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It’s Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay! Challenges are set for restaurants to meet, and a Critic will be coming to determine who is the greatest competing restauranteur! Asone of 2-5 players, you’ll be sending your Chefs out into the city to gather ingredients to make those meals.

Valheim is a 1-4 player co-operative board game in which survival depends on teamwork and strategy. Gather your fellow companions and venture forward to explore, build, collect resources, forge weapons, equip sturdy armor, battle enemies, and carve your path towards facing the ultimate evil. Take on a role in which you help tailor the adventure to your liking. The fate of everyone lies in...

Experience The Witcher universe in an entirely new way with Gwent: The Legendary Card Game. Inspired by the iconic mini-game from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this official physical edition brings the strategic, faction-based card game to your tabletop.

Control your legions, assault key locations, manage your troops' morale, and seize the initiative to capture precious banners. Bruno Cathala and Charles Chevallier are back, this time accompanied by Johannes Goupy, to offer us this two-player game set in the universe of the cult classic Abyss!

A strategic survival board game inspired by local superstition and card games.Each player draws the cards in turn and combines them with each other or with the "Grandmothers" location on the board to achieve their goal. This creates simple gameplay with lots of options for both players.

"TRND" is a card game played with nine types of cards, each showing one of three shapes and one of three colors. On your turn, you swap cards in and out of your hand, aiming to finish with a hand made up entirely of identical cards, same shape and same color. The more matching cards you collect, the more points you earn, so it can be tempting to hold out a little longer instead of going out...

A historical battle between two trading cities for two players. In the 16th century, a small fishing village was founded in northern Germany. There seemed to be nothing special about it—except perhaps its proximity to the old Hanseatic city of Hamburg. People therefore began to call it "all too near," which, according to legend, became the name Altona. However, as Altona grew rapidly, fierce...

In Wriggle Roulette, players take turns reaching into a bag filled with eel- and snake-shaped wooden pieces, trying to pull out as many eels as possible — but if the number of snakes grabbed by all players exceeds the limit, a "snake outbreak" occurs, and the player who grabbed the most pieces loses all of their eels.

Includes 116 wooden double-sided silkscreened tokens in six denominations ($1s, $5s, $10s, $50s, $100s, and $300s) as upgrades to the punchboard currency in Speakeasy.

Evergreen – Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo is a set of 2 modular expansions for Evergreen. 

A Knizia classic! Play cards, claim animal figures, and push their value.

Sometimes, eternity can feel like it's dragging on, so to overcome the boredom, you and your friends decide to make a little wager...

Lords of Worlds is a tile‑collecting game where players build planets by chaining terrain types for points. Assistants and architects help secure deals and guide construction, while carts move to gather tiles. When the game ends, the player with the most Victory Points from their planetary chains wins.

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...

In Sanctuary, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically-managed zoo for animals and visitors. A supply of 135 unique zoo tiles provides you with animals, buildings, and projects. In every game, you want to find the best mix from those available to build the most successful zoological establishment. Different effects on the tiles will help you to achieve conservation goals and to...

Division M has arrived in the neighborhood! The Agent Avenue: Division M expansion brings a new type of agent to Agent Avenue, creating a danger zone around your home. The pack also includes fifteen unique black market cards, each adding new twists and unpredictable opportunities to every game.

In Fearless, you walk through a gloomy forest and try to stay on the safe path. If you still wander astray, you try to turn back again as close as possible. The closer you are to the safe path, the less fear you will suffer. Not walking at all is no alternative as you'll remain behind on your own in the scary ruin. If you are the most fearless after several rounds, you will win the game!

You and your ragtag crew of squirrely thieves just pulled off the biggest heist of your bushy-tailed lives, grabbing a whole winter's worth of acorns back from the clutches of a greedy raccoon. Now you're at the rendezvous point, up to your cheeks in nuts, and it's time to split up the haul. To get away with more than your fair share, it'll take sneaky sleight-of-paw and every underhanded trick...

In Suna Valo, two individuals take on the task of establishing their own farm in the Solarpunk world of Overgrown. Located in the picturesque "Sunny Valley" (Suna Valo), nestled at the foot of a mountain and crisscrossed by a broad river, the village of Foriro has been erected — a place of new beginnings! The farmers in this village supply valuable goods using their transport drones and river...

Climb the social ladder — or kick it over. The trick-taking game Tax the Rich features a deck depicting characters of various social ranks from the Poor to the President. Each round begins with a simple bidding phase to determine both the trump color and the number of tricks required to score bonus points. The winner of the bid must then acquire the required number of tricks,...

Dive into daring battles with 2 to 4 heroes as you face off against ten unique and intelligent boss monsters! What makes it special: All bosses are controlled by an app that dynamically responds to your actions. At the start of each battle, their tactics and abilities remain a mystery. Uncover their weaknesses, discover how to defeat them, and claim powerful loot cards to upgrade your deck and...

Until Proven Guilty is a narrative co-operative game inspired by court-themed visual novels, television series, and video games.      

The year is 793, and the Northumbrian coast burns. The attack on Lindisfarne was but the first strike — more raiders will follow. As the rulers of Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia, you must prepare your kingdom for the coming storm. Fortify your defenses and expand your kingdoms with new cities — but take care as the more you expand, the more you attract Vikings to your kingdom....

Grimlash is hunting the Final Girl in the cornfields Shady Acres. Be careful of the children in the fields who want to sacrifice you! The Final Girl must use her ever degrading sanity to give her an advantage, but if she goes too far, it's all over!