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Mechs vs. Minions

Mechs vs. Minions

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Mechs vs. Minions is a cooperative tabletop campaign for 2-4 players. Set in the world of Runeterra players take on the roles of four intrepid Yordles: Corki Tristana Heimerdinger and Ziggs who must join forces and pilot their newly-crafted mechs against an army of marauding minions. With modular boards programmatic command lines and a story-driven campaign each mission will be unique putting your teamwork programming and piloting skills to the test.There are ten missions in total and each individual mission will take about 60-90 minutes.

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Rating: 8.8 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a co-operative deck-building adventure. Craft a unique deck encounter bizarre creatures discover relics of immense power and finally become strong enough to slay the Spire!Slay the Spire: The Board Game (core edition) includes: -4 Minis -Over 730 cards -Over 450 Art Sleeves -2 Map Boards -1 Merchant Board -4 Player Boards -1 Die -50 plastic cubes -Over 113 tokensCollector's edition: 4x (3mm neoprene) playermats 1x deck playmat Bigger box (fits mats) 1x Merchant bag Metal coinsKickstarter exclusives and Stretch goals: 1x Merchant pat Claw die 8x Claw cards 28x Foil Cards 3x Acrylic heart tokens

This War of Mine: The Board Game

This War of Mine: The Board Game

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–6

Game Type:

Thematic

This War Of Mine: The Board Game is the tabletop adaptation of the award-winning video game that pictures the drama of civilians trapped in a war-torn city. You will enter this experience as a group of civilians trapped in a besieged and conflict-ridden city enduring many hardships that often test the essence of humanity. During your struggle as the survivors you will experience dramas connected with making extremely difficult decisions and choices and have to face the consequences of your actions sooner or later.TWOM: The Board Game features a multiplayer experience for up to 6 players as well as a solo variant. You will be able to personify one of the well-known characters from video game and face hundreds of new challenges and difficult choices. The boardgame significantly broadens the original game’s universe and emphasizes the depth of plot yet its main focus will be on human interactions driven by survival instinct and group decision-making. TWOM: The Board Game is an instant play game with no need for reading the manual before starting the adventure.During day time you will take shelter in a ruined tenement house which you will care about and manage by: removing rubble searching through various rooms (often behind barricaded doors) you will build beds improvised workshops stoves tools water filters small animal traps you will cultivate an improvised vegetable garden fix the tenements’ shelled facilities reinforce the security of your shelter and should winter come you’ll try to keep it warm.Upon nightfall your main duties will consist of guarding your shelter and what little possessions you can accumulate against bandits and raiders. Those in your group fit for such a task will use the cover of the night to carefully explore dozens of the ever-changing locations scattered throughout the dangerous city in search of all the things that a person needs to survive (materials food meds equipment etc.). On your way you will meet tens of characters each with a unique story (residents of the locations you visit thieves bandits soldiers war victims refugees neighbors traders and members of local communities) each encounter is a potential unique adventure. To guide you through all these events you will have the special SCRIPTS mechanism responsible for implementing the deep and complex story and a coherent plot (each game will be unique and different than the previous).Your goal is to survive until the cessation of war hostilities. However survival itself will often prove not to be enough. The price each of you will decide to pay might be too high in the final outcome. So the goal is really to survive in a way that will let you live on with the decisions you made. The EPILOGUES mechanism will kick in here.

Anno 1800: The Board Game

Anno 1800: The Board Game

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

In Anno 1800 a board game based on the popular PC game from Ubisoft you continuously build up your own industry to develop your home island.Ship fleets allow for lively trade and the development of new islands in the Old and New World. You have to fulfill the wishes of your own population. While the inhabitants are initially satisfied with bread and clothing they soon demand valuable luxury goods. You must plan production chains sensibly and keep an eye on the specialization of your population. The goal: A wise distribution of farmers workers craftsmen engineers and investors — but the competition never sleeps and can snatch the new achievements from under your nose at any time! Who can create the most prosperous island?—description from the publisher (translated)

Cloudspire

Cloudspire

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Cloudspire is 1-4 player strategy game heavily influenced by both tower defense and MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games. Solo and Cooperative play are driven by a scenario book that chronicles the story of the game from the perspective of each individual faction. Players control one of four unique factions in a battle to destroy and steal source energy from their opponents. Send and defend against armies and minions build towers to protect your base and explore with your heroes in search of resources and powerful Relics to turn the tide of battle.Taking place in the floating realm of Ankar Cloudspire tells the story of a war to acquire a powerful and rare energy known only as the source. Every race has their own unique units and heroes as well as the ability to bid and draft mercenaries for hire.Armies are placed either individually or in stacks to conceal powerful units until the last possible moments. Heroes in the meantime are controlled individually and may join the tide of battle or choose to explore points of interest in search of numerous resources. Meanwhile the event deck regularly changes the terms of the fight making every wave exciting and unpredictable.As armies and minions approach opposing bases they'll need to contend with Spires - powerful defense towers that can be built around the board. Fight for control of build sites and acquire new spire schematics to build an impenetrable defense and hold off the enemy. Upgrade your home base to unlock new strategies and abilities. Level up your heroes and lead your armies into battle with advanced and upgraded skills!—description from the publisher

Dorfromantik: The Board Game

Dorfromantik: The Board Game

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1–6

Game Type:

Family

Rippling rivers rustling forests wheat fields swaying in the wind and here and there a cute little village - that's Dorfromantik! The video game from the small developer studio Toukana Interactive has been thrilling the gaming community since its Early Access in March 2021 and has already won all kinds of prestigious awards. Now Michael Palm and Lukas Zach are transforming the popular building strategy and puzzle game into a family game for young and old with Dorfromantik: The Board Game.In Dorfromantik: The Board Game up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas. The better the players manage to do this the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher.—description from the publisher

Project L

Project L

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Abstract

Build pieces develop an engine perfect your strategy and win the game!Project L is a fast-paced tile-matching brain burner with triple-layer 3D puzzles and lovely acrylic pieces. Challenge your friends to a game of simple design but intricate gameplay that makes a lasting impression!The core of the game lies in using your pieces to complete puzzles. Starting with just two basic pieces you use three actions every turn to develop a powerful engine. With more pieces of various types you can efficiently complete even the most difficult puzzles. The puzzles you complete award you points or new pieces to further fuel your engine. Can you outsmart your opponents?—description from the publisher

Frostpunk: The Board Game

Frostpunk: The Board Game

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

In Frostpunk: The Board Game up to four players will take on the role of leaders of a small colony of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that was hit by a severe ice age. Their duty is to effectively manage both its infrastructure and citizens. The core gameplay will be brutal challenging and complex but easy to learn. The citizens won’t just be speechless pieces on the board. Society members will issue demands and react accordingly to the current mood so every decision and action bears consequences.The players will decide the fate of their people. Will you treat them like another resource? Are you going to be an inspiring builder a fearless explorer or a bright scientist? Is your rule going to be a sting of tyranny or an era of law and equality?The game is based on a bestseller video game by 11bit studios the creators of This War Of Mine. The original (digital) edition of Frostpunk is a highly successful strategy-survival-city-builder a BAFTA-nominee that originally launched in 2018.—description from the publisher

Gears of War: The Board Game

Gears of War: The Board Game

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Game description from the publisher:For a time the humans of Sera knew peace...then Emergence Day came. The Locust horde arrived without warning and countless horrors spilled forth from their underground burrows. The Coalition of Organized Governments (COG) struggled to fend off the subterranean threat but their defenses were quickly crushed. With billions dead humans turned their weapons of mass destruction on their own cities to deny the enemy control. Now the long struggle against overwhelming odds approaches one final desperate stand.Gears of War: The Board Game designed by Corey Konieczka is based on the wildly popular third-person shooter by Epic Games. One to four players take on the roles of COG soldiers cooperating to destroy the Locust horde and must work together to complete missions against an ingeniously challenging and varied game system. In Gears of War: The Board Game you’ll relive classic moments from Gears of War and Gears of War 2 – Roadie Run into cover spray your enemy with blind fire or rip him in half with your Lancer's chainsaw!In Gears of War: The Board Game you must fulfill one of seven randomly constructed missions and support your fellow COGs as your team engages an unflinching enemy in furious white-knuckle firefights! Only through teamwork and communication will you gain a tactical advantage completing your mission and striking a blow for humanity.You'll need every soldier you can get if you hope to send the Locust horde back to their holes. Leave no man behind!ERRATA - In the Roadblocks mission level 3 use tile 12A instead of 3A. - In the rules under Component List the following three entries are incorrect: -- 23 Wound/Dropped Weapon Markers should be 22 -- 12 Grenade Tokens should be 14 -- 36 Ammo Tokens should be 44

Super Motherload

Super Motherload

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Mars. The very near future. The Solarus Corporation discovered an infinite source of rare and precious minerals deep in the red crust. Resources that will end the energy crisis on Earth and fuel the deep space expeditions planned as population swells beyond capacity. You have been chosen to lead an elite crew of Pod pilots who will delve below the surface of Mars in Solarus Corporation's first major drilling expedition. As a part of this maiden voyage the corporation has agreed to let you reinvest any wealth you uncover back into training your Pod pilots increasing their skills and efficiencies. Will you be remembered as the greatest Solarus Corporation employee in the galaxy?Super Motherload is a tile-laying deck-building game which means that you have your own deck of cards from which you draw each turn. The cards in your deck start out very basic but over the course of the game you add new and more powerful cards to it. You use these cards to bomb and drill minerals and other bonuses from the game board. You then use the minerals you've collected as money to purchase better cards for your deck. Some cards give you an immediate bonus when you purchase them and some give you other bonuses when you use them to drill. Each card you purchase from your library is worth victory points (VPs). You can also gain VPs from achievement cards that become available throughout the game. Whoever has the most VPs at the end of the game wins.Super Motherload features game boards that are added and removed during play to create videogame-like scrolling action and it challenges spatial relation skills for 2-4 players who love video games Eurostyle board games or deck-building card games.

XCOM: The Board Game

XCOM: The Board Game

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Game description from the publisher:You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: The Board Game you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity quell the rising panic and turn back the alien invasion.Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders you must succeed. To do so you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs assign soldiers to key missions research alien technology and use that technology to defend your base — all while trying to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one final mission to repel the invaders for good.One of the more notable aspects of XCOM: The Board Game is the way that it incorporates a free and innovative digital app into the core of its gameplay. This digital companion will be available both as a downloadable app and as an online tool.The app's primary function is to coordinate the escalating alien invasion randomly selecting from one of five different invasion plans. Each invasion plan represents a general outline that the alien commanders will use to coordinate the arrival of new UFOs plan strikes against your base and respond to your successes or failures as it seeks to conquer Earth. The app manages all of these tasks and heightens the game's tension as it forces you to respond in real-time. Then after you move quickly to coordinate your response you engage the enemy in the untimed resolution phase and feed the results to the app. Based upon these results the app launches the invasion's next strikes.Additionally the app teaches you the rules controls the information that your satellites provide you and tracks the progress of your resistance efforts even as it allows you to enjoy the game at any of three levels of difficulty: Easy Normal or Hard.The use of this app does more than simply streamline your play experience and track your turns in real-time; it also permits a uniquely dynamic turn structure. While the variety of game phases remains the same from round to round the order in which you and your friends must play through them may change as may the number of a given phase. As a result while you'll want to know where UFOs appear before you deploy your Interceptors the alien invaders may be able to disrupt your satellite intel and force you to deploy your Interceptors on patrol with limited or no knowledge of the UFOs current whereabouts. Similarly you may be forced to think about the costs of resolving the world’s crises before you know how many troops you’ll need to commit to your base defense.The effect of the app is to immerse you deep into the dramatic tension at the core of XCOM: The Board Game and it ensures that the game presents a challenging and cooperative (or solo) experience like no other. Just like the XCOM department heads that you represent you'll need to keep cool heads in order to prevail.

Adrenaline

Adrenaline

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 3–5

Game Type:

Strategy

In the future war has left the world in complete destruction and split the people into factions. The factions have decided to stop the endless war and settle their dispute in the arena. A new virtual bloodsport was created. The Adrenaline tournament. Every faction has a champion every champion has a chance to fight and the chance to win. Will you take the chance of becoming the next champion of the Adrenaline tournament?Play a first-person shooter on your gaming table. Grab some ammo grab a gun and start shooting. Build up an arsenal for a killer turn. Combat resolution is quick and diceless. And if you get shot you get faster!

Stardew Valley: The Board Game

Stardew Valley: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the Stardew Valley video game by Eric Barone. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the Valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation! To do this you'll need to farm fish friend and find all kinds of different resources to fulfill your Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center. Collect all kinds of items raise animals and explore the Mine. Gain powerful upgrades and skills and as the seasons pass see if you're able to protect the magic of Stardew Valley!The goal of the game is to complete Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center which requires you to gather different types of resources represented by tiles. You have a fixed amount of turns to accomplish this. This is driven by the Season Deck of 20 cards one of which is drawn each turn to trigger certain events. Cooperatively the players decide each turn where they will focus their individual actions and place their pawn in that part of the Valley. Using their actions they visit specific locations trying to gather resources to complete their collective goals. Actions include things like: watering crops trying to catch fish rolling dice to explore the mines and many more. When the Season Deck is exhausted the game ends.

