace to palace. In The King's will the players assume the role of the dukes whose palaces the King is visiting. They try to find out what the King's current will is and climb in his favour while they steadily enlarge their duchies. After four rounds the duke (player) who proved himself to be the best in meeting the wishes of the King will win the game.The victory conditions in this game are set up completely different every game and need to be discovered by the players throughout the game.The King's Will offers:- secret and random victory-conditions that provide ever-changing games - players act synchronous so less downtime for non-active players - additional flexibility because players can influence the game-time - a lot of gaming material made of wood

Craftsmen

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Medieval

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A long long time ago in a distant kingdom there was a town a town so small that the cartographers in the kingdom did not bother to put it on any of their maps.The mayor of the city decided to change this. He sent messengers all around the kingdom to announce that a skillful smart and experienced entrepreneur was needed to elevate the economy of this small town. The price for this effort would be a memorial on the main square of the town eternal glory and the satisfaction from a job well done.Years passed before the candidates finally reached the city. The mayor had never been happier but he didn't know which of the entrepreneurs would be most suitable for the position so he decided to give each of them a chance to prove that he was the long-awaited entrepreneur. Each of the candidates received five helpers who were admittedly not very bright but who were certainly loyal and obedient. They have three years to prove their craftsmanship and skill and after this time the mayor will decide which candidate most deserves the honorable position.In Craftsmen players try to gain appreciation points by building production buildings creating connections between these buildings producing raw materials and consumption goods or buying them outright. They can also gain points by sending produced goods to the farthest parts of the world. In the end whoever has the most appreciation points wins.

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.

Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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In a world striving for economic success in the 1960s four Asian economies emerge from the pack: South Korea Taiwan Singapore and Hong Kong. These so-called Asian Tigers are now implementing policies and creating optimal investment conditions for international players to enter their economies and achieve impressive economic growth.In Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity you are an investor sponsored by each of the Asian Tigers and your goal is to help these markets flourish and achieve much-desired success. You will build power plants research laboratories sponsor universities and establish factories that will produce resources with the purpose of serving local and more importantly international markets.An easy-going mechanism provides an interactive experience in which players dispute the relevance of their presence in each of the Tigers and also the personal goals established by their own management decisions. Producing resources such as ships machinery automobiles chemicals finance and electronics is the way to serve the global markets to succeed.The economic revolution in Asia has started and you are a part of it.—description from the publisher

Smiths of Winterforge

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–5

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Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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The forges of the Dwarven city of Winterforge have fired up once more. The royal centenary contract is up for renewal and only one of the legendary guilds can win the favour of the royal family and claim the contract as their own.In Smiths of Winterforge players take control of a guild that has to earn money and reputation to ensure they are chosen for the royal centenary contract. You earn money by:Don’t have enough money to buy the components you need? get a loan from the bank. Just make sure you pay it back before the end of the game.Need a hand finishing your contract? Head to the Tavern and grab some crew to join your guild.There are many paths to riches and reputation are you going to take the right one?

Food Truck Champion

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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Food Truck Champion is a game in which each person plays the owner of a new food truck out to make a name for itself. You will hire staff cook food and please customers to earn awards and popularity. At the end of the day the food truck with the most popularity wins!As owners of the food truck you have a special wild card that you can take into your hand allowing you to act in any capacity when the need arises.At the start of the game each food truck has a small fridge a narrow plating area and limited room for staff. Each completed order gives you a popularity token worth victory points and it allows you to expand one of the areas of your truck or even expand the card limit in your hand.At certain points in the game judges will review the orders you've completed and allow you to move certain cards into your awards area giving your bonus VP for each set of awards you complete.When a certain number of popularity tokens have been claimed the game ends and the food truck with the most victory points is declared the Food Truck Champion!

