Date 28 March 2023
User krz2106
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Mage Knight: Ultimate Edition
8.9
4.6
1 - 5
150
Gloomhaven
8.7
3.8
1 - 4
120
The Isle of Cats Explore & Dra..
8.7
0.0
1 - 6
45
Ark Nova
8.7
3.7
1 - 4
150
Clank!: Legacy – Acquisition..
8.6
2.6
2 - 4
120
Human Punishment: The Beginnin..
8.6
3.0
3 - 6
180
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
8.6
3.5
1 - 4
120
Brass: Birmingham
8.6
3.9
2 - 4
120
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
8.6
3.0
2 - 4
60
Kanban EV
8.6
4.3
1 - 4
180
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
8.5
2.8
2 - 4
60
Creature Comforts
8.4
2.6
1 - 5
45
Terraforming Mars
8.4
3.2
1 - 5
120
Ultimate Railroads
8.3
3.2
1 - 4
120
Nemesis
8.3
3.3
1 - 5
180
Aeon's End: War Eternal
8.3
2.9
1 - 4
60
Spirit Island
8.3
4.0
1 - 4
120
Pax Pamir: Second Edition
8.3
3.8
1 - 5
120
Hidden Games Tatort: Grünes G..
8.3
2.0
1 - 6
180
Great Western Trail
8.3
3.7
2 - 4
150
Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
8.2
2.3
2
60
Hidden Games Crime Scene: The ..
8.2
2.2
1 - 6
150
On Mars
8.2
4.6
1 - 4
150
Jagged Alliance: The Board Gam..
8.2
3.4
1 - 4
360
Barrage
8.2
4.0
1 - 4
120
Welcome to the Moon
8.2
2.3
1 - 6
30
A Feast for Odin
8.2
3.8
1 - 4
120
The Search for Planet X
8.1
2.3
1 - 4
60
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Suburbia: Collector's Edition
8.1
2.8
1 - 5
90
Food Chain Magnate
8.1
4.2
2 - 5
240
Terra Mystica
8.1
3.9
2 - 5
150
Lost Ruins of Arnak
8.1
2.8
1 - 4
120
7 Wonders Duel
8.1
2.2
2
30
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
8.1
3.2
2 - 4
60
Underwater Cities
8.1
3.6
1 - 4
150
Everdell
8.1
2.8
1 - 4
80
Wingspan
8.1
2.4
1 - 5
70
Marco Polo II: In the Service ..
8.0
3.3
2 - 4
120
Fields of Arle
8.0
3.8
1 - 2
120
Viticulture Essential Edition
8.0
2.8
1 - 6
90
The Gallerist
8.0
4.2
1 - 4
150
Mechs vs. Minions
8.0
2.4
2 - 4
120
Beyond the Sun
8.0
3.1
2 - 4
120
Aeon's End
8.0
2.7
1 - 4
60
[kosmopoli:t]
7.9
1.2
4 - 8
6
Glen More II: Chronicles
7.9
3.0
2 - 4
120
Puerto Rico
7.9
3.2
3 - 5
150
The Crew: The Quest for Planet..
7.9
2.0
2 - 5
20
Trickerion: Legends of Illusio..
7.9
4.2
2 - 4
180
Teotihuacan: City of Gods
7.9
3.7
1 - 4
120
The LOOP
7.9
2.6
1 - 4
60
Agricola
7.9
3.6
1 - 5
150
The Isle of Cats
7.9
2.3
1 - 4
90
Under Falling Skies
7.9
2.4
1
40
Get on Board: New York & Londo..
7.9
1.5
2 - 5
30
Through the Ages: A Story of C..
7.9
4.1
2 - 4
120
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
7.8
3.6
2 - 4
90
Grand Austria Hotel
7.8
3.2
2 - 4
120
Anno 1800
7.8
3.1
2 - 4
120
Le Havre
7.8
3.7
1 - 5
150
Mombasa
7.8
3.8
2 - 4
150
Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
7.8
4.0
1 - 4
120
Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush G..
7.8
2.2
1 - 4
30
The Quacks of Quedlinburg
7.8
1.9
2 - 4
45
Messina 1347
7.8
3.4
1 - 4
120
Paleo
7.8
2.6
1 - 4
60
Power Grid
7.8
3.2
2 - 6
120
The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.8
1.8
2 - 4
60
Boonlake
7.8
3.6
1 - 4
160
Clank!: A Deck-Building Advent..
7.8
2.2
2 - 4
60
It's a Wonderful World
7.8
2.3
1 - 5
60
Azul
7.8
1.7
2 - 4
45
Architects of the West Kingdom
7.8
2.7
1 - 5
80
PARKS
7.7
2.1
1 - 5
60
Decrypto
7.7
1.8
3 - 8
45
The Quest for El Dorado: The G..
7.7
1.8
2 - 4
60
Raiders of the North Sea
7.7
2.5
2 - 4
80
Witchstone
7.7
2.7
2 - 4
90
Railroad Ink Challenge: Shinin..
7.7
2.2
1 - 4
30
Calico
7.7
2.2
1 - 4
45
In the Hall of the Mountain Ki..
7.7
2.8
2 - 5
90
Res Arcana
7.7
2.6
2 - 4
60
MicroMacro: Crime City
7.7
1.1
1 - 4
45
Chronicles of Crime
7.7
2.0
1 - 4
90
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
7 Wonders
7.7
2.3
2 - 7
30
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedi..
7.7
2.9
1 - 4
60
Cartographers
7.7
1.8
1 - 100
45
Pulsar 2849
7.7
3.3
2 - 4
90
Tigris & Euphrates
7.7
3.5
2 - 4
90
Merv: The Heart of the Silk Ro..
7.7
3.4
1 - 4
90
Merchants of the Dark Road
7.7
2.9
1 - 4
120
Awkward Guests
7.7
2.3
1 - 8
75
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Det..
7.7
2.6
1 - 8
120
Top Ten
7.6
1.1
4 - 9
30
Steampunk Rally Fusion
7.6
2.7
2 - 8
60
Dinosaur Island
7.6
3.0
1 - 4
120
Kitchen Rush (Revised Edition)
7.6
2.0
2 - 4
60
Alchemists
7.6
3.9
2 - 4
120
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures G..
7.6
2.4
2
45
Dice Theme Park
7.6
3.0
1 - 4
90
Roll for the Galaxy
7.6
2.7
2 - 5
45
Patchwork
7.6
1.6
2
30
Pan Am
7.6
2.4
2 - 4
60
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countri..
7.6
1.9
2 - 3
60
Hidden Leaders
7.6
1.8
2 - 6
40
Western Legends
7.6
2.8
2 - 6
90
Dead of Winter: The Long Night
7.6
3.3
2 - 5
120
The Quest for El Dorado
7.6
1.9
2 - 4
60
Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice ..
7.6
2.3
2 - 5
45
Golem
7.6
3.9
1 - 4
120
Fuji Koro: Deluxe
7.6
2.8
1 - 6
120
Welcome To...
7.6
1.8
1 - 100
25
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Codenames
7.6
1.2
2 - 8
15
Pandemic
7.5
2.4
2 - 4
45
Escape Plan
7.5
3.6
1 - 5
120
Project L
7.5
1.5
1 - 4
40
Istanbul
7.5
2.5
2 - 5
60
Fantasy Realms
7.5
1.7
2 - 6
20
Burgle Bros 2: The Casino Cape..
7.5
2.5
1 - 4
70
Stone Age
7.5
2.4
2 - 4
90
Captain Sonar
7.5
2.1
2 - 8
60
Living Forest
7.5
2.2
2 - 4
40
Ticket to Ride: Europe
7.5
1.9
2 - 5
60
The Princes of Florence
7.5
3.2
2 - 5
100
Small World of Warcraft
7.5
2.5
2 - 5
80
LUNA Capital
7.5
1.9
1 - 4
45
Alhambra: Big Box
7.5
2.3
2 - 6
60
Sagrada
7.5
1.9
1 - 4
45
Cryptid
7.5
2.2
3 - 5
50
Fantastic Factories
7.5
2.1
1 - 5
60
T.I.M.E Stories
7.5
2.6
2 - 4
90
Gùgōng
7.5
3.0
1 - 5
90
The Rise of Queensdale
7.5
2.7
2 - 4
60
SCOUT
7.4
1.4
2 - 5
15
Smart10
7.4
1.2
2 - 8
120
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
7.4
1.5
4 - 12
20
Ra
7.4
2.3
2 - 5
60
Time's Up! Edición Amarilla
7.4
1.1
4 - 12
30
Lewis & Clark: The Expedition
7.4
3.3
1 - 5
120
Remember Our Trip
7.4
2.1
2 - 4
30
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Tapestry
7.4
2.8
1 - 5
120
Trails of Tucana
7.4
1.2
1 - 8
15
CloudAge
7.4
2.7
1 - 4
100
Splendor
7.4
1.7
2 - 4
30
Sprawlopolis
7.4
1.8
1 - 4
20
Yukon Airways
7.4
2.7
1 - 4
90
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
7.4
2.0
2 - 4
60
Space Alert
7.4
2.9
1 - 5
30
Carcassonne
7.4
1.9
2 - 5
45
Isle of Skye: From Chieftain t..
7.4
2.2
2 - 5
50
Paper Dungeons: A Dungeon Scra..
7.4
2.1
1 - 8
30
Cosmogenesis
7.4
2.6
2 - 4
60
Cross Clues
7.4
1.0
2 - 6
10
For Science!
7.4
2.1
1 - 6
15
Paris: La Cité de la Lumière
7.4
2.0
2
30
Voll verplant
7.4
1.7
1 - 6
20
Wild Space
7.3
2.1
1 - 5
40
Galaxy Trucker
7.3
2.3
2 - 4
60
Dungeon Lords
7.3
3.5
2 - 4
90
Caves of Rwenzori
7.3
0.0
1 - 5
60
Quirky Circuits: Penny & Gizmo..
7.3
0.0
2 - 4
30
Mille Fiori
7.3
2.1
2 - 4
90
Kingdomino
7.3
1.2
2 - 4
25
Shipyard
7.3
3.5
2 - 4
120
Paris
7.3
2.7
2 - 4
90
Great Plains
7.3
1.9
2
20
Tikal
7.3
2.7
2 - 4
90
Watson & Holmes
7.3
2.1
2 - 7
75
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Notre Dame
7.3
2.7
2 - 5
75
Charterstone
7.3
2.8
1 - 6
75
Rallyman: GT
7.3
2.2
1 - 6
60
Hive
7.3
2.3
2
20
All-Star Draft
7.3
2.2
2 - 6
45
The Prodigals Club
7.3
3.2
2 - 5
100
Riverside
7.3
1.7
1 - 6
25
Maglev Metro
7.3
2.7
1 - 4
90
Between Two Castles of Mad Kin..
7.3
2.1
2 - 7
60
Rolling Realms
7.2
1.8
1 - 6
30
Mysterium
7.2
1.9
2 - 7
42
Taj Mahal
7.2
2.9
2 - 5
90
Point Salad
7.2
1.1
2 - 6
30
Little Town
7.2
1.9
2 - 4
60
New York Zoo
7.2
2.0
1 - 5
60
Carson City
7.2
3.1
2 - 5
90
Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Editio..
7.2
1.4
1 - 6
30
Codex Naturalis
7.2
1.7
1 - 4
30
TRAILS
7.2
1.8
2 - 4
40
Fugitive
7.2
1.6
2
20
Lord of the Rings: The Confron..
7.2
2.1
2
30
Steampunk Rally
7.2
2.5
2 - 8
60
Dice Hospital
7.1
2.3
1 - 4
90
Kingsburg
7.1
2.4
2 - 5
90
Lost Cities
7.1
1.4
2
30
Palm Island
7.1
1.7
1 - 2
15
Broom Service
7.1
2.4
2 - 5
75
Savannah Park
7.1
1.5
1 - 4
40
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Legends of Andor
7.1
2.7
2 - 4
90
Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edit..
7.1
1.4
1 - 6
30
Das perfekte Wort
7.1
1.5
1 - 6
15
Mandala Stones
7.1
1.7
2 - 4
30
Kompromat
7.1
1.6
2
30
Potion Explosion
7.1
1.7
2 - 4
45
Catan
7.1
2.3
3 - 4
120
Biss 20
7.1
1.4
2 - 8
20
Whistle Stop
7.1
2.7
2 - 5
75
Lords of Xidit
7.1
2.6
3 - 5
90
Ingenious
7.1
1.9
1 - 4
45
Curators
7.1
2.4
1 - 4
75
Torres
7.1
2.8
2 - 4
60
Colt Express
7.1
1.8
2 - 6
40
Beasty Bar 3: Born to Be Wild
7.1
1.8
2 - 4
20
Thurn and Taxis
7.1
2.2
2 - 4
60
Red Outpost
7.0
2.4
1 - 4
60
Time's Up! Family
7.0
1.0
4 - 12
30
Genoa
7.0
3.0
2 - 5
120
Smart10: Harry Potter
7.0
1.0
2 - 8
30
Aqualin
7.0
1.6
2
20
Beasty Bar: New Beasts in Town
7.0
1.8
2 - 4
20
Jump Drive
7.0
2.0
2 - 4
30
Antinomy
7.0
2.0
2
30
Qwinto
7.0
1.3
2 - 6
15
On Tour
7.0
1.5
1 - 4
20
Ricochet Robots
7.0
2.4
1 - 99
30
Mr. Jack
7.0
2.1
2
30
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
TEAM3 PINK
7.0
1.1
3 - 6
30
Trapwords
6.9
1.3
4 - 8
45
Save Patient Zero
6.9
0.0
2 - 5
45
Kremlin
6.9
2.8
3 - 6
75
Cupcake Academy
6.9
1.2
2 - 4
10
Wizard
6.9
1.7
3 - 6
45
King of New York
6.9
1.8
2 - 6
40
Escape from the Aliens in Oute..
6.9
1.8
2 - 8
45
Soviet Kitchen Unleashed
6.9
1.3
1 - 6
25
Bloodborne: The Card Game
6.9
2.0
3 - 5
45
NMBR 9
6.9
1.2
1 - 4
20
Inspektor Nase
6.8
1.0
2 - 5
20
Roll Through the Ages: The Bro..
6.8
1.7
1 - 4
45
Dungeon Drop
6.8
1.4
1 - 4
20
Blokus
6.8
1.7
2 - 4
20
Qwixx
6.8
1.1
2 - 5
15
Billabong
6.8
1.9
2 - 4
30
Can't Stop
6.8
1.1
2 - 4
30
GOLD
6.8
1.0
2 - 5
15
World Changers
6.8
1.6
1 - 4
10
Calavera
6.8
1.0
2 - 4
20
Beasty Bar
6.8
1.4
2 - 4
20
Bausack
6.8
1.3
2 - 8
45
Mercado de Lisboa
6.8
2.0
1 - 4
45
Ancient Terrible Things
6.7
2.0
2 - 4
60
Qwirkle
6.7
1.6
2 - 4
45
Sequoia
6.7
1.0
2 - 5
10
Kluster
6.7
1.0
1 - 4
20
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
The Lord of the Rings
6.7
2.5
2 - 5
90
Kodama: The Tree Spirits
6.7
1.6
2 - 5
30
The Werewolves of Miller's Hol..
6.7
1.3
8 - 18
30
Catan Card Game
6.7
2.4
2
120
Kaleidos
6.7
1.2
2 - 12
60
The Game
6.7
1.2
1 - 5
20
Hey, That's My Fish!
6.7
1.4
2 - 4
20
Ubongo
6.7
1.5
1 - 4
25
Cable Car
6.6
1.8
2 - 6
45
TransAmerica
6.6
1.3
2 - 6
30
Spy Connection
6.6
1.7
2 - 4
30
Pandemic: Rapid Response
6.6
2.1
2 - 4
20
Fuji
6.6
2.2
2 - 4
45
Hare & Tortoise
6.6
1.9
2 - 6
45
Machi Koro
6.6
1.5
2 - 4
30
Kahuna
6.6
2.0
2
40
Spot it!