Tiny Epic Quest

Tiny Epic Quest

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

A world of peace has been torn asunder by the opening of a vile portal from the goblin kingdom. Nasty goblins pour into the peaceful groves and villages of the elf world setting the realm ablaze. Now you the heroes must quest in order to right this wrong. There are two paths to victory: closing the portal or slaying all the goblins. Which one will you choose? Either way your quests will be aided by the help of the surviving mushroom folk — and by the epic items that have been lost in the realm's deep dungeons. The world is ending quickly so you must act fast to save it but you also need to know when your luck will run out...In Tiny Epic Quest players embark on a sandbox adventure. Each player controls a band of three elf heroes questing to save the world and the sacred mushroom folk from the intruding goblins.Each round is broken into two phases: day and night. During the day players travel far and wide visiting villages to acquire quests monuments to learn powerful spells mushroom groves to seek guidance and treacherous locations in search of artifacts! Acquiring artifacts empower the heroes with unique abilities; this may improve a heroes' movement or combat or their ability to learn spells or mitigate harmful dice rolls.Heroes must travel by foot by horse by raft by boat and by gryphon to get to everywhere they need to go to satisfy their quests — or to position themselves for what night brings. As each type of movement is different and limited players need to take careful consideration when traveling and how they travel if they wish to accomplish all of their goals.During the night players must face the challenge of their quests and decisions by rolling dice hoping for fortune and knowing when to quit. Will you press on? Or is it time to save your progress and rest? Tomorrow is another day.The game ends once the portal is closed or all the goblins have been eradicated. The player who has acquired the most victory points by slaying goblins learning spells and completing quests is crowned the winner!For a deluxe edition of this game see Tiny Epic Quest: Deluxe Edition

Small World of Warcraft

Small World of Warcraft

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Family

In Small World of Warcraft players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate everybody.Small World of Warcraft is set on the fantasy world of Azeroth where the races of the Alliance and the Horde — including Orcs Dwarves Trolls and Worgen — clash in a world-consuming conflict. In the game players choose combinations of special powers and races from the Warcraft universe such as Portal Mage Pandarens or Herbalist Goblins and vie for control of Azeroth. To help them achieve dominance players will occupy legendary terrains and seek control of powerful artifacts. However all empires must eventually fall so players need to be ready to put an overextended race into a state of decline and lead a new one to rule Azeroth.In more detail on each turn either you use the multiple tiles of your chosen fantasy race to (normally) occupy adjacent territories possibly defeating weaker enemy races along the way or you give up on your race and let it go into decline. A race in decline is designated by flipping the tiles over to their black-and-white side. At the start of the game or after you go into decline you choose a new race/power combination at the start of your turn with the 16 races and 20 powers being paired randomly each game.At the end of your turn you score one coin for each territory your races occupy. You may have one active race and one race in decline on the board at the same time. Your occupation total can vary depending on the special abilities of your race and the territories they occupy. After the final round the player with the most coins wins.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Thematic

In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King players journey to the frozen continent of Northrend to face the armies of the Lich King. This Pandemic System game showcases familiar mechanisms and gameplay now tweaked to embrace the setting of the Wrath of the Lich King. Forts temples battlegrounds and more populate the game board as you and your fellow heroes journey across the cold landscape. Along the way you'll set up strongholds complete quests and do battle with legions of undead.In more detail players team up as legendary heroes from across Azeroth each with their own unique abilities to help in and out of combat. Heroes such as Thrall Warchief of the Horde; Varian Wrynn King of Stormwind; Sylvanas Windrunner Banshee Queen of the Forsaken; and many more are at your fingertips. As the Scourge grows more undead will populate the board. Throw dice as you enter into battle against the hordes of ghouls and ferocious abominations using hero cards to add power to your attacks block incoming assaults heal wounds take mounts to far off spaces and so much more.As you fight your way to the Lich King all manner of dark magic and terrible creatures under his control need to be neutralized. This comes in the form of quests a brand-new mechanism that can be completed as a team through a combination of dice rolls and the hero cards at your disposal. However each quest comes with its own dangers and hindrances. Complete these quests to move closer to the final assault on Icecrown Citadel where the Lich King himself resides.—description from the publisher

Fallout Shelter: The Board Game

Fallout Shelter: The Board Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

Categories:

Build a better future underground in Fallout Shelter: The Board Game a post-nuclear worker-placement board game for two to four players. Based on the hit mobile game from Bethesda Softworks Fallout Shelter sees you take on the role of a vault officer fostering happiness among the citizens of your vault. With the election of a new Overseer looming the officer who can gain the most happiness among the dwellers is sure to lock up the election and attain victory.As an officer you'll have to direct your dwellers to where they'll spend their time in the vault whether it's spending some time relaxing in the lounge gathering vital resources like food in the community gardens or battling a radroach infestation in the game room. The choice is always yours but remember you'll have to balance happiness and efficiency to lead your people to a brighter future underground!—description from the publisher

Fallout

Fallout

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Fallout is a post-nuclear adventure board game for one to four players. Based on the hit video game series by Bethesda Softworks each Fallout scenario is inspired by a familiar story from the franchise. Survivors begin the game on the edge of an unexplored landscape uncertain of what awaits them in this unfamiliar world. With just one objective to guide them from the very beginning each player must explore the hidden map fight ferocious enemies and build the skills of their survivor as they attempt to complete challenging quests and balance feuding factions within the game.As they advance their survivors' stories players come across new quests and individual targets leading them to gain influence. Who comes out ahead depends on how keenly and aggressively each player ventures through the game; however if a single faction is pushed to power too quickly the wasteland will be taken for their own and the survivors conquered along with it.—description from the publisher

Northgard: Uncharted Lands

Northgard: Uncharted Lands

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Strategy

Based on the universe of the Northgard video game Northgard: Uncharted Lands is a game of conquest and exploration set in the age of vikings. Each player controls a Viking clan looking to achieve victory by reaping glory in various ways or controlling the most prized territories of this new continent.The game focus is on streamlined rules and mechanisms allowing for a fast-paced and smooth rhythm of play. Each turn players alternate their actions to adapt their strategies to their opponents' moves and the expansion of the board. Fame (i.e. points) can be earned by exploring fighting and controlling and developing territories. The various corresponding actions are played through the cards that the players have in hand. At the end of each turn they have to choose a new card to improve their personal deck as their clans develop new tactics and technologies.The conquest of Northgard also requires clever management of resources to build new buildings improve your warriors' effectiveness better your hand of cards and upgrade your clan's specificities. The winter phase makes this management more difficult as you have to feed your units to keep them healthy and happy.The pace of the game is set by the players as the game ends after seven turns but can also be cut short at any time if one of them is in control of three closed territories hosting certain types of buildings.—description from the publisher

Sniper Elite: The Board Game

Sniper Elite: The Board Game

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Sniper Elite: The Board Game is a hidden movement game based on the iconic video game series.In the game one player takes the role of the sniper who is trying to make their way past the German guards by stealth or violence. Up to three other players control squads of German soldiers striking a balance between defending their objectives and hunting the sniper.Sniper Elite features a bag-manipulation element. The sniper draws chits from a bag to target the defenders though canny defense can decrease the sniper's likelihood of making their shot...—description from the publisher

Plague Inc.: The Board Game

Plague Inc.: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Plague Inc: The Board Game is a strategic game of infection evolution and extinction for 1-5* people - based on the smash-hit digital game with over 85 million players. Can you infect the world?Each player is a deadly disease and they must battle against each other to spread their plagues develop new symptoms and ultimately wipe out humanity.Starting with Patient Zero you spread your infection across the world by placing tokens in cities - earning DNA points and preventing other players from becoming dominant. Players choose which countries are placed on the board but you must be both climate resistant and connected to a country before you can infect it. Eventually as countries become fully infected - you try to kill them using the Death Dice.Each player’s unique pathogen can be upgraded by evolving trait cards onto an evolution slide (with DNA points). At the start your disease is weak and unspecialised so you will need to add new symptoms to make it stronger. Choose carefully and plan ahead in order to react to the changing world and exploit opportunities created by other player’s actions.A simple nosebleed could accelerate things early on whilst diarrhea will help you thrive in hot countries. Sneezing can infect new continents by air but Total Organ Failure would allow you wipe out multiple countries each turn.As countries start to fall use powerful event cards to alter the balance of power. You might try to eradicate a dominant player by bombing their diseased cities or hold the Olympics to cause huge numbers of infected people to travel to a healthy continent.When the world collapses who will be the ultimate plague?*5 players with 5th player expansion

Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time

Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Welcome to Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time where you and your allies must work together to fend off the furious onslaught of the mysterious Time Mage. Command Heroes and build Towers to defend the realm by placing polyomino pieces to attack your enemies and deploying soldiers to hold back the ever-advancing horde. Be careful though! The Time Mage’s portals are wreaking havoc causing all of the Towers to warp in and out of existence! Will you play your Towers to defend the Kingdom or will you pass them to your compatriots so that the Towers can be upgraded? The decision is yours!Play through a unique campaign to foil the Time Mage’s plan for total domination of the space-time continuum. Each new scenario in the campaign is more challenging than the one before it introducing formidable foes game-changing events and epic bosses to battle! The only way to stop the Time Mage is to close all of their pesky portals but you’ll have to do so while combating wave after wave of their minions. Fight back with unique Heroes special abilities and an awesome arsenal of upgradable Towers. The Time Mage will stop at nothing as they try to take over the Kingdom and neither should you - archers ready!

Overboss: A Boss Monster Adventure

Overboss: A Boss Monster Adventure

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Family

In Overboss rival Boss Monsters emerge from their dungeons to conquer the Overworld. Each turn players draft and place terrain tiles and monster tokens. Their goal: to craft the map with the greatest Power and become the ultimate Overboss!Designed by Aaron Mesburne and Kevin Russ (Calico) this fast-paced game combines drafting set collection and puzzly tile laying. It's set in the retro-inspired pixel art world of Brotherwise Games' best-selling Boss Monster but this is an entirely new experience.Build your map by drafting Forests Swamps Caves Camps Graveyards Dungeon Entrances and other landscapes. Each terrain type has a different point value and some increase in Power as you acquire larger sets. Players must balance optimal placement set values and disrupt their opponents' sets. You'll also need to manage monsters which award points when grouped together or placed on matching terrain.The game includes everything needed for up to 5 players: over 120 terrain tiles over 100 monster tokens 5 double-sided player boards a scorepad and more.—description from the publisher (updated for added content)

Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game

Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

In Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game an authorized tabletop game adaption of the popular computer game players take the roles of up to four dwarf miners in space: the Scout the Engineer the Gunner and the Driller. Players must work together to mine precious minerals deep below the surface of a hostile planet where indigenous insectoid predators — the Glyphids — await aggressively defending their caves against the intruders. Will your team be able to meet the mineral quota set by the company or will you all end up as dinner for the Glyphids?Players move around the board while throwing dice to fight monsters and mine rare minerals in order to escape in time with the required amount of minerals needed to win the current mission.

Guards of Atlantis II

Guards of Atlantis II

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 4–10

Game Type:

Strategy

Guards of Atlantis: Tabletop MOBA is a competitive zero-luck team-based board game inspired by computer games of the MOBA genre.In the game each player controls a single hero and uses a hand of cards to move that hero around the game board employ special abilities and attack enemies. Defeating enemy minions earns you coins which are used to buy levels and upgrade your hero. Your goal is to help your minions — units that are not directly controlled by the players — reach the enemy base and capture it.Guards of Atlantis II is a complete overhaul of the original game with 32 new heroes new double-sided game board and much more. In addition to new content Guards of Atlantis II streamlines the rules of the original making it faster and tighter.—description from the publisher

DOOM: The Board Game

DOOM: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Minecraft: Builders & Biomes

Minecraft: Builders & Biomes

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

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As in the original Minecraft digital game in Minecraft: Builders & Biomes players explore the Overworld build structures and mine resources earning points for structures and the largest connected biomes of forest desert mountain or snowy tundra spaces on their player boards.Familiar foes like Endermen Creepers and other mobs also appear throughout the game and they need to be defeated using weapons collected from the board. Defeating mobs earn players points in addition to granting additional awards. Game scoring occurs as the resource cube's layers are depleted. As soon as the third layer runs out the adventure comes to an end and the builder with the most points wins.Scoring takes place three times during the game specifically after the final block is removed from the first second and third level of the building block cube. In the first round you choose one of the four biomes (forest desert mountains or snowy tundra) and score for the largest connected area of this biome on your personal building board. The board comes pre-printed with biome spaces and as you place buildings on this board you can alter the biome of a space. In the second round you choose one of three materials (wood sand stone or obsidian) and score for the largest connected group of structures on your personal building board that are made of this material. In the third round you score for the largest contiguous group of structures (decoration dwelling animal house or bridge) of your choice on your board. After scoring in the third round tally bonus points from the mobs you've collected.

Bloodborne: The Card Game

Bloodborne: The Card Game

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 3–5

Game Type:

Thematic

Bloodborne: The Card Game is based on the Chalice Dungeons in the video game Bloodborne — the ever-changing labyrinths and tombs carved out by the Great Ones beneath the fallen city of Yharnam where horrifying creatures reside. Players compete to kill monsters and take their blood.In general Bloodborne is a game about risk management with a bit of group think inventory management/upgrades and tactical play. You start with a hand of basic weapons which you get to upgrade to improve your fighting combos and capabilities.Each turn one monster chosen at random attacks players who fight back as a team with everyone playing a card from their hand simultaneously to attempt to kill the monster. Players collect blood from the monster assuming it dies based on how much damage they dealt. Monsters can fight back with exploding dice that can potentially deal infinite damage.Players can fight as long as they want but if they die in combat they lose their progress. Players can opt out of fighting to bank their blood and save it permanently. Collected blood counts as victory points.Says designer Eric M. Lang My goal with Bloodborne was to channel the intensity and frustration of the video game into a contest between players. Lots of death.

Pixel Tactics

Pixel Tactics

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Yomi

Yomi

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Strategy

Yomi is a card game that simulates a fighting game. It tests your ability to predict how your opponents will act and your ability to judge the relative value of cards from one situation to the next. Also it lets you do fun combos and be a panda. There are 10 characters to choose from each with their own deck abilities and style. Each deck also doubles as a regular deck of playing cards with beautiful artwork (the complete game features a whopping 120 different character illustrations).Yomi is the Japanese word for “reading” in this case as in reading the mind of your opponent. Yomi: Fighting Card Game is a simple competitive card game that simulates a fight between two characters. Each deck in Yomi represents one character with 10 decks in the first release.Champion fighting game tournament player and tournament organizer David Sirlin designed the game to test the skills of Valuation and Yomi. Valuation refers to your ability to judge the relative value of moves (or cards) as they change over the course of the game. Yomi the game's title refers to your ability to guess which moves your opponent will make. There is more to it than guessing though: some players have the uncanny ability to “guess” right almost every time no matter the game.The core mechanic is a paper-rock-scissors guessing game between attack throw and block/dodge (sometimes modified by special ability cards). Attacks and throws usually let you follow up with combo cards from your hand while blocks let you draw a card. While it first seems just random you soon discover that the unequal and uncertain payoffs in this guessing game allow you really read what the opponent will do. Yomi captures the kind of mind games that occur during the high level in fighting game tournaments.

Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Board Game

Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Board Game

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Do you stand beside Queen Catherine Ironfist and vanquish the lurking chaos? Do you help the power-hungry Mutare fulfill her plans and turn her into a dragon? Or maybe you despise all of this and want together with Sandro to cover the whole world with the shadow of death? Move through the beautiful land of Antagarich plunge into adventures and strategic battles with endless possibilities.Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Board Game is an adventure-driven strategy game for 1-3 players set in the cult fantasy universe. The game includes competitive cooperative and solo scenarios to battle and explore your way through. The adventure maps will be represented by tiles with each tile divided into seven hexagonal fields.Play different scenarios with different victory conditions explore the adventure map to discover various locations and play out epic battles using the unique miniature models that represent the iconic units from the original game. All battles will be performed with models on separate boards.—description from the publisher

Codex: Card-Time Strategy – Deluxe Set

Codex: Card-Time Strategy – Deluxe Set

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Customizable

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

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice is a co-operative miniature board game taking place in the heart of the Italian Renaissance through a story-driven campaign of 26 memories in Venice in 1509. Choose your assassins according to their unique abilities level up during the campaign and unlock new skills for each of them.Fight or stay incognito thanks to the equipment found in chests or manufactured by Leonardo Da Vinci. Evade your pursuers by climbing on roofs and towers then synchronize to reveal new game elements. Bribe your enemies use secret hideouts to escape patrols and flip mechanisms to change the level layout. After each memory fall back to your headquarters to heal your wounds grow your brotherhood's fame and craft special equipment. The game features a save system that allows the number of players to vary between each campaign and the level of play adjusts according to the number of players.The retail edition of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice features the same scenarios as the original Kickstarter release and therefore the same gameplay experience. What has changed is that all of the miniatures other than the five detailed assassin figurines have been replaced with standees so the game includes 5 miniatures 139 standees 6 secret envelopes 41 tiles and more than 400 cards.Many surprises await in the sealed envelopes. Meet the many famous personalities you've encountered in the Assassin's Creed video games as well as four unique ones created especially for this game.

Puzzle Strike: Third Edition

Puzzle Strike: Third Edition

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Puzzle Strike is a card game played with cardboard chips instead of cards that simulates a puzzle video game such as Puzzle Fighter or Tetris.It's a deckbuilding game which means you build your deck *as* you play the game. Every game is different because the bank starts with a different set of chips each time. Also there are 10 characters to choose from in the base set each with different gameplay. Between all that there are over 411 MILLION starting conditions in a 4-player game and even more if you include the expansion.A built-in comeback mechanic means that when you're on the edge of losing you're also able to do even more combos than usual.You don't have to worry about shuffling cards because you just put your cardboard tokens in a bag and shake them up to shuffle! Plus it’s pretty ballin’ to play a game with chips. Play it on your yacht impress potential mates etc.Though the game is fun even if you're terrible at it it's also balanced for high level play by veteran asymmetric game balancer David Sirlin (Street Fighter HD Remix Puzzle Fighter HD Remix Kongai Yomi and Flash Duel.)

Boss Monster 2: The Next Level

Boss Monster 2: The Next Level

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

The original Boss Monster challenged players to become the ultimate villains: video game-style Bosses. Now Boss Monster 2 builds on the original in every way! An all-new set of 160 cards Boss Monster 2 is playable as a standalone game or as an expansion to the core set.Dark Heroes and Hybrid Heroes raise the stakes while Epic Spells and cycling rooms give players more options and flexibility. Boss Monster 2 features everything that made the best-selling original a hit with players of all skill levels with fresh new mechanisms and exciting new options.With more Bosses more unique cards and more ways to slay hapless adventurers Boss Monster 2 will take your dungeon to The Next Level!

스플렌더: Pokémon (Splendor: Pokémon)

스플렌더: Pokémon (Splendor: Pokémon)

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

스플렌더: Pokémon plays much like the original Splendor game but with special rules based on Pokémon.On your turn you may (1) collect Pokéballs (which come in five colors) or (2) catch a Pokémon or (3) reserve a Pokémon. If you collect Pokéballs you take either three different colors of Pokéballs or two Pokéballs of the same color (as long as four are available). If you catch a Pokémon you pay its cost in Pokéballs then add it to your playing area. If you reserve a Pokémon — in order to make sure you get it or why not your opponents don't get it — you place it in front of you face down for later catching; this costs you a round but you also get a Master Ball which you can later use as a Pokéball of any color. Each Pokémon you have caught gives you a permanent Pokéball that you can use toward catching all future Pokémon meaning as you catch more Pokémon it becomes easier to catch the ones that are more expensive and worth more points.When a player has 18 or more points in their collection you complete the final round then whoever has the most points wins.

Master of Orion: The Board Game

Master of Orion: The Board Game

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Master of Orion: The Board Game takes you to the world of the legendary strategy video game.You will lead one of the races that will face each other in the outer space confrontation. Destinies of secretive Darloks genius Psilons universal humans and many others will depend on your actions. Manage your resources skillfully and wisely and lead the development of a chosen race in the right direction. You can progress by either military means training your spies and attacking alien planets or choose the path of creation controlling the weather and building space fleets.A dynamic and well-balanced game mechanics will offer you plenty of paths to the victory and the leader of the most successful nation will be granted the Emperor's title from the Galactic Council.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF SKYRIM!Before the Dragonborn came to Skyrim….You are surviving members of the Blades a legendary group who long protected the Empire of Tamriel! Abandoned by the empire you must work together to thwart a plot that threatens the whole of SkyrimBuild a unique character in the world of the Elder Scrolls. Choose between a Nord Dunmer Imperial Altmer Khajiit or Orsimer. Equip your character with a wide range of weapons spells and armour. Travel across the Holds of Skyrim to places like Riften Solitude Falkreath and Whiterun. Attempt a huge range of evolving quests that change the game with each decision Explore the wilderness. Gain side quests from mysterious characters. Delve into ancient ruins and tombs. Battle Draugr Frostbite Spiders Dragons Dwemer Constructs and Daedra. The deeper you delve the deadlier your foes will become. Gain experience and amazing treasures. Upgrade and enchant your gear. Level up your character with a wide range of unique skills and abilities. Play through six chapters of two huge campaigns spanning 25 years in the history of Skyrim in this endlessly replayable boardgame.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game is a 1-4 player co-operative game of adventure and exploration across Skyrim. Players take the roles of heroes involved in epic quests working together to defeat their enemies and exploring the vast expanse of Skyrim. You will be able to choose character miniatures like the Khajiit Nord or High Elf; plan your strategy with weapons or spells; and fight your way through forgotten mines Draugr-infested tombs or ancient Dwemer cities to find ancient treasures and increase your power.The players must keep an eye out as the threat increases across Skyrim as Dragons Daedra Trolls and more roam the lands and wreak havoc across the holds. Players need to work together to keep the lands free whilst balancing the demands of their most important quests.The base game is divided into two campaigns of three chapters each. The decisions the players make from their first turn have a distinct effect on the unfolding story and encounters making the whole campaign experience different every time you play. You can even save your progress after each game and start the next chapter with the same character equipment and skills.With the numerous choices of characters gear magic and skills matched with the many decisions each player makes through their quests there are literally hundreds of hours of gameplay with some stories not even seen based on your early decisions. The face of Skyrim can change during the game impacting the course of the players' experience in subsequent chapters. At any time the players can simply reset choose another character and play style make different choices and experience things differently. Alternatively pick a chapter that sounds fun and drop in to just play that adventure as a one-off.Key mechanics:A Living Board The game board represents the province of Skyrim. Players move their characters — represented by 32mm scale plastic miniatures — across the region visiting Strongholds exploring dungeons and meeting interesting characters as the story unfolds. But they are not the only ones there; roaming monsters appear blocking roads and threatening the peace in Skyrim. Several game effects could lead to the fall of a Stronghold so players need to keep an eye on the state of unrest and the active dangers across the board.Customizable Characters There are no classes in Skyrim. Each character has a different starting innate ability and additional abilities that are unlocked as they learn specific skills but that doesn’t mean that they are tied to a gameplay style. For example even though Nords shine when they are developed with a focus on warrior skills and equipment a player could decide to make their Nord a spellcaster or a summoner and still retrain midway through the game after finding an amazing sword they really want to use. Players can change their progression path mid-game and enjoy many different play styles.Upgradeable Equipment There are plenty of equippable items: weapons pieces of armor trinkets etc. Most of these items can be customized; by either Enchanting or Upgrading them in a Stronghold. When Upgrading or Enchanting an item the player draws an Enchantment/Upgrade card and slots it underneath the item altering its properties. A piece of armor can be Upgraded so it becomes better against Heavy Attacks for example and it can also be Enchanted so it helps the character regenerate Stamina faster. When learning the Smithing and the Enchanting skills the players get to draw more cards and choose between them making the experience of customizing equipment richer and letting them focus on the playstyle they prefer. Furthermore when playing in a group one player can specialize their character in Enchanting or Smithing and upgrade all their allies' items by meeting in a Stronghold adding another layer of cooperative gameplay.Quests in Cards The story in the game is told using Quest cards. Players draw Main Quests — those that push the narrative forward — and Personal Quests — side stories gained by exploring the vastness of the province of Skyrim. By completing or failing them the story progresses. Many of these Quests give the players a choice at the end. This choice chains the Quest with a new one creating a branching story that changes every time the game is played. Failing a quest doesn’t mean losing the game; instead failure often becomes another way of choosing. The cards are organized in a way in which if a card is removed as a result of Quest being failed or a game effect is triggered the next card will take its place dramatically changing the story.Combat System With an assortment of weapons ranging from daggers to bows players will be able to engage in combat with dangerous enemies whether they be in a dungeon or part of a questline. Each weapon and spell will inform the player what attacks it can perform and how much Stamina or Magicka they’ll have to spend to use them. The player will roll the custom dice and attempt to overcome each weapon’s specific Skill Tests; hitting with heavier weapons is bound to be harder than hitting with lighter weapons. Combat is fast exciting and deadly although strategy is a key factor to success. Some enemies in fact will employ unorthodox tactics including the ability to heal themselves or wear nearly impenetrable armors.Dungeon Crawling Players can visit increasingly dangerous caves mines tombs ruins and Dwemer cities across Skyrim. Dungeons are built with cards each representing a major threat in that area of the dungeon. It might be a terrifying Draugr or a surprise trap that if you’re lucky one of the characters may be capable of disabling. As the characters level up the lower-level adversaries are discarded scaling the difficulty of the dungeons along with the player’s level. The more you visit a certain type of dungeon the more likely you will see its more fearsome denizens albeit with better rewards! All in all the Elder Scrolls Skyrim Adventure Game will offer players dozens and dozens of hours of adventure exploring the game world. Expansions will ensure there’s even more Skyrim to be had.

Leviathan Wilds

Leviathan Wilds

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Family

Long ago the once-gentle leviathans lost their minds and tore the world apart. After generations of hiding and struggle humanity discovered that the frenzied leviathans can be restored. Climbers willing to take the risk must explore the wilds and work together to remove a series of binding crystals to heal the leviathans roaming the world.In Leviathan Wilds 1-4 players will confront these colossal beings with each creature being depicted across the spread of a spiral-bound storybook that makes up the game's board. The book also forms the basis of a connected campaign mode built around the game's story with each of twenty included scenarios estimated to last around 45 minutes. Tougher difficulty levels are also available for added replayability.Each character's deck of multi-use cards is unique allowing them to climb jump and glide around the board in different ways. The number of cards left in the slim deck represents their grip on the leviathan's body; if the deck runs out the player loses their grip and begins to fall down the board until they're able to reach a rest space which resets their deck. Moving onto rest spaces also provides a way to regain one's grip without falling. Other spaces reduce a character's health or grip or they increase blight a status that reduces their overall hit points.The leviathan has its own deck of cards which triggers various effects at the beginning of a player's turn from targeted attacks that reduce health to effects that move players between spaces or loosen their grip. As the game progresses the leviathan gradually gains rage which intensifies the effect of its event cards.Players' characters can move around a square grid overlaid on the creature's body by spending action points — the number being determined by a card played at the start of their turn — and their remaining hand of ability cards to reach the crystals and reduce them to zero. Victory is achieved by reducing all crystals which vary in strength to zero.

