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The Nesting Season Expansion introduces exciting competitive interaction between players. By creating a thriving underwater ecosystem, players can empower turtles to brave the shores and lay their precious eggs. Guide your sea turtles to the ideal nesting grounds! With an extensive selection of brand-new Sealife, Ecosystem Cards, and Corals, enrich your gameplay experience.

In this strategic 4X board game, you command an interstellar alliance made up of three unique factions. Explore star systems, colonize distant worlds, research breakthrough technologies, build galactic cruisers, and shape the destiny of the cosmos.

In Bohemians, players take on the roles of artists wandering the streets of Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, striving to create masterpieces while facing the challenges of daily life. Bohemians is a card-driven game in which players collect cards to find inspiration, seek muses, and manage everyday necessary tasks. In each round, players must plan that day's routine and decide...

In Countryside, you are a farmer with a vision, and you want to build the most thriving and efficient farm the land has ever seen. To do so, you will expand your territory by playing area cards and cultivate it with trees, vegetables, animals, and more. Will you raise live-stock in lush meadows, plant trees in your garden, or focus on growing hearty crops? Every decision counts as the right...

DONE I AM is an especially silly game. If you take it seriously, then it’s your own fault! The game consists of a handful of cards. Theoretically, there are 83 cards. But because curious things happen in this game, there may be fewer. However, it doesn’t matter. On your turn, you may either draw 1 card from the draw pile into your hand or play 1 card from your hand face-up into the discard pile...

With Skybridge Players dive into a fantastic world beyond imagination. A world that stretches along the inner walls of a colossal sphere, enclosed by a cosmos of stone. A hollow world known as THRAEN. Home to noble Drakhes, and home to diverse factions whose ambitions and myths constantly collide with one another. But the most wondrous sight lies at the very center of this world—a verdant...

The monsters are making the fairground unsafe. Players throw themselves into a crazy bumper car ride with Ghostbumpers and try to keep their nerve. Who will be the first to get scared?  

Trick or Treats? Tricky Treats!Dress up your children with funny and colorful costumes to collect sweets and play tricks!    

In ANTS, players control ant colonies locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the garden. Expand your anthill, explore the terrain, and mark your path with pheromones. Gather food and leaves, battle rival insects, and outmaneuver your opponents. Lay eggs and hatch larvae to grow your workforce with specialized ants. Evolve your colony to unlock unique abilities and secure supremacy...

Inspired by classic arcade-fighting games, Tag Team is an auto battler combined with a deck-building game. Make your team of two fighters from the twelve available — each with their own techniques and special moves — and build an unbeatable synergy by combining their two unique decks!  

Do robots dream of electric sheep after a long day of manufacturing widgets and thingamabobs? Or do they sleep at all? Maybe they break off into teams and hop into the machine to blow off a little steam with a race for anodic glory and a chance at upgrading themselves into more skilled bots. Into the Machine is a highly tactical race in which circle-bots race to one end of the machine to tag...

As the wealthy flaunt their valuables, with their infinite money and privilege, the less fortunate of us are left to scheme on how to skim a bit off the top. You are not wealthy. You call your esteemed profession: “Wealth Redistribution” or, in layperson’s terms - burglary, ah - but burglary is such a harsh word - pinching, merely, and you're darn good at it. Unfortunately, so are your...

Battle horns echo across the North...the time for conquest has come! Sharpen your axes and send your fiercest heroes and raiders to seize control of the Northern Outposts. Early victories may bring glory, but beware for during Ragnarok, the Gods themselves may tip the scales. Only those who outsmart their enemies will claim victory.  

WunderWaffen (“wonder weapons”) is set during the last year of World War II, when the Normandy landings paved the way to the occupation of Berlin and the resulting defeat of the German army. Using simple rules the game recreates the troubled collaboration between the Russian, British, and American Allies in the final phase of the war.

Final Girl: Special Feature – a solo horror board game where you are the last hope against a teenage killer’s twisted rampage. Mort the Teenage Dirtbag has arrived at the Mega Boardgame Convention with one goal: pure chaos. Armed with masks of infamous Final Girl killers, he strikes again and again—each time under a new disguise. But when he dons his true mask, his final victim will be... YOU.

Grand Central Skyport invites you into a world of airborne prestige, tactical finesse, and clever planning. As the manager of a bustling skyport, your mission is to attract the most influential tycoons and efficiently coordinate the arrival of majestic airships.

Grand Central Skyport invites you into a world of airborne prestige, tactical finesse, and clever planning. As the manager of a bustling skyport, your mission is to attract the most influential tycoons and efficiently coordinate the arrival of majestic airships.

In We're Sinking!, a secret action-taking survival game, players take on the role of pirates on a ship under siege. As the ship takes damage, the crew must work together to repair the ship and defeat one of the threats — kraken, skeleton pirates, megalodon, or sirens — while keeping the ship from sinking.

Swords & Souls adds two new enemies to the base game that bring new abilities, challenges and play styles, meet The Navy and The Ghosts.

As the manager of your own cinema, program an eclectic selection of films and invest in the comfort of your theaters to conquer the hearts of movie lovers! The perfect game to discover bag-building mechanics.

Arkwright is an economic board game designed by Stefan Risthaus, where players take on the roles of entrepreneurs in 18th-century England, building and managing factories. In this new anniversary edition, the game has been streamlined and updated with a new rulebook and artwork. The game offers different play experiences through various modules, including "Spinning Mule" and "Waterframe"...

In this expansion for Panda Spin, the panda who was sitting in the middle of the bamboo puts on his tunic and becomes the Jade Emperor, decorating the 12 animals of the zodiac with heavenly powers. Now, players may recover a card from a trick, continue a sequence of cards played by another player, or even take a card from an opponent’s hand.

Galaxy Trucker: Do What!? is the second expansion for the relaunched Galaxy Trucker—a delightfully chaotic game for 2 to 4 players. Enjoy two big modules you can mix and match: wild Missions and fussy VIP Astronauts Embark on impossible or even more impossible Missions and deliver cargo that most likely violates all intergalactic shipping laws Feeling fearless? Throw in some Supercards...