**Colony Survival** challenges players to strategically manage their lunar colony, balancing survival against unpredictable events that threaten their population. The goal is to outlast competing colonies by maintaining the highest number of survivors.
**Life & Death** introduces a card-driven mechanic where players draw both beneficial and harmful events. These cards directly impact the colony, offering advantages or causing casualties, requiring careful decision-making to mitigate risks.
**Out to Space** sets the game on the Moon, where players compete for dominance in a newly colonized environment. The objective is to endure longer than rival settlements and secure control over the lunar territory.
**Humanity's Crowning Achievement** reflects the game's theme of interstellar expansion, as players guide their colony through the challenges of lunar survival, striving to build the most resilient settlement in human history.
**Play Time** accommodates 1-5 players, with sessions lasting 45-90 minutes. Recommended for ages 14 and up, the game offers a strategic experience centered on resource management and survival tactics.
Travel to the 3rd century AD in the Middle East with *Resafa: City in the Desert*, a board game centered on trade and survival in an arid landscape. Players manage a fortified desert outpost along vital caravan routes, making strategic decisions to secure water—the city’s most critical resource. The game involves navigating merchant routes, negotiating business deals, and constructing canals, workshops, and gardens to sustain and expand the settlement.
Gameplay unfolds over six rounds, with each player taking three actions per round using action cards. The challenge lies in balancing economic growth against the constant demand for water and survival. Designed for efficiency, *Resafa* delivers a complex yet fast-paced experience where players compete to accumulate wealth before the final round concludes.
Five Cucumbers is a strategic trick-taking card game for 2-6 players, inspired by the Scandinavian game "Agurk" with a unique twist. The objective is to avoid winning the final trick, adding a layer of tactical decision-making. Players must carefully manage their card plays to force opponents into taking the last trick, eliminating them from the round. The game combines familiar trick-taking mechanics with an inverted win condition, creating a fresh challenge for groups. Designed for competitive play, it encourages strategic thinking and adaptability as players balance risk and timing. The compact format makes it suitable for quick sessions while maintaining depth for repeated play.
**Fishing: A Strategic Trick-Taking Card Game**
In Fishing, players compete to capture tricks by playing cards strategically. The game accommodates 3 to 5 players, with sessions lasting 30 to 60 minutes, and is designed for ages 14 and up. Players navigate the trick-taking mechanics while managing special buoy cards, which can shift control of the round or influence the next lead color. Opponents may also steal tricks, forcing others to pass cards or lose points. The objective is to outmaneuver fellow players by carefully planning each move to secure the most tricks.
**HISTORY OF THE WORLD STRATEGY GAME**
This economic strategy game traces the progression of human civilization, beginning in Sumeria and advancing to the modern-day United States. Players manage buildings and territories to accumulate gold, which determines final scoring. The game includes over sixty Empire and Event cards featuring key historical figures, capitals, cities, monuments, and forts, adding depth to gameplay.
Players compete for area control by securing strategic locations as they emerge. Rule variations allow for different playstyles, including optional dice mechanics, modified Empire and Event card distribution, new Event cards, and alternative gold collection systems. Designed for 2-6 players, each session lasts approximately 30 minutes per round, with total playtime ranging from 60 to 180 minutes.
This expansion for the base game *Faiyum* provides players with one-time and permanent advantages to further develop the region of Faiyum. Designed for 1 to 5 players aged 14 and up, it enhances the strategic city-building experience with additional gameplay benefits. Playtime ranges from 90 to 120 minutes. Note: The *Faiyum* base game is required to use this expansion. The game focuses on careful planning through card-based mechanics.
*Sea of Strife* is a trick-taking card game designed for 3 to 6 players. The objective is to play multiple rounds until one player reaches a predetermined target number of tricks. The winner is the player who has collected the fewest tricks by that point. Designed by Mark Major, the game features artwork by Beth Sobel and Brigette Indelicato.
Beyond The Sun is a strategic space civilization game where players develop technologies and expand their influence across the galaxy. The expansion, Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn, introduces a dedicated solo mode, allowing single players to experience the game’s depth. It also enhances replayability with asymmetric factions and unique leader abilities, adding new strategic layers to planetary area control. Designed for 1-4 players aged 14 and up, each session lasts between 45 and 90 minutes.
This grid-based strategy game challenges two players to outmaneuver each other to become the last king standing. The game features a vibrant, warm-colored board and high-quality tokens with a phoenix design etched into them. Designed for quick learning and engaging gameplay, it offers a straightforward yet strategic experience for competitive play.
This strategic board game accommodates 1 to 4 players aged 13 and up, with an average playtime of 90 minutes. The game includes 1 game board, 180 era cards, 83 resource tokens, 30 domes, 47 tunnel tiles, 16 metropolis tiles, 111 structure tokens, 4 player info cards, 4 player boards, 4 scoring cards, 4 assistant cards, 4 multiplier tiles, 12 action tiles, 1 action cloning tile, 1 era marker, 12 player markers, 8 government contracts, 25 special cards, 35 credit tokens, and 1 rulebook. Players compete to build underwater cities by developing kelp farms, desalination plants, laboratories, and tunnel networks to connect their structures.
The Rio Grande Carcassonne is a tile-laying strategy game designed for 2 to 5 players. Players compete to claim land and buildings by strategically placing tiles and deploying followers. The game includes illustrated, color-coded instructions for clear and straightforward gameplay.