6.6
1.0
2 - 8
15
Frank's Zoo
6.6
1.5
3 - 7
60
Monza
6.6
1.0
2 - 6
10
Panic Island!
6.5
1.0
1 - 8
2
FITS
6.5
1.3
1 - 4
45
Pickomino
6.5
1.1
2 - 7
20
The Border
6.5
1.0
2 - 4
30
Bunte Blätter
6.5
0.0
2 - 4
10
BANG!
6.5
1.6
4 - 7
40
Scotland Yard
6.5
1.9
3 - 6
45
Atlantis
6.5
1.8
2 - 4
45
High Score
6.4
1.0
2 - 5
30
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Niagara
6.4
1.8
3 - 5
45
Abalone
6.4
2.1
2
30
Twenty One
6.4
1.0
2 - 6
15
Villa Paletti
6.4
1.1
2 - 4
30
Penguin Party
6.4
1.1
2 - 6
15
Heimlich & Co.
6.4
1.4
2 - 7
30
Keltis
6.4
1.6
2 - 4
30
Zatre
6.3
2.0
2 - 6
45
Gen7: A Crossroads Game
6.3
2.4
3 - 4
90
The Bucket King
6.3
1.2
2 - 6
45
Master Labyrinth
6.2
1.7
2 - 4
30
Scrabble
6.2
2.0
2 - 4
90
Dampfross
6.2
2.2
2 - 6
90
San Ta Si
6.2
1.7
2
15
5 Minuten Puzzle
6.2
2.0
1 - 6
5
Prime Climb
6.2
1.3
1 - 4
45
Café International
6.2
1.6
2 - 4
60
Go Nuts!
6.2
1.0
2 - 4
15
Dice Hospital: ER – Emergenc..
6.2
0.0
1 - 6
30
Ligretto
6.1
1.1
2 - 4
10
Kill Doctor Lucky
6.1
1.6
3 - 8
45
Trivial Pursuit: Master Editio..
6.1
1.4
2 - 6
60
Stratego
6.1
1.8
2
45
Armonia
6.0
1.3
1 - 4
60
Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest
6.0
1.9
1 - 6
60
UNO H2O
6.0
1.1
2 - 10
30
Make 'n' Break
6.0
1.2
2 - 4
30
Trivial Pursuit: Harry Potter ..
6.0
1.1
2 - 6
60
Title
Rating
Difficulty
Players
Duration
Gum Gum Machine
5.8
1.7
2 - 4
30
What's Up
5.8
1.1
2 - 4
20
Halli Galli
5.7
1.0
2 - 6
10
That's a Question!
5.7
1.0
3 - 6
30
Enchanted Forest
5.7
1.2
2 - 6
60
Black Stories: Real Crime Edit..
5.7
1.1
2 - 15
20
Clue
5.6
1.6
2 - 6
45
Trivial Pursuit: Genus III
5.6
1.6
2 - 6
90
Risk
5.5
2.0
2 - 6
120
Yahtzee
5.4
1.1
2 - 10
30
Trivial Pursuit: Family
5.2
1.0
2 - 6
60
Phase 10
5.1
1.2
2 - 6
45
Explore Europe
5.0
1.4
2 - 6
30
Deutschlandreise
4.4
1.2
2 - 6
45
Monopoly
4.3
1.6
2 - 8
180
Number of games
Favorite designers
Reiner Knizia [16]
Vlaada Chvátil [7]
Uwe Rosenberg [7]
Michael Kiesling [6]
Vital Lacerda [5]
Favorite artists
[13]
Klemens Franz [10]
Oliver Freudenreich [9]
Dennis Lohausen [7]
Favorite publishers
KOSMOS [14]
Czech Games Edition [11]
Ravensburger [8]
Hans im Glück [8]
alea [8]
Rating distribution
Difficulty distribution
1 - 5
150
Published 2018
Publisher WizKids
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist J. Lonnee
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
C ombining elements of RPGs, deck-building, and traditional board games, the Mage Knight Board Game puts you in control of one of four powerful Mage Knights as you explore (and conquer) a corner of the Mage Knight universe under the control of the Atlantean Empire. Build your army, fill your deck with powerful spells and actions, explore caves and dungeons, and eventually conquer powerful cities controlled by this once-great faction! In competitive...
rating
8.9difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2017
Publisher Cephalofair Games
Designer Isaac Childres
Artist Alexandr Elichev
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Action Queue
G loomhaven is a game of Euro-inspired tactical combat in a persistent world of shifting motives. Players will take on the role of a wandering adventurer with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for traveling to this dark corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins. In the process, they will enhance their abilities with experience and loot, discover new locat...
rating
8.7difficulty
1 - 6
45
Published 2022
Publisher The City of Games
Designer Frank West
Artist Dragolisco
Theme Animals
Mechanic Grid Coverage
T he Isle of Cats Explore & Draw features gameplay like The Isle of Cats, but with players now choosing a set of cards each round instead of drafting, and then drawing their discoveries onto their boat. Explore & Draw is a competitive, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-6 players that is ideal for a quick break or taking to a friend’s house. In the game, you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to Th...
rating
8.7difficulty
1 - 4
150
Published 2021
Publisher Feuerland Spiele
Designer Mathias Wigge
Artist Loïc Billiau
Theme Animals
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will help you in achieving this goal. Each player has a set of five action cards to manage their gameplay, and the power of an action is determined by t...
rating
8.7difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2019
Publisher Dire Wolf
Designer Andy Clautice
Artist Clay Brooks
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
C lank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated extends the deck-building fun of Clank! with legacy-style gameplay! Found your own franchise of the legendary adventuring company Acquisitions Incorporated, and shepherd your fledgling treasure-hunters to immortal corporate glory over the course of multiple games. Your game board, your deck, and your world change as you play to create a unique campaign tailored to your adventuring party. Be cunning, be bold...
rating
8.6difficulty
3 - 6
180
Published 2022
Publisher Godot Games
Designer Stefan Godot
Artist Tithi Luadthong
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Area Movement
H uman Punishment: The Beginning is a stand alone game and the Prequel of Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0 and it is a semi-cooperate, social deduction & pick-up and deliver hybrid! 3-6 players try to avoid the secret Machine revolution, but Machine spies are everywhere and they try to corrupt the Human players. There are also Outlaws, Fallen and Legion just as in Human Punishment and every faction works for their own goals. ...
rating
8.6difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2020
Publisher Cephalofair Games
Designer Isaac Childres
Artist Francesca Baerald
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Action Queue
G loomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is a standalone game that takes place before the events of Gloomhaven. The game includes four new characters — Valrath Red Guard (tank, crowd control), Inox Hatchet (ranged damage), Human Voidwarden (support, mind-control), and Quatryl Demolitionist (melee damage, obstacle manipulation) — that can also be used in the original Gloomhaven game. The game also includes 16 monster types (including seven...
rating
8.6difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2018
Publisher Roxley
Designer Gavan Brown
Artist Lina Cossette
Theme Economic
Mechanic Hand Management
B rass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace' 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network, in an effort to exploit low or high market demands. Each round, players take turns according to the tur...
rating
8.6difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2020
Publisher Z-Man Games
Designer Rob Daviau
Artist Dan Gerlach
Theme Spies/Secret Agents
Mechanic Action Points
1 962 — The Cold War continues as a new threat looms on the horizon, a deadly new Soviet bioweapon, something called "Project MEDUSA". You and your fellow medical graduates have been recruited by the CIA for the critical mission of investigating and preventing its development. Travel the world using carefully constructed aliases to move swiftly between Allied, Neutral, and Soviet cities. Your missions will require you to neutralize ...
rating
8.6difficulty
1 - 4
180
Published 2020
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Vital Lacerda
Artist Ian O'Toole
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Points
E lectric vehicles (EVs) have become more common since 2014 and are the future of the automobile industry. They are superior vehicles due to them being more efficient, easier to maintain, cleaner, and cheaper to run. They are computerized machines that use AI to improve safety and in the near future will provide autonomous driving. They receive software upgrades during their lifetime and are constantly improving, unlike their traditional combustion...
rating
8.6difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2015
Publisher Z-Man Games
Designer Rob Daviau
Artist Chris Quilliams
Theme Environmental
Mechanic Action Points
P andemic Legacy is a co-operative campaign game, with an overarching story-arc played through 12-24 sessions, depending on how well your group does at the game. At the beginning, the game starts very similar to basic Pandemic, in which your team of disease-fighting specialists races against the clock to travel around the world, treating disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand. During a...
rating
8.5difficulty
1 - 5
45
Published 2022
Publisher Kids Table BG
Designer Roberta Taylor
Artist Shawna J.C. Tenney
Theme Animals
Mechanic Card Drafting
L ife in the forest is a lot of fun, at least while the sun is shining and the leaves are on the trees. Those days don’t last forever though, and long before the weather starts to change, the wise animals start to harvest for the long cold winter ahead. You will spend many months tucked into your burrow and you want to make it as cozy as possible. A nice bowl of soup, a comfortable rocking chair, and some toys and games will go a long way to ...
rating
8.4difficulty
1 - 5
120
Published 2016
Publisher FryxGames
Designer Jacob Fryxelius
Artist Isaac Fryxelius
Theme Economic
Mechanic Drafting
I n the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terr...
rating
8.4difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2021
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Helmut Ohley
Artist Martin Hoffmann
Theme Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n Ultimate Railroads, players compete in an exciting race to build the largest and most advanced railway network. In order to do so, the players appoint their workers to various important tasks. The development of simple tracks will quickly bring the players to important places, while the modernization of their railway network will improve the efficiency of their machinery. Newer locomotives cover greater distances and factories churn ou...
rating
8.3difficulty
1 - 5
180
Published 2018
Publisher Awaken Realms
Designer Adam Kwapiński
Artist Piotr Foksowicz
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Campaign / Battle Card Driven
P laying Nemesis will take you into the heart of sci-fi survival horror in all its terror. A soldier fires blindly down a corridor, trying to stop the alien advance. A scientist races to find a solution in his makeshift lab. A traitor steals the last escape pod in the very last moment. Intruders you meet on the ship are not only reacting to the noise you make but also evolve as the time goes by. The longer the game takes, the stronger they become. ...
rating
8.3difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2017
Publisher Action Phase Games
Designer Kevin Riley
Artist Gong Studios
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
G ravehold remains the last bastion of The World That Was. As the otherworldly incursions from the creatures known only as The Nameless intensify, a cadre of strange survivors emerge from the void itself. Will they be Gravehold's salvation or its undoing? War Eternal is a standalone game compatible with the cooperative deck-building game Aeon's End. Players struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilit...
rating
8.3difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2017
Publisher Greater Than Games, LLC
Designer R. Eric Reuss
Artist Jason Behnke
Theme Age of Reason
Mechanic Action Retrieval
I n the most distant reaches of the world, magic still exists, embodied by spirits of the land, of the sky, and of every natural thing. As the great powers of Europe stretch their colonial empires further and further, they will inevitably lay claim to a place where spirits still hold power - and when they do, the land itself will fight back alongside the islanders who live there. Spirit Island is a complex and thematic cooperative game abo...
rating
8.3difficulty
1 - 5
120
Published 2019
Publisher Wehrlegig Games
Designer Cole Wehrle
Artist Cole Wehrle
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Points
I n Pax Pamir, players assume the role of nineteenth century Afghan leaders attempting to forge a new state after the collapse of the Durrani Empire. Western histories often call this period "The Great Game" because of the role played by the Europeans who attempted to use central Asia as a theater for their own rivalries. In this game, those empires are viewed strictly from the perspective of the Afghans who sought to manipulate the inter...
rating
8.3difficulty
1 - 6
180
Published 2020
Publisher Hidden Industries GmbH
Designer
Artist
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T he Böhnke couple needs your help! A body washes up at the bathing spot in the suburb of "Westerfelde". The police quickly take a suspect into custody and try to solve the murder case for a long time - in vain. In order to exonerate her arrested husband, the suspect's wife hires you to solve the case. Will you succeed in connecting the complicated events in Westerfelde and keeping a clear mind? One thing is clear: ...
rating
8.3difficulty
2 - 4
150
Published 2016
Publisher eggertspiele
Designer Alexander Pfister
Artist Alexander Pfister
Theme American West
Mechanic Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
A merica in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the tr...
rating
8.3difficulty
2
60
Published 2022
Publisher Super Meeple
Designer Kasper Kjær Christiansen
Artist Maren Gutt
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Action Points
O verview Pagan: Fate of Roanoke from Kasper Kjær Christiansen and Kåre Werner Storgaard is a deduction expandable card game set in colonial America of 1587. The essence of the asymmetrical game is the witch's struggle against the witch hunter. As the witch strives to complete a ritual, the hunter tries to track her down and find out her true identity. Both players access variable card decks with 50 cards ea...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 6
150
Published 2020
Publisher Hidden Industries GmbH
Designer
Artist
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T he Museum of Great Falls* needs your help! The famous Midnight Crown, an heirloom of a rich aristocratic family, was stolen from a museum in "Groß-Borstelheim" during the Long Night of Museums and a mysterious something was left behind. A construct of intrigue and secrets is knitted around a supposedly simple burglary. Be there live to support the Inspector a second time and catch those responsible in the act. Throw yours...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 4
150
Published 2020
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Vital Lacerda
Artist Ian O'Toole
Theme City Building
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
F ollowing the success of unmanned rover missions, the United Nations established the Department of Operations and Mars Exploration (D.O.M.E.). The first settlers arrived on Mars in the year 2037 and in the decades after establishment Mars Base Camp, private exploration companies began work on the creation of a self-sustaining colony. As chief astronaut for one of these enterprises, you want to be a pioneer in the development of the biggest, most a...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 4
360
Published 2019
Publisher Underground Games GbR
Designer Marko Jelen
Artist
Theme Dice
Mechanic Action Points
D escription 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. âWith its modular map tile system and scenario creation and flexible progression, Jagged Alliance allows for brief skirmish games or evening-spanning campaign...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2019
Publisher Cranio Creations
Designer Tommaso Battista
Artist Mauro Alocci
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Drafting
I n the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, and now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers. Barrage is a resource management strategic game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase the...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 6
30
Published 2021
Publisher Blue Cocker Games
Designer Alexis Allard
Artist Anne Heidsieck
Theme City Building
Mechanic Narrative Choice / Paragraph
Y ou've built housing for humanity in neighborhoods and New Las Vegas. Now you need to save humanity through space colonization... Welcome to the Moon uses the same flip-and-write game mechanisms as the earlier title Welcome To..., but now you can play in a campaign across eight adventure sheets. On a turn, you flip cards from three stacks to create three different combinations of a starship number and a corresponding action, then all play...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2016
Publisher Feuerland Spiele
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Economic
Mechanic Automatic Resource Growth
A Feast for Odin is a saga in the form of a board game. You are reliving the cultural achievements, mercantile expeditions, and pillages of those tribes we know as Viking today — a term that was used quite differently towards the end of the first millennium. When the northerners went out for a raid, they used to say they headed out for a viking. Their Scandinavian ancestors, however, were much more than just pirates. They were explo...
rating
8.2difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2020
Publisher Foxtrot Games
Designer Matthew O'Malley
Artist James Masino
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Action Points
A t the edge of our solar system, a dark planet may lurk. In 2015, astronomers estimated a large distant planet could explain the unique orbits of dwarf planets and other objects. Since then, astronomers have been scanning the sky, hoping to find this planet. In The Search for Planet X, players take on the role of astronomers who use observations and logical deductions to search for this hypothetical planet. Each game, the companion app ra...
