Alice is Missing is a silent role playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the sleepy Northern California town of Silent Falls. During the game, players use their phones to send text messages to each other as they unearth clues about what happened to Alice. The game runs over a single session of two or three hours. There is no formal game master, but one player will need to explain and facilitate the rules. In the first 45 minutes, players create their characters, their relationships to Alice, and their ties with each other. The next 90 minutes follow the characters’ text message conversations as they uncover Alice’s fate.
Duel Under the Sea in this new Aquatica game for 1-2 players! After decades of turbulence, it is time to unite the underwater world under the fin or tentacle of a single ruler. Choose a Turtle King or a Squid Queen and improve your underwater realm by playing action cards and assembling locations on three-layered… Duel Under the Sea in this new Aquatica game for 1-2 players!After decades of turbulence, it is time to unite the underwater world under the fin or tentacle of a single ruler.Choose a Turtle King or a Squid Queen and improve your underwater realm by playing action cards and assembling locations on three-layered boards.Duellum adds a new layer of depth to the game with the dynamic market on a vortex board.Be careful! The game can end not only when all players achieve their goals but also based on who is the fastest to collect the crowns. Tension is added by the tug of war mechanic.Also, the Aquatica mantas will finally have the company of equally charming squids and turtles!
Valkyrie is a Black Orchestra stand-alone game with quicker, simpler gameplay, and new strategic elements. Focus on assassinating Hitler with explosives, completing Operation Valkyrie with the Gestapo always close at hand to pull you in for questioning. Stay one step ahead of the Gestapo and defeat Hitler before they collect enough evidence to have you tried for treason and executed.
Black Orchestra Resistance Expansion is an expansion for the original Black Orchestra game that adds 6 new Conspirators to play and 3 different modules. Each module adds new rules, components, and complexity of the game. Widen the range of difficulties and stories to experience.
Beep! Beep! Bus: Complete Edition is a game about developing a public transport network in a rapidly expanding city. The citizens commute between home, the office, and most importantly, the pub. It's crucial for public transit to keep up with growth, lest the city become choked with traffic. Bus: Complete Edition features the same classic gameplay in Bus, now with all wooden game pieces.
The cats are trying to climb a wobbly tower! Help Toto the Cat climb the tower in this cooperative game of dexterity and balance. Work together with other players to help Toto the Cat on his way up a perilous tower to reach the stars, where he believes his mother is waiting for him. It… The cats are trying to climb a wobbly tower!Help Toto the Cat climb the tower in this cooperative game of dexterity and balance. Work together with other players to help Toto the Cat on his way up a perilous tower to reach the stars, where he believes his mother is waiting for him.It is up to you and the other players to build the tower, which will require a constant balancing act of mismatched walls and moving Feline Friends. Depending on the luck of the draw, you may be stuck with options forcing you to build with walls of extremely varying height that can send the entire tower toppling over if you are not careful.Can you and your friends get Toto to the 10th floor of the tower – and beyond?
You've been tasked by the city council to put together a plan to transform a whole neighborhood in the city. You have the opportunity to build new housing, office buildings, parks, and leisure areas near the waterfront. It is in your hands to make the city a better place.Cities is a city-building game in which you draft the best projects and arrange them in your own playing area. Designed by Steve Finn and Phil Walker Harding and illustrated by Jorge Tabanera, it allows games for groups of 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, lasting about 40 minutes. With action and resource draft mechanisms, it will give you the opportunity to visit the cities of Sydney, London, New York, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Can you design the most magnificent neighborhood?The game is played over eight rounds (or four rounds in a two-player game). Each round, players use their workers to collect 1 scoring card, 1 city tile, 1-2 feature tiles, and 2-4 building pieces. City tiles are made up of park spaces, water spaces, and building spaces. Building pieces are placed on building spaces of the same color to form buildings, which can be 1-4 stories high. Whenever a player fulfills an achievement, they place one of their discs on the achievement board. At the end of the game, players add up the points they have gained from all of their scoring cards and achievements.
COMPILE: AUX 1 EXPANSION - Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer. Solve for sentience. In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. EXPANSION: This expansion includes the new Protocols Love, Hate, and Apathy.
>_ >>_ >? >vision flickers… blink? maybe. >the void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. >you see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? >The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. >You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? >Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. >Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? >If we can ever happen again? What are… we? >Divide and conquer. >Solve for sentience.In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. This second auxiliary pack offers three new Protocols to add to your game:
COMPILE: MAIN 1 - Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer. Solve for sentience. In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality.
>_ >>_ >? >vision flickers… blink? maybe. >the void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. >you see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? >The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. >You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? >Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. >Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? >If we can ever happen again? What are… we? >Divide and conquer. >Solve for sentience.In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. This second pack offers a whole new array of Protocols for you and your fellow AI to go head to head against.
Something about the fog that’s rolled in plays tricks on your mind. While the fog is obscuring your vision, you can no longer rely on your pre-existing knowledge of the land to find the critical resources you need to survive. In this expansion each terrain rule has been changed, but you don’t know how. Will you be able to navigate your way to safety or will you believe the lies that your eyes tell you while you’re surrounded by this otherworldly haze?This Expansion also includes new Reference Boards and new Maps to play each of the previous chapters - but with Fog! So imagine trying to kill 3 Minotaurs in the Fauna Chapter - BUT - all the terrain rules are mixed up? This takes Corps of Discovery to a whole new level!
This Expansion has 2 modes to it: Co-operative and Traitor! The malevolent specter of a long-dead conquistador, Maldonado, is trying to exert his evil influence over the Corps. Initially ingratiating himself to the Corps as a sort of spirit guide, Maldonado quickly showed his true colours by spreading misinformation and lies that rot the expedition from the inside like a worm corrupting an apple.In the Traitor mode, only one of you will be under Maldonado’s sway so you will need to root out the weak link to save your crew.In the Co-op mode, Maldonado's influence is still felt, but you need to work together to save your entire crew!