Siberia

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Siberia has a reputation for being a land of vast resources and players are going to do their best to exploit those resources and convert them into as much loot as possible.To set up the game place two different resources at random on each area in Siberia place the remaining resources on their supply spaces draw four of the 20 investment tiles from the bag and lay them on the game board give each player his own playing panel and workers/salesmen then place all the action counters in the bag.Siberia lasts an unspecified number of rounds. Each round consists of two phases: (1) drawing and placing action counters and (2) performing actions. In the first phase all players draw six action counters from the bag then place them on their individual playing panels. Most action counters show both a resource (five types possible) and a person (four types) while managers are on counters of their own. Each playing panel has columns for the five types of resources and the five types of workers with space for two counters in each column. Players can also allocate counters to the research facility below their panel.In the second phase players take actions one at a time until everyone has no actions remaining or passes. A resource or worker action can be taken only if both spaces are filled in the appropriate column; when a player takes an action he removes all action counters in the column returns them to the bag then takes the action.• The research facility action must be carried out first with the player taking the designated resources from the supply and placing one resource in any location that doesn't already have that resource available.• The worker actions allow a player to place a salesman in a stock exchange place a worker in Vladivostok move workers up to three spaces move a manager to any action space or claim an investment tile; each investment tile corresponds to a particular resource or worker action and is placed on the player panel permanently allowing the player to take this action more easily in the future since the column is always half-filled.• Each resource action allows a player to remove that resource from all areas where he has a worker then immediately sell them on one of the stock exchanges where he has a salesman.A player can keep up to ten action counters on his playing panel at the end of a round allowing him to prepare for and build up actions for future rounds. The game ends at the end of any round in which three of the five resources have no supply remaining or eight areas have had all their resources removed. (Once an area is exhausted nothing can be placed in it for the remainder of the game.) The player who has the most money wins.

Speakeasy

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Mafia Territory Building

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Speakeasy will transport you to the roaring 1920s during the era of Prohibition. Manhattan was under the firm control of Lucky Luciano a prominent mobster. To strengthen his grip on the territory he implemented a well-structured system. He divided Manhattan into different districts each assigned to a specific mobster responsible for handling their business operations.In this worker-placement and card-management game you take on the role of one of those mobsters managing and operating your very own speakeasy empire in Manhattan. To do so you'll need to use all your cunning and resources to stay ahead of the competition. As you improve your operation become more infamous and upgrade to more lavish speakeasies and even casinos you'll attract the attention of the outside mafia and the police. You need to use your leverage to keep your business running and receive your share from Lucky Luciano.You need to hire goons to help you take over Manhattan during this exciting and dangerous time. You can associate with outside mobsters — and even attack and rob rum runners to gain valuable resources to gain an edge over your rivals. You need to manage your cards carefully placing your workers strategically to deliver illicit liquor and reach Manhattan's goals to earn income. You will cook your books to fill your safes with free tax money by achieving some goals.The ultimate goal is simple: accumulate the most money and become the most successful mobster in the city. Do you have what it takes to rise to the top of the speakeasy scene and take over Manhattan during Prohibition? It's time to grab your fedora and find out in Speakeasy.

The New Science

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–5

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Educational Industry / Manufacturing Renaissance

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Players control one of the great scientists during the 17th century Scientific Revolution in Europe. Use your limited time and energy to make discoveries test hypotheses publish papers correspond with other famous scientists hire assistants into your laboratory and network with other people who can help your progress. Discoveries follow historical tech trees in the key sciences of the age: Astronomy Mathematics Physics Biology and Chemistry. The scientist who accumulates the most prestige will be appointed the first President of the Royal Society.

Frutticola

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Farming Industry / Manufacturing

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In the '50s a small town in the US was famous for its fruit trees. Local small businesses were competing against each other producing ever better jams which in turn made the town grow more and more famous. Every year after the Christmas party the most succesful entrepreneur was given a prize: will you manage to win the prize this year?In Frutticola players will take on the role of business leaders specialized in growing and selling fruits and jams trying to become the most rich in town by the end of the year! With just a few Workers and Farmers you'll have to choose when to send them to the orchards and when to buy pesticides fertilizers and other items in the shops. Who will prove to be the best entrepreneur?