rating
8.1difficulty
1 - 5
90
Published 2019
Publisher Bézier Games
Designer Ted Alspach
Artist Jason Boles
Theme City Building
Mechanic Card Drafting
S uburbia Collector’s Edition is a revamped version of the classic game Suburbia by Bezier Games. Suburbia fans old and new will fall in love with the updated three dimensional artwork, city-specific recessed borough boards, oversized tiles, and giant tile tower. This beautiful collectors edition features several amazing Game Trayz organizers and includes all existing expansions as well as a brand new one: Nightlife, which has buildings and l...
rating
8.1difficulty
2 - 5
240
Published 2015
Publisher Splotter Spellen
Designer Jeroen Doumen
Artist Iris de Haan
Theme Economic
Mechanic Card Drafting
& quot;Lemonade? They want lemonade? What is the world coming to? I want commercials for burgers on all channels, every 15 minutes. We are the Home of the Original Burger, not a hippie health haven. And place a billboard next to that new house on the corner. I want them craving beer every second they sit in their posh new garden." The new management trainee trembles in front of the CEO and tries to politely point out that... "How do you m...
rating
8.1difficulty
2 - 5
150
Published 2012
Publisher Feuerland Spiele
Designer Jens Drögemüller
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Civilization
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n the land of Terra Mystica dwell 14 different peoples in seven landscapes, and each group is bound to its own home environment, so to develop and grow, they must terraform neighboring landscapes into their home environments in competition with the other groups. Terra Mystica is a full information game, without any luck, that rewards strategic planning. Each player governs one of the 14 groups. With subtlety and craft, the player must at...
rating
8.1difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2020
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Elwen
Artist Jiří Kůs
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
O n an uninhabited island in uncharted seas, explorers have found traces of a great civilization. Now you will lead an expedition to explore the island, find lost artifacts, and face fearsome guardians, all in a quest to learn the island's secrets. Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects, cards can also be u...
rating
8.1difficulty
2
30
Published 2015
Publisher Repos Production
Designer Antoine Bauza
Artist Miguel Coimbra
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders as over three ages players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players, with the players not drafting cards simultaneously from hands of cards, but from a display of face-...
rating
8.1difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2017
Publisher Z-Man Games
Designer Rob Daviau
Artist Atha Kanaani
Theme Environmental
Mechanic Cooperative Game
D escription from the publisher: The world almost ended 71 years ago... The plague came out of nowhere and ravaged the world. Most died within a week. Nothing could stop it. The world did its best. It wasn't good enough. For three generations, we, the last fragments of humanity have lived on the seas, on floating stations called "havens." Far from the plague, we are able to provide supplies to the mainland to ke...
rating
8.1difficulty
1 - 4
150
Published 2018
Publisher Delicious Games
Designer Vladimír Suchý
Artist Uildrim
Theme Card Game
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n Underwater Cities, which takes about 30-45 minutes per player, players represent the most powerful brains in the world, brains nominated due to the overpopulation of Earth to establish the best and most livable underwater areas possible. The main principle of the game is card placement. Three colored cards are placed along the edge of the main board into 3 x 5 slots, which are also colored. Ideally players can place cards into slots o...
rating
8.1difficulty
1 - 4
80
Published 2018
Publisher Starling Games (II)
Designer James A. Wilson
Artist Andrew Bosley
Theme Animals
Mechanic Card Drafting
W ithin the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively character...
rating
8.1difficulty
1 - 5
70
Published 2019
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Elizabeth Hargrave
Artist Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo
Theme Animals
Mechanic Card Drafting
W ingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a ...
rating
8.1difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2019
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Simone Luciani
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Dice
Mechanic Contracts
T he journeys of Marco Polo continue in Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, an epic follow-up to The Voyages of Marco Polo. After traveling to Beijing, your travels now take you back to the West in the service of the Khan, sending you to the farthest reaches of his empire in search of wealth and fame. Marco Polo II is a standalone game based on The Voyages of Marco Polo, and you don't need the original game to play this one. This ne...
rating
8.0difficulty
1 - 2
120
Published 2014
Publisher Feuerland Spiele
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Economic
Mechanic Automatic Resource Growth
W elcome to Arle In Fields of Arle, created by Uwe Rosenberg, one to two players live as farmers in the small and peaceful town of Arle in East Frisia. The flax grown in the land surrounding the village makes it a profitable place to work and live. Fields of Arle takes players through four and a half years of this era of prosperity, with different opportunities available as the seasons change. Farm the land to capitalize on the demand for flax,...
rating
8.0difficulty
1 - 6
90
Published 2015
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Jamey Stegmaier
Artist Jacqui Davis
Theme Economic
Mechanic Contracts
I n Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meager vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crushpad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success. The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a vineyard...
rating
8.0difficulty
1 - 4
150
Published 2015
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Vital Lacerda
Artist Ian O'Toole
Theme Economic
Mechanic Commodity Speculation
T his age of art and capitalism has created a need for a new occupation - The Gallerist. Combining the elements of an Art dealer, museum curator, and Artists’ manager, you are about to take on that job! You will promote and nurture Artists; buy, display, and sell their Art; and build and exert your international reputation. As a result, you will achieve the respect needed to draw visitors to your Gallery from all over the world. ...
rating
8.0difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2016
Publisher Riot Games
Designer Chris Cantrell
Artist Danny Beck
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Action Queue
M echs 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 skill...
rating
8.0difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2020
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Designer Dennis K. Chan
Artist Franz Vohwinkel
Theme Science Fiction
Mechanic Action Drafting
B eyond the Sun is a space civilization game in which players collectively decide the technological progress of humankind at the dawn of the Spacefaring Era, while competing against each other to be the leading faction in economic development, science, and galactic influence. The game is played over a variable number of rounds until a number of game-end achievements are collectively claimed by the players. The winner is the faction with th...
rating
8.0difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2016
Publisher Action Phase Games
Designer Kevin Riley
Artist Gong Studios
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
T he survivors of a long-ago invasion have taken refuge in the forgotten underground city of Gravehold. There, the desperate remnants of society have learned that the energy of the very breaches the beings use to attack them can be repurposed through various gems, transforming the malign energies within into beneficial spells and weapons to aid their last line of defense: the breach mages. Aeon's End is a cooperative game that explores the...
rating
8.0difficulty
4 - 8
6
Published 2020
Publisher Jeux Opla
Designer Julien Prothière
Artist Stéphane Escapa
Theme Party Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
R elive the evening service in six minutes in the most cosmopolitan restaurant in the world! [kosmopoliËt] is played by 4 to 8 players, among which there is always a Waitress, a Maitre d'Hotel, and Cooks. The Waitress will manage the restaurant room on the app. she will have her earphones on and will be able to take orders from customers which she will transmit to the Cooks and especially to the Butler — except th...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2019
Publisher Funtails
Designer Matthias Cramer
Artist Jason Coates
Theme City Building
Mechanic Commodity Speculation
G len More II: Chronicles is a sequel to Glen More, expanding the gameplay substantially compared to the original game. In Glen More II: Chronicles, each player represents the leader of a Scottish clan from the early medieval ages until the 19th century, a leader looking to expand their territory and wealth. The success of your clan depends on your ability to make the right decision at the right time, be it by creating a new pasture for yo...
rating
7.9difficulty
3 - 5
150
Published 2002
Publisher alea
Designer Andreas Seyfarth
Artist Harald Lieske
Theme City Building
Mechanic Action Drafting
I n Puerto Rico, players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico. The aim of the game is to amass victory points by shipping goods to Europe or by constructing buildings. Each player uses a separate small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources. Shared between the players are three ships, a trading house, and a supply of resources and doubloons. The resource cycle of the game is...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 5
20
Published 2019
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Thomas Sing
Artist Marco Armbruster
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Communication Limits
I n the co-operative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. What are the rumors regarding the unknown planet about? The eventful journey through space extends over 50 exciting missions. But this game can only be defeated by meeting common individual tasks of each player. In order to meet the varied challenges communication is essential in the team. But this is more d...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 4
180
Published 2015
Publisher Mindclash Games
Designer Richard Amann
Artist Villő Farkas
Theme Post-Napoleonic
Mechanic Action Points
T rickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional world inspired by the late 19th century urban life and culture, spiced with a pinch of supernatural. Players take on the roles of rival stage illusionists, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They are striving for fortune and fame in a competition hosted by a legendary magician, looking for a successor worthy of the mighty Trickerion Stone, which is fab...
rating
7.9difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2018
Publisher NSKN Games
Designer Daniele Tascini
Artist Odysseas Stamoglou
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Area Movement
T ravel back in time to the greatest city in Mesoamerica. Witness the glory and the twilight of the powerful pre-Columbian civilization. Strategize, accrue wealth, gain the favour of the gods, and become the builder of the magnificent Pyramid of the Sun. In Teotihuacan: City of Gods, each player commands a force of worker dice, which grow in strength with every move. On your turn, you move a worker around a modular board, always choosing o...
rating
7.9difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2020
Publisher Catch Up Games
Designer Maxime Rambourg
Artist Simon Caruso
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T he LOOP is a quirky co-operative game in which you battle the evil Dr. Faux. Play a Temporal Agent in four different game modes, full of new challenges and replay value. Gather powerful artifacts, defy the Doctor's duplicates, and sabotage his maniacal machine. Make the most of your cards and master the LOOP to use them multiple times in impressive chains — but the Doctor isn't going to make this easy on you! The evil Dr. Faux has ...
rating
7.9difficulty
1 - 5
150
Published 2007
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Animals
Mechanic Advantage Token
D escription from BoardgameNews In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going ...
rating
7.9difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2019
Publisher The City of Games
Designer Frank West
Artist Dragolisco
Theme Animals
Mechanic Card Drafting
T he Isle of Cats is a competitive, medium-weight, card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-4 players (6 with expansions). In the game, you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families t...
rating
7.9difficulty
1
40
Published 2020
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Jason Holt
Artist Kwanchai Moriya
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
A liens have arrived to conquer Earth. Enemy ships fill the skies. Humanity retreats to underground bunkers located below cities across the globe. Stand against the common threat! Fight the invaders city by city. Build a team from around the globe to save your planet and defeat the aliens! GAMEPLAY Under Falling Skies is a solo game with a multi-mission campaign. In each mission, you take charge of defending a besieged city.&...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 5
30
Published 2022
Publisher IELLO
Designer Saashi
Artist Monsieur Z
Theme Transportation
Mechanic Connections
A h, here’s the bus! Hurry, grab a seat, and get out of the rain! Just like every trip, you're fascinated by all the other passengers on board: tourists, professionals, students... They're all traveling together, though they each have different destinations. This bus line is truly special, but will it be able to transport everyone safe and sound? In Get on Board: New York & London, you have twelve rounds in which to build the bes...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2006
Publisher Czech Board Games
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist Richard Cortes
Theme Civilization
Mechanic Action Points
T hrough the Ages is a civilization building game. Each player attempts to build the best civilization through careful resource management, discovering new technologies, electing the right leaders, building wonders and maintaining a strong military. Weakness in any area can be exploited by your opponents. The game takes place throughout the ages beginning in the age of antiquity and ending in the modern age. One of the primary mechanisms i...
rating
7.9difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2012
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Simone Luciani
Artist Milan Vavroň
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Bias
T zolkin: The Mayan Calendar presents a new game mechanism: dynamic worker placement. Players representing different Mayan tribes place their workers on giant connected gears, and as the gears rotate they take the workers to different action spots. During a turn, players can either (a) place one or more workers on the lowest visible spot of the gears or (b) pick up one or more workers. When placing workers, they must pay corn, which is use...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2015
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Virginio Gigli
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Drafting
I n the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite cafés are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little café into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your café become the Grand Austria Hotel. ...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2020
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Martin Wallace
Artist Fiore GmbH
Theme Card Game
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n 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 sensi...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 5
150
Published 2008
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme City Building
Mechanic Automatic Resource Growth
I n Le Havre, a player's turn consists of two parts: First, distribute newly supplied goods onto the offer spaces; then take an action. As an action, players may choose either to take all goods of one type from an offer space or to use one of the available buildings. Building actions allow players to upgrade goods, sell them or use them to build their own buildings and ships. Buildings are both an investment opportunity and a revenue stream, as pla...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
150
Published 2015
Publisher eggertspiele
Designer Alexander Pfister
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Queue
I n Mombasa, players acquire shares of chartered companies based in Mombasa, Cape Town, Saint-Louis, and Cairo and spread their trading posts throughout the African continent in order to earn the most money. "As I expected, the East African Company's network of trading posts has spread far into the West. They were even able to expand into a couple of diamond mines. It seems reasonable to invest our recent yield here in Mombasa, rather...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2020
Publisher Board&Dice
Designer Daniele Tascini
Artist Jakub Fajtanowski
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Action Drafting
F our millennia ago on the eastern bank of the Nile river was laid the foundation of the Temple of Amun-Ra. Over the course of two thousand years, the temple complex was gradually expanded and became widely known as "The Most Select of Places" (Ipet-Isut), boasting the largest religious building in the world. Today, the site is known as Karnak, located at Luxor in modern-day Egypt. Join ancient Pharaohs in creating and growing on...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 4
30
Published 2021
Publisher Horrible Guild
Designer Hjalmar Hach
Artist Marta Tranquilli
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
R ailroad Ink Challenge is a quick-playing roll-and-write game for 1 to 4 players. Grab a board and a dry-erase marker, and get ready to reach networking nirvana! Roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board. Expand your network with railways, highways and stations to collect points, but you will be penalized for any open connections, so plan carefully! Railroad Ink Challenge has everything you love from the ori...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
45
Published 2018
Publisher Schmidt Spiele
Designer Wolfgang Warsch
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Medieval
Mechanic Catch the Leader
I n The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the dra...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2021
Publisher Delicious Games
Designer Raúl Fernández Aparicio
Artist Michal Peichl
Theme Economic
Mechanic Grid Movement
M essina 1347 takes place during the introduction of the plague epidemic (a.k.a. the "black death") and the spreading of its infection through town. During this time period, merchant ships delivering luxury goods to Europe brought to these countries an unprecedented epidemic — and one of the first affected cities was Messina, Italy. In the game, players take the role of important Messina families who are leaving town and mo...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2020
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Peter Rustemeyer
Artist Ingram Schell
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Action/Event
P aleo is a co-operative adventure game set in the stone age, a game in which players try to keep the human beings in their care alive while completing missions. Sometimes you need a fur, sometimes a tent, but these are all minor quests compared to your long-term goal: Painting a woolly mammoth on the wall so that humans thousands of years later will know that you once existed. (Okay, you just think the mammoth painting looks cool. Preserving a rec...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 6
120
Published 2004
Publisher 2F-Spiele
Designer Friedemann Friese
Artist Domonkos Bence
Theme Economic
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
P ower Grid is the updated release of the Friedemann Friese crayon game Funkenschlag. It removes the crayon aspect from network building in the original edition, while retaining the fluctuating commodities market like Crude: The Oil Game and an auction round intensity reminiscent of The Princes of Florence. The objective of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone's network gains a predetermined size. In this new ed...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2021
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Michael Menzel
Artist Michael Menzel
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Cooperative Game
I n England in 1193, the county of Nottinghamshire suffers under the yoke of evil Prince John and his henchmen. Can Robin Hood and his companions escape the sheriff's guards and complete their adventures successfully? In The Adventures of Robin Hood, players take on the role of Robin Hood and his companions, with the action taking place on a living game board with no set paths. The board changes over the course of each adventure, and the m...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 4
160
Published 2021
Publisher dlp games
Designer Alexander Pfister
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme American West
Mechanic Bias
W ith a group of pioneers, you have left civilization behind to settle along the shores of Boonlake, a long-forgotten region inhabited by humans long ago. This unexplored area beckons you! Become part of a new community and commit yourself to the common good. Explore the landscapes, build houses and settlements, raise cattle, produce raw materials, and develop an infrastructure. Do your best to automate these processes. Seize the opportunity to mak...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2016
Publisher Renegade Game Studios
Designer Paul Dennen
Artist Rayph Beisner
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
B urgle your way to adventure in the deck-building board game Clank! Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious artifacts. Delve deeper to find more valuable loot. Acquire cards for your deck and watch your thievish abilities grow. Be quick and be quiet. One false step and CLANK! Each careless sound draws the attention of the dragon, and each artifact stolen increases its rage. You can enjoy your plunder only if you make ...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 5
60
Published 2019
Publisher La Boîte de Jeu
Designer Frédéric Guérard
Artist Anthony Wolff
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n It’s a Wonderful World, you are an expanding Empire and must choose your path to your future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You’ll carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world. It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycl...