Super Dungeon Explore

Super Dungeon Explore

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Strategy

Super Dungeon Explore (SDE) is a dungeon crawler inspired by old Japanese console RPGs. The 52 included miniatures are done in a cute / chibi / super-deformed style which means the head is roughly the same size as the rest of the body.One to five players take the role of classic fantasy heroes like the human paladin a dwarf fighter or an elf ranger. One player is the Dark Consul who controls the monsters of the dungeon. Every hero/monster has a character card that details the stats for movement attack armor willpower dexterity action points and hearts (= life points). Additional information may include special abilities / actions / attacks and potions.The game is played on modular dungeon boards. During a round of play the game passes back and forth between single heroes and the monsters but the exact order may change from round to round. The characters use the stats from their character card special dice (with hearts potions and stars) are only used for combat and checks. If the heroes wound the opponent they may draw loot cards to improve their stats. There is also the possibility to open treasure chests to find even more powerful things. The monsters have no possibility to level up apart from a single late game upgrade but the Dark Consul has an unlimited number of them.To win the game the Dark Consul must defeat all heroes in his dungeon. The heroes must spawn the dungeon boss by killing monsters or destroying all spawning points (= entry points for new monsters). The heroes must then kill the dungeon boss to be victorious.UPC 817009010004

Zona: The Secret of Chernobyl

Zona: The Secret of Chernobyl

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Zona is an adventure board game designed for 1-4 players. To win the game player must reach the sarcophagus of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant before other players. The sarcophagus opens only when player had previously collected 2 Secrets from underground facilities known as Secret Locations. Players must hurry because there is a time limit to the game. When the Final Emission strikes everything is lost…GAMEPLAY Each turn players take 2 Actions (move explore combat etc.) and then everyone read an Event Card which contains text for short adventure. At the end of turn a News Card is drawn by the first player and resolved by him.MOOD This board game emphasizes the aspect of survival. Zone depicted on the playing board is an extremely hazardous and isolated area with very limited access to functional equipment and supplies. Players must remember to frequently repair their Items and buy new ones. It is also crucial to rest to reduce Fatigue and heal Damage.STALKERS Each player takes role of 1 Scavenger from the 10 included in the game. Each Scavenger has their own Special Skill set of basic Skills and starting equipment. Values of stats such as Awareness Agility or Intellect determine how good they are in avoiding dangers and traps fighting mutants or gathering Artifacts from anomalies. The story of Scavenger explains his/herPersonal Goal – the reason for arriving to the Zone. Differences between Scavengers makes playing each one of them completely unique.•••Polski opis:PRZEGLĄD Zona jest przygodową grą planszową zaprojektowaną dla 1-4 graczy. Aby zwyciężyć gracz musi dotrzeć do sarkofagu Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Atomowej zanim zrobią to pozostali gracze. Sarkofag otworzy się tylko jeśli gracz odkrył wcześniej 2 Tajemnice z podziemnych placówek badawczych znanych jako Tajne Lokacje. Gracze muszą się spieszyć ponieważ gra ma limit czasowy. Gdy Ostateczna Emisja uderzy wszystko przepadnie...ROZGRYWKA W każdej turze gracze wykonują 2 Akcje (ruch eksploracje konfrontacje itp.) po czym każdy odczytuje Kartę Wydarzeń która zawiera tekst dotyczący krótkiego zdarzenia. Na koniec tury pierwszy gracz dobiera Kartę Wieści i rozpatruje jej efekt.NASTRÓJ Ta gra planszowa skupia się na aspekcie przetrwania. Strefa przedstawiona na planszy jest skrajnie niebezpiecznym i odizolowanym obszarem z bardzo ograniczonym dostępem do użytecznego wyposażenia i zapasów. Gracze muszą pamiętać o regularnych naprawach ich Przedmiotów oraz kupowaniu nowych. Niezwykle istotne jest także odpoczywanie w celu zmniejszania Zmęczenia oraz leczenie Obrażeń.STALKERZY Każdy z graczy wciela się w rolę 1 z 10 Szperaczy dostępnych w grze. Każdy Szperacz posiada swoją indywidualną Zdolność Specjalną zestaw podstawowych Umiejętności i startowy ekwipunek. Wartości takie jak Czujność Sprawność czyIntelekt określają jak dobrze radzą sobie z omijaniem zagrożeń i pułapek walce z mutantami oraz wyciąganiu Artefaktów z anomalii. Historia Szperacza wyjaśnia jego/jej Cel Osobisty - powód przybycia do Strefy. Różnice pomiędzy Szperaczami sprawiają że gra każdym/ą z nich jest całkowicie odmienna.

Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game

Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

Inspired by a love of classic video games Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game pits 2-4 players in a competition to build the ultimate side-scrolling dungeon. Players compete to lure and destroy hapless adventurers racing to outbid one another to see who can build the most enticing treasure-filled dungeon. The goal of Boss Monster is to be the first Boss to amass ten Souls which are gained when a Hero is lured and defeated — but a player can lose if his Boss takes five Wounds from Heroes who survive his dungeon.Playing Boss Monster requires you to juggle two competing priorities: the need to lure Heroes at a faster rate than your opponents and the need to kill those Heroes before they reach your Boss. Players can build one room per turn each with its own damage and treasure value. More attractive rooms tend to deal less damage so a Boss who is too greedy can become inundated with deadly Heroes.Players interact with each other by building rooms and playing Spells. Because different Heroes seek different treasure types and rooms are built simultaneously (played face down then revealed) this means that every build phase is a bidding war. Spells are instant-speed effects that can give players advantages or disrupt opponents.As a standalone card game with 155 cards Boss Monster contains everything that 2-4 players need to play.

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes

Rating: 8.5 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Wargames

Company of Heroes the World War 2 board wargame is based on the video game from Relic/Sega. It closely captures the choices tactics and mission strategies of the videogame. In teams or as individuals players will maneuver units and battle for control points to collect manpower munitions and fuel. Players spend these resources to construct new buildings purchase units and upgrade abilities eventually unlocking the powerful end-game units of their nation. To win players will either attempt to collect enough victory points before their opponent does or totally annihilate the enemy's base.—user summaryA board game 'port' that attempts to capture the strategy choices and fun of the beloved video games. Players maneuver units from one of four factions to secure resource points grow their economy unlock buildings and purchase and upgrade new units. Player's eventually unleash their team's powerful end game forces to help secure enough victory points or annihilate the enemy base buildings to win.From fog of war utilizing cover and buildings flanking armor spotting combining multi-unit tactics veteran upgrades deciding what units to purchase and what buildings to unlock; this project distills many elements we fans love about Company of Heroes into a streamlined board game experience.This game involves squad level tactical movement but also focuses heavily on securing collecting and spending resources to purchase new buildings units and upgrades.—description from publisher

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls is a tabletop card game about sacrifice betrayal and hoarding. Inspired by the massive hit video game The Binding of Isaac the official card game was launched in 2018.Experience the haunted and harrowing world of The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls yourself in this faithful adaptation. Collect treasure gather loot defeat monsters and be the first to collect four souls. With over 300 cards in the game there's a huge amount of replayability. Discover killer combos enhance your abilities betray your companions and win!The Game includes: 11 Character Cards with 11 Starting Items 100 Loot Cards 100 Monster Cards 100 Treasure Cards 3 Bonus Souls Cards for advanced play Pennies Dice and more!

Megaland

Megaland

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Family

Are you ready to run? Push your luck in the video game world of Megaland to fight monsters (and bunnies) and collect coins!At the start of each round each player places their character on the level tile then draws one treasure and places it above their character board. Once everyone does this draw the topmost level card to see whether players suffer damage from the monster on it. Players can then decide whether to leave the round and bank their treasures or whether to press on; if they go on they draw another treasure card then reveal the next level card. If you take total damage equal to your number of hearts you fail and are out of the round losing any treasure that you had.Once everyone has left the round whether by being knocked out or by passing and banking their treasures players can buy building cards such as bowling alleys arcades and soap makers. Buildings cost 1-5 treasures and you must pay different treasures when buying a building that costs more than 1. Each building gives a one-time or permanent effect. Maybe you'll collect jump tokens that you can use to clear monsters so that you don't take damage; maybe you'll acquire a hospital that gives you coins when neighboring players fail the level; maybe you'll buy more hearts to let you run farther in the future; and maybe you'll collect coins which can be the most precious item of all since the game ends after the round that someone collects 20 coins. Whoever has the most coins at that time wins!Megaland contains six starred building types that are used in each game along with seventeen other building types with only seven of them being used in any game.Contains Above and Below: Megaland Bonus Cards (under the insert)

Skytear

Skytear

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Skytear is a competitive card-driven miniatures game inspired by MOBA video games (like League of Legends) featuring 32 heroes from an original fantasy universe.Using a draft system that supplements regular deckbuilding players pick heroes from four factions in order to flexibly respond to their opponent's selections. Then using these heroes players compete to take control of the lanes and lead the minions there to assault the enemies' towers or enter the dome to take control of the outsider there. In doing so they will win one of the three victory conditions selected at the start of the game allowing for potential bluffing or feints by switching objective.Skytear is diceless instead revolving around modifiers printed on each power card. This duality of effect means deckbuilding is a nuanced issue: cards that are most beneficial when played (and likely will) come with a negative modifier reducing the effectiveness of most attacks. At the same time drafting a particular hero provides you with their associated cards meaning flexibility can be integrated into your hero selections.With two maps 32 heroes and over 65 power cards at launch Skytear is an extremely replayable tactical experience.

Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game

Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game is a dungeon-crawler that offers a cooperative rogue-lite experience inspired by the Metroidvania genre playable with 1-4 players and with a gameplay of around 45 minutes. Explore the ever-changing island of Dead Cells in this ruthless dungeon crawler. Explore. Kill. Die. Mutate. Repeat.Choose one of the four Beheaded (Woah hold on... Isn't it supposed to be only one of these guys? Is this one of those stupid time-loop plots?) As you resurrect with very little clue of what’s going on you will...• Explore Biomes. Choose your path wisely within a sprawling ever-changing castle! Will you upgrade one of the character powers with a scroll? Or will you choose a chest to equip a new weapon? Will you find the hidden runes that will open new paths and access new biomes? This won’t be a walk in the park though. Because the island is infested with the abominations born from the Malaise be ready to…• Kill Enemies. Each character class has unique power sets and a deck of action cards. For each enemy encounter you will only need to pick one action card to cover all three phases of a fight. Loot equipment gold scrolls and Cells from the corpses of your enemies and get stronger but beware... Your health pool is limited and sooner or later you will...• Die. Wandering through enemy-infested dungeons isn't the safest activity even for your beheaded heroes. There will eventually be one monster too many or you could step on a fatal trap and lose all your scrolls equipment and accumulated gold. But this is far from the end for you! Even in death you will be able to keep your precious Cells to…• Mutate. The Collector will let you spend your Cells to buy permanent mutations that will give you more power... forever! Choose cards to buy from three different decks: Brutality Survival or Tactics. Get action cards to enhance your card deck. Find blueprints to grow your loot deck. Increase your health pool. Unlock additional item slots and much more… Unless you prefer to throw your Cells into this mysterious well... It seems like a pretty stupid thing to do with your hard-earned Cells but hey you do you bud... Death is no excuse to take a nap so...• Repeat. Death is not the end either! You’ve already lost your head remember!? As the day starts again in a new loop use your new permanent mutations to exact revenge on whatever killed you last time. Go further and deeper into the island and kill the bosses to access new starting biomes. Previously-played biomes keep changing as stronger monstrosities spawn in them along with powerful new items. (Damn! Will this game ever end?)Official Dead Cells page for FAQ / Rules / Player Aids downloads: https://deadcellstheboardgame.com/FAQ/

Exceed Fighting System

Exceed Fighting System

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Pixel Tactics 2

Pixel Tactics 2

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Customizable

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

Puzzle Strike Shadows

Puzzle Strike Shadows

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Puzzle Strike Shadows is the standalone expansion to Puzzle Strike (3rd Edition). You can play it by itself or combine it with the base set. The expansion contains 10 new characters 24 new puzzle chips as well as:Puzzle Strike is a card game played with cardboard chips instead of cards that simulates a puzzle video game such as Puzzle Fighter or Tetris.It's a deckbuilding game which means you build your deck *as* you play the game. Every game is different because the bank starts with a different set of chips each time. Also there are 10 characters to choose from in the base set each with different gameplay. Between all that there are over 411 MILLION starting conditions in a 4-player game and even more if you include the expansion.A built-in comeback mechanic means that when you're on the edge of losing you're also able to do even more combos than usual.You don't have to worry about shuffling cards because you just put your cardboard tokens in a bag and shake them up to shuffle! Plus it’s pretty ballin’ to play a game with chips. Play it on your yacht impress potential mates etc.Though the game is fun even if you're terrible at it it's also balanced for high level play by veteran asymmetric game balancer David Sirlin (Street Fighter HD Remix Puzzle Fighter HD Remix Kongai Yomi and Flash Duel).

The Battle at Kemble's Cascade

The Battle at Kemble's Cascade

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Thematic

FOR OFFICIAL ERRATA AND FAQ LOOK IN THE FILES SECTIONThe Battle at Kemble's Cascade is a board game adaptation of a classic shoot 'em up video game. In the game which is played out on a scrolling space backdrop the players take on the roles of brave space pilots sweeping around in nimble yet powerful fighters searching the asteroid clusters for universal glory and ancient technology. Players compete to obtain the most glory with glory resulting from carrying out missions finding lost treasure in asteroid clusters and destroying alien entities not to mention other players.In the game players fly through an ever-scrolling space setting which is represented by rows of cards. Each turn the bottom row is removed and a new row is added to the top. Players move their spaceships and resolve effects continuously performing actions such as collecting power-ups and money fighting alien cruisers and titans blocking and shooting other players and dodging asteroids and black holes. The players need to balance the use of their ships' energy as it's used for both absorbing enemy fire and boosting their movement speed and fire rate.The game includes missions and achievements as well as a mechanism called threat level to keep everyone in suspense throughout the whole game. Threat allows players to enjoy the satisfaction of both shooting wildly at each other and dodging the hundreds of bullets raining down from enemy fighters and other players.All player ships are fully upgradeable with four different weapon classes engines shields and more. Each player must buy the upgrades and navigate the path that best fits his chosen strategy in order to successfully complete his missions and attain the most glory.

Resident Evil 2: The Board Game

Resident Evil 2: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Resident Evil 2 is a cooperative board game where you play as the characters and scenarios from the hit video game from Capcom. Fight iconic monsters such as the Licker and use characters like Leon Claire or Tofu. Travel from the police station to the underground Umbrella Laboratory while you uncover the secrets and escape from Raccoon City!

