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The king of the dwarves has finally issued the order to the houses of each clan: It is imperative to reclaim Karrak-sür-Kazar, the sacred mountain and ancestral home of the dwarves since the first Age of the Beard. For too long, it has been occupied by the poison of the dark lords, with their creatures defiling the halls that once housed the noblest of all dwarves. The insult can no longer...

Mesopotamia, around 1500 BC: Mesopotamia on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is home to a melting pot of different cultures and is developing magnificently. Fertile soils and modern irrigation systems allow agriculture to flourish. Religion and scholars are held in high esteem, and important achievements such as writing and the wheel lead to the construction of the first major cities and lively...

An expansion for Apex Legends, containing a new squad of 6 Legends and all related components, such as Legend figures, ability figures, tokens, and cards. The Legends included in this set are: Caustic, Crypto, Mirage, Octane, Revenant, and Wattson. An expansion for Apex Legends featuring 6 new Legends.

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.          

Nucleum: Energy Research Institute is an expansion to the base game of Nucleum and brings to life 8 new Experiments, and Patron cards with powerful abilities. All new Experiments are also compatible with Nucleum: Australia, Nucleum: Court of Progress, and Nucleum: Patrons Set.

Wispwood is a family tile-laying game exploring a magical forest of bright-colored wisps. They each have