rating
7.8difficulty
2 - 4
45
Published 2017
Publisher Next Move Games
Designer Michael Kiesling
Artist Philippe Guérin
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I ntroduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have bee...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 5
80
Published 2018
Publisher Garphill Games
Designer Shem Phillips
Artist Mihajlo Dimitrievski
Theme City Building
Mechanic Drafting
A rchitects of the West Kingdom is set at the end of the Carolingian Empire, circa 850 AD. As royal architects, players compete to impress their King and maintain their noble status by constructing various landmarks throughout his newly appointed domain. Players need to collect raw materials, hire apprentices, and keep a watchful eye on their workforce. These are treacherous times, and rival architects will stop at nothing to slow your progress. Wi...
rating
7.8difficulty
1 - 5
60
Published 2019
Publisher Keymaster Games
Designer Henry Audubon
Artist Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
P ARKS is a celebration of the US National Parks featuring illustrious art from Fifty-Nine Parks. In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Collecting these memories in ...
rating
7.7difficulty
3 - 8
45
Published 2018
Publisher Le Scorpion Masqué
Designer Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance
Artist Fabien Fulchiron
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Communication Limits
P layers compete in two teams in Decrypto, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team. In more detail, each team has their own screen, and in this screen they tuck four cards in pockets numbered 1-4, letting everyone on the same team see the words on these cards while hiding the words from the opposing team. In the first roun...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2019
Publisher Ravensburger
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Franz Vohwinkel
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n The Quest for El Dorado: The Golden Temples, which can be played as a standalone game or combined with 2017's The Quest for El Dorado, players have now reached the legendary city of gold and they have started to explore it. What will they find there?
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
80
Published 2015
Publisher Garphill Games
Designer Shem Phillips
Artist Mihajlo Dimitrievski
Theme Medieval
Mechanic Contracts
R aiders of the North Sea is set in the central years of the Viking Age. As Viking warriors, players seek to impress the Chieftain by raiding unsuspecting settlements. To do so, players need to assemble a crew, collect provisions, and journey north to plunder gold, iron and livestock. Glory can be found in battle, even at the hands of the Valkyrie, so gather your warriors because it's raiding season! To impress the Chieftain, you need vict...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2021
Publisher HUCH!
Designer Martino Chiacchiera
Artist Mariusz Gandzel
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Card Drafting
A s established representatives of your guild, you gather around an ancient sacred stone, the significance and magical powers of which are known to adepts only. Each player occupies one of the four towers around the Witchstone and starts from there. Create your magic spells with the help of your cauldron, and put a network of magic energy around the stone. Send out your witches, scoop the magic crystals out of the cauldron, make use of the pentagra...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
30
Published 2021
Publisher Horrible Guild
Designer Hjalmar Hach
Artist Marta Tranquilli
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
R ailroad Ink Challenge is a quick-playing roll-and-write game for 1 to 4 players. Grab a board and a dry-erase marker, and get ready to reach networking nirvana! Roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board. Expand your network with railways, highways and stations to collect points, but you will be penalized for any open connections, so plan carefully! Railroad Ink Challenge has everything you love from the ori...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2020
Publisher Flatout Games
Designer Kevin Russ
Artist Beth Sobel
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Enclosure
C alico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats. In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats! Turns are simple. Select a single patch ti...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 5
90
Published 2019
Publisher Burnt Island Games
Designer Jay Cormier
Artist Josh Cappel
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Grid Coverage
P lay as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former g...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2019
Publisher Sand Castle Games
Designer Thomas Lehmann
Artist Julien Delval
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
P repare Your Place of Power! In a high tower, an Alchemist prepares potions, using vials filled with otherworldly fluids. In a sacred grove, a Druid grinds herbs for a mystical ritual. In the catacombs, a Necromancer summons a bone dragon... Welcome to the world of Res Arcana! In it, Life, Death, Elan, Calm, and Gold are the essences that fuel the art of magic. Choose your mage, gather essences, craft unique artifacts, and use th...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2020
Publisher Edition Spielwiese
Designer Johannes Sich
Artist Daniel Goll
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Cooperative Game
C rimes have taken place all over the city, and you want to figure out exactly what's happened, so you'll need to look closely at the giant city map (75 x 110 cm / 29.5 x 43 inches) to find all the hidden information and trace the trails of those who had it in for their foes. MicroMacro: Crime City includes 16 cases for you to solve. Each case includes a number of cards that ask you to find something on the map or uncover where someone has...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2018
Publisher Lucky Duck Games
Designer David Cicurel
Artist David Cicurel
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Cooperative Game
C hronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of crime investigation, mixing an app, a board game and a touch of Virtual Reality. With the same physical components (board, locations, characters and items), players will be able to play plenty of different scenarios and solve as many different crime stories. Players start the app, choose the scenario they want to play, and follow the story. The goal being to catch the killer of the cur...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 7
30
Published 2010
Publisher Repos Production
Designer Antoine Bauza
Artist Dimitri Chappuis
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Drafting
Y ou are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times. 7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player. Players reveal their cards simultaneous...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2021
Publisher FryxGames
Designer Sydney Engelstein
Artist William Bricker
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T erraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is an engine-building game in which players control interplanetary corporations with the goal of making Mars habitable (and profitable). A new, stand-alone game inspired by Terraforming Mars featuring faster gameplay and over 200 beautifully illustrated cards!
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 100
45
Published 2019
Publisher Thunderworks Games
Designer Jordy Adan
Artist Lucas Ribeiro
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Bingo
Q ueen Gimnax has ordered the reclamation of the northern lands. As a cartographer in her service, you are sent to map this territory, claiming it for the Kingdom of Nalos. Through official edicts, the queen announces which lands she prizes most, and you will increase your reputation by meeting her demands. But you are not alone in this wilderness. The Dragul contest your claims with their outposts, so you must draw your lines carefully to reduce t...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2017
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vladimír Suchý
Artist Sören Meding
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I t is the year 2849, and humanity has harnessed the power of the pulsars. Now we must find a way to distribute this power throughout the stars. In this Euro-style game, players explore space, claim pulsars, and discover technologies that will help them build energy-distribution infrastructure on a cosmic scale. Dice are used to purchase actions, and players choose their dice from a communal pool. There are many paths to victory so you can blaz...
rating
7.7difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 1997
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Bascu
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
R egarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and government. The leaders are used to collect victory points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category, which encourages players not...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2020
Publisher Osprey Games
Designer Fabio Lopiano
Artist Ian O'Toole
Theme Arabian
Mechanic Contracts
M erv: The Heart of the Silk Road is a tense economic game charting the rise and fall of the greatest city in the world. In Merv, players are vying to amass power and wealth in the prosperous heart of the Silk Road. Through careful court intrigue, timely donations to the grand mosque, and favorable trade deals, players attempt to redirect as much of that prosperity as possible into their own pockets. Meanwhile, beyond the city wal...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2022
Publisher Elf Creek Games
Designer Brian Suhre
Artist Andrew Bosley
Theme Exploration
Mechanic Contracts
A fter half a year of daylight, we must now prepare for the dark season. The roads will be treacherous but they will still need to be braved by a select few in order to keep our cities thriving. In Merchants of the Dark Road, you are one of these brave few merchants that travel the dangerous paths between cities. While the job is perilous, fame and fortune await. Discover the capital city where most of your actions will take place using a ...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 8
75
Published 2016
Publisher Megacorpin Games
Designer Ron Gonzalo García
Artist Samuel Gonzalo García
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
A wkward Guests, a.k.a. Incómodos Invitados, is a one-of-a-kind deduction game with infinite re-playability. You can recreate Mr. Walton's murder in so many different ways that you won't ever play two similar games! (Mr. Walton will not thank you for doing this.) The game challenges you to use genuine detective abilities to solve each case. To solve a mystery, you have to interrogate the suspects, question the househo...
rating
7.7difficulty
1 - 8
120
Published 1982
Publisher Sleuth Publications
Designer Raymond Edwards
Artist Bernard Bittler
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Cooperative Game
H ave you ever had the desire to walk the streets of Victorian London with Sherlock Holmes in search of Professor Moriarty? To search the docks for the giant rat of Sumatra? To walk up Baker Street as the fog is rolling in and hear Holmes cry out, "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!"? Now you can! You can enter the opium den beneath the Bar of Gold, but beware, that may be Colonel Sebastian Moran lurking around the corner. You can cap...
rating
7.7difficulty
4 - 9
30
Published 2020
Publisher Cocktail Games
Designer Aurélien Picolet
Artist Aurélien Picolet
Theme Party Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
Y our goal in Top Ten is to survive five rounds, so you and your fellow players need to figure out how to get things in order! To start the game, place a number of unicorn tokens on the game board. Choose one player to be the round's chief. That player gives all players a random card numbered 1-10, then they read one of the five hundred theme cards included in the game, e.g., "Batman wants to replace Robin to fight the bad guys. Creat...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 8
60
Published 2021
Publisher Roxley
Designer Orin Bishop
Artist Lina Cossette
Theme Dice
Mechanic Card Drafting
S teampunk Rally Fusion is a standalone game that can be combined with the original Steampunk Rally. It introduces new tracks with unique event cards, new part abilities (Gear Up and Overcharge), and a new card type: Secret Projects. It also debuts new custom dice representing powerful Fusion energy! Take on the role of ingenious inventors from history. Draft cards to invent your racing contraption. Power your creation's abilities with com...
rating
7.6difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2017
Publisher Pandasaurus Games
Designer Jonathan Gilmour
Artist Kwanchai Moriya
Theme Animals
Mechanic Action Points
I n Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens. Do you go big and create a pack of Velocirapt...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2019
Publisher Pegasus Spiele
Designer Vangelis Bagiartakis
Artist Bartłomiej Kordowski
Theme Real-time
Mechanic Action Timer
T he great world of cooking awaits you! Together with your friends you have purchased an old restaurant and are now responsible for its fate and success. Use only the best ingredients, the freshest herbs and don't let your guests wait - then your restaurant will develop splendidly and you will have a golden future! Kitchen Rush is a cooperative real-time game. Receive your guests, take their orders, use the right ingredients and prepare ta...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2014
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Matúš Kotry
Artist David Cochard
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Action Drafting
I n Alchemists, two to four budding alchemists compete to discover the secrets of their mystical art. Points can be earned in various ways, but most points are earned by publishing theories – correct theories, that is — and therein lies the problem. The game is played in six rounds. At the beginning of the round, players choose their play order. Those who choose to play later get more rewards. Players declare all their acti...
rating
7.6difficulty
2
45
Published 2012
Publisher Fantasy Flight Games
Designer Jason Little
Artist Matt Allsopp
Theme Aviation / Flight
Mechanic Action Queue
S tar Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game is a tactical ship-to-ship combat game in which players take control of powerful Rebel X-wings and nimble Imperial TIE fighters, facing them against each other in fast-paced space combat. Featuring stunningly detailed and painted miniatures, the X-Wing Miniatures Game recreates exciting Star Wars space combat throughout its several included scenarios. Select your crew, plan your maneuvers, and complete your missio...
rating
7.6difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2022
Publisher Alley Cat Games
Designer Adrian Adamescu
Artist Sabrina Miramon
Theme Dice
Mechanic Action Drafting
D ice Theme Park is a dice manipulation board game, all about creating and running your own park of fairground attractions. In Dice Theme Park, you are the park managers, trying to create the most successful theme park in the area, by getting your customers on the most rides possible! The dice in the game represent the customers, with hex tiles representing the rides in your park. Employing a unique “Dice-cascade” mechanic once...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 5
45
Published 2014
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Designer Wei-Hwa Huang
Artist Martin Hoffmann
Theme Civilization
Mechanic Action Retrieval
G ame description from the publisher: Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2–5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins! This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the ...
rating
7.6difficulty
2
30
Published 2014
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. To start play, lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly clockwise of the 2-1 patch. Each player takes five buttons — the currency/points in the game — and someone is chosen as the start player. On a turn, a player either purchases one of the three patches standing cl...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2020
Publisher Funko Games
Designer Prospero Hall
Artist Prospero Hall
Theme Aviation / Flight
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
I n Pan Am, players compete with Pan American Airways and others to build an air-travel empire. Outbid rivals for lucrative landing rights, buy planes with longer range to reach the far corners of the world, and use insider connections to advance your interests. As you bump up against the ever-growing Pan Am, you can sell your routes to the company to earn a tidy profit, with you then using that money to invest in other growth or to purchase Pan Am...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 3
60
Published 2007
Publisher Days of Wonder
Designer Alan R. Moon
Artist Cyrille Daujean
Theme Trains
Mechanic Card Drafting
T icket to Ride: Nordic Countries takes you on a Nordic adventure through Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden as you travel to the great northern cities of Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, and Stockholm. This version was initially available only in the Nordic Countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland; a worldwide limited-edition release occurred in August 2008 and it has since been kept in print again by Days of Wonder. The goal in &qu...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 6
40
Published 2022
Publisher BFF Games
Designer Andreas Müller
Artist Satoshi Matsuura
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Deduction
T he island of Oshra is in turmoil. Following the death of the Emperor, the conflict between the Hill Tribes and the Imperial Army escalated. While the Water People try to maintain balance between the old rivals, the Undead aim to escalate the war. All hope rests on the six children of the Emperor: Who of them will claim the throne? In Hidden Leaders, you take the role of one of six secret leaders, each of them is allied with two of the fo...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 6
90
Published 2018
Publisher Kolossal Games
Designer Hervé Lemaître
Artist Roland MacDonald
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Action Points
H istoric characters from the American Wild West face off and write new legends across the face of history! Gather your gun, your mount, and your grit as you forge your path into the history books. Western Legends is an open-world sandbox tabletop adventure for 2-6 players set in the American Wild West. Players assume the roles of historical figures of the era, earning their legendary status in a variety of ways: gamble, drive cattle, pros...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 5
120
Published 2016
Publisher Plaid Hat Games
Designer Jonathan Gilmour
Artist Joshua Panelo
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Action Points
D ead of Winter: The Long Night is a standalone expansion for Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game that introduces the Raxxon location where horrible experiments will spill out into the town unless players can contain them. The game has players at a new colony location trying to survive with new survivors against brand new challenges. Can you handle being raided by members of other colonies? Will you explore more and unravel the mysteries of ...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2017
Publisher Ravensburger
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Vincent Dutrait
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n The Quest for El Dorado, players take the roles of expedition leaders who have embarked on a search for the legendary land of gold in the dense jungles of South America. Each player assembles and equips their own team, hiring various helpers from the scout to the scientist to the aborigine. All of them have one goal in mind: Reaching the golden border first and winning all of the riches for themselves. Whoever chooses the best tactics will be r...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 5
45
Published 2020
Publisher HUCH!