Xanadú

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–6

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Ancient Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing

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The year is 1252 and the great Kublai Khan has decided to build his summer palace. He has searched for the best architects who are looking to win fame and prestige — and sometimes you have to harm other architects' prestige to step forward...Xanadú is a highly interactive card game for 2 to 5 players. Cards can be buildings with four squares of available resources that can be used by any player (including the owner of the card). To be able to retrieve and use those resources the players assign workers which are also cards. The players compete to earn the most tong baos the money in the game by selling the constructions to the Khan.Xanadú is a strategy game of building and sabotage for casual and experienced players.•••DE LA CAJA:El año es 1252 y Kublai Khan ha decidido construir su palacio de verano. Para esto ha buscado a los mejores arquitectos pero ellos no se detendrán con nada por ganar fama y prestigio.Los jugadores competirán por ganar la mayor cantidad de tong baos (monedas) vendiendo construcciones (cartas) al KhanCada carta cuenta con recursos disponibles dispuestos en 4 casillas que pueden ser aprovechados por todos los jugadores (incluido el dueño de la carta). Para utilizar estos recursos los jugadores asignan trabajadores. Solo los recursos que se encuentren en casillas destapadas (sin trabajadores) están disponibles.Xanadú es un juego de estrategia de construcción y sabotaje para jugadores casuales y experimentados.

Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Racing

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Despite the fact that the North American automobile industry developed later than in Europe the innovations in the mass production of vehicles and the immense internal market made the American automobile industry the largest and most powerful in the world.In Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering you will push the development of new engines and bodies with which to launch the best possible range of vehicles on the market and you will have the opportunity to demonstrate the power of your engines in the first Grand Prix that were held in American territory.Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering reimplements the original design by Matthias Cramer with improvements and simplifications that lessen the luck factor.Let the roar of the engines resound let the design of the new models attract buyers from all corners of the world and get the prestige necessary to become the most famous car builder.—description from the publisher

What's He Building in There?

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–6

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Now that you've got some experience as an Evil Doctor it's time to move onward and upward. Where's the place to be in the Evil Doctoring World of the late 1800s? London. What's your plan? Find a cheap warehouse somewhere to build your Doomsday Machine. Scotland Yard is on your trail however so in addition to your Doomsday Machine you'll have to build an Escape Plan.In the worker-placement style game What's He Building in There? players use their Doctors and three henchmen to acquire resources at the available shops acquire gold visit the black markets provide the Genius at Work labor (GAW) provide Manual Labor (ML) improve the Doctor's social standing and invent things. You must complete both a Doomsday Machine and an Escape Plan with higher level Doomsday Machines and Escape Plans garnering more victory points and you need to do it quickly. Scotland Yard is getting suspicious after all so you have to do what you need to do in 15 turns. Players can earn additional victory points for fitting in with society eccentricity security and inventions.Play time is approximately 25-30 minutes per player.

The Smoky Valley

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing Transportation

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The Smoky Valley is a heavy economic and industrial development game set around the Lachine Canal which is located in the Griffintown neighborhood in Montréal Canada.In The Smoky Valley you are an investor during the 19th century contributing to the standing of Griffintown as a key industrial area in North America by building and upgrading industries producing and transforming goods & shipping goods abroad.Besides these activities for the good of Griffintown and your own wealth you will also have to stimulate the development of the city to boost economic activities provide public services and increase the quality of life of citizens. If your actions are well received by the citizens and your popularity raises faster than your opponents you may even become mayor of the city. This office will offer you the chance to influence the city's development for the best of your interests - as well as your citizens' of course!Do you have what it takes to be remembered as the greatest builder of The Smoky Valley?

Hollywood

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Industry / Manufacturing Movies / TV / Radio theme

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In the movie-making game Hollywood each player is a studio boss who tries to produce the most successful blockbuster. Players construct movies from game cards that they draft or purchase. Players compete to get the most popular stars to perform in their movies because this brings them more money and more Hollywood Awards (which are pictured on some cards).First players take turns choosing cards with the aid of drafting. Second players purchase additional star cards (the strongest cards in the game) at the auction. Third each player uses his nine cards in hand to make one or several movies. A movie must have a minimum of three cards: a Script a Director and an Actor (or Actress). Additional cast members are optional but they add to a movie's total box office. Quality films bring a large amount of profit to the player.Players go through three production years then after the third year Hollywood Awards bring extra money to the players and the richest player wins.