Dark Souls: The Board Game

Dark Souls: The Board Game

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

The Dark Souls board game is a brutally hard exploration miniatures game for 1-4 players. Prepare to die.The game features a fast set-up long reveal mechanism that gets you into the game quickly and builds the location as you explore. The sense of danger is palpable as you discover new locations and the monsters that inhabit these dark places. The core combat mechanism and enemy behavior system forces deep strategic play and clever management of stamina to survive.Dark Souls includes numerous boss and mini-boss encounters — including one against the Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough — and utilizes an innovative behavior mechanism so that no two encounters are ever the same thus giving the game near infinite replayability.—description from the publisher

Monster Hunter World: The Board Game

Monster Hunter World: The Board Game

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Inspired by the hit video game that sold over 15 million copies worldwide Monster Hunter World: The Board Game brings three ‘M’s and four ‘C’s to your tabletop: massive monster minis in a cooperative choose-your-own-adventure-style combat campaign!It’s time to journey to an uncharted land because the Astera basecamp needs YOU. Become a hunter of the Fifth Fleet to track down and slay the fearsome monsters roaming the New World. Protect basecamp and craft awesome new equipment with the loot collected from your fallen foes so you can take on bigger and badder beasts! Gather your party of 1-4 hunters* and venture out on quests made up of three phases:The choose-your-own-adventure element will immerse you in the New World giving five unique ways to approach each monster before engaging in combat. Enjoy the beauty of the landscape as you would in the video game and feel your tension build as you get deeper into the hunt… ...Because it’s crush-or-be-crushed with monsters as mobile as these. Enter dynamic and dangerous combat where positioning and teamwork are vital to success. Leap away from devastating attacks and strike when the opportunity presents. It’s vital you manage the threat juggling which of your party members is drawing the monster’s attention at any given moment. One wrong move could spell doom! Where you strike matters too. Earn the loot you need for the weapons you want by targeting different areas of a monster and wearing it down over time.Speaking of weapons use your player board to track your health stamina and equipment. Just like in the video game your weapon is essentially your hunter class with a unique deck of cards and upgrades you can swap out by crafting to gain newer (and more powerful!) bonuses and attacks. As for using those weapons? Combat is controlled by cards which you’ll use to create combos meaning you’ll string together attacks at the cost of stamina. Keep an eye on your stamina to balance your offensive and defensive moves or you might find yourself caught out and crushed by a massive monster attack!

Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King

Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–6

Game Type:

Strategy

Princess Emerald and her companions are questing deep into the Lordship Ruins to confront the evil that resides there. Brooding from his darkened hallways the Forgotten King is a cursed lord who has pledged himself to the service of the Dark Consul darkening his once lush and verdant lands. At his side are two new mini-bosses: Trent a towering guardian of the forest with thick bark and brambles for armor and Boris a raging brute with snarling ursine features.In Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King players explore the Fae Wood home of the Kodama sentient forest spirits with a taste for adventuring Heroes. Wisps lure Heroes into ensnaring traps as terrifying man-eating plants sprout from the loamy forest floor to devour them. Continue into the Lordship Ruins where the once proud bramble knights now corrupted and twisted into servants of the Dark Consul stalk the stony ruins for any who would defile their lord's holdfast. Don't get too close to the trees though as we hear the squirrels are in an ill mood.Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King includes five new Heroes to brave the depths including the Thundervale Huntress Fae Alchemist Royal Warden and the brave Questing Knight. Each lend a new dynamic to gameplay and your strategy to conquer the Forgotten King and his minions.Forgotten King contains two play modes: Classic Mode in which someone controls the dungeon and its monsters while everyone else takes the roles of the plucky heroes or Arcade Mode which allows for a fully co-operative game for up to five players.Forgotten King while itself a standalone game is compatible with all previously published Super Dungeon Explore expansions and supplements.

Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City

Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City is a big box strategy game with miniatures in which gangs fight for control of a city with the city also being a living part of the game.1 to 4 players take on the role of ruthless gangs vying for control of the underground in the glittering hellhole that is Night City. Clash with other Gangs in the meat or on the Net as your enterprising band of toughs seeks to gain dominance over the criminal underworld that rules the streets. Only the boldest will be remembered and your Street Cred will pave your way to the top.In Single Player mode you are pitted against an opposing Gang and an Edgerunner (Johnny or either V's) in a free-for-all for Night City. Similar to the multiplayer mode the faction with the most Street Cred wins.In the game players assume the role of a gang leader with you organizing your gang members to take power in the city. Your actions affect not only your game and your opponents but the city itself. Each gang has different attributes and goals giving each player a different gaming experience.

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

Rating: 9.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a 1-4 player cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel's Second Era – specifically during the events of the Planemeld as the Order of the Black Worm plots to secure the Amulet of Kings. As the dark cult schemes however one of its members is planning an even darker betrayal one that will tie Tamriel in with Oblivion forever. Adventurers work to uncover her machinations and stop her plot amid a bevy of endlessly replayable content. As in The Elder Scrolls video games players will travel on an epic journey balancing exploration character building dungeon diving and close quarters combat.Each adventure in the game takes place over the course of three gameplay sessions with sessions being roughly two hours plus an additional half hour per player in length. Players customize and control a single hero throughout all three sessions of an adventure as they manage multiple skill lines classes and experience the many regions of Tamriel each with their own unique flavor and mechanics. Experience points are handed out generously allowing players to build interesting and unique characters in the consolidated timespan required in a tabletop experience. Session to session progression is meaningful but players are not required to remember complex narrative points or play with the same group forever.

Cities: Skylines – The Board Game

Cities: Skylines – The Board Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Family

Cities: Skylines – The Board Game is a co-operative game based on the popular computer game of the same name by Paradox Interactive.Gameplay starts with four land boards being visible the exact number varying depending on the scenario. The goal is to finish a number of milestones and to make the inhabitants of your city happy. At the start of each milestone one additional board is bought flipped over from its nature side to its developed side. Players have personal cards that show what they can build and ideally they discuss and plan with the other players how to best develop the city. The cards show what effects the building will have on the city for example increasing the need for garbage collection decreasing crime or giving a bonus if placed next to a park.Cardboard tiles represent residential commercial industrial and other buildings and they have varied base shapes that are placed on the developed boards on the grid.When the players have developed the city to the next milestone they choose which new board to buy to expand the city score their current happiness and start a new milestone. When the last milestone is finished the game ends then the total happiness score is summed. There is only one city treasury and all players add to it when they make money for the city and take money from it for building a hospital or buying a new board. Making sure you have enough money is an important aspect of the game for if you run out of money you go bankrupt and lose.A series of scenarios teach the game in steps with each new step introducing new parts of the game. The full game with News Unique buildings Policies and Roles vary greatly from game to game as players are provided with new challenges by the emergent behavior of the city.

Dorfromantik: Sakura

Dorfromantik: Sakura

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.Dorfromantik - Sakura takes the players into the idyllic landscape of Japan with many new challenges. Sakura is the Japanese word for cherry blossom which comes into the game as a new element. In addition there are now more than 40 achievements from 6 boxes to unlock. These and other surprises await the players in Dorfromantik - Sakura.

Wilmot's Warehouse

Wilmot's Warehouse

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

In Wilmot's Warehouse your team will work co-operatively to organize the warehouse using memory imagination and silly stories you make up.Draw product tiles from the stack discuss what they look like and place them somewhere you'll remember. After you place each tile you flip it over and can't look at it again until the end of the game so your team has to remember where you've placed previous tiles as you decide where to place new ones.At the end of the game in a five-minute rush your team has to match all 35 face-down tiles with customer cards. Consult your performance review to see how well you did!—description from the publisher

Dark Souls: The Card Game

Dark Souls: The Card Game

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Dark Souls: The Card Game is a cooperative deck evolution card game for 1-4 players. Players must explore the Encounters around them defeating a myriad of enemies to gain Souls and Treasure.They must use these to evolve and adapt their deck to better fight their enemies. When the players are ready they must challenge the powerful bosses that lie within.The players must walk a narrow path however since their decks allow them to attack their enemies but also represent their health. Decks are only refreshed when the players rest at the bonfire so players must defeat their enemies while husbanding their strength for the greater challenges ahead.Thinking quickly and adapting to the enemy’s attacks is key for survival. A misstep can be fatal but the rewards of success are great. Adapt your deck evolve your strategy and prepare to die.—description from the publisher

Hand of Fate: Ordeals

Hand of Fate: Ordeals

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

You traveler have been chosen to play The Game an ancient artifact of terrible power that can twist reality and call forth horrors from the past to test its players. You now sit at the table before Kallas the current master of The Game to play for his entertainment and your life. You enter the fray with only a rusty ax and the most basic of skills. Trace the steps of your past and explore the vast lands of the kingdom. Hone your abilities outwit your opponents and slay the greatest of foes in order to claim the title of Hero.Hand of Fate: Ordeals is an adventure deck-building game for 1–4 players that can be played in competitive or cooperative modes.

The Witcher Adventure Game

The Witcher Adventure Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Thematic

The Witcher Adventure Game takes players on a journey across the world of The Witcher a detailed world rich in lore and characters fleshed out by Andrzej Sapkowski's famous series of novels and honed by The Witcher video game trilogy.Players assume the roles of four distinct characters from this series: Geralt of Rivia monster slayer; Triss Merigold cunning sorceress; Yarpen Zigrin dwarven warrior; and Dandelion roguish bard. Each character has unique skills and multiple ways of overcoming obstacles but you decide what to do during the game: Do you fight your way to victory call on your charm or try your hand at diplomacy? You can bring enemies around to your point of view with a sword as Geralt - or bribe them with gold and threaten to call on powerful friends as Dandelion. If a situation calls for strength in numbers Yarpen has his own fellowship of dwarves to command and Triss can rely on her expert skill with magic to save the day.Each character has its own deck of Development Cards so each time you play you can discover something new by trying out varied characters and experimenting with different builds. For example when playing as Geralt of Rivia the main hero of the Witcher franchise you can develop your character either by specializing in brewing and utilizing combat Elixirs or else by growing your ability to cast powerful Witcher Signs.A variety of quests invite players to hunt monsters earn gold and interact with the characters they meet in a web of alliances and treachery. Decide whether you’ll help the other players or look after your own interests first and keep an eye on the progress of your friends while you carefully work your way towards victory.

BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia

BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Thematic

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

Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game

Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Pixel Tactics 3

Pixel Tactics 3

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Pixel Tactics Deluxe

Pixel Tactics Deluxe

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Customizable

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

BattleCON: Trials of Indines

BattleCON: Trials of Indines

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances Core Set

Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances Core Set

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Level 10

Level 10

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Family

In the co-operative card game Level 10 — which was first released as Okey Dokey — players work together to try to complete the challenge. In Okey Dokey you are putting on a music festival with different performers and must play out all fifty cards in order to complete the performance.In Level 10 you try to help Izzy play through all ten levels in each of five different video game worlds; each world is represented by a row of cards on the table. Players will play cards one by one to this 5x10 grid — 40 level cards and 10 reset cards — to (hopefully) complete the game. Players' hands are kept secret from one another and only slight suggestions can be made.If a player cannot play a card on their turn the players (and Izzy) lose.

Codex: Card-Time Strategy – Core Set

Codex: Card-Time Strategy – Core Set

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Customizable

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

Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game

Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Resident Evil: The Board Game

Resident Evil: The Board Game

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

We’re going back to where it all began. Following the Resident Evil 2 (2019) and Resident Evil 3(2021) board games Resident Evil: The Board Game (2023) brings the sinister Spencer Mansion to the tabletop in a terrifying open world campaign. Based on the 2002 remake of the original Resident Evil video game Resident Evil: The Board Game is a cooperative survival horror board game for 1-4 players.Built on the survival horror engine of the previous two board games Resident Evil: The Board Game introduces a slew of new and updated mechanics to keep you on your toes. Solve ingenious new puzzles to unlock doors build the mansion map as you explore send non-player characters on valuable missions and more. Setup is swift because each scenario begins with just a few tiles. As you explore and open doors you’ll build out the map opening new pathways and discovering useful items… and deadly enemies.Resident Evil: The Board Game is a campaign game playable over 27 hours where every decision counts and has far-reaching consequences. Every resource must be managed every bullet counted. Fighting isn’t the only way to survive. You’ll have to decide when to attack and when to flee. But you won’t always get a choice! As your campaign goes on the mansion will evolve and the danger level will rise. The tension and encounter decks will change adding mysterious new cards and altering the effects of old cards to make them even more dangerous. But effects don’t just happen over time. Tension cards can change enemy behaviours at any moment making them more lethal from one turn to the next.Short on time? Each Resident Evil: The Board Game scenario is also playable as a 60-90 minute one-shot for bite-sized nightmare sessions.In the darkness lie your fears. Can you fight them and survive?

Combo Fighter

Combo Fighter

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Family

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

Boss Monster: Rise of the Minibosses

Boss Monster: Rise of the Minibosses

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

Looks like there's a new threat rising in the land of Arcadia: Minibosses! Boss Monster: Rise of the Minibosses is an all new standalone set that can integrate with the previous two Boss Monster Base sets and all previous expansions.As before players will build up their dungeon (with graphics inspired by classic videogames) in order to lure in heroes and defeat them before they reach your boss. New mechanisms such as the all new miniboss room cards will power up your dungeon in insidious new ways and wreak havoc on your opponents' dungeons.—description from the publisher

Monopoly Gamer

Monopoly Gamer

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

Description from the publisher:It's the Monopoly game with a Nintendo twist as it joins forces with beloved Nintendo video game characters. Instead of standard Monopoly tokens the game features Super Mario characters each with their own special powers within gameplay. Play as Mario Princess Peach Yoshi or Donkey Kong. Finish the game by defeating Bowser at the end! It's not just about money in this game; players earn points by buying Properties collecting Coins and beating Bosses. The player with the highest score wins the game.Features Nintendo's Super Mario characters Coins replace Monopoly money Power-up die activates special abilities Battle legendary Bosses

Crusader Kings

Crusader Kings

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Thematic

You are a crusader King striving for wealth political power religious influence and military might across the continent and across generations. Reshape the history of medieval Europe in your own image — if only that dimwitted son of yours set to inherit the throne doesn't spoil your grand plans...The board game Crusader Kings captures the essence of the Crusader Kings video game experience in a physical tabletop format. This is a strategy game at heart but with a special focus on characters intrigue and drama. It's a big beautiful game centered on a map of medieval Europe using cards for actions characters and events and well-crafted plastic miniatures to represent knights armies castles and more.In this game your goal is to spread your influence over medieval Europe and lead your dynasty to triumph over its rivals. To do that you need to groom your family over the generations build and develop your dominion be shrewd in the realm of diplomacy and intrigue and use your vassals wisely to grow your wealth and military power while at the same time fulfilling your duty to partake in the crusades to the Holy Land.To win you need to survive invasions plots crusades and even marriage! Or at least have children or siblings standing by to take over the throne if your regent dies. Failure to raise a suitable heir can mean the end of your dynasty.—description from the publisher

Dead by Daylight: The Board Game

Dead by Daylight: The Board Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 3–5

Game Type:

Uncategorized

In Dead by Daylight: The Board Game a team of four resourceful Survivors face off against a single supernatural Killer in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.As one of four Survivors explore the trial grounds discover props and utilize your unique perks as you work to uncover and repair generators. Repair four generators and open the exit games to escape and win! As a Killer hunt down the survivors wound them and place them on sacrificial hooks to summon a sinister force. With enough sacrifices you are able to appease The Entity and win!Each turn players will plan their moves by secretly selecting paths on the board to move along. Each time a player moves they will reveal new features of the board called props which they can interact with to further their objectives or to hinder their opponents.Survivors are able to utilize many different props to aid in their survival and navigation of the trial. Killers can make use of fewer props—instead they interact with the Survivors using their attack or their unique power. Each Killer has a different power that will completely change the way the game plays. Both Killers and Survivors have perks which grant them special abilities. Experienced players can customize their characters with various perk configurations offering even more replayability.The basic game comes with 7 Survivors 6 Killers and 2 maps. The Collector's edition includes 17 Survivors 16 Killers 4 maps and additional miniatures to create the ultimate Dead by Daylight experience.—description from the publisher

Resident Evil 3: The Board Game

Resident Evil 3: The Board Game

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Based on the original video game Resident Evil 3: The Board Game is a cooperative survival horror game for 1-4 players that can be experienced either through individual one-shot scenarios or as a 19+ hour campaign with an overarching storyline.Taking control of iconic characters like Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira players will attempt to escape Raccoon City in the midst of a T-virus outbreak.All the while the city danger level will be on the rise the number of undead monsters will increase and every decision will be crucial.To survive players must carefully manage resources make intelligent and meaningful decisions and be wary of curveballs thrown by the tension deck—a mechanic carried over from the RE2 board game which will surprise players with unexpected threats to replicate the terrifying suspense of the video game.The board game’s design comes from Sherwin Matthews of Steamforged a self-proclaimed superfan of the franchise who also headed the design of Resident Evil 2: The Board Game.