Designer Inka Brand
Artist Dennis Lohausen
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers, players use eight symbol dice to develop their province, gather goods, and sell them at the market; win over influential personalities in the palace; and sail up and down the Ganges River. As in the original game, you win this race for wealth and fame if you are the first to have your fame marker and your money marker intersect on the two tracks running in opposite directions. —des...
rating
7.6difficulty
1 - 4
120
Published 2021
Publisher Cranio Creations
Designer Flaminia Brasini
Artist Francesco Ciampi
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Action Drafting
G olem is an engine-building game by Simone Luciani, Virginio Gigli and Flaminia Brasini, the same team that brought you Grand Austria Hotel and Lorenzo il Magnifico. The game is based on the 16th-century legend of the Golem of Prague, an anthropomorphic creature that Rabbi Loew animated from a clay statue to protect his people. In the game, players take on the role of rabbis who create and grow these powerful creatures that will be moved ...
rating
7.6difficulty
1 - 6
120
Published 2020
Publisher Game Brewer
Designer Jerome Demeyere
Artist Miguel Coimbra
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Action Points
J apan HÅsei 4 (1707). Mount Fuji is on the verge of erupting. Red hot lava will soon consume the three secret Seien-ji (èç 寺), sacred temples hidden deep in the bowels of the volcano. The ShÅgun is determined to preserve the precious heritage and sends his most noble and gifted samurai warriors on a quest inside the volcano to retrieve the valuable goods. Aft...
rating
7.6difficulty
1 - 100
25
Published 2018
Publisher Blue Cocker Games
Designer Benoit Turpin
Artist Anne Heidsieck
Theme City Building
Mechanic Bingo
A s an architect in Welcome To..., you want to build the best new town in the United States of the 1950s by adding resources to a pool, hiring employees, and more. Welcome To... plays like a roll-and-write dice game in which you mark results on a score-sheet...but without dice. Instead you flip cards from three piles to make three different action sets with both a house number and a corresponding action from which everyone chooses one. You...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 8
15
Published 2015
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist Stéphane Gantiez
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Communication Limits
C odenames is an easy party game to solve puzzles. The game is divided into red and blue, each side has a team leader, the team leader's goal is to lead their team to the final victory. At the beginning of the game, there will be 25 cards on the table with different words. Each card has a corresponding position, representing different colors. Only the team leader can see the color of the card. The team leader should prompt according ...
rating
7.6difficulty
2 - 4
45
Published 2008
Publisher Z-Man Games
Designer Matt Leacock
Artist Josh Cappel
Theme Medical
Mechanic Action Points
I n Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand. The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, o...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 5
120
Published 2019
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Vital Lacerda
Artist Ian O'Toole
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Area Movement
A fter a successful bank heist, you and your fellow thieves are laying low and enjoying the good life. Most of the cash has been hidden away, and the rest has been invested in businesses throughout the city. Everything is going according to plan until the police get a breakthrough in their investigation. Accusations are made, fingers are pointed, and after a heated argument, you decide to go your separate ways. Chaos ensues as the SWAT team is...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 4
40
Published 2020
Publisher Boardcubator
Designer Michal Mikeš
Artist Jaroslav Jurica
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Action Points
B uild 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 de...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 5
60
Published 2014
Publisher Pegasus Spiele
Designer Rüdiger Dorn
Artist Andreas Resch
Theme Economic
Mechanic Contracts
T here's hustle and bustle at Istanbul's grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies. In Istanbul, you lead a grou...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 6
20
Published 2017
Publisher WizKids
Designer Bruce Glassco
Artist Octographics
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
A s ruler, it's up to you to build the mightiest realm in the world! Will you choose to follow military tactics and sweep away all in your path with a massive army? Will you turn towards sorcery and control an inaccessible island surrounded by impenetrable flames? The choice is yours, and no two realms will ever be the same in Fantasy Realms, a combo-licious card game. Fantasy Realms takes seconds to learn: Draw a card, discard a card &mda...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 4
70
Published 2021
Publisher Fowers Games
Designer Tim Fowers
Artist Ryan Goldsberry
Theme Exploration
Mechanic Action Points
T he Burgle Bros are back at it. Never one to turn down a challenging heist, they have decided to take down a string of casinos. But this is no office job—tougher safes, tightened security, and, perhaps worst of all, you'll be working during the day! So what's new in Burgle Bros 2? Gear - Each player now has a kit of unique tools that can be used during ANY player's turn. This leads to coordinated plays and amazing saves, bu...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2008
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Bernd Brunnhofer
Artist Michael Menzel
Theme Dice
Mechanic Contracts
T he "Stone Age" times were hard indeed. In their roles as hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers, our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective. In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. ...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 8
60
Published 2016
Publisher Matagot
Designer Roberto Fraga
Artist Ervin
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Grid Movement
A t the bottom of the ocean, no one will hear you scream! In Captain Sonar, you and your teammates control a state-of-the-art submarine and are trying to locate an enemy submarine in order to blow it out of the water before they can do the same to you. Every role is important, and the confrontation is merciless. Be organized and communicate because a captain is nothing without his crew: the Chief Mate, the Radio Operator, and the Engineer....
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 4
40
Published 2021
Publisher Ludonaute
Designer Aske Christiansen
Artist Apolline Etienne
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
I n Living Forest, you play as a nature spirit who will try to save the forest and its sacred tree from the flames of Onibi. But you are not alone in your mission as the animal guardians have come together to lend a hand around the Circle of Spirits where you progress. Each turn, they bring you valuable elements, so try to combine your team of animal guardians as best as possible to carry out your actions, but be careful because some are l...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 5
60
Published 2005
Publisher Days of Wonder
Designer Alan R. Moon
Artist Cyrille Daujean
Theme Trains
Mechanic Card Drafting
T icket to Ride: Europe takes you on a new train adventure across Europe. From Edinburgh to Constantinople and from Lisbon to Moscow, you'll visit great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. Like the original Ticket to Ride, the game remains elegantly simple, can be learned in 5 minutes, and appeals to both families and experienced gamers. Ticket to Ride: Europe is a complete, new game and does not require the original version. More than j...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 5
100
Published 2000
Publisher alea
Designer Wolfgang Kramer
Artist Arnaud Demaegd
Theme City Building
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
P layers attract artists and scholars trying to become the most prestigious family in Florence. Each player is given a palace grid and reference chart and attempts to gain the most victory points after seven rounds. Scoring victory points can be done in a variety of ways although most will be earned by playing profession cards to generate work points. There are a variety of professions such as astronomers, organists and architects. Each is attracte...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 5
80
Published 2020
Publisher Days of Wonder
Designer Philippe Keyaerts
Artist Miguel Coimbra
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
I n 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 Por...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2021
Publisher Devir
Designer Jose Ramón Palacios
Artist Albert Monteys
Theme City Building
Mechanic Card Drafting
T he dream of maintaining human life on the surface of the moon has now come true. The project to build cities on Earth’s beloved satellite is under way. Things are moving full speed ahead too, the possibilities are enormous because this is 1977, the year when lunar living becomes reality. The most enterprising companies have decided to sponsor teams of scientists, builders, publicists and freelance nightlife entertainers to set out to constr...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 6
60
Published 2009
Publisher Queen Games
Designer Jo Hartwig
Artist Hans-Jörg Brehm
Theme Arabian
Mechanic Card Drafting
O ne big box containing the Alhambra base game plus all five of its current expansions. Its packaging is designed to store the expansions separately. Expansions Included: Alhambra: The Vizier's Favor Alhambra: The City Gates Alhambra: The Thief's Turn Alhambra: The Treasure Chamber Alhambra: Power of the Sultan
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2017
Publisher Floodgate Games
Designer Adrian Adamescu
Artist Peter Wocken
Theme Dice
Mechanic Contracts
D raft dice and use the tools-of-the-trade in Sagrada to carefully construct your stained glass window masterpiece. In more detail, each player builds a stained glass window by building up a grid of dice on their player board. Each board has some restrictions on which color or shade (value) of die can be placed there. Dice of the same shade or color may never be placed next to each other. Dice are drafted in player order, with the start pl...
rating
7.5difficulty
3 - 5
50
Published 2018
Publisher Osprey Games
Designer Hal Duncan
Artist Kwanchai Moriya
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Deduction
Y ou've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meager evidence you could. You're close — soon the whole world will know the truth behind the Cryptid. A group of like-minded cryptozoologists have come together to finally uncover the elusive creature, but the glory of discovery is too rich to share. Without giving away some of what you know you will never succeed in locating the beast, but reveal too much and your name will ...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 5
60
Published 2019
Publisher Metafactory Games
Designer Joseph Z Chen
Artist Joseph Z Chen
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
I t's a manufacturing arms race! Compete against other players as you try to build the most efficient set of factories in the shortest time. You must carefully manage your blueprints, train your workers, and manufacture as many goods as possible in order to achieve industrial dominance! In Fantastic Factories, you race to manufacture the most goods or build the most prestigious buildings. There are elements of dice rolling, worker placemen...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2015
Publisher Space Cowboys
Designer Peggy Chassenet
Artist Ben Carre
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Cooperative Game
D escription from the publisher: The T.I.M.E Agency protects humanity by preventing temporal faults and paradoxes from threatening the fabric of our universe. As temporal agents, you and your team will be sent into the bodies of beings from different worlds or realities to successfully complete the missions given to you. Failure is impossible, as you will be able to go back in time as many times as required. T.I.M.E Stories is a n...
rating
7.5difficulty
1 - 5
90
Published 2018
Publisher Game Brewer
Designer Andreas Steding
Artist Andreas Resch
Theme Medieval
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
C hina, 1570. China is under the reign of the Longqing Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty. He inherited a country in disarray after years of mismanagement and corruption. He resided in the Forbidden city, which was the seat of many emperors under the Ming Dynasty. Constructed from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 72 ha (over 180 acres). It is also under the Ming Dynasty that the Great Wall of China was rebuilt, fortified, an...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2018
Publisher alea
Designer Inka Brand
Artist Fiore GmbH
Theme Civilization
Mechanic Dice Rolling
& quot;Build me a castle! Build me a city worthy of my Queen!" Your King's wish is your command, so you decide to travel into the valley of Queensdale, collect raw materials, build buildings, and take fate into your own hands. Fame and fortune are sure to be yours — if only there weren't those other glory seekers who also followed the King's wishes! Act with courage and wisdom, and remember that your decisions will have consequences...&...
rating
7.5difficulty
2 - 5
15
Published 2019
Publisher Oink Games
Designer Kei Kajino (梶野 桂)
Artist Rie Komatsuzaki
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Ladder Climbing
S COUT is a ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values, players may not rearrange their hand of cards, and players may pass their turn to take a card from the current high set of cards into their hand. More specifically, cards are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10. During set-up, whoever is shuffling the cards should random...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 8
120
Published 2017
Publisher Asmodee
Designer Christoph Reiser
Artist
Theme Trivia
Mechanic Push Your Luck
S mart10 is a quiz game where a player doesn't need to wait for one's turn for long. There are ten possible answers to each question, and every player gets to answer every question. If the answer is correct, the player gets an answer marker. But should you answer or pass? If you don't score your answer markers on time (and thereby pass on this round), you can end up losing them. So if you are not 100% certain of an answer - d...
rating
7.4difficulty
4 - 12
20
Published 2014
Publisher Jolly Thinkers
Designer Tobey Ho
Artist Marcin Adamski
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Communication Limits
D eception: Murder in Hong Kong is a game of deduction and deception for 4-12 players that plays in about 20 minutes. In the game, players take on the roles of investigators attempting to solve a murder case – but there's a twist. The killer is one of the investigators! Each player's role and team are randomly assigned at the start of play and include the unique roles of Forensic Scientist, Witness, Investigator, Murderer, and Accomp...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 5
60
Published 1999
Publisher alea
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Allison Kline
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
R a is an auction and set-collection game with an Ancient Egyptian theme. Each turn players are able to purchase lots of tiles with their bidding tiles (suns). Once a player has used up his or her suns, the other players continue until they do likewise, which may set up a situation with a single uncontested player bidding on tiles before the end of the round occurs. Tension builds because the round may end before all players have had a chance to...
rating
7.4difficulty
4 - 12
30
Published 2008
Publisher Asmodee
Designer Peter Sarrett
Artist Peter Sarrett
Theme Humor
Mechanic Acting
T ime's Up! Edición Amarilla (Yellow edition) is a new edition of popular Time's Up! game Is party game for teams of two or more players. The same set of famous names is used for each of three rounds. In each round, one member of a team tries to get his teammates to guess as many names as possible in 30 seconds. In round 1, almost any kind of clue is allowed. In round 2 no more than one word can be used in each clue (but unlimited s...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 5
120
Published 2013
Publisher Ludonaute
Designer Cédrick Chaboussit
Artist Vincent Dutrait
Theme American West
Mechanic Action Retrieval
O n November 30, 1803, the United States purchased Louisiana from Napoleon. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson decided to send two explorers – Meriwether Lewis and William Clark – to discover this huge terra incognita. Lewis & Clark is a board game in which each player manages an expedition intended to cross the North American continent. Their goal is to be the first to reach the Pacific. Each one has his own Corps of Discover...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 2019
Publisher Saashi & Saashi
Designer Daryl Chow
Artist Takako Takarai
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Drafting
R emember Our Trip is a board game in which players recreate a map of a city they visited together. After returning to your own country, you and the other players have gotten together to try to recall the map of either Kyoto or Singapore (depending on the game board you choose). You need to piece together the scenery of the map using fragments of your memories, with you earning bonus points if your memory matches that of the main board and other pl...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 5
120
Published 2019
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Jamey Stegmaier
Artist Andrew Bosley
Theme Civilization
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
T apestry is a two-hour game for 1-5 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier. Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people — your civilization is unique! In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and mi...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 8
15
Published 2019
Publisher Aporta Games
Designer Eilif Svensson
Artist Gjermund Bohne
Theme Exploration
Mechanic Bingo
T rails of Tucana is a flip-and-write game from the creators of Avenue and Doodle City that is quick and easy to play, but has enough depth to entertain gamers. Each player is given a map of the island Tucana, showing its villages and important sights. The positions of the villages are randomized for each player, so every game will provide a unique puzzle. Each turn, one player flips over two terrain cards. Each player must draw &...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 4
100
Published 2020
Publisher Nanox Games
Designer Alexander Pfister
Artist Christian Opperer
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
C loudAge is a strategy game from Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender. The award-winning authors have created a dark and dystopian world for 1 to 4 players. Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" set fire to countless oil production sites and burned down large forests to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental catastrophe had disastrous effects on the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel abo...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 2014
Publisher Space Cowboys
Designer Marc André
Artist Pascal Quidault
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
S plendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige. On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 4
20
Published 2018
Publisher Button Shy
Designer Steven Aramini
Artist Loïc Billiau
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
J ackhammers chattering, trucks beeping, engines roaring, the sounds of construction are everywhere. Sprawlopolis is growing and YOU are in charge of it all. The last team of planners couldn't cut it, so the city turned to your team, the best of the best. If anyone can turn this tiny town into a thriving civic center it's you. In Sprawlopolis, 1-4 players work together to build a new city from the ground up. Using only 18 cards and a varia...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2019
Publisher Ludonova
Designer Al Leduc
Artist Eric Hibbeler
Theme Aviation / Flight
Mechanic Drafting
I n Yukon Airways, you will be at the controls of your very own seaplane with the mission of transporting travelers to the different points of the Yukon. Embark your passengers (dice) using a draft system and use your ticket cards to take them to the different locations on the map. For each passenger, you get money and the possibility of improving your plane if the passenger finds a point of interest that satisfies their tastes at the destination (...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2016
Publisher The Op
Designer Forrest-Pruzan Creative
Artist Joe Van Wetering
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T he forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, a cooperative deck-building game, and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game, players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville, each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources. By gaining influence,...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 5
30
Published 2008
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist Radim Pech
Theme Electronic
Mechanic Action Queue
S pace Alert is a cooperative team survival game. Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of the galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship. During play, the central computer will announce the presence of various threats on one the supplied 10 minute soundtracks that also acts as a ga...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 5
45
Published 2000
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist Doris Matthäus
Theme City Building
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
C arcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on on...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 5
50
Published 2015
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Andreas Pelikan
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Economic
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
I sle of Skye is one of the most beautiful places in the world, with soft sand beaches, gently sloping hills, and impressive mountains. The landscape of Isle of Skye is breathtaking and fascinates everyone. In the tile-laying game Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King, 2–5 players are chieftains of famous clans and want to build their kingdoms to score as many points as possible—but in each game only four of the sixteen scoring...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 8
30
Published 2020
Publisher MeepleBR
Designer Leandro Pires
Artist Dan Ramos
Theme Medieval
Mechanic Grid Movement
P repare your adventurers for a challenging dungeon exploration in Paper Dungeons, a roll-and-write game that seeks to reproduce the feel of a dungeon-crawler. In the game, you control a classic group of medieval adventurers: warrior, wizard, cleric, and rogue. In each of the nine rounds, you select three of the six rolled dice and use these results to raise the level of your characters, produce magic items, obtain healing potions, and exp...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2017
Publisher Ludonova
Designer Yves Tourigny
Artist Tim Barton
Theme Space Exploration
Mechanic Simulation
I n a game of Cosmogenesis, each player creates their own planet system, starting from a star and an asteroid belt. To do this, they use the elements available on the different sections of the central board. In each round, players obtain one element from each of the four sections over four turns and with these elements players form planets and moons. These then collide with each other, causing them to increase in size, develop rings, form atmospher...