The Morrison Game Factory

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Industry / Manufacturing Murder / Mystery Puzzle

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The Morrison Game Factory is a narrative puzzle adventure based in a board game factory full of mystery. On the outside the factory is busily churning out games for the whole family to enjoy. On the inside hidden messages and untold stories await. Solve riddles crack codes and unravel the secrets of the Morrison Game Company...all while falling in love with the characters of this sweet and funny puzzletale.The Morrison Game Factory can be played solo or cooperatively and is best suited for 1-4 players. While designed for ages 14+ younger sleuths can join in the fun with some adult guidance. The total gameplay time averages about 2-4 hours depending on the group size and experience level.Contents: - Introduction letter - Maintenance log - Game board - Tuck box with cards - Morrison Game Company catalog - Dice meeples and other miscellaneous game components - A locked pouch containing even more secrets!-description from designer

Star Tycoon

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction Space Exploration

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In Star Tycoon players will take on the role of an interstellar business with the goal of out-performing their business rivals by the last round.Each player gains Victory Points by claiming sets of planets and developing them with production facilities and other buildings.Central to Star Tycoon is the Galactic Exchange a fluctuating market that reacts supply and demand. Knowing when to buy and when to sell is key creating a profitable business.—description from designer

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2

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Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing Territory Building

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Tesla vs. Edison: Duel is a 15-30 minute two-player card game that brings the War of Currents to light in an easy-to-learn fast-playing but seriously strategic game. Players take control of Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison and build a company that claims projects in regions around the United States advance the latest technologies engage in a propaganda war around AC and DC technologies and buy stock shares in smaller electricity companies. During the game players bring famous luminaries of the time that each offer unique actions and abilities into their company. The winner is the company that wins two of the three main systems: controlling regions with projects being ahead in the PR race and holding the most valuable stock portfolio. Tesla and Edison each have a special auto-win condition that players can trigger during the game to win right away.While Tesla vs. Edison: Duel has all of the aspects introduced in the larger Tesla vs. Edison game it is designed for light-to-medium weight gamers to enjoy.

Mi Tierra: New Era

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–6

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Economic Farming Industry / Manufacturing

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Mi Tierra: New Era (My Land: New Era) is a worker placement game in which the players represent farmers that try to labor their land in the best way possible. They will have to sow and work the land and take care of their animals so they can produce goods and sell them in the different available markets.In this second edition players will have all the fun included in the original Mi Tierra plus more since the second edition includes many more features like use of water for plantations horses new products and more. Also instead of four players you will be able to play up to six-player games. Finally the rules of the game have been revised to make sure that Mi Tierra gets even better.

Futuropia

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–4

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Economic Environmental Industry / Manufacturing Political Science Fiction

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In Futuropia Friedemann Friese's big utopian economic game for 1-4 optimizers players live in a future Utopian society that possesses desirable lifestyle qualities for all of its citizens. Too bad this is not today's reality...In this Utopian society we all will work much less. Our robots can do nearly everything already. There is no need for great envy. It is simply about equality justice and the fair allocation of the complete and still necessary work which then gives us ALL more leisure time.Success means we will have time for the activities we like the most: fishing farming fencing flying ... as well as gaming building painting traveling composing and more. If somebody wants to work more than needed they should do that. This is about the freedom! So let us rethink this: joblessness is not a disgrace it is the new goal!We are members of a team striving to realize this utopian ideal. We try to develop completely self-sustaining homes that function as efficiently as possible. They must generate enough food and energy to allow the residents the greatest possible freedom (thus leisure time). The more people in our development who no longer need to work the closer we are to reaching our goal! The player who builds the best development will win the game and their development will become reality!Futuropia is a luck-free economic game. To ensure you always encounter new challenges we offer multiple game set-up variations which create a variety of gameplay situations ensuring new experiences and replayability. The solo game offers you an option to learn the mechanisms and processes of Futuropia before you play it with other players. See our hopeful future in...Futuropia!