Techno Bowl: Arcade Football Unplugged

Techno Bowl: Arcade Football Unplugged

Rating: 8.5 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

TECH? NO! Forget about expensive game systems emulators disconnected online games and high-priced yearly roster updates. TECHNO BOWL takes everything you love about arcade and video game football classics like Tecmo Bowl NFL Blitz and Madden and puts it all on the tabletop.1UP And as if that isn’t cool enough it also gives you a feature that gamers have long asked for but never gotten… until now! What is it you ask? As a coach in TECHNO BOWL you will design your own formations and plays. That’s right. Let me say it again. You get to design your own formations and plays.And I’m not talking about choosing several formation cards lining up elements on a chart or utilizing some other abstraction. This is putting the power to effortlessly create real football formations and plays into your hands.ZERO DOWN TIME Thanks to the BOX SPORTS ENGINE there is almost zero down time in the game [except for half time and timeouts of course!]. Coaches are constantly involved and the on-field players are always interacting with one another as skill checks and ever evolving plays result in: free actions reactions read-and-reacts and offensive and defensive adjustments. Add to that real world timers for setting up formations and selecting plays and you have a truly dynamic fast-paced tabletop football experience.UNPARALLELED FOOTBALL GAMEPLAY TECHNO BOWL delivers that authentic football feel like no game before it. Establish the running game by punching it in between the tackles or tossing it to a back for an outside sweep. Launch an air offensive while sitting in the pocket or throwing on the run with laser accurate throws directly to the receiver or exciting route passes where you lead the receiver in hopes of beating the coverage. Defense can run man zone and mixed defensive packages and bring the blitz. Oh can it bring the blitz!No matter which strategy you choose the gameplay will look feel and flow like a real football play.OPTIONS TECHNO BOWL is all about options and there’s a game mode team and play style for everyone. You even have the option to run an option!MODES There are five different modes of play. Each of these brings a different experience to the table.- TECHNO is 7-vs-7 with no skills and no field goals. - ALL TECHNO is 7-vs-7 with skills but no field goals. - INFERNO! It’s ALL TECHNO with more awesome and fire! [more later] - PRO is 8-vs-8 with no skills but includes field goal rules. - ALL PRO is 8-vs-8 with skills and field goal rules.Each of these modes offers a completely different game experience and I know what you’re thinking. How does adding an extra couple of players to the field [and the ability to kick field goals] equate with an entirely different mode? Trust me. Having that extra player on both sides of the ball quite literally changes everything.MAD SKILLS When playing in modes that utilize special skills and abilities coaches will have access to three types of players:- IMPACT - STAR - SUPERSTARThese players will come equipped with one or more of the 26 skills found in the game. That count of 26 skills doesn’t even include core fundamentals or INFERNO MODE specific skills.SKILL Speaking of skills TECHNO BOWL is a game of skill and not a random ‘dice fest’. The 2d6 rolls used for skill checks mean that coaches won’t fall prey to straight-line probabilities or random chaos. Winning is about getting the right match and modifiers to deliver a high percentage roll having a plan when you get an unusually poor result and knowing the right time to make a high risk roll for a shot at a very high payoff. Of course your formations play calling and player positioning create these opportunities.PLAYMAKER DIE The PLAYMAKER die powers some of the special skills in the game like stiff arms and spin moves allowing for sophisticated passive abilities to be triggered without the need for complex rules.TEAMS There are 32 teams in the MORE FUN LEAGUE [MFL] and each of these has its own unique play style. This means that you’re not just trying to get into the head of the coach that’s sitting across the table from you but that you have to take into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of the players on the specific rosters that you and your opponent are using.PLAYER SKILL RATINGS The player skill rating system ensures that coaches and spectators will know how well or poorly a player performs fundamental actions by simply looking at the jersey number! No need to look at charts or extended stat lines. The league skill cap manages team composition so that you are never taxed to remember an insane number of special abilities or which players have them. Coaches get beaten by other coaches and NOT the rules.Welcome to the More Fun League!

Jetpack Joyride

Jetpack Joyride

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Family

Jetpack Joyride is a real-time competitive puzzle game adapted from the mobile game of the same name! Players need to fly their way through a lab using a stolen jetpack over a series of three rounds. During each round:1) Players receive four new lab cards. 2) All players in real-time and at the same time grab tiles from the common pool and lay them to trace their way through their lab. 3) Points are scored through mission cards or by collecting coins! 4) The first player to reach the end of their lab triggers the end of the round. 5) Scores are totaled and written down for the round. 6) Players starting from the one with the lowest score pick a permanent gadget out of a river of four. 7) A new round begins!Whoever has the most points at the end of the third round wins!—description from the publisher

Gravity Superstar

Gravity Superstar

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Family

Categories:

At the edge of known space the most famous adventurers converge on a strange little planet that is uniquely capable of attracting precious stardust with its befuddling gravity. These adventurers are there to collect as much of this rare resource as they can while their rivals constantly try to steal it. You are one of these superstars on a quest for wealth and you must overcome the gravitational challenges set before you!What is really original about Gravity Superstar is the manner in which the players' pawns move: Each turn they move one or two spaces then they are affected by gravity which makes them fall until they are stopped by a platform. This effect is made possible by the fact that the pawns are used lying down on the board. Thus they move up (above their head) down (below their feet) left or right.During its movement a pawn can collect stars (to score points at the end of the game) or replay tokens (to take a second consecutive turn) and eject opponents' pawns from the board.

Fallout: Wasteland Warfare

Fallout: Wasteland Warfare

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–8

Game Type:

Thematic

In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare players build their own crew from a wide range of factions allies and iconic characters from the Fallout series then play in apocalyptic games of 3-30 high-quality 32mm scale resin miniatures through a huge variety of iconic scenery and settlement buildings from the Red Rocket to Sanctuary Hills Nuka-Cola vending machines and wrecked vehicles. Settlements include buildings defenses and resources that impact the crew's army list and abilities in the wasteland.Fallout: Wasteland Warfare includes an entire narrative campaign arc as well as unique random missions with narrative-style objectives and crew caps recovered in missions can be used to improve the crew's perks weapons gear and upgrades for the next encounter. In either player vs. player or tournament mode players try to survive the tabletop wasteland.The game also comes with a customizable solo-play AI deck to control enemies that play to their strengths and replicate a faction's tactics while attempting a narrative mission or perfecting settlement-building strategy. Players can also team up with a friend to defend a larger settlement or explore narrative missions in cooperative games against AI forces or the post-apocalyptic dangers of the wasteland.The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare two player starter set contains 32mm scale high-quality hardened PVC miniatures with scenic bases. Miniatures are fully assembled. You can upgrade this with the resin miniatures upgrade kit to get all the miniatures in multi-part high-quality resin.Models:1x Aviator Head Super Mutant 1x Super Mutant Brute 1x Standard Super Mutant 2x Super Mutant Hounds 1x Nora (the Sole Survivor) 1x Dogmeat 1x Enslaved Tech Survivor 2x Settlers (one male one female) 1x Brotherhood of Steel Aspirant in T-60 Power Amour 1x Deathclaw 12x scenic basesCards:24x Large cards: Unit AI Reference 100+ Small cards: Items (Weapon Equipment Mod Chem Power Armour) Boost Heroic Quest Perk Leader Explore Event Wasteland (Danger Creature Stranger)Dice:10 custom dice including 1x White Skill dice d20 1x Red Armour d12 2x Black Damage d12 2x Armour Reduction d12 2x Green Accuracy d12 2x Blue Special Effect d12PLUS Everything else you need to play!Two die-cut counter sheets including over 260 small counters 60 large counters two full sets of 6 cardboard range sticks 1x Rule Book and 1x Ways To Play Book—description from the publisherSee also Fallout Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game

Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy

Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Customizable

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

Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game

Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game

Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

The Divine is dead the Void approaches and the powers lying dormant within you are soon to awaken. Divinity: Original Sin – The Board Game is an epic adventure set in the world of Rivellon. Up to 4 players take their heroes on a branching narrative adventure filled with tactical combat and meaningful choices.Based on the award-winning video game Divinity: Original Sin II by Larian Studios the board game expands Divinity in new directions offering new characters stories side quests skills items and monsters in this brand-new tabletop experience.Players embark on a journey through the Divine Atlas an interactive book that charts the various realms and locations of Rivellon. This team of adventurers will make key decisions about where to go and how to respond to the world around them.A full journey through the Divine Atlas takes approximately 20 hours to complete encompassing around 16 of the Atlas's 50 locations. The decisions players make during exploration combat and character creation can significantly influence the story and the course of the adventure. With various ways to finish the game and multiple diverging paths and choices no two adventures will be the same. Choices you make will be documented from session to session creating a responsive experience where player decisions matter and their consequences have tangible effects on the story. Players can choose a character from 10 unique Origin stories equip items runes and learn skills from 12 skill schools each with 7 unique skills. Players use the skills acquired throughout the game to perform unique and powerful attacks some with additional elemental effects. Most skills require a cooldown period before they can be used again so choosing when to use them is critically important.The iconic elemental interactions from Divinity: Original Sin are present here! You can for example cover an area in oil so that another player can ignite it with a fire spell setting the entire area ablaze. Alternatively your ally can cast rain to make the area wet allowing you to use lightning to stun the enemy. Creating combinations is essential to ensure victory against the most challenging of enemies. However be aware that enemies can also create combinations.—description from the publisher

Jagged Alliance: The Board Game

Jagged Alliance: The Board Game

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

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

God of War: The Card Game

God of War: The Card Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Ragnarök is coming. The fate of all existence is at stake. Is destruction inevitable or are there ways to avoid ultimate cataclysm? The Norns mystical beings of great power have decided they will not go quietly into oblivion and have turned their attention to the well of Fate Urðr in order to find any possible way to stop Ragnarök. Looking deep into the swirling waters they can foresee which potential combination of heroes villains battles victories and defeats might stop the end of all that is known — but will they find the right combination in time? Is there any true path to salvation at all? They must hurry and seek the true way through before all is lost.In God of War: The Card Game players take on the role of the Norns as they try different combinations of heroes and events in order to stop Ragnarök. Each game is a new attempt to find the right key to saving Midgard from destruction. Players must work together embodying mighty heroes such as Kratos Mimir Atreus Brok and Sindri and Freya. They will fight enemies and bosses from the popular God of War video game but combined and remixed in exciting new ways creating unique What if...? scenarios each time they play. If they succeed the way forward has been secured and Ragnarök can be halted. Failure means the Norns will have to try again as only death and destruction lay along that particular path.Each quest in God of War: The Card Game is made up of a mosaic of cards that recreate monsters and locations from the video game. Each quest's mosaic is different and each card is double-sided depending on whether a section has been destroyed or not and each has special rules that go into effect when it is face up on the tabletop. Learning how each quest is won as well as what strategy to employ is key to victory.As players progress earlier quests have an effect on what comes after them. At certain points along their path players must choose which quest they will complete. Completing one might grant a bonus but quests left untouched result in dire permanent consequences as the players move forward. These choices and challenges lead to new strategies making it so no two games of God of War: The Card Game are alike.Heroes in the game have several elements that make them unique. Each comes with their own dashboard that explains their special abilities and health totals in addition to tracking the number of cards a player can keep in their hand from round to round. Tokens are used to keep everything clear as heroes gain and lose health and build up their power so they can unleash a mighty special attack. Heroes begin the game with a unique starting deck of cards that will be augmented from additional decks as the game progresses. Players can construct their deck to focus on their strengths or look for ways to generalize their approach preparing for future quests that lie ahead. Each hero also has a unique standee that indicates which portion of the mosaic they are facing. With multiple heroes from which to choose numerous ways to build their deck and various different quests to attempt each game of God of War: The Card Game will be a new experience that will echo throughout eternity.—description from the publisher

Mutants

Mutants

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Video Game Champion

Video Game Champion

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Categories:

Description from the designer:90s ; Explosion of 16 bits Video Games era in the world. Time when the greatest dream of childhood was to be The Video Game Champion!In Video Game Champion players are transported to the nostalgic setting of the early 1990s where they step into the shoes of children balancing multiple activities such as earning pocket money studying and immersing themselves in the captivating world of 16-BIT gaming. From flipping through video game magazines to renting games asking your parents for gifts and spending hours pushing buttons the game captures the essence of that era.Mechanically players navigate through the game by strategically selecting chips from an Action Grid each activating a corresponding action effect from the column or line. The challenge lies in managing resources like money button chips and I owe you chips adding depth to decision-making as players strive to maximize their points through completing games with Poker-style chip combinations exploring new releases and accomplishing various mission objectives unique to each playthrough.