rating
7.4difficulty
2 - 6
10
Published 2020
Publisher Blue Orange Games
Designer Grégory Grard
Artist Simon Douchy
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Cooperative Game
C ross Clues is a cooperative party game about making connections between clues. Work together to fill in the grid of code words by giving single word clues that represent the crossing of two different code words in the grid. Consider your clues carefully and think as a team to fill in as much of the grid as possible! Thousands of different combinations guarantee endless fun! —description from the publisher
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 6
15
Published 2021
Publisher Grey Fox Games
Designer R. Eric Reuss
Artist Veronika Fedorova
Theme Action / Dexterity
Mechanic Cooperative Game
Y ou were never supposed to be the ones standing between the Earth and viral annihilation. So many other groups were better connected, better funded, better equipped, and had much nicer glossy brochures. But here you are, an eccentric bunch of researchers, lab workers, bureaucrats, virologists, and more ready to put it all on the line… …FOR SCIENCE!!! For Science! is a real-time, dexterity and spatial co-op where you...
rating
7.4difficulty
2
30
Published 2019
Publisher 999 Games
Designer Jose Antonio Abascal Acebo
Artist Oriol Hernández
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Action Drafting
P aris is a two-player board game by José Antonio Abascal infused with Parisian aesthetics by the boardgame’s artist Oriol Hernández. The game is set in late 19th century Paris during the 1889 “Exposition Universelle,” or world’s fair, when public electricity was a hot topic. Electricity spread throughout the city, creating today’s beautiful nocturnal Parisian streets and coining Paris’s nickname &l...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 6
20
Published 2021
Publisher Schmidt Spiele
Designer Hisashi Hayashi
Artist Olga Cress
Theme Number
Mechanic Bingo
I n Voll verplant, players create subway networks by filling in the station spaces on their individual game sheets. Using the numbers revealed by the cards, all players fill up their subway map with Xs in the station spaces. However, the number of times they can add stations to each line is limited, so they have to make tough choices. Players can score many points by getting their star bonuses in stations with many intersecting routes. Players also...
rating
7.4difficulty
1 - 5
40
Published 2020
Publisher Catch Up Games
Designer Joachim Thôme
Artist Amélie Guinet
Theme Animals
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
A new Galaxy has just been discovered on the borders of the Empire! Commanding your Spaceship, you go explore this new Eldorado, full of treasures and mysteries. Planet after Planet, your discoveries allow you to build up your Crew. Hire Specialists and Robots to benefit from their abilities. Attract Empire Emissaries on board, which will entrust you with new missions, worth Credits. Grab your part of the wonders that this new Galaxy is full of, t...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2007
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist Tomáš Kučerovský
Theme Real-time
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n a galaxy far, far away... they need sewer systems, too. Corporation Incorporated builds them. Everyone knows their drivers -- the brave men and women who fear no danger and would, if the pay was good enough, even fly through Hell. Now you can join them. You will gain access to prefabricated spaceship components cleverly made from sewer pipes. Can you build a space ship durable enough to weather storms of meteors? Armed enough to defend aga...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2009
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vlaada Chvátil
Artist David Cochard
Theme Economic
Mechanic Action Queue
I n Dungeon Lords, you are an evil dungeonlord who is trying to build the best dungeon out there. You hire monsters, build rooms, buy traps and defeat the do-gooders who wish to bring you down. From the publisher's webpage: Have you ever ventured with party of heroes to conquer dungeons, gain pride, experiences and of course rich treasure? And has it ever occurred to you how hard it actually is to build and manage such underground...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 5
60
Published 2021
Publisher Vivid Games
Designer James Trower
Artist Aaron Howdle
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
C aves of Rwenzori (Ru-Wen-Zor-Ree) Deep in the rainforest the cloud covered Rwenzori mountains hide a vast network of ancient caves steeped in myth and mystery. Explorers have descended into those dark halls looking for fame, riches and glory, when disaster strikes and the entrance collapses. As the dust settles the legend of the caves rings in your ears, “Only one ever comes out!” Players develop the Rwenzor...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 2022
Publisher Plaid Hat Games
Designer Nikki Valens
Artist Danalyn Reyes
Theme Animals
Mechanic Communication Limits
H elp Penny and Gizmo have the best snow day ever in Quirky Circuits: Penny & Gizmo's Snow Day, a co-operative programming game for the whole family. Program lovable robots with your friends and family, but make sure to complete each task before batteries run out. All players must work as a team to complete unique scenarios across a 20-page game book, with each scenario being quirkier than the last. Chase down naughty dust bun...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2021
Publisher Schmidt Spiele
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Stephan Lorenz
Theme
Mechanic Drafting
I n Mille Fiori, you take the role of glass manufacturers and traders who want to profit as much as they can from their role in the production of glass art. The game board features different aspects of the glass production cycle: workshops where the glass is created, houses where it's installed, people who support your work, trade shops where it's sold, and the harbor where ships bring glass to faraway locations. You want to be present in ...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
25
Published 2016
Publisher Blue Orange (EU)
Designer Bruno Cathala
Artist Cyril Bouquet
Theme City Building
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n Kingdomino, you are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. The game uses tiles with two sections, similar to Dominoes. Each turn, each player will select a new domino to connect to their existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects t...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
120
Published 2009
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Vladimír Suchý
Artist Milan Vavroň
Theme Economic
Mechanic Card Drafting
W e’re in 19th century, sea transport is more and more important. Both corporations and naval forces require newer and newer ships. Try to put yourself in the role of their manufacturers. Hire employees, buy accessories, get favour of evaluating committees. Don’t forget to rent a canal and you can heave anchor. Players take turns, beginning with a randomly selected player and continuing around the table clockwise. On their turn...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2020
Publisher Game Brewer
Designer Michael Kiesling
Artist Andreas Resch
Theme City Building
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
E xplore Paris in the 19th century. Discover its renowned architecture and obtain the most eminent buildings in the right districts to achieve victory. Paris is a typical medium-weight Kramer and Kiesling Eurostyle-game with straightforward gameplay, short player turns, and an ingenious point salad mechanism. You mainly score points by obtaining the right buildings and collecting the right bonus cards. In Paris, you take on the ro...
rating
7.3difficulty
2
20
Published 2021
Publisher Lookout Games
Designer Trevor Benjamin
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
O ur ancient ancestors created images on the walls of caves to tell stories about the world around them and the animals they shared it with — and perhaps they, like you, played games to make those stories come to life... Great Plains is a mysterious game about a not-so-mysterious behavior of our kind: two players competing for the dominance over the Great Plains! With help from the spiritual animal world, they overcome hills, cross t...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 1999
Publisher Ravensburger
Designer Michael Kiesling
Artist Mariusz Gandzel
Theme Exploration
Mechanic Action Points
T ikal is a game of exploration within the Central American jungles in search of lost temples and the treasures within. Players send their team of explorers into the jungle, exposing more and more of the terrain. Along the way, you find temples that require further uncovering and treasures. Players attempt to score points for occupying temples and holding onto treasure. Tikal is the first game of the Mask Trilogy. Sequel: ...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 7
75
Published 2015
Publisher Ludonova
Designer Jesús Torres Castro
Artist Javier González Cava
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
W atson & Holmes is a game of deduction set within the magnificent works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Two to seven aspiring detectives step into the shoes of Doctor Watson, working alongside the detective Sherlock Holmes to try to solve a series of so far unpublished cases directly extracted from Doctor John H. Watson's diaries. Those who accept the challenge relive the adventures of the crime-solving duo, visiting each of the locations where the inq...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 5
75
Published 2007
Publisher alea
Designer Stefan Feld
Artist Harald Lieske
Theme Economic
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
R io Grande Games' description: The players take on the roles of the heads of influential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. In the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral, the players compete for prosperity and reputation. Each family controls one of the 3–5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of h...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 6
75
Published 2017
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Jamey Stegmaier
Artist Lina Cossette
Theme City Building
Mechanic Card Drafting
T he prosperous Kingdom of Greengully, ruled for centuries by the Forever King, has issued a decree to its citizens to colonize the vast lands beyond its borders. In an effort to start a new village, the Forever King has selected six citizens for the task, each of whom has a unique set of skills they use to build their charter. In Charterstone, a competitive legacy game, you construct buildings and populate a shared village. Building stick...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 6
60
Published 2020
Publisher BoardM Factory
Designer Jean-Christophe Bouvier
Artist Loïc Muzy
Theme Racing
Mechanic Dice Rolling
S tart your Engines! Rallyman is a Roll and Move game with a simple yet exciting dice mechanic that invites players to push their luck and navigate the terrain as best they can. Will you take a risk and squeeze every last second out of the track, or will you play it cool and avoid spinning out on hard corners, bumps and other treacherous terrain? Holy Grail Games will be reimagining this classic 2009 racing board game. Th...
rating
7.3difficulty
2
20
Published 2000
Publisher Gen42 Games
Designer John Yianni
Artist John Yianni
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Enclosure
H ive is a highly addictive strategic game for two players that is not restricted by a board and can be played anywhere on any flat surface. Hive is made up of twenty two pieces, eleven black and eleven white, resembling a variety of creatures each with a unique way of moving. With no setting up to do, the game begins when the first piece is placed down. As the subsequent pieces are placed this forms a pattern that becomes the playing surf...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 6
45
Published 2021
Publisher SunCoreGames
Designer Marco Schaub
Artist Malte J. Zirbel
Theme Animals
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
& quot;Don’t get cold feet! Prove yourself as manager by drafting the best players and sending them to this year’s All-Star Cup. Keep in mind that a well-coordinated team will attract more fans! Once you made your way through the regular season, the playoffs await. You’re skating on thin ice now, because those who lose are eliminated right away!" All-Star Draft is a card drafting game in which 2-6 players participate...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 5
100
Published 2015
Publisher Cranio Creations
Designer Vladimír Suchý
Artist Tomáš Kučerovský
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Action Points
W elcome to The Prodigals Club! You and your fellows are proper Victorian gentlemen who have realized that the lower classes have more fun. Now you are in a friendly competition to see which of you can destroy his own social standing most thoroughly. In The Prodigals Club, you compete in three separate competitions: trying to lose an election, trying to get rid of all your possessions, or trying to offend the most influential people in hig...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 6
25
Published 2021
Publisher Chilifox Games
Designer Eilif Svensson
Artist Gjermund Bohne
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
F ar to the north, in a remote winter land, rivers are frozen most of the year. When the villages along the riverside eventually are accessible, a small river cruise company offers exotic tours like polar bear safaris, reindeer trips, ice fishing, and more. Lucky tourists may even get a chance to see the northern lights. You work as a tour guide trying to attract tourists to your guide boats for spectacular excursions. Riverside i...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2021
Publisher Bézier Games
Designer Ted Alspach
Artist Alanna Kelsey
Theme Trains
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n Maglev Metro, utilize state-of-the-art magnetic levitation technology to build a metropolitan rail system, transporting workers and robots beneath the city. Replace aging Manhattan and Berlin subway systems with newer, faster, quieter technology. Enhance your rail system's abilities so that your passengers arrive at their destinations first. Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building gam...
rating
7.3difficulty
2 - 7
60
Published 2018
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Matthew O'Malley
Artist Laura Bevon
Theme Post-Napoleonic
Mechanic Card Drafting
B etween Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is published by Stonemaier Games as part of a collaboration with Bezier Games. The king demands a castle! You are a world-renowned master builder who has been asked by the Mad King Ludwig to help design his castles. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with another master builder to execute your grandiose plans. Will your p...
rating
7.3difficulty
1 - 6
30
Published 2021
Publisher Stonemaier Games
Designer Jamey Stegmaier
Artist Marius Petrescu
Theme Number
Mechanic Bingo
I n the early days of the coronavirus, a time of self-isolation for many people, Jamey decided to create an infinitely scaling roll-and-write game to teach and play with people around the world via Facebook Live. In Rolling Realms, players compete to earn the most stars in a series of minigames over 3 rounds. This is a roll-and-write game, meaning that players will write on the game components using dry-erase markers. Each turn, o...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 7
42
Published 2015
Publisher Libellud
Designer Oleksandr Nevskiy
Artist Igor Burlakov
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Communication Limits
I n the 1920s, Mr. MacDowell, a gifted astrologer, immediately detected a supernatural being upon entering his new house in Scotland. He gathered eminent mediums of his time for an extraordinary séance, and they have seven hours to make contact with the ghost and investigate any clues that it can provide to unlock an old mystery. Unable to talk, the amnesiac ghost communicates with the mediums through visions, which are represented ...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 5
90
Published 2000
Publisher alea
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Atha Kanaani
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
N orthwest India at the beginning of the 18th century. The rule of the Grand Moguls is waning, and the Maharishis and princes seize the opportunity to take control of the region. By influencing the prominent forces, building magnificent palaces, and ensuring a steady supply of commodities, the princes increase their power until the most successful has won. The goal of the game is to gain the most influence points. These can be obtained by ...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 6
30
Published 2019
Publisher Alderac Entertainment Group
Designer Molly Johnson
Artist Dylan Mangini
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
P oint Salad is a fast and fun card drafting game for the whole family. There are over 100 ways to score points. Players may use a variety of strategies and every game of Point Salad is unique! Cards come in six different types of veggies, and the back of each card has a different scoring method. So for instance, one scoring method may award 2 points for every carrot you have, but deduct a point for every onion. By drafting combinations o...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2017
Publisher Studio GG
Designer Shun Taguchi
Artist Sabrina Miramon
Theme City Building
Mechanic Tile Placement
I n Little Town, you lead a team of architects and must dispatch workers to the town, collect resources and money, build buildings, and develop this little town. In the game, which lasts four rounds, you can acquire resources such as wood, stones, fish, and wheat from the surrounding squares by putting workers on the board, with three workers being placed each round. When you place a worker, you acquire the resources available in all eight...