As they explore deeper into the heart of the continent, the Corps of Discovery encounter the Fezron, a species of small, sentient, blue-feathered beings. You share a mutual enemy with the Fezron in the form of the Vameter, a vicious, winged predator that claims the heads of its victims as its own. The Fezron and the crew of the Corps must work together in order to weaken the Vameter and then trap it. You’ll need to plan carefully and be willing to make sacrifices to give your sharpshooters the best chances of putting a bullet into the beast before it takes to the air to elude capture.
Marvel X-Men Dice Throne is a fast-playing, dice-rolling combat game that lets players battle as their favorite X-Men heroes in one-on-one duels, team battles, and free-for-alls! Based on the smash success Dice Throne, this Marvel X-Men Dice Throne 4 Hero Box puts players in the roles of Iceman, Psylocke, Storm, and Wolverine, each with their own set of dice, player board, and unique deck of cards. Attack your opponents and activate abilities with dice rolls, accumulate combat points, and spend them on action cards that allow for ability upgrades. All 4 heroes are compatible with the entire Dice Throne ecosystem.
Marvel X-Men Dice Throne is a fast-playing, dice-rolling combat game that lets players battle as their favorite X-Men heroes in one-on-one duels, team battles, and free-for-alls! Based on the smash success Dice Throne, this Marvel X-Men Dice Throne 4 Hero Box puts players in the roles of Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, and Jean Grey, each with their own set of dice, player board, and unique deck of cards. Attack your opponents and activate abilities with dice rolls, accumulate combat points, and spend them on action cards that allow for ability upgrades. All 4 heroes are compatible with the entire Dice Throne ecosystem.
In Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate, a city-building game from acclaimed designer Matthew Dunstan, you are the head of a powerful family in the iconic city. You grow your prestige by building new businesses within the nine districts, both as one large network and across all the districts. You must also extend your influence with the three main factions of the city: the Council of Four, the Flaming Fist, and the Thieves' Guild.When you place buildings, you place an influence cube on them to indicate your control. This also applies to special keeps, gates, and watchtowers, which are represented by miniatures with slots for your influence cubes, allowing you to see the city grow in three dimensions!Keep in mind that Baldur's Gate is not only a city of industry in the Forgotten Realms, but a city of mortal danger. Mobs of monsters regularly attack the outer walls or from the harbor, forcing temporary alliances to fend off the incursions. Each family tries to take advantage of the crises, using them as stepping stones to advance their own agendas.
Welcome to Epona, an immersive, tableau-building card game for 1-6 players in which you step into the boots of an ambitious equestrian entrepreneur in Central Europe in the 1920s, a time of relative peace and prosperity. Now is the time to finally invest in your dream: to build the most prestigious and successful horse business in the land. But will Epona, the Roman and Gallic goddess of horses and fertility, bring you good fortune as you set out on this endeavor?Over six rounds, you'll acquire new locations for your stables, hire expert staff, purchase essential equipment, and build everything you need, from training arenas to thrilling race tracks. Of course, you'll need horses, too, but choose them wisely as each one brings different ways to score points.Want to go the extra mile? Breed your horses to create future champions and secure your name in equine history! Every choice matters, and every card you add to your tableau brings you closer to greatness — or leaves you in the dust. Will your stables rise above the rest?
In the standalone card game Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends, you build your realm, one card at a time, as you collect heroes, quests, monsters, and more! Each card is unique, and scores points based on the other cards in your hand. You start with seven cards, and each turn, you draw a new card from the deck or discard area, then discard one card from your hand, always trying to improve your realm. Whoever's realm scores the most points wins.Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends takes the classic Fantasy Realms formula and adds new twists to match its theme. In addition to combining the right suits and attribute tags, you will:Send cards to the afterlife, costing precious points but unlocking powerful abilitiesComplete quests with unique card combinationsVanquish legendary monsters with the right heroes
Time your moves wisely and collect the most nectar tokens! In Hummingbirds, players take turns claiming flowers atop hidden sand timers, maneuvering for better positions, and checking for nectar. If a sand timer beneath a flower has run out, you collect a nectar token - but if you check too soon, you'll lose one! The longer you wait, the greater the reward, but misjudging the timing could cost you. Once all nectar tokens of a single color are claimed, the game ends, and the player with the highest total nectar value wins.
Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is a fast-paced, 2-4 player racing game in which you do whatever it takes to beat your opponents through the gates and to the finish line, whether that be through skillfully weaving your way around the track or bashing your opponents out of the way to claim victory. Sometimes the fastest route to the finish line is through everyone else!
Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is a fast-paced, 2-4 player racing game in which you do whatever it takes to beat your opponents through the gates and to the finish line, whether that be through skillfully weaving your way around the track or bashing your opponents out of the way to claim victory. Sometimes the fastest route to the finish line is through everyone else!
We’ve been so pleased with the format of Joyride: Downtown that we’ve put together two mini-expansions, Joyride: High Seas (featuring the Pirate Van) and Joyride: Unleashed (featuring the Safari 4×4). High Seas will release alongside Survival of the Fastest (Aug 2024), and Unleashed will release alongside Next Gen (Feb 2025).
We’ve been so pleased with the format of Joyride: Downtown that we’ve put together two mini-expansions, Joyride: High Seas (featuring the Pirate Van) and Joyride: Unleashed (featuring the Safari 4×4). High Seas will release alongside Survival of the Fastest (Aug 2024), and Unleashed will release alongside Next Gen (Feb 2025).