This strategy game offers engaging decision-making opportunities with each turn, ensuring a dynamic experience. The rules are straightforward, making it accessible for new players. Components are durable and well-crafted for long-term use. Designed for two players, each session lasts between 30 and 60 minutes. Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Carcassonne: The Flier is an expansion for the classic tile-laying board game Carcassonne. This set introduces 18 new land tiles featuring flying machines, allowing players to deploy meeples as fliers when placing these tiles. Fliers can be moved to unclaimed features on the board, adding a new strategic layer to gameplay. The expansion includes 6 flier meeples in a distinct shape for easy identification. Compatible with all Carcassonne base games and expansions, The Flier works seamlessly with existing components while offering fresh tactical options. The expansion maintains the core mechanics of tile placement and area control while introducing aerial movement as an additional way to score points.
This game is designed for 2 to 4 players, with an average playtime of approximately 90 minutes. It offers substantial replayability due to its strategic depth and variable gameplay elements. As a strategy-focused title, it challenges players to plan and adapt their tactics throughout each session. The mechanics encourage thoughtful decision-making while maintaining balanced competition between participants.
Race for the Galaxy is a strategic card game where players compete to build the most successful galactic civilization by developing planets and technologies. The game includes multiple expansions that introduce new cards and mechanics, providing additional depth and replayability. Players earn victory points by efficiently managing resources, expanding their empire, and achieving objectives. As a well-regarded eurogame, it emphasizes tactical decision-making and balanced gameplay without relying on luck-based mechanics. The expansions integrate seamlessly with the base game, offering varied strategies and extended gameplay options.
This two-player abstract strategy game offers deep tactical gameplay with high replay value. The straightforward rules allow for quick setup while maintaining strategic complexity, making each match unique. Players engage in a battle of wits where every decision impacts the outcome, ensuring varied experiences across multiple play sessions. The game's balanced mechanics provide equal opportunities for both participants to develop winning strategies.
This strategy game is designed for 2 to 6 players and features a proprietary design with a focus on competitive bidding mechanics. Players engage in auctions to acquire power plants, with more efficient models becoming available as the game progresses. The gameplay requires strategic decision-making, as players must weigh whether to invest in current options or wait for superior equipment. The design ensures high replay value through dynamic market conditions and shifting player strategies. The game emphasizes tactical resource management and player interaction through its auction-based system.
This abstract strategy game challenges players to navigate robots through a warehouse environment, using walls and other robots as obstacles to block movement. On each turn, a player draws a chip to determine the target location and the designated robot that must reach it. Players then calculate the shortest possible path for the robot to reach the target, utilizing multiple robots if needed.
The player who identifies the most efficient route wins the chip. The game continues until all chips are drawn, and the player with the most chips wins. Designed for 1 to 100 players, Ricochet Robots accommodates group play and solo sessions, with an average playtime of 30 minutes or more. Suitable for ages 14 and up, this reprint of Alex Randolph’s classic abstract game offers a unique puzzle-solving experience.
Bohnanza is a classic Eurogame centered around bean farming, where players plant, trade, and sell beans to collect large sets for gold. The gameplay encourages constant interaction, with trading occurring on every turn to keep the session dynamic. This edition includes 104 original bean cards, 7 bean mats, and illustrated instructions, along with a 50-card expansion pack featuring cocoa, wax, and coffee beans, allowing for up to 7 players. Designed for ages 12 and up, the game offers strategic depth and replay value, making it suitable for family game nights or gatherings with friends. The mechanics focus on negotiation and resource management, ensuring an engaging experience for all participants.
Times have been hard. To save on money, you have moved out of your old castle, and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway, it was always getting looted, and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great, you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you have taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice, since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You are quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else. This is the 7th addition to the game of Dominion. It is 500 cards but is not a stand-alone. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting estates (shelters), and cards you can only get via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards.
This expansion to Dominion adds 25 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus 2 new Basic cards that let players keep building up past Gold and Province. The central theme is wealth; there are treasures with abilities, cards that interact with treasures, and powerful expensive cards. For 2-4 players; takes about 30 minutes to play. — As of 1/23/2012 this product had 4.9 out of 5 stars from 37 reviews on Amazon.com.
This is the 6th addition to the game of Dominion. It adds 26 new Kingdom cards to Dominion including 20 Actions 3 Treasures 3 Victory cards and 3 Reactions. The central theme is cards that do something immediately when you buy them or gain them. Dominion: Hinterlands is an expansion and cannot be played by itself; to play with it you need Dominion or a standalone expansion to Dominion (e.g. Dominion: Intrigue). Those provide the Basic cards you need to play (Treasure Victory and Curse cards) as well as the full rules for setup and gameplay. Dominion: Hinterlands can also be combined with any other Dominion expansions. — As of 1/02/2012 this product had 4.5 out of 5 stars from 10 reviews on Amazon.com.
The peasants have spent a hard week scything hay in the fields, but tonight the festivities begin, starting with a sumptuous banquet of roast hay. Then, the annual nose-stealing competition. Then you have two jesters, one who always lies, one who always tells the truth, both hilariously. This celebration will truly have something for everyone.This is the 5th addition to the game of Dominion. It adds 13 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus 5 unique cards. The central theme is variety; there are cards that reward you for having a variety of cards in your deck, in your hand, and in play, as well cards that help you get that variety.
In this tactical card game, players are monarchs who rule small peasant kingdoms. The players compete to enlarge their kingdoms by claiming as much land as possible. The game is for two to four players and can be played in approximately 30 minutes. — As of 1.06.2011 this product had 5 out of 5 stars from 128 reviews on Amazon.com and was No. 29 on the top 100 bestselling toys and games. PROS: Variety keeps players entertained. CONS: Cards are easy to lose.
This game challenges two to four players/treasure hunters to beat their opponents in transporting 10 treasure pieces to a safe harbor. The hunters must watch out for other merciless pirates as they cruise the seas. Playing time is 25 to 45 minutes.