rating
7.2difficulty
1 - 5
60
Published 2020
Publisher Feuerland Spiele
Designer Uwe Rosenberg
Artist Felix Wermke
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Automatic Resource Growth
P uzzling and animal breeding: Designer Uwe Rosenberg is at his best! In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal enclosures, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The game play is straight forward as you have only two turn options: Puzzle a new enclosure tile into your zoo area or gain new animals to populate your animal encounters. But be sure to time your actions well since you want your zoo to participate in as...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 5
90
Published 2009
Publisher Quined White Goblin Games
Designer Xavier Georges
Artist Alexandre Roche
Theme American West
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
C arson City is a strategic game played in four rounds, and in each one of them, the players choose a character from the seven available that gives certain advantages. After selecting characters, your cowboys are placed on action track locations that allow you to construct buildings, houses, or roads; claim ground; earn money; or score victory points. When more than one player is on the same location, get ready, it is time for a duel! Roll...
rating
7.2difficulty
1 - 6
30
Published 2018
Publisher Horrible Guild
Designer Hjalmar Hach
Artist Marta Tranquilli
Theme Dice
Mechanic Bingo
I n the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. You have to draw these routes on your erasable boards to create transport lines and connect your exits, trying to optimize the available symbols better than your opponents. The more exits...
rating
7.2difficulty
1 - 4
30
Published 2021
Publisher Bombyx
Designer Thomas Dupont
Artist Maxime Morin
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Hand Management
I n CODEX Naturalis, you must continue the work of the illuminating monk Tybor Kwelein, assembling the pages of a manuscript that lists the living species in primary forests. Can you put the pages together in the best order possible? And are you prepared to sacrifice a species to develop your manuscript? In the game, each player starts with a single card on the table, a card that shows some combination of the four possible resources in the...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 4
40
Published 2021
Publisher Keymaster Games
Designer Henry Audubon
Artist Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Contracts
T ake a hike in TRAILS, exploring iconic sites and national parks across the U.S., gathering resources, observing wildlife, and earning wilderness badges. TRAILS is a standalone adventure in the PARKS series with artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In TRAILS, players hike back and forth along the trail, collecting rocks, acorns and leaves; taking pictures; and encountering wildlife to gain bonuses. At trailhead and trail end, y...
rating
7.2difficulty
2
20
Published 2017
Publisher Fowers Games
Designer Tim Fowers
Artist Ryan Goldsberry
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Hand Management
F ugitive is a two-player card game set in the world of Burgle Bros. One player is a fugitive trying to make it out of town while being pursued by an unstoppable agent. The fugitive plays cards face down to the table trying to work their way to a goal, while the agent must guess those cards to uncover them. If all the cards are face up, the fugitive is caught.
rating
7.2difficulty
2
30
Published 2002
Publisher 999 Games
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist John Howe
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Area Movement
A n asymmetrical Stratego-like game themed around The Lord of the Rings. Each player controls a force of 9 unique characters (light vs. dark) whose identities are hidden from their opponent at the beginning of the game. Each player also starts with a hand of 9 unique cards, which are used in resolving combats as the characters move out across the board. The victory conditions of the players are also asymmetrical: the Fellowship player wins by movin...
rating
7.2difficulty
2 - 8
60
Published 2015
Publisher Roxley
Designer Orin Bishop
Artist Lina Cossette
Theme Dice
Mechanic Card Drafting
S teampunk Rally is a strategy game that incorporates steampunk as more than just a bit of chrome. Using a unique dice-placement mechanism, players take on the roles of famous inventors from the turn of the last century like Nikola Tesla and Marie Curie, constructing fantastical contraptions that make use of steam, heat and electricity in an attempt to win a no-holds-barred race through the Swiss alps. Each round starts with a card draft i...
rating
7.2difficulty
1 - 4
90
Published 2018
Publisher Alley Cat Games
Designer Stan Kordonskiy
Artist Sebastián Koziner
Theme Dice
Mechanic Action Points
I n Dice Hospital, a worker placement game, players must treat as many patients as possible to appease the local authorities! Players use their hospital staff to treat patients on their personal hospital player boards. However, players may also call in specialist staff to react to certain situations that arise to score more points with the authorities! The game uses worker placement mechanics for the staff, dice as the patients where low scores ind...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 5
90
Published 2007
Publisher Stratelibri
Designer Andrea Chiarvesio
Artist Mad4GameStyle
Theme City Building
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n Kingsburg, players are Lords sent from the King to administer frontier territories. The game takes place over five years, a total of 20 turns. In every year, there are 3 production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an invading army. Each player must face the invaders, so this is not a cooperative game. The resource...
rating
7.1difficulty
2
30
Published 1999
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Vincent Dutrait
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Hand Management
L ost Cities is a card game in the Kosmos two-player series. The game originally consisted of a single deck of cards of rank 2–10 in five different colors with three special "handshakes" ("HS" in scoring examples below) in each suit, but as of 2019 the game now includes six colored suits, with the sixth color being optional for gameplay. A game board is included to organize discarded cards and help players organize their c...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 2
15
Published 2018
Publisher Portal Dragon
Designer Jon Mietling
Artist Jon Mietling
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
P alm Island is a portable game that you can take with you anywhere. Sitting, standing, waiting, riding, flying, relaxing, alone, or together you can play Palm Island no table required. Using a deck transforming mechanic a player uses just 17 cards over 8 rounds to shape their island and overcome its unique challenges. Store resources to pay for upgrades and upgrade buildings to access new abilities. Each decision you make will alter your ...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 5
75
Published 2015
Publisher alea
Designer Andreas Pelikan
Artist Vincent Dutrait
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Area Movement
S core the most victory points by delivering potions via Broom Service throughout the magical realm. Broom Service is a card-based game that combines luck and skill and balances timely bluffing with clever hand management. Remake of award-winning Witch's Brew: New theme! Now with 3 types of roles: witches, druids, and gatherers. Drizzelda, the weather fairy, helps chase away the bad weather. New i...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 4
40
Published 2021
Publisher Deep Print Games
Designer Michael Kiesling
Artist Annika Heller
Theme Animals
Mechanic Pattern Building
I n Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces. Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in y...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
90
Published 2012
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Michael Menzel
Artist Michaela Kienle
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Area Movement
L egends of Andor is a cooperative adventure board game for two to four players in which a band of heroes must work together to defend a fantasy realm from invading hordes. To secure Andor's borders, the heroes will embark on dangerous quests over the course of five unique scenarios (as well as a final scenario created by the players themselves). But as the clever game system keeps creatures on the march toward the castle, the players must balance ...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 6
30
Published 2018
Publisher Horrible Guild
Designer Hjalmar Hach
Artist Marta Tranquilli
Theme Dice
Mechanic Bingo
I n the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. You have to draw these routes on your erasable boards to create transport lines and connect your exits, trying to optimize the available symbols better than your opponents. The more exits...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 6
15
Published 2021
Publisher moses. Verlag GmbH
Designer Moritz Dressler
Artist Kreativbunker
Theme Real-time
Mechanic Real-Time
D as perfekte Wort (German for The perfect Word) is a competitive word game for one to six players. The game is played over 9 rounds. At the start of the game, a score card is drawn that determines how many points the different vowels in a word are worth during this game. Each round, the players reveal a combination of a letter and a word length. They then have one minute to come up with a word that scores them as many points as p...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 2021
Publisher Board&Dice
Designer Filip Głowacz
Artist Zbigniew Umgelter
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic End Game Bonuses
I n Mandala Stones, you use artists to collect colorful stones in towers that you then score. To set up the game, randomly place the 96 stones — 24 each in four colors and 48 each in two patterns — on the main board in stacks of four. Place the four artist pillars in their starting locations among these stone stacks. On a turn, you either pick stones or score stones. To pick, move an artist to a new location, then coll...
rating
7.1difficulty
2
30
Published 2020
Publisher Helvetiq
Designer Rob Fisher
Artist Felix Kindelan
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Push Your Luck
I n this one-on-one game, take on the mantle of rival spies competing by undertaking daring missions and trying to remain undercover. The two players compete using blackjack hands to win missions and collect special abilities. To complete a mission successfully, overtake your opponent but be careful not to go over 21 or you will collect notoriety tokens! Being famous is great, but being too well-known might bring you down... The game is played in 6...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
45
Published 2015
Publisher Horrible Guild
Designer Stefano Castelli
Artist Giulia Ghigini
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Pattern Recognition
P otion Explosion is a game for 2 to 4 players by Horrible Games. It was designed by Lorenzo Silva, Andrea Crespi and Stefano Castelli. Dear students, it's time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: Take an ingredient marble from the dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode and you can take them, too! Complete your potions using the marbles you collec...
rating
7.1difficulty
3 - 4
120
Published 1995
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Klaus Teuber
Artist Volkan Baga
Theme Economic
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce bric...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 8
20
Published 2020
Publisher 999 Games
Designer Lena Burkhardt
Artist Rolf Vogt
Theme
Mechanic Memory
I n Biss 20, you count from 1 to 20 together, with each player saying one number in turn. Okay, that sounds simple! And it would be if not for Fritz the bat who keeps coming up with new rules that you need to remember — and just when you've remembered one rule, he's already waiting around the corner with the next one. How many rules can you recall? —description from the publisher
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 5
75
Published 2017
Publisher Bézier Games
Designer Scott Caputo
Artist Jason Boles
Theme American West
Mechanic Action Points
D escription from the publisher: With the driving of the golden spike in 1869, the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States — but really it was only the beginning of a rapid expansion of railways that would crisscross the entire country. In Whistle Stop, you make your way west across the country, using your fledgling railroad company to build routes, pick up valuable cargo, and deliver needed goods ...
rating
7.1difficulty
3 - 5
90
Published 2014
Publisher Libellud
Designer Régis Bonnessée
Artist Xavier Gueniffey Durin
Theme Fantasy
Mechanic Action Queue
T he Black Southern Host has arisen, corrupting the hearts of the indigenous creatures. Afflicted by a mysterious sickness, they are attacking human cities. The last remaining hope for restoring peace to Xidit lies with the Kingdom's noble heirs, the Idrakys. As one of them, you must roam the Kingdom recruiting brave soldiers and reclaiming threatened cities. Your bravery will not go unrewarded: accumulate wealth, send bards to sing your praises, a...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2004
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Michaela Kienle
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Hand Management
I n Ingenious, a.k.a. Einfach Genial, players take turns placing colored domino-style tiles on a game board, scoring for each line of colored symbols that they enlarge. The trick, however, is that a player's score is equal to their worst-scoring color, not their best, so they need to score for all colors instead of specializing in only one or two. In more detail, the game includes 120 domino-style tiles, each consisting of two conjoined he...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 4
75
Published 2021
Publisher Little Rocket Games
Designer Tove Jomer
Artist Emilie Vaccarini Francis
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Pick-up and Deliver
C urators is a Euro-style, tile-laying game for 1-4 players in which players build museums and their collections to attract visitors. Your job as curator is to expand the museum and its collection. With help from your employees you will build new wings and collect objects to put on display in the museum. The employees are represented by five chips that are used to determine what different actions you may take in the game. Select y...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 1999
Publisher F.X. Schmid
Designer Michael Kiesling
Artist Alessandra Cimatoribus
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Action Points
T orres is an abstract game of resource management and tactical pawn movement. Players are attempting to build up castles and position their knights to score the most points each turn. Players have a limited supply of knights and action cards that allow special actions to be taken. Efficient use of pieces and cards, along with a thoughtful awareness of future possibilities, is the heart of this game. Torres is considered by many to be a...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 6
40
Published 2014
Publisher Ludonaute
Designer Christophe Raimbault
Artist Ian Parovel
Theme American West
Mechanic Action Queue
O n the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, gunfire and hurrying footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel For...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
20
Published 2019
Publisher Zoch Verlag
Designer Stefan Kloß
Artist Alexander Jung
Theme Animals
Mechanic Hand Management
T he Beasty Bar game attracts more and more animals to the red carpet in front of the legendary bar. With Born to be Wild, it is the third time that twelve ""beasts"" show up there. The new animals add even more cunning feints, wild dynamics, comical situations, and finesse to the game. Following the well-known rules of Beasty Bar, all the animals of the "extended customer base" can be combined. Consequently, ...
rating
7.1difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2006
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Andreas Seyfarth
Artist Michael Menzel
Theme Post-Napoleonic
Mechanic Card Drafting
I n Thurn & Taxis, players build post office routes across Bavaria and the regions around, collecting bonus points in various ways. The board shows a map of all the cities, with roads leading from each one to some of its neighbors. There are various colored regions around the board, most with two or three cities, and a large region with all the Bavarian cities in the center. Players build postal routes from city to city to city so that...
rating
7.1difficulty
1 - 4
60
Published 2019
Publisher Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd
Designer Raman Hryhoryk
Artist Irina Pechenkina
Theme Farming
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
A top secret Soviet space mission set out to colonize a planet in a remote galaxy, far away from home. The settlers built there a small communist heaven which exists to this day. As one of the leaders, your goal is to guide the settlers on this new, yet strangely familiar terrain. In Red Outpost, players get to control all of the settlers, each time a different one. You must expertly manage the resources and choose the jobs carefully so a...
rating
7.0difficulty
4 - 12
30
Published 2010
Publisher Asmodee
Designer Peter Sarrett
Artist
Theme Memory
Mechanic Acting
T ime's Up! Family is a charades-based party game for teams of two or more players (and is best with teams of two). Before the game begins, each player looks at several cards featuring well-known items, crafts and animals and chooses some of them. Each player's cards and shuffled to form a deck, and this deck is used for each of the game's three rounds. In each round, team members take turns trying to get their teammates to guess as many w...
rating
7.0difficulty
2 - 5
120
Published 2001
Publisher alea
Designer Rüdiger Dorn
Artist David Cochard
Theme Negotiation
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
I n Genoa (originally published as The Traders of Genoa), players take the part of Renaissance traders, moving about the city acquiring goods and filling orders for goods. Messages need to be delivered and privileges obtained. Of course, none of this can be accomplished on one's own. Much negotiation and deal-making is the order of the day in an effort to become the richest deal-maker in Genoa. Flexible rules allow for negotiating almost everythin...
rating
7.0difficulty
2 - 8
30
Published 2021
Publisher Peliko/Martinex Oy
Designer (Uncredited)
Artist
Theme Novel-based
Mechanic Team-Based Game
D o you know Harry Potter world like your own pocket? Smart10 Harry Potter is a quiz game where a player doesn't need to wait for one's turn for long. There are ten possible answers to each question, and every player gets to answer every question. If the answer is correct, the player gets an answer marker. But should you answer or pass? If you don't score your answer markers on time (and thereby pass on this round), you can end ...
rating
7.0difficulty
2
20
Published 2020
Publisher KOSMOS
Designer Marcello Bertocchi
Artist Sophie Rekasowski
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Grid Movement
T here's turmoil at the reef, with different sea animals forming swarms again and again. Each turn in Aqualin, the active player selects one of six stones and places it on an empty field. One player is trying to make groups of the same color, while the other is forming groups of identical sea creatures, with players having the ability to move a stone before placing a new one to form new swarms. The larger the group, the more points it's wo...
rating
7.0difficulty
2 - 4
20
Published 2015
Publisher REXhry
Designer Stefan Kloß
Artist Alexander Jung
Theme Animals
Mechanic Hand Management
B easty Bar: New Beasts in Town is the first standalone expansion to the 2014 card game Beasty Bar, and it can be played either by itself or in combination with the original game, as part of a challenging two-round draft. Twelve all-new beasts with new special powers are lining up in front of the bar. As before, it is imperative to stay at the front of the queue in order to be able to join the party. When combined with the original game, e...
rating
7.0difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 2017
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Designer Thomas Lehmann
Artist Martin Hoffmann
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Hand Management
W ith the invention of Jump Drive, the race for the galaxy begins! Develop new technologies and settle worlds to build a space empire. Find winning card combinations! Jump Drive is a fast-paced card game that introduces players to the Race for the Galaxy universe. Can you build the most prosperous galactic civilization? Jump Drive is a standalone game and offers simpler rules and a shorter game than its older sister Race for the G...
