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Echoes of Time is a strategic game for 2-4 players in which you attempt to create the best-equipped fellowship of characters from different factions to conquer the sources of power. Try to control and modify the flow of time to outshine your opponents. The game includes more than one hundred cards with unique effects that you will use to build a new deck each game, and a "sliding tile" system...

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.

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.

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.

In this dynamic flip-and-write game, you will be transported to a contest where your architectural prowess is put to a test as you design the perfect island landscape.

Your inner superhero is ready to emerge, one chapter at a time. Reveal your backstory, gather gadgets and allies, develop a grudge against your archenemy, and unleash an ultimate ability as you transform. Use a combination of brains, love, speed, and strength to craft your origin story.

Ruins is a groundbreaking card game where players craft powerful cards using transparent upgrades while competing to shed their hand first. 

Step into Raas: A Dance of Love, a game on the dance style of Garba Raas where color, rhythm, and tradition come to life.  

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...

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!  

A collection of 20 new factions for Terra Mystica, 2 each for the 7 colors of the game and 2 multi-color, ice and fire factions, respectively. All ideas submitted by fans of the game.

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....

In ‘The Druids of EDORA’, you take on the role of druids and sorceresses. You move through a magical forest full of places of worship and other mysterious locations. You erect numerous steles and menhirs, visit dolmens and the oracle site.

Neoprene playmat for Shrinkopolis (57 x 37 cm with stitched edges).

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.

Operation Barclay is a two-player game of low/medium complexity about the intelligence war between the Allies and their Abwehr counterparts in the Mediterranean theater in 1942-1943.