DRCongo

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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City Building Economic Industry / Manufacturing Political Transportation

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DRCongo explores a hopeful hypothesis that if enlightened industrialists worked to develop the economy of this mighty country then it would escape the clutches of a crippling insurgency.Players build industries and expand a transport network of river rail and roads. Oil minerals and crops are produced and if sold via the Atlantic port of Matadi players reap rich rewards. Players develop their own cities and hydroelectricity can be sold to these.The game is built in four game layers with layer two introducing insurgents and peacekeepers layer three the Government and layer four strategic interventions by other countries.The game is played on a map showing the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and their capital towns. Transport routes are shown and include the major rivers and railways and export routes. In a turn a player may carry out one of five actions: build industry place transport develop city produce resources or sell resources. A neat and tidy economic game is made complicated by the presence of insurgents at game start and these are suppressed and eliminated by use of players peacekeepers. This is a typical Ragnar Brothers dice combat system—simple but bringing tension and fun to proceedings.

Packet Row

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2–5

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Industry / Manufacturing

New York 1842: The docks along South Street bustle with activity. Packet ships are constantly arriving and departing. There are so many packet ships waiting along the docks that the area has become known as the Packet Row.In the game Packet Row each player represents a trading company that's trying to make as much profit as possible on the trans-Atlantic trade. However having a lot of cash is not enough to win this game. You must spend your money for the benefit of the city at the right time to gain as many victory points as possible.

Luthier

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–4

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Age of Reason Industry / Manufacturing Music

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Luthier transports players to the height of classical music in Western Europe when the art of the instrument was upheld equally by skilled craftspeople noble patrons virtuoso performers and famous composers such as Bach Mozart and Beethoven.Using a new unique combination of hidden bidding and worker placement players manage resources to craft various musical instruments in their workshop while also courting actual historic patrons through an ever-changing personal tableau of actions and bonuses. Each player chooses how to balance improving skills across multiple tracks unlocking specialized worker abilities and other bonuses. The choice to concentrate on varying gameplay strategies and goals such as musical performances instrument building and repairs apprentice training and workshop expansion and overall reputation as an instrument maker provide multiple paths to victory.Luthier finds true harmony through an authentic and original marriage of theme and mechanisms resulting in a rich gameplay experience that equally speaks to both the strategic gamer and the classical music lover.—description from the publisher

Global Mogul

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing

Game description from the publisher:Welcome to the heady days of global finance! Money and deals are flowing like water. From sparse beginnings build your empire across the globe sending agents far and wide as you expend capital and gain access to valuable resources needed to fulfill lucrative contracts. Struggle to dominate world markets and control resources regionally. Expand your interests and acquire companies that provide an edge on the competition and more efficient use of resources.The venture capital market is giving away money – you don't even have to pay it back – but it does tie up valuable agents until you do. You can always use an extra agent on your quest to dominate the world.Global Mogul is a limited action worker placement resource acquisition and opportunity management game. Win by being best at balancing your short term goal of fulfilling contracts for cash with your long term goals of building corporate infrastructure controlling markets and regions. So what are you waiting for? The world awaits...

Brass Empire

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–5

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Customizable

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Brass Empire is a steampunk-themed deck-building game where each player takes on the role of a different corporation to hire the best employees construct buildings and manufacture steam-powered machines. Players battle and sabotage each other to amass economic wealth and influence to win the game.Overview:Welcome to the steampunk world of Cobalt. For centuries Cobalt has been ruled by corporations seeking to enhance their wealth and influence with Brass. Brass doesn’t just fuel the economy but literally fuels the technology and transportation of the world through its unique thermodynamic properties. Every day these companies compete and battle to expand their territory and authority. Companies work to optimize their labor force and resources to mine the most Brass in each territory through corporate espionage technology security and even sabotage. You work for such a company and have been tasked with expanding into a new region by constructing new corporate buildings hiring employees and battling other companies in the area. The player who earns the most Brass will lead his company to victory in the region.Each turn you will play Employee cards from your hand to gain resources. These resources will allow you to acquire new Employees Buildings and Units for your deck. Along the way you will acquire buildings to enhance your hold on the region and command units to attack other companies and mine for Brass. At the end of the game the player with the most Brass is the winner.