Penny Arcade: The Game – Gamers vs. Evil

Penny Arcade: The Game – Gamers vs. Evil

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

Game description from the publisher:Welcome to the world of Penny Arcade the top web comic for all things gaming so it's only fitting that Penny Arcade gets its own deck-building game. Players will select cards from a communal pool. You've followed the way of the warrior the story of the Cardboard Tube Samurai. You too wept with Charles over the lack of Halo on the Macintosh. Now rally them together to build your perfect deck.In Penny Arcade: The Game - Gamers vs. Evil players will take from a shared group of cards representing icons from the Penny Arcade world each character possessing a unique power. Purchase Gamer cards with your gold. Yes put that Merch in your deck! CONSUME! If you'd prefer to battle wield the Cardboard Tube and attack one of the Evil cards. Dodge PAX Pox make friends with a Werewolf With a Top Hat ally with Cardboard Tube Samurai PvP with your opponents and skewer Dark Tycho for his epic loot. Build your perfect deck and win the battle of Gamers vs. Evil.

Gwent: Nilfgaard and Northern Realms

Gwent: Nilfgaard and Northern Realms

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Gwent is a standalone card game included inside the Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt videogame by CD Projekt Red. It was available as a physical copy with the Xbox One Collector's Edition of the video game (Northern Realms and Nilfgaardian Empire factions) in Hearts of Stonephysical expansion for PC/PS4 (Scoia'Tel and Monsters factions) and with the purchase of the Season Pass giving you the opportunity to ask for redeem code to buy both limited editions versions on CD Projekt Red merchandising store.Gwent has two players simulating a war between two of four factions: Northern Realms Scoia'Tael Monsters or Nilfgaardian Empire. Players take turns adding strength to the battlefield until both players pass. The highest strength on the battlefield wins the round and matches are played best of three with little to no card drawing in between rounds. Special cards may also be played to reduce the effect of certain unit types. Gwent also features various once-per-game leader abilities and deck building rules.

Gwent: Monsters and Scoia'tael

Gwent: Monsters and Scoia'tael

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Customizable

Gwent is a standalone card game included inside the Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt videogame by CD Projekt Red. It is available as a physical copy with the Xbox One Collector's Edition of the video game (Northern Realms and Nilfgaardian Empire factions) and in Hearts of Stonephysical expansion for PC/PS4 (Scoia'Tel and Monsters factions).Gwent has two players simulating a war between two of four factions: Northern Realms Scoia'Tael Monsters or Nilfgaardian Empire. Players take turns adding strength to the battlefield until both players pass. The highest strength on the battlefield wins the round and matches are played best of three with little to no card drawing in between rounds. Special cards may also be played to reduce the effect of certain unit types. Gwent also features various once-per-game leader abilities and deck building rules.

SUPERHOT: The Card Game

SUPERHOT: The Card Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–3

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game is a semi co-operative tactical action game for 1-4 players designed in the rich and unique Horizon Zero Dawn universe.Assigned a dangerous quarry by the Hunter's Lodge players choose a tribe and class for their hunter and embark on an adventure through the wilds. A variety of machines and unexpected events lurk along the way and awaiting them at the end of the trail is a lethal boss fight.Combining innovative and dynamic game mechanisms with strategic deck building Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game offers players a unique experience on each playthrough. Hunters can develop along several skill paths and purchase a wide variety of ammunition and equipment from merchants as well as facing entirely different encounters each time.—description from the publisher

Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Alliance

Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Alliance

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Customizable

In Resident Evil a deadly virus has caused the dead to rise and infect any living thing they encounter! Fleeing to a mysterious mansion you must gather any materials you can find to protect yourself and fight for your survival against a legion of infected beings!The Resident Evil Deck Building Game brings the story to life in a game of strategy where players construct their cards decks while they play. Choose one of your favorite characters from Resident Evil such as: Chris Redfield Jill Valentine or Albert Wesker among others. Players start with only the most basic of items and weapons. As the game progresses players build their arsenal with additional Weapons Ammunition Action or Item cards to customize their deck and improve their ability in defeating 'the Infected'! Your deck will be your lifeline to survival. How will you survive the zombie outbreak?Resident Evil DBG: Alliance is a stand-alone expansion that can be played on its own or with the top selling Resident Evil Deck Building Game. Play with new additional Characters such as Hunk Carlos Oliveira Steve Burnside Josh Stone or Billy Coen. New Weapons Actions and Infected have been added to this set to create even more powerful combinations and dangers. Alliance also introduces the new partner mode of play where you take on the mansion with not just one character but two!

Puzzle Strike 2

Puzzle Strike 2

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Family

The cast of Fantasy Strike has acquired magical gems which give power but at what price? Those who hold too many gems are cursed forever. What’s worse the ultimate gem to rule them all has been forged into a single mighty scepter. Whoever holds it wields even more power at an even greater price.In Puzzle Strike 2 players build their deck as they play giving them the tools to arrange and manipulate their set of colored gems. These gems can be “crashed” (destroyed) in order to build up power for four different super moves as well as to flood other players with more gems. As this process unfolds gems will fly back and forth between players as they desperately try to remain under the threshold of corruption. Holding the scepter “helps,” but can also doom the greedy.—description from the publisher

Worms: The Board Game

Worms: The Board Game

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

With a super-engaging blend of fun strategy and luck – Worms is an absolute blast and one of those ‘just one more game’ experiences that are amazing to enjoy with friends and family.Featuring a hex-based landscape that your Worms will move around collecting crates dodging mines and getting into position with the right weapon at the right time to unleash total tabletop hilarity on your foes. Keep your team alive whittle down the opposition and win the day!We have classic weapons supplies a destructible landscape oil barrels wind and should the game go on long enough…one of several sudden death cards will be waiting at the bottom of the deck…And of course we have our Worms! These are some of the most downright fun miniatures we’ve ever had the privilege to work on and they’re full of charm and humor.—description from the publisher

Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game

Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Description from the publisher:With a grinding of gears and some uneasy rumbling Aperture Laboratories has resumed testing! Your team of test subjects has entered the Lab and is ready to perform all sorts of important dignified and dangerous testing procedures...all in the pursuit of cake! It's a fun and funny fast-paced fight to the finish — and by finish we mean your team probably died.The Lab is an ever-changing conveyor belt of death and dismemberment. But SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS must be at the forefront of the mind of every good test subject. In Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game a game of constantly shifting area control and cardplay by the creators of the Portal and Portal 2 video games players move and Portal their test subjects to various chambers in the lab. At the end of each player's turn one of the chambers on the end of the lab gives way plunging all test subjects on it into oblivion. But should your test subjects have numbered greater than all others in the falling chamber they earn you some wonderful parting gifts which can include cake.Yet these moist slices of industrial-grade cake must be stored in the lab where they are at risk of falling into said oblivion. Not to mention that your jealous opponents can pick up your cake and move it closer to that precipice. He who has acquired the most cake when a team has lost its last test subject wins. Do you risk gathering cake early for a quick win? Or do you bide your time and wait until you can protect it better? Win the game and prove the cake was no lie.Components: 1 Manual 1 Resource Board 18 Test Chamber Panels 20 Aperture Cards/Characters 4 Oversized Portal Gun Cards 1 Turret Miniature 1 Companion Cube Miniature 2 Portal Tokens 1 GLaDOS Token 32 Test Subject Miniatures 32 Cake Slice Miniatures 1 Free Portal 2 Steam Activation Code

Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising

Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising is a fully co-operative standalone board game for 1 to 4 players that offers the ultimate tower-defense experience for the tabletop.Players take on the roles of asymmetrical heroes defending their kingdom against waves of incoming monster hordes. Players play towers to attack hordes using polyomino tiles to cover monsters until all monsters in a horde are covered destroying it. Players will earn crystals and gold which can be spent on buying new towers or Tower Modifications to improve and customize their existing towers.Monsters come with a range of special abilities that players will have to plan around passing towers between each other and positioning attacks to get around magic shields and monster powers. The heroes will also be confronted with game-changing events and elemental disruptions such as volcanoes and cyclones.The game is scenario-based and can be played as individual replayable scenarios or as a steadily evolving campaign leading up to big boss fights hero challenges and more.Kingdom Rush offers simple to learn rules with a high level of tactics for experienced gamers. Upon starting each scenario players will be able to choose from a range of difficulty levels or even take on the dreaded Iron Challenges which require near-perfect strategies to overcome.—description from the publisher

CapCom Street Fighter Deck-Building Game

CapCom Street Fighter Deck-Building Game

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Customizable

In the CapCom Street Fighter Deck-Building Game you take on the role of Ryu Ken Chun-Li Balrog M. Bison or one of the other well-known characters as you travel to exotic locales seeking new challenges! While you begin armed only with basic combat maneuvers you will add new more powerful cards to your deck as you go with the goal of defeating as many Stage Bosses as you can.Each player starts with his own basic ten-card deck and draws a hand of five cards each turn. Power is the currency you will use to buy new stronger cards to add to your deck. The goal of a deck-building game is to craft your personal deck into well-oiled machine and five types of cards can be acquired: Villains Heroes Equipment Super Powers and Locations. A large central stack of cards supplies a five-card Line-Up from which players make their purchases. Each player will always have five cards to choose from each turn so every turn there are new options and new surprises.When a player has amassed enough Power he may attempt to defeat the current Stage Boss. When a Stage Boss is attacked it retaliates against the attacker! With Street Fighter the action is often one-on-one. Players can defend themselves with Defense cards like Chun-Li's Bracelets and Electric Thunder. Each player also has access to a special Ultra card that is one of his character's signature maneuvers. In the end the player who has accumulated the most Victory Points from the cards in his deck wins.

Snails

Snails

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Listen all of you bellyslitherers! Gather around… and prove your mettle!There’s no peace on Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when all kinds of snails grab their weapons and face each other in deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. They’ll do anything to stand victorious. Bazookas Molotov cocktails mines barrels full of toxic waste axes and swords… These are their tools of the trade used with blinding speed unusual for rather slow creatures. And where will you be? Well that’s pretty clear – right there at the snail vanguard leading your squad to victory!Snails is a dynamic game for 2-4 players ready to command squads of pumped up mollusks in pitched battle. Each squad is led by a unique Hero who grants their subordinates special abilities and enhances their chances to win by eliminating opponents with an assortment of funny weapons.The combat takes place on a dozen islands which get destroyed as the game progresses. Your snail may end up in water in not time and see for themselves that marine pollution is real! Additionally by excavating more and more island levels you may encounter all kinds of surprises – from new gear to mean crabs to lethal barrels.Simple and intuitive rules of Snails are based on action planning. Just secretly choose 5 Action Cards and 2 snails from your squad to perform them then watch the mayhem that you cause! Of course assuming that your rivals don’t outsmart you and eliminate your troops before they get to act… Add to this Heroes’ special abilities tens of various Action Cards representing weapons or special attacks and custom dice and you will end up with a great gaming experience.Fast but strategic and competitive gameplay immersive and funny artwork by “Djib” Reynaud – a world-famous French illustrator high replayability thanks to various game modes and battle scenarios… All this guarantees that you and your friends will have great fun whenever you play Snails.—description from the publisher

Saint Seiya: Deckbuilding

Saint Seiya: Deckbuilding

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–5

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Athena is threatened by the great Pope and the Knights subjected to his power are ready to fight!5 Bronze Knights: Seiya Shiryū Hyōga Shun and Ikki must end this threat before the extinction of the last flame of the Clock.During the game players each play one of the five available Heroes. They will have to face the other Knights they will face or rally to their cause.Play as one of the bronze knights and build your deck as you fight or rally other knights to your cause. Use the various effects of the cards to possess the most powerful knights and have the best team at the end of the game when the 12 flames of the clock will be extinguished. The player with the most victory point when all the flammes are switched off is the winner.

Exceed: Street Fighter – Ryu Box

Exceed: Street Fighter – Ryu Box

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Exceed brings the speed tactics and variety of high-stakes fighting action to life. Choose your fighter and enter the arena. There are no packs to open or rares to chase get everything you need to play right here. Exceed Season 3 features fighters from Capcom's illustrious fighting game franchise Street Fighter!

Pixel Tactics 4

Pixel Tactics 4

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Dungeon Kart

Dungeon Kart

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–8

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Race your way to victory with Dungeon Kart an all-new game set in the world of Boss Monster. Dungeon Kart transforms the multiplayer mayhem of kart racing into a turn-based tactical tabletop experience. Play as one of the baddest Bosses around while using Spells to disrupt other racers grab coins and power yourself up! With a lot of skill and a little luck you can cross the finish line first and show your opponents who’s Boss!Unique dashboards allow players to rev up their engines and increase their speed. Be careful though…if you go too fast then you have more chances to run into hazards and obstacles that will cause you to crash or spin out!Use spells to ensure victory! Spells are items that you can use to power your Boss up or to disrupt other racers! The power of Spells depend on the place of your racer…so be careful as you move along the track since other players are trying to sabotage you!—description from the publisher

Pixel Tactics 5

Pixel Tactics 5

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Might & Magic Heroes

Might & Magic Heroes

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

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

Penny Arcade: The Game – Rumble in R'lyeh

Penny Arcade: The Game – Rumble in R'lyeh

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Game description from the publisher:Just when you thought it was safe to pick up the controller...just when it seemed the time for cardboard tubes was at an end...the dread elder god Cthulhu rises from his slumber in the sunken city of R'lyeh and he's not playing games!Penny Arcade: The Game - Rumble in R'lyeh is both a complete game and an expansion to Penny Arcade: The Game - Gamers vs. Evil. Players can mix the two sets together for the ultimate crazy ride through the sublimely bizarre world of the Penny Arcade web comic. Explore Gabe's Gross Mouth harness the dubious power of Bono Trask: Timesqueezer and fall under the curse of TouchWeiners' dark double: the Were-Swan.So what's new under the sea? Gold cards! These powerful cards require both Tokens and Power to acquire and count as both Green and Red cards unlocking tons of new synergy and customization options with the previous set. New Green and Red cards add even more longevity to the game.

