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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.

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.      ...

Railroad Tiles, a sequel to the roll-and-write series Railroad Ink, is a quick-playing tile placement game in which you pick tiles and place routes to build an interconnected community.            

Expansion for the game Runar. 

Expansion for the game Runar. Play now with up to 6 players.

Runar is a competitive board game for 1-4 players. Each player leads a group of three Viking Heroes who must survive the icy northern lands – populated by strange and dangerous creatures – while attempting to recover mythical Runic Gems and precious divine objects.Opposing Heroes will stand in your way as your Vikings try to prove their worth to the Asgardian Gods, hoping to be chosen to fight...

Step into the heat of the action with Flash Point: Legacy of Flame, an immersive narrative-driven co-operative board game in which every decision counts and time is of the essence!

Keep Hitting The Trail: This refresh pack includes four new Parks: Roll & Hike Logbooks, so you can play again and again. These are the same logbooks included with the original game, in four player colors. Each logbook is saddle-stitched and bound with enough sheets inside for 25 more games for each player.

Welcome to Parks: Roll & Hike, the newest, diciest addition to the Parks family! During the game, you draft dice and log your selections in your handy journal. Record your time in the mountains, forests, and fields through drawing. Keep a log of all the wildlife you spot to earn mid-hike bonuses, and don't forget to stay hydrated!

Enjoy the foliage, discover all the colors and shapes that nature can offer, and create a beautiful and satisfying grading sequence! In 13 Leaves, players can play one or more cards of the same value that align with the sequence on the table. The cards must be of a value equal to or lower than the lowest card in the sequence, or of a value equal to or higher than the highest card in the sequence.

Playmat for a game Pillars of Heracles.

Embark on a captivating journey through the wild and picturesque landscapes of Dartmoor with Forest Shuffle, a strategic board game that merges the wonder of nature with engaging gameplay. Designed for 1 to 5 players ages 10 and up, this immersive game challenges you to become a forest custodian, tasked with creating and nurturing a diverse ecosystem teeming with life.  

In West Story, players are building Wild West towns by purchasing cards for their player boards. They are trying to improve their available actions and get most victory points. While all actions from the player boards eventually get executed, the order of action execution is usually not easy to predict. Players will have to place cards carefully to try and maximize their chances!

The Galactic Senate has launched the "Transgalactica Decree" in order to increase their knowledge and influence beyond the already well-known fringes of the galaxy. Fleets from every planet have been launched to the stars in search of adventure, riches, and (hopefully) an influential seat in the governing spheres that lie beyond the known space.

Build your dream zoo with more choices than ever with Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – New Shores! Dive into aquatic worlds featuring manatees, sea turtles, zebra sharks, and more. Feel the cold breeze from the new type of enclosures featuring polar species such as the majestic polar bear, penguins, and muskox. Additionally, the world of Australian wildlife takes center stage: crocodiles,...

Fate is a cooperative game for 1-4 players who take the roles of talented but unexperienced heroes. Together, they defend Freyja’s well against trolls, the dead, and the fire horde monsters approaching from all sides of the game board.

Reptile Tank is a sequel to the successful game by the Czech author of Fish Tank, Michal Peichl. It is a slightly more complex game, but still based on the same principles.    

Monsters are massing into huge armies that threaten to destroy the cities the heroes have so laboriously built. Elite units need to be summoned, new weapons forged, and the battle against evil must be waged once more.