rating
7.0difficulty
2
30
Published 2019
Publisher Button Shy
Designer John Baluci
Artist Marty Cobb
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Hand Management
/ an-tin-uh-mee/ noun (A contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox) As a Sorcerer, you have long sought ancient relics, imbued with magic. What unspeakable power can you unleash when you collect relics from anywhere in the spacetime continuum? Antinomy is a head to head battle of wits as 2 competing sorcerers in search of powerful Paradox Crystals. Play a single card from you...
rating
7.0difficulty
2 - 6
15
Published 2015
Publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Designer Bernhard Lach
Artist Oliver Freudenreich
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
P layers in Qwinto all play at the same time, with everyone trying to fill the rows on their scoresheets with numbers as quickly — and as highly — as possible in order to score the most points. To set up, each player receives a scoresheet that contains three colored rows of shapes (mostly circles with a few pentagons); the rows don't completely overlap, but they do overlap enough to create five vertical columns of three shapes,...
rating
7.0difficulty
1 - 4
20
Published 2019
Publisher BoardGameTables.com
Designer Chad DeShon
Artist Anca Gavril
Theme Dice
Mechanic Bingo
Y ou're living the dream. You're in a band and they’re about to go on tour. It's your job to schedule the band's stops over your 100-day tour, visiting as many states as possible. Each turn in On Tour, two ten-sided dice are rolled to make two two-digit numbers. For example, a roll of 3 and 7 creates the numbers 37 and 73. All players write each of those numbers in a state on their map. The regions they can write in are restricted by...
rating
7.0difficulty
1 - 99
30
Published 1999
Publisher Hans im Glück
Designer Alex Randolph
Artist Franz Vohwinkel
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Grid Movement
R icochet Robots is less of a game and more of a puzzle, which explains why there's such an odd number of solutions possible. There's a four-piece modular board that forms a large room with walls spread around the board. There are also color-coded targets on boards. Placed on top of the surface are four robots. The idea for each turn/puzzle is to get the like-colored robot to a randomly selected target. The trick is that once a robot starts moving,...
rating
7.0difficulty
2
30
Published 2006
Publisher Hurrican
Designer Bruno Cathala
Artist Pierô
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Drafting
I n Mr. Jack, one of the two players represents Jack the Ripper, who will be one of the eight characters on the board. This player knows which character is Mr. Jack, and his goal is to flee from the district as soon as possible (or avoid being accused for eight turns). The other player represents an independent investigator (not represented on the board) who tries to guess the identity of Jack — but he can make only one accusation during the ...
rating
7.0difficulty
3 - 6
30
Published 2019
Publisher Brain Games
Designer Alex Cutler
Artist Reinis Pētersons
Theme Action / Dexterity
Mechanic Cooperative Game
T hree monkeys have started a construction company, and the building blueprints are coming in quick! Now the monkeys have to work together to complete their blueprints before time runs out. The game of TEAM3 PINK is played in teams of three players, with each player taking on the role of one of the three monkeys: the monkey who can't speak, the monkey who can't see, or the monkey in the middle. • The monkey who can't speak is...
rating
7.0difficulty
4 - 8
45
Published 2018
Publisher Czech Games Edition
Designer Jan Březina
Artist Dávid Jablonovský
Theme Exploration
Mechanic Modular Board
T he game is for 2 teams, divided into two approximately equivalent number of players and takes about 30 minutes to play. It could remind you of the classic word game known as Taboo, but this one has an interesting twist on gameplay – the opposing team is the one who chooses the words you cannot use. With you having no idea which words are "traps", it’s like dancing on a minefield, when you’re trying to describe...
rating
6.9difficulty
2 - 5
45
Published 2021
Publisher Helvetiq
Designer Cédric Martinez
Artist Emiliano Ponzi
Theme Deduction
Mechanic Simultaneous Action Selection
A new pathology has just appeared! Patient Zero has been identified, and it's up to you to find the antidote as soon as possible to save the patient and humanity! Save Patient Zero pits two labs against each other. Each lab employs one or two scientists (i.e., players), while another player plays a lab computer named Savvy. The labs compete to identify an antidote of three molecules, with the labs typically sharing no information with one...
rating
6.9difficulty
3 - 6
75
Published 1986
Publisher The Avalon Hill Game Co
Designer Urs Hostettler
Artist Res Brandenberger
Theme Negotiation
Mechanic Voting
A game of political intrigue set in the Soviet Politburo. The game consists of a large number of politician cards, some of which form the first politburo. Politicians have certain stats (preferred offices, for instance) and an age. At the start of the game, the players secretly note influence on ten politicians, graded from 10 (most) to 1 (least). Gameplay is not clockwise, but happens from top to bottom in the politburo. Whatever action ...
rating
6.9difficulty
2 - 4
10
Published 2020
Publisher Blue Orange (EU)
Designer Erwan Morin
Artist Simon Douchy
Theme Puzzle
Mechanic Cooperative Game
C upcake Academy is a cooperative game of logic and speed. Work together with your fellow pastry chefs to organize your kitchen based on your instructor’s assignments. Each assignment wants your cupcake cups to be arranged in a specific layout in the kitchen, so you must quickly move the cups to empty plates or on top of smaller cups, one at a time, before time runs out! —description from the publisher
rating
6.9difficulty
3 - 6
45
Published 1984
Publisher K. Fisher Enterprises Ltd.
Designer Ken Fisher
Artist Franz Vohwinkel
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Betting and Bluffing
T he trick-taking game Wizard uses a sixty-card deck that consists of the traditional 52-card deck (1-13 in four suits) along with four Wizards (high) and four Jesters (low). Players compete over multiple rounds based on the number of players, and whoever ends with the highest score wins. In each round, players are dealt a hand of cards — one card in the first round, two cards in the second, three in the third, etc. — then trum...
rating
6.9difficulty
2 - 6
40
Published 2014
Publisher IELLO
Designer Richard Garfield
Artist Sébastien Lamirand
Theme Dice
Mechanic Area Movement
T here's always something happening in the city that never sleeps. Maybe it's the lights, maybe it's the energy, or maybe it's the giant monsters trying to demolish the place! King of New York is a standalone game from designer Richard Garfield that keeps the core ideas of King of Tokyo while introducing new ways to play. As in KoT, your goal is to be the first monster to collect 20 victory points (VPs) or to be the last monster standing. ...
rating
6.9difficulty
2 - 8
45
Published 2010
Publisher Cranio Creations
Designer Mario Porpora
Artist Giulia Ghigini
Theme Horror
Mechanic Grid Movement
E scape from the Aliens in Outer Space is a card game of strategy and bluff set on a badly damaged deep space research ship. On-board systems have failed, plunging the ship into darkness. But even worse: A mysterious alien plague has crept aboard and is transforming the human crew into horrendous monsters! The remaining crewmen desperately try to save their lives by escaping from the derelict spaceship, but in the darkness the aliens are lurking......
rating
6.9difficulty
1 - 6
25
Published 2018
Publisher Devir
Designer Andreas Wilde
Artist Andreas Wilde
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Cooperative Game
Y ou're a troop of Soviet field cooks cooperating to create meals out of barely available food supplies. Whatever you find at the front, you should consider putting it in the meat grinder! Isn't it more about the looks anyways? The sausage is not red enough? Some rusty nails will do! Your mush looks like vomit? Yellow sand will give it the right color! But beware! Too much of the good will finish even the toughest Soviet stomach. Sovie...
rating
6.9difficulty
3 - 5
45
Published 2016
Publisher CMON Global Limited
Designer Eric M. Lang
Artist Sean Chancey
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Card Drafting
B loodborne: 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 han...
rating
6.9difficulty
1 - 4
20
Published 2017
Publisher 999 Games
Designer Peter Wichmann
Artist Fiore GmbH
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Bingo
N umbers aren't worth anything in NMBR 9 unless they're off the ground floor and looking down from above. The game includes twenty cards numbered 0-9 twice and eighty tiles numbered 0-9; each number tile is composed of squares in some arrangement. After shuffling the deck of cards, draw and reveal the first card. Each player takes a number tile matching the card and places it on the table. With each new card drawn after that, each player t...
rating
6.9difficulty
2 - 5
20
Published 2021
Publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Designer Reinhard Staupe
Artist Oliver Freudenreich
Theme
Mechanic Cooperative Game
I n the co-operative deduction game Inspektor Nase, players take turns in the role of "Inspector Nose" to try to lead everyone else to identify the correct card. The game plays over five rounds, and you start each round by laying out five image cards from the deck. If you are Inspector Nose, shuffle the number cards (1-5) and look at one of them to determine which target card players must not remove from play. You then roll five ...
rating
6.8difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2008
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Matt Leacock
Artist Marko Fiedler
Theme Ancient
Mechanic Contracts
I n Roll Through the Ages, players roll dice to obtain commodities and workers to build up their civilizations. Dice can be rerolled twice unless they come up as a hazard. Players use their workers to build infrastructure to support additional works or to build monuments that are worth points. At the same time, commodities are gathered that allow your civilization to develop. Once all monuments or five developments are achieved by a player, the gam...
rating
6.8difficulty
1 - 4
20
Published 2020
Publisher Phase Shift Games
Designer Scott R. Smith
Artist Marília Nascimento
Theme Adventure
Mechanic Card Drafting
G ather your gear and prepare to dive into the labyrinth! Teeming with untold treasure, the tunnels are said to be inhabited by unusual creatures, both adorable and terrible. Keep your wits about you as the very walls shift in the torchlight... ...it's time to drop into the dungeon! Dungeon Drop is a lightweight dungeon crawler for 1-4 players, featuring a novel spatial element that assures no two games could possibly be the same....
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
20
Published 2000
Publisher Educational Insights
Designer Bernard Tavitian
Artist Alan D. Hoch
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Enclosure
B lokus (officially pronounced "Block us") is an abstract strategy game with transparent, Tetris-shaped, colored pieces that players are trying to play onto the board. The only caveat to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board. There is a solitaire variation where one player tries to get rid of all the pieces...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 5
15
Published 2012
Publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Designer Steffen Benndorf
Artist Oliver Freudenreich
Theme Dice
Mechanic Bingo
Q wixx is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue. To score points you want to mark off as many numbers as possible, but you can mark off a number only if it's to the right of all marked-off numbers in the same row. On a turn, the active player rolls six dice: two white an...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 1992
Publisher AMIGO
Designer Eric Solomon
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Grid Movement
I n the geometrical racing game Billabong, players maneuver teams of kangaroos jumping around a "billabong" ("a dead-end channel extending from the stream of a river," a term used in Australia). The board is made up of checkerboard-style squares around the billabong in the middle. On your turn, you move one of your five kangaroos, usually moving it in a jump or series of jumps over the other kangaroos. Jumps can be long...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
30
Published 1980
Publisher Parker Brothers
Designer Sid Sackson
Artist Klemens Franz
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n this Sid Sackson classic, players must press their luck with dice and choose combinations tactically to close out three columns. The board has one column for each possible total of two six-sided dice, but the number of spaces in each column varies: the more probable a total, the more spaces in that column and the more rolls it takes to complete. On their turn, a player rolls four dice and arranges them in duos: 1 4 5 6 can become 1+4 and 5+6 fo...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 5
15
Published 2020
Publisher Game Factory
Designer Reiner Knizia
Artist Melanie Friedli
Theme Children's Game
Mechanic Memory
T he gold is calling and Mount Gold Rush, the last remaining gold mine, is being stormed on all sides. Which gold digger can get the most gold out of the mine and outsmart rivals on the way? Reveal 2 cards. Find the nuggets. Trick your rivals. Extract the most gold.
rating
6.8difficulty
1 - 4
10
Published 2021
Publisher Korea Boardgames Co., Ltd.
Designer THEKI
Artist Alba Ballesta González
Theme Card Game
Mechanic Drafting
W ho would you take to another planet if Earth were no longer inhabitable? What if you could pick people from long bygone eras? Turns out that you are the captain of an interstellar spaceship, and you need to assemble your crew to live on a new planet. You can recruit them from historical persons throughout the whole of human history, but each person has their own peculiarities. Can you make the best team to let humanity thrive once more?&...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
20
Published 2019
Publisher moses. Verlag GmbH
Designer Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist Kreativbunker
Theme Bluffing
Mechanic Dice Rolling
C alavera is a roll-and-write game in which each player wants to make as many crosses on their block as possible because many crosses bring many points. But beware! If the players are too greedy, their valuable points melt away again. Whoever chooses the best die result and makes the crosses in the right place wins. This is how it is played: Everybody collects as many crosses in each color as possible on their block page. ...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
20
Published 2014
Publisher Zoch Verlag
Designer Stefan Kloß
Artist Alexander Jung
Theme Animals
Mechanic Action Queue
T he animals are dressed up and ready to enter the "Beasty Bar" nightclub. Who will actually make it through the door? Beasty Bar is a fun "take that" card game about party animals. The players play animal cards into a line, and each animal has a special power that can manipulate the order of the cards. Whenever five animals are present at the end of a turn, the two animals up front get to party while the one at the rea...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 8
45
Published 1987
Publisher Brädspel.se
Designer Klaus Zoch
Artist Jan Richard Hansen
Theme Action / Dexterity
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
P layers take turns choosing blocks and giving them to each other to place on their structure. A player may pay a certain number of 'beans' to refuse a block and it gets passed to the next player. When a player's structure falls, they are out of the game. Last player standing wins. Description of Bandu (1992, Milton Bradley, 2-6 players): Bandu is based upon the game of Bausack. Each player is given a base block and a number of bean...
rating
6.8difficulty
1 - 4
45
Published 2021
Publisher Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designer Vital Lacerda
Artist Pedro Soto
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
M odern day markets offers to their visitors various kind of stands, restaurants, and services. In Mercado de Lisboa, players buy stands in the market, open new businesses that influence those stands, and bring customers to them. Mercado de Lisboa is a thinky filler title, a tile-placement game based upon the Lisboa city-building system in which players pay money to own stands in the market, open restaurants next to them to improv...
rating
6.8difficulty
2 - 4
60
Published 2014
Publisher Buró
Designer Simon McGregor
Artist Rob van Zyl
Theme Dice
Mechanic Dice Rolling
I n Ancient Terrible Things, a pulp horror adventure game for 2-4 players, you play the role of an intrepid adventurer, exploring a dark jungle river. Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location, face an Ominous Encounter, and attempt to unlock its Ancient Secrets. If you succeed (using a combination of dice, tokens and cards), you add the Secrets to your score; if you fail, you unleash a Terrible Thing, which counts against your score at the e...
rating
6.7difficulty
2 - 4
45
Published 2006
Publisher MindWare
Designer Susan McKinley Ross
Artist
Theme Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Hand Management
T he abstract game of Qwirkle consists of 108 wooden blocks with six different shapes in six different colors. There is no board, players simply use an available flat surface. Players begin the game with six blocks. The start player places blocks of a single matching attribute (color or shape but not both) on the table. Thereafter, a player adds blocks adjacent to at least one previously played block. The blocks must all be played in a lin...
rating
6.7difficulty
2 - 5
10
Published 2020
Publisher BoardGameTables.com
Designer Chad DeShon
Artist Anca Gavril
Theme Dice
Mechanic Area Majority / Influence
I n Sequoia you are trying to grow the tallest trees in 11 different forests. After your 10 turns, if you have the tallest tree, then you get the victory points from that forest. Second place gets a small consolation prize. Each turn, you get to grow two of your trees. Which trees you choose will determine if you win or lose. Do you keep fighting in a forest with competition, or start growing your tree somewhere else? You'll have to wrestl...
rating
6.7difficulty
1 - 4
20