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Koruna z popela (Czech edition of Crown of Ash )is a strategic worker placement and area control game for 1 to 4 players.Players take on the role of vengeful necromancers sending out their loyal minions to do their bidding.

In Clans and Glory, you take part in an ancient ritual: the free people of the Scottish Highlands have come from near and far to the meeting place to join a clan chief. Can you win over the best followers?

The first expansion for Karak 2 is here! It brings a number of new features, most notably the inter-player duel system and the new Imperium mode. In the new mode, players compete for the Emperor's Crown, which brings great power, but also great responsibility, in addition to the usual goal. During duels, players can deprive each other of resources. The expansion also introduces 5 new heroes, 2...

Agent Avenue is a competitive card game for 2-4 players that combines bluffing, strategic set collection, and a race to uncover your opponent's identity. Set in a colorful anthropomorphic world, players assume the roles of retired spies in a suburban neighborhood, outsmarting each other with cards that can score points or trigger special effects.  

As leaders of Minoan clans players are in charge of the first European civilization. Build cities, monuments and other structures, open new trade routes, expand and fight off outsiders out of your land, plan your actions with your clan council, research and issue decrees so your actions will be more powerful than your opponents! You have only 4 rounds to prove you are worthy of the legendary...

Sneferu is a family-weight abstract game by Adam Španěl (Project L). Players attempt to win the great pharaoh’s favor by building the highest pyramid possible from mined blocks (with each block being a combination of two of the five possible materials). The players get these blocks by spending the two resources in the game: food and time. Time, represented by your boat moving forward on the...

Will you surpass your teachers' knowledge and grow up to become the best alchemists in the land? Let's find out! It's time to grab your potion ingredients, sharpen your deduction skills, and get mixing! The product is in Czech.

In The White Castle: Matcha, you will have to deal with a new place in which to influence the court using new members of your clan. Having members of your clan in good seats within the Chashitsu (tea room) will help you achieve a greater level of influence within the court of Himeji. Also, you will have one additional action each round. Will that be enough?

Forage is the final instalment of the 9-card solitaire game trilogy (following Orchard and its sequel Grove).

Inferno (Czech Edition) is a soul management game where each player must guide sinners to their respective circles in Hell. The central board consists of two parts: one displaying all 9 circles and the soul registry, while the other represents Florence in the early 14th century, where Dante lived, with its power games and palace intrigues.

You come to on a sandy beach. The sun is burning your back, the sea salt makes your skin itchy, your tongue barely moves in your mouth… You remember a huge wave washing you overboard, and you quickly lost sight of the ship. You are lucky to stay alive. But where are you? Is this place inhabited and do ships sail here? Will you ever return to your homeland? And will you be able to even survive?

You’ve claimed the land. Now let’s get to work, there is a kingdom to build...

You are the head of a fiefdom and its future is in your hands. Will you develop agriculture with fields and mills? Or will you become a pious church-builder or prefer to feast in your sumptuous palaces? Develop your lands in your image and become the most influential lord in the kingdom.

The expansion also comes with cards to use the new wonders in the normal game mode.

Improve your experience with this exclusive promo set for Cestou pokroku (Beyond the Horizon Czech Edition)!

Risky treasure hunting in the depths of the sea... In this powered-up Deep Sea Adventure, players roll 3 dice, boost and move their pieces deeper into the sea, trying to return safely with more treasure than anyone else. Greedy explorers are riding in a submarine together, searching for treasure in the deep sea. With their diving suits on, and brand new boost capability, the explorers eagerly...

In Kyoto no Neko, 2 to 4 players are kittens who explore the modern-day city of Kyoto, Japan through a series of independent, replayable scenarios. In each scenario, players must fulfill a variety of missions that represent typical cat activities, from befriending a school boy to fighting an aggressive stray cat, or stealing the food from other player's dinner bowl. During each game, every...

A city in the mountains was discovered, but no one dares to venture there without having mapped the place. Here is finally a mission for you, an archaeologist with implacable logic. ArcheOlogic is a competitive deduction game whose goal is to first find the exact location of the buildings of the city.

Become the best metro network planner Paris has ever seen. Use overhead crossings to link the capital’s iconic monuments, all while optimising shortcuts through the central platform! This game is the easiest version of the Next Station series, according to publisher Blue Orange Games.

It's 1977. You're an up-and-coming musician, dreaming of making it big with your band. Over the next few months you'll rehearse, play gigs, write songs, and promote your band. With careful planning and a little luck, you'll earn the most fame and become the best new artist of the year.

Tea Garden is a game of talented debuting designer Tomáš Holek, who is also working on his designs for the biggest Czech publishers. The key elements of the game are deck-building and worker-placement, Maybe the most intriguing is the resource management part though. In Tea Garden, you will pay with tea leaves. Those can be either green or black (fermented) – the value of green leaves...

Round up your gang and get ready to pull off a series of bank heists using the power of poker!

Expansion for card game Karak: Goblin that adds two new game modes: alternative boss fights and Survival. Boss Fights that use new boss action card decks are now much more exciting and dynamic (the expansion also adds two new bosses to the roster). Survival mode is played simultaneously and players have to face the waves of ever stronger opponents (this mode use draft mechanics) while...