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Recreate the experiences of soldier Hiroo Onoda during his stay on Lubang Island — thirty years of adventures, danger, comical situations and tragic moments, life and death and, above all, a demonstration of the resilience of human beings in adverse conditions — in the solitaire game Onoda. Onoda will get different results depending on the amount of honor you have accumulated...

Recall is a deep strategy game from the designers of Revive that focuses on engine building and exploration. Each player begins the game with one of fourteen unique tribes and one of eighteen unique gadgets, both of which will heavily influence your strategy and opportunities. Throughout the game, you will lead your tribe, explore the lands, and discover traces of ancient...

Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative board game for 1–5 players set in the Forgotten Realms. Players take on the roles of heroes inspired by classic D&D classes (wizard, fighter, bard, rogue, cleric) and work together to defeat iconic monsters lurking in the Undermountain beneath Waterdeep.

Vantage is an open-world, co-operative adventure game that features an entire planet to explore, with players communicating while scattered across the world. With nearly eight hundred interconnected locations on four hundred cards and over nine hundred other discoverable cards, the world is your sandbox. Vantage is not a campaign game. Each game is a standalone experience;...

In Čáryfuč, 10 adorable wooden toys—like a bunny, car, dinosaur, and piano—are placed on the table. One player covers them with a cloth, secretly grabs one, and lifts the cloth with a magical chant: “ČÁRY-MÁRY-FUČ!” The other players must quickly figure out which toy has vanished and place their hand on the token showing the missing item. Correct guesses earn star tokens, and the player with...

Manhattan Project: Energy Empire includes all the gameplay of the original edition, as well as the 'Cold War' expansion, the new 'UN Envoys expansion', and more! From the ashes of war, nations rise to power in the atomic age! In Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, each player takes control of a nation struggling for power in the latter part of the 20th century. They build up their...

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.          

As a team of wildlife rangers, your mission is to ensure the well-being of different species in your wildlife reserve while protecting them from potential threats. In The Peak Team, a cooperative game by Scott Almes, 1-5 rangers work together to complete a variety of challenging tasks.    

Ahoy: Rivals & Renegades is an expansion for Ahoy, featuring the Blackfish Brigade and the Shellfire Rebellion. This expansion adds two new factions to Ahoy. You can use them in place of the Bluefin Squadron and Mollusk Union in the core game, or add them all together in a two-versus-two team mode!

Ahoy: Fang & Fortune is an expansion for Ahoy, featuring the Leviathan and the Coral Cap Pirates. Mix and Match. You can use the Leviathan and Coral Cap Pirates to replace one or both Smugglers from the core game. Play with any combo you want!

Ink is an unforgiving medium. However, when mastered with care, its spontaneity and brilliance can create visual effects of astonishing richness. INK invites you to deploy your talent by creating sumptuous paintings worthy of the greatest collections. When art meets strategy, ink flows as a river!

As one of the leading scientific researchers in the galaxy, you're in high demand. You've spent the last two years on Alarria, a small terrestrial planet several light-years from Earth. You've been studying the diverse indigenous fauna, and your field research has already yielded some incredible results. However, your days as a simple scientific researcher are about to end.

Amp up your gaming experience with this high quality mat. Made from neoprene its meant to withstand the most exciting of gameplay. When laid out the playmat measures 11 x 29.5" - the perfect amount of space for two players to go head to head.

Dive into AI conflict! Compile concepts, conquer reality. Discover the card game that redefines sentience.

Dive into AI conflict! Compile concepts, conquer reality. Discover the card game that redefines sentience.

Forest is one of the Expansion marked with "Easy" complexity: a good candidate to be among the first ones you try, or to play with inexperienced people.          

The World Expansion, the one all backers of this campaign are receiving for free with their pledge, is a special kind of expansion: it is the only one that can be mixed both with the core game and any other expansion (whereas you can only play with 1 thematic expansion at a time). It includes 2 kinds of components: additional Objective tiles and Special pawns.      ...

The World Expansion, the one all backers of this campaign are receiving for free with their pledge, is a special kind of expansion: it is the only one that can be mixed both with the core game and any other expansion (whereas you can only play with 1 thematic expansion at a time). It includes 2 kinds of components: additional Objective tiles and Special pawns.      ...

The World Expansion, the one all backers of this campaign are receiving for free with their pledge, is a special kind of expansion: it is the only one that can be mixed both with the core game and any other expansion (whereas you can only play with 1 thematic expansion at a time). It includes 2 kinds of components: additional Objective tiles and Special pawns.        

Despite the cute looks and serene atmosphere, this is deceptively one of the hardest expansions! Your goal is to create big Pastures with lots of Farms, but you want only 1 Animal of each type in the same Pasture or you will lose points. In contrast to all other expansions, the Animal pawns you get are tied to a specific column of tiles you get from the central board during the draft phase at...

Each thematic expansion comes with its own bag of tiles, in addition to the other components (like pawns and objectives, as well as other special components that are specific to each expansion, like the Canal End tokens, more on those later).      

Your goal is to build Lakes and place Ferries in them to score points. Lakes also have another purpose: you can send a route into the lake side of a tile to create a Harbor (a bit like Canal End tokens work in the Canals Expansion), and all routes that are connected to the same Lake via Harbors are also connected to each other... basically, Lakes act as big Stations!      ...