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The race is on! Ants have found an abandoned picnic blanket ripe with sweets, but there aren't enough for every colony...

Fill the botanical gardens with fragrant flowers, lush foliage, and soothing waters as you erect your gazebos among the tranquil features and atop prized patios.

Beasts is a co-operative card game in which players work together to climb ever higher through a series of three-digit numbers, transforming the current number by strategically covering one digit at a time. Each player plays all cards of a single suit from their hand on their turn, always aiming to create a new number that's higher than the last. But things get wild when the beasts...

Guide one of the seven largest cities of antiquity to prosperity in 7 Wonders Dice. During the game, you will construct a wonder that defies time, make scientific advances, develop commerce, manage your resources, and handle your gold reserve prudently — all while keeping an eye on neighboring cities since ignoring them has a heavy price!

Nippon: Zaibatsu is a new edition of Nippon, a fast-paced, area-majority economic game. Players control "zaibatsu": massive conglomerates of interconnected companies driving Japan's economy in the Industrial Revolution era.

In Paws Up, players become pet influencers competing to collect the most “paws” through clever photo cards and storytelling. It’s a fast-paced, light strategy card game perfect for families and casual gamers.

In Koi, you build an authentic 3D koi pond, so the challenge is to bring your reservoir to life and make the most of the actions at your disposal to create something truly magnificent.From the creators of Bonsai comes a brand-new, serene, strategic journey through nature.        

Molly House: Metal Pawns is a lavishly deluxe cosmetic upgrade for the board game Molly House. It includes 5 unique metal player pawns, replacing the standard wooden tokens. Each pawn features a custom design evoking 18th-century London, with a pre-painted, pre-stained finish and a felted base to protect your game board.

Molly House is a semi-cooperative historical game for 1–5 players, set in 18th-century London. Players take on the roles of gender-defying mollies, hosting secret parties while evading moralistic constables and protecting their community from collapse.  

Knitting Circle is a standalone follow-up to the award-winning Calico. In this cozy tile-laying puzzle game for 1–4 players, you take on the role of knitters crafting the most beautiful assortment of garments. With variable scoring goals and dozens of unique template cards, every game offers a fresh spatial puzzle.

Up or Down? is a fast-paced card game for 2–6 players from acclaimed designers Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. Players build ascending or descending columns of numbered cards, aiming to place as many cards of the same color in each column as possible. The more matching colors, the more points you score!  

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...

Join your friends and family — and memorable Sims from years past — in The Sims Board Game as you chart your journey. Will you create chaos and try to outrun Grim, or aim for career success? What will you do next when you have to start all over again? The possibilities are endless as you explore familiar venues, connect with iconic Sims, and achieve your aspirations to claim victory!...

Dewan is a fast-paced, competitive area-placement game for 2-4 players that features racing, placement, and hand strategy. During play, you collect terrain cards and spend them to strategically place your camps on the territory. Make the best use of terrain and resources so that you can satisfy the requirements on your story tiles. Along the way, gather berries and master fire to earn...

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.    

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.