Reload

Reload

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

M.U.L.E. The Board Game

M.U.L.E. The Board Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 3–4

Game Type:

Strategy

M.U.L.E. was first published as a computer game in 1983. Inspired by board games it became a breakthrough then a classic. Now this warm-hearted game of cut-throat capitalism is finally available as a board game!In M.U.L.E. The Board Game you are one of the pioneering and industrious species of a Galactic Federation. Together with your fellow colonists you attempt to settle the distant Planet Irata with the so-called help of a mule-like machine you all learn to hate. But for now he's all you've got. Well him and your fellow colonists. I wouldn't count on their help though — not unless there's profit. Good luck. You'll need it.In M.U.L.E. (abbreviated from “Multiple Use Labor Element”) players claim plots of land and install mechanical robots (M.U.L.E.s) to work on them. M.U.L.E.s produce goods that colonists can use sell for profit or stockpile for (hopefully) even more profit: - Smithore is a metal that cannot be used by players directly but can be sold to The Store. The Store uses Smithore to manufacture M.U.L.E.s. Since players need M.U.L.E.s to produce their Goods they must sell Smithore to increase their production. - Crystite is a luxury mineral with a highly volatile price. It is not needed for anything on Planet Irata but can be exported to other worlds for great profits (unless stolen by Pirates – you have been warned!) - Food is needed by players to take Development Actions such as Assaying Lands or Installing/Refitting M.U.L.E.s. - Energy is needed to power M.U.L.E.s. You'll know the value of Energy when you lack it.There will be unexpected surpluses and shortages of different goods causing market prices to fluctuate. Players must plan ahead while maintaining flexibility to change their plans as all kinds of ”fun” planetary disasters hit them. Interaction between colonists is highly opportunistic: they will gladly help you if there's profit in it for them. Or maybe not. You'll get to see the true colors of your friends by playing M.U.L.E. with them. The most cunning settler and trader receives fame fortune and the honorary title of First Founder! There is also an overall Colony Retirement score describing how your colony succeeded (or failed) as a whole.

Lazer Ryderz

Lazer Ryderz

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Description from the publisher:Lazer Ryderz is a trackless racing game for up to 4 players with light push-your-luck area denial and strategy elements. Players construct their lazer paths with various pre-formed punchboard pieces that are placed according to speed and desired direction.In Lazer Ryderz players take on the role of one of four Ryderz as they race to capture all three Prisms needed to charge the Portal to their next destination. The Portal only allows one Ryder to pass through before moving on to a new location in the galaxy so speed is essential to meet your goal. But the faster a Ryder goes the harder it is to turn and if a Ryder runs into another player's lazer that Ryder is toast! Who will continue on their quest and who will be left behind?Will it be the Galactic Waveryder - the adrenaline-fueled surfer who's seeking the next great thrill and most radical solar waves? Or the Lazer Shark - always on the hunt for her next prey as she seeks the fabled Blood Nebula to restart her species? Perhaps the Super Sheriff - greatest of the Law Star Rangers who travels to the outer reaches of the known (and unknown) galaxy to bring the universe's criminals to speedy justice? Or will it be the Phantom Cosmonaut - the ghost from a long-distant era whose true quest is a mystery to those he encounters but with speed that is without question as he moves in the blink of an eye?

Space Invaders

Space Invaders

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Join the fight and stop the invasion!Based on the classic arcade game that started it all play Space Invaders like never before! Can you team-up and defeat the alien invaders to claim victory or will it be GAME OVER with the invaders winning? It's all hands-on deck as all players either win together or lose together in this collaborative strategy game.Take turns moving your 3D shooter and lining up the best shot. Launch blast tokens at the waves of descending invaders. You have limited shots so all players need to co-ordinate their attack and hit their targets. Destroy all the invaders and take down the UFO mother ship before it's too late!

Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Mega Man Blue

Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Mega Man Blue

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck making the game playable in 25 different ways.In the game players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Blue features 28 characters from Mega Man 1-3 — including Mega Man Dr. Light and Robot Masters — and these characters are compatible with all other Pixel Tactics games.

Fire of Eidolon

Fire of Eidolon

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

HOOK: Co-operative diceless dungeon exploration with a retro videogame flair all in a super-portable package.DESCRIPTION: The Fire of Eidolon is the quintessential source of light magic in your world and it has been stolen by the agents of the Dark Sorcerer a being of untold power and horror who intends to bury it forever in the very same void that imprisons him even if that means sealing you inside with it!It is up to you and your band of brave Heroes to recover the Fire of Eidolon and extract it from the dark void Dungeon before its arcane light is extinguished forever. Your quest is to search through the Dungeon before you Challenge the horrors inside for their trophies and Break the three Dark Relics sealing the Fire to reclaim it...and then you have to escape. Are you up to the challenge?GAMEPLAY: Fire of Eidolon uses a diceless action-point system to facilitate quick gameplay which is easy to learn to deliver a super-rich experience in a super-small package.But nothing is as easily done as it is spoken; while the heroes frantically fight to recover the Fire of Eidolon the Dark Sorcerer's brainwashed Cultists will continuously appear starting evil Rituals onto the chambers in hope of warping them away into the Void with valuable Tokens or Heroes still inside. You and your Heroes can easily disrupt these Rituals costing you only your precious valuable time...but ignoring them may close off your last path to the outside world and the last light your people will ever see.Tread carefully and work together to reclaim the FIRE OF EIDOLON

Tetris

Tetris

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Now play Tetris head-to-head against your friends in an all-new tabletop strategy game for up to 4 players.Each player drops tetrimino pieces into their own Matrix tower each turn. You know what to do. Another piece is up. Rotate. Rotate again. Move it and drop it… Score points by completing horizontal rows and racing to fulfill special challenges on achievement cards for bonus points! Place specific pieces to match the icons on your Matrix towers to earn even more. Who will come out on top?!

Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

The heyday of the Star Union has come to an end. Setting off massive gravity bombs designed to create spatial rifts to new worlds led to the Collapse and many planets were cut off from the rest of the Empire.The surviving factions began gradually rebuilding civilization and rediscovering lost technology. Being once part of a single state they will have to meet again and find out who is worthy of succeeding the great power.In Age of Wonders: Planetfall you are the Commander of one of the six surviving groups that have set out to explore the once-abandoned parts of the Star Union. Your expedition will explore seven planets in search of valuable resources and technology battle hostile units and seize landmarks. Will you be able to create a new world from the shards of the old Empire?The game is played over seven rounds and a new planet is explored each round. Each player may conduct two explorations on every planet. The players will gain Empire points by defeating units studying technology claiming landmarks and running operations on those planets. At the end of the game players score Empire points for meeting certain conditions listed on a particular goal sheet. Whoever scores the most Empire points wins.

Death Roads: All Stars

Death Roads: All Stars

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–5

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Mercenaries

Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Mercenaries

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Mercenaries a stand-alone game that also functions as an expansion for any Resident Evil DBG title brings the Mercenaries theme to life giving your characters brand new Skill cards to be used in any style of play. Draft Skill cards at the beginning of a game to give your Character a completely different play style.Your character will learn from those failures and successes as you continue to play using that experience to activate the Skills they have to give them an edge in battle.Mercenaries also introduces three different Mansions with three different challenges. Will you face the unruly Ganados horde the creepy Illuminados or the onslaught of Majini? Each Mansion attacks the player in a different way leaving a multitude of combinations for ultimate replay value!Content: 275 cards 30 card dividers

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Customizable

Trading card game for the Final Fantasy video game world.Each player uses their own deck of 50 character cards. Players play character cards by using CP (crystal points).If the player discards a card they produce 2 CP. If the player taps (dulls) his backup character card he produces 1 CP. On their turn the current player can attack his opponent using his own forward character and the opponent can block the attacker with their forward character. If the opponent does not block the attacker one damage is dealt.When you deal 7 damage to your opponent or your opponent runs out of cards you win the game.Popular characters of various Final Fantasy video games appear in this game.

Minecraft: Portal Dash

Minecraft: Portal Dash

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Categories:

In the co-operative adventure game Minecraft: Portal Dash players try to escape from Minecraft's fiery underworld the Nether. You sprint through rugged landscapes full of magma and lava and have to prove yourself against dangerous monsters. Only if the players complete the portal in time and defeat its monstrous guardians can they survive the adventure together.On their turn players use their equipment to perform two actions. They collect valuable blocks with pickaxes move around the game board with boots and use swords and bows to defend themselves against monsters. As the game progresses they collect increasingly powerful equipment and equip themselves for the arduous adventure. To win the game together players must traverse the rugged landscapes of the Nether maps and defeat the boss monster that awaits them at the end. On the way it is important to collect the missing portal stones which requires a large number of blocks. Players lose if they are late in delivering them or if the supply runs out of blocks. If a player's life points drop to zero the team has also lost.—description from the publisher

Uncharted: The Board Game

Uncharted: The Board Game

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Strategy

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

ELO Darkness

ELO Darkness

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Fire!

Fire!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–2

Game Type:

Family

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

Exceed: Street Fighter – M. Bison Box

Exceed: Street Fighter – M. Bison Box

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Exceed brings the speed tactics and variety of high-stakes fighting action to life. Choose your fighter and enter the arena. There are no packs to open or rares to chase get everything you need to play right here. Exceed Season 3 features fighters from Capcom's illustrious fighting game franchise Street Fighter!This box contains:

Exceed: Street Fighter – Chun-Li Box

Exceed: Street Fighter – Chun-Li Box

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Exceed brings the speed tactics and variety of high-stakes fighting action to life. Choose your fighter and enter the arena. There are no packs to open or rares to chase get everything you need to play right here. Exceed Season 3 features fighters from Capcom's illustrious fighting game franchise Street Fighter!

Orlog: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Dice Game

Orlog: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Dice Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2

Game Type:

Uncategorized

PureArts and Ubisoft present the officially licensed Orlog Dice Game of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla! Played extensively by the Norsemen and Anglo-Saxons in every city of the video game Orlog is played by two players who use dice rolls and bonus effects to claim victory over their opponent.Players roll dice to generate attacks and acquire tokens for God favors - using a combination of both during attacks and for regaining health. Players cast their dice 3 times a round until resolution. Play continues until one player has lost all Health stones.Will you earn the favor of the Gods and receive their blessings to win? There’s only one way to find out.

Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery

Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

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

Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game

Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game is a fully co-operative miniatures board game. Following the story of the first Metal Gear Solid video game players take on the roles of Solid Snake Meryl Silverburgh Dr. Hal Otacon Emmerich and Gray Fox the Cyborg Ninja and need to use their unique skill sets to avoid detection as they complete objectives across multiple campaign scenarios. Featuring a highly dynamic A.I. system and sandbox gameplay missions can be completed in multiple ways and always play out differently.—description from the publisher

Risk: StarCraft Collector's Edition

Risk: StarCraft Collector's Edition

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Family

From the website:WHO WANTS SOME?!The Koprulu Sector is being ravaged by war. You must stand against your enemies as one of the three powerful races. Will you choose the advanced and mysterious Protoss the rugged and tenacious Terran or lead the ravenous Zerg swarm? No matter which race you choose you will fight for your very survival. The war for galactic supremacy begins NOW!In this version of Risk players are controlling the three factions from the StarCraft video game in a battle to control the sector. The players recruit and mobilize their units in order to gain control of the various areas on the board. Battle is resolved using dice as in regular Risk but also with special power cards which are given to players who control certain areas on the board. As in traditional Risk players move troops and attack into territories on the board and face off with opponents in dice battles where higher rolls eliminate opposing forces with tied rolls favoring the defending troops.

Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart

Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–4

Game Type:

Family

Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart takes the property-trading game Monopoly in a new direction thanks to the introduction of characters from Nintendo's Mario Kart games!Move around the game board as Mario Princess Peach Luigi or Toad; buy iconic Mario Kart properties such as Bowser's Castle and Rainbow Road. Pass Go to trigger a race from Mario Kart Cup dodge banana peel tokens toss shells and collect coins. A super star space activates special abilities and rolling the power-up die adds a special boost. Winning in this game is all about winning races! Who will end up with the coveted Grand Prix card? When the final race is over the player with the highest score wins.—description from the publisher

Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz

Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Uncategorized

The crew of the Normandy has one more mission. It is the year 2186 and the Reapers have invaded the galaxy. Because the Council ignored Commander Shepard's warnings the Citadel Races are overwhelmed and on the verge of losing the war. Aboard the Normandy Shepard carries out missions to prepare the Crucible an ancient alien superweapon for a last-chance attempt to defeat the Reapers. It's a race against time and Shepard must seize every possible advantage.On the remote world Hagalaz a research cruiser from the terrorist organization Cerberus has crashed directly in the path of a deadly storm. With little time before the storm hits Shepard must lead a squad through the cruiser to uncover its sinister secrets and keep them out of the hands of the enemy. However the ship holds more dangers than just its former crew. Deep within the shattered cruiser stir creatures and enemies far worse than the Cerberus forces that guard them...Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz is a co-operative story-driven game set during the events of the video game Mass Effect 3. A branching narrative campaign allows for multiple playthroughs with a different experience every time. Card-driven AI and evolving stories respond to your actions with your early choices influencing later missions.Gather Shepard's squad from a selection of teammates from the Mass Effect trilogy: Liara Tali Wrex and Garrus. Customize and upgrade your squad's abilities equipment and powers as they gain experience. Enhance them further by unlocking unique powers with optional loyalty missions.--description from the publisher

Super Mario: Level Up! Board Game

Super Mario: Level Up! Board Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 3–6

Game Type:

Uncategorized

Description from the publisher:In Super Mario Level Up! join Mario and his pals as you advance them up the Mushroom Kingdom while challenging other players to gather the most coins and reach the castle at the top.Each player starts with a unique line-up of characters that they are trying to score the most points with. Players take turns moving any character up the board until a character gets to the top.Once a character is advanced to the top board players vote to see if the character stays or is kicked off the Mushroom Kingdom. It takes only one NO vote to get them off the board. And players should use the NO votes wisely as each player only has two NO votes in their hand. The round ends when the character is unanimously voted to stay at the top.Score up your points and play another round. Game ends after three rounds.