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World Wonders: Europa Wonders Pack adds ten new wondrous monuments from Europa to World Wonders, along with a new gameplay mode.

Enemies & Lovers is a lightweight, fast-paced card game of strategy, deception, and betrayal, based on Holly Black’s bestselling Folk of the Air series. If you enjoy scheming great schemes, toasting to the incompetence of your enemies, gorgeous art, and a lot of shiny foil, this is the game for you!  

Jezírko is a card game in which each player tries to build the best pond full of frogs and other elements. Players take cards from the common supply and try to assign them to their pond grid in such a way that they earn as many points as possible. Each card has its own specific scoring conditions that players try to fulfill, and they earn more points if there are more frogs of the same type...

The cooperative game The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers –Trick-Taking Game is designed for players who enjoy collaborative planning, clever combination thinking, and the atmosphere of Tolkien's world. It can be played by 1–4 players, making it suitable for both families and small gaming groups. The recommended age is 10 and up, which corresponds to the complexity of the trick-taking...

Posviť si is a co-operative hidden object game in which you and your friends search with your trusty flashlight for wacky characters and items hidden in dark places brimming with absurd things. Your goal is to find as many as possible to advance your pawns on the track and cross the finish line, without any player being reached by the Moon pawn that is chasing you.

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...

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.          

This expansion adds two more Guardians to the core game, plus Dante himself. It includes 3 miniatures, 2 large cards and new cardboard components: 9 Bells and 8 Desks. It Includes a QR with the rules in 11 languages.

In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you will lead your civilization and plan a path through the crossroads of history across three epochs. Be a pioneer to expand territories, be an innovator to foster study and research, or be a warmonger to raid using superior armaments. The choice is yours, and it is your strategic acumen that will shape the course of cultures and lead your people toward victory....

Shrinkopolis is a resource management tile-placement game for 1-4 players and 15 - 45 minutes. Each player will build their own district inside the great living room. Win the hearts of your fellow micro-citizens, and you’ll be crowned the very first mayor of Shrinkopolis.

In City Tour, you and the other players want to pick up passengers in your bus and deliver them to the right stops. How many passengers? That depends on how difficult you want the game to be!

Spletité stezky is the final addition to the world of Arnak. Its major highlight is a new double-sided map, bigger than the one in the base game, that features two new research tracks, each with unique mechanisms and components.

In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you will lead your civilization and plan a path through the crossroads of history across three epochs. Be a pioneer to expand territories, be an innovator to foster study and research, or be a warmonger to raid using superior armaments. The choice is yours, and it is your strategic acumen that will shape the course of cultures and lead your people toward victory....

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents. (Why you don't already know who your agents are is a question that Congressional investigators will get on your back about later!)

Puer is an expansion for the game Tea Garden. It adds a Solo mode and lots of new options and interactions to the game. Players can now assemble so-called Puer cakes, which are an exclusive type of additionally fermented tea.

As the demand for tulips steadily grows, so does your desire to expand. You begin to envision new markets, new homes for your prized bulbs. The decision to buy a ship and take to the seas feels not just natural, but necessary...

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.  

A trick-taking game set in the movie world—compete for awards in Best Film, CGI, and Soundtrack.

Following the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, daimyos competed for control of foreign trade and technology. Himeji Castle, a symbol of feudal power, became a strategic center for clans seeking to gain influence.

Underwater Cities: Data Era is a second expansion for the Underwater Cities base game. Underwater Cities: Data Era can also be combined with the first expansion, Underwater Cities: New Discoveries.