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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.

Dive into the vibrant world of Shallow Sea, a puzzle board game inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. In Shallow Sea, players will create their very own vivid ocean landscapes by strategically arranging an array of marine life, colorful fish, and corals. What makes Shallow Sea truly unique is its fresh take on a multi-layered puzzle system. Unlike typical puzzle games...

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...

The Hobbit: There & Back Again is a competitive adventure game in which players draft dice to make pathways, collect resources, and perform actions that help them to reach their chapter goal.          

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...

The stalls are set up, and the first customers are already admiring the extensive range of products on offer. But they have no idea what‘s going on behind the scenes! As two rivaling trade guilds, you compete for influence over the marketplace, trying to improve the reputation of your own stalls, while getting rid of the unwanted competition.  

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?  

Welcome to the age of replicators, sparks, and supermassive computers. Deckers isn't just a game; it's an entry into a world where every decision can save or destroy the team. Whether players prefer fighting on the front lines or plotting in the shadows, every game changes, every match is different. Ready to get started?  

Light Speed Arena is a fast-paced game of interstellar combat that requires fast reflexes and skilful precision. Over multiple 10-second rounds, players will simultaneously place their spaceship tiles freely in a defined area on the table. The goal is to quickly position the weapons and shields of the tile being placed to cause the most damage to their opponents while also protecting their own...

In the late 19th century, during the early Meiji era, Japan opened its first railway line between Shimbashi and Yokohama. This new mode of transportation sparked a railway boom across the country.    

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...

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.

Have you ever wished you had a Dragon as a pet? Now it’s possible! You can breed your own Dragons and compete to be the one to train the toughest and most valuable specimens. Watch out for dragon eggs in your rolls, but take a chance on your final move to get the best creature!

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.