Nicodemus

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2

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Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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Nicodemus Gideon is retiring! To take his place two assistants of the Dream Factory — that is you and one other — will face off in a duel in which you repair machines and complete projects as quickly as possible in order to score 20 or more points first.In Nicodemus you can return to the universe of Imaginarium in a game in which the two players must block one another repeatedly with advantages swinging one way then the other with the slightest mistake possibly being fatal to your chances. On a turn you have a choice of two actions:Each resource indicated in the production zone of machines in your workshop reduces the number of resources needed to repair subsequent machines. Additionally repairing a machine can help you complete specific projects and win points.

Pandemain: Traditional Farmers' Bread

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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Farming Industry / Manufacturing Medieval

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Pandemain: Traditional Farmers' Bread is a worker placement and bread making game for 1 to 4 players where you must run a small bakery business located in the village of Nördlingen during the fascinating period of the Middle Ages. Buy ingredients in the market get flour by visiting the mill bake your bread in the Feudal Lord’s oven and try to sell it in nearby villages. Satisfy the demand with high quality bread and improve your reputation to prosper and emerge victorious. Face the difficulties of the harsh medieval life in which only a few peasants escaped the servile dependence of the Feudal Lord.The game takes place in the medieval region of the Duchy of Schwaben during the year 1276 in the domains of Emperor Rudolf I of Habsburg and under the watchful eye of the Inquisition. The historical base of the game has been verified in ancient documents and history books and its mechanics are based on readings from original literature of that time. Explore this enigmatic period hidden under layers of mud and ash and discover the real day to day of the period’s peasants.Pandemain: Traditional Farmers' Bread is played in turns. Each player starts with four workers and they can get another one if certain conditions are met.There are 5 game rounds divided in 4 phases each with a variable element at the end of the game. In the game some actions that are chosen by the players (worker placement) and all actions will lead to the selling of the bread they bake in the nearest villages or to the Feudal Lord which additionally gives you favors (set collection). Each type of bread is sold at a different price and have different point values. The players must collect the correct ingredients for each recipe bake high quality or low quality bread and sell it for which they will receive the gratitude from the villages (set collection) allowing them to make extra actions and receive extra points. The players can hire and improve their master bakers (set collection) which allows them to bake the highest quality bread provide benefits and increase their reputation. Cows oxen and wagons add some variability when the players go to acquire the ingredients.The Inquisition is also relevant: the players will make donations to the church which gives them influence to avoid losing points each round and in return they will give some benefits and points. And not only that the church also controls the turn order.What changes every round? - Bread demand in each village - Flour available in the market - Feudal Lord's servant position - Inquisition advanceWhat changes every game? - Available master bakers - Villagers in the villages - Feudal Lord's favors - Benefits when donating to the church-description from designer

Power Grid: Outpost

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–6

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction

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In Power Grid: Outpost the colonization of the new planet advances quickly. There is a huge demand for electricity that your companies gladly fulfill.Can you purchase the best power plants biggest shelters and best technologies? Can you spread your network faster from city to city than your competition? Do you expand your company economically to accommodate workers permanently so that you can avoid employing expensive seasonal workers that you must dismiss to the labor market after each assignment? Only then you can win Power Grid: Outpost!Outpost was one of the major inspirations for Power Grid as that game was far ahead of its time. More than twenty years after the first release of Power Grid Friedemann wants to honor Outpost with this game. He took many thematic elements of that game and translated them to the Power Grid world.—description from the publisher

Steam Power

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–5

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Economic Industry / Manufacturing Territory Building Trains Transportation

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In Steam Power players race to build the best rail network to meet their contractual obligations and make the most money.On your turn you can perform two actions from a selection of choices letting you lay tracks build factories fulfill contracts earn money or collect more contracts. Building a factory brings resources to the board that all players have access to...at a price.The game ends when a certain number of contracts are fulfilled which varies by player count. The player with the most points (and money which converts to points) wins.

Disney Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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American West Industry / Manufacturing Trains

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Step off the stagecoach and into the cursed mining town of Tumbleweed in Disney Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Will you find fortune mining the mysterious mountain — or awaken its many dangers? Each turn resources spill down the mountain with you trying to collect those resources to upgrade your mining operation to score more points. Each round features twist-of-fate cards that mess with the environment through dangers like landslides and dynamite.

Artificium

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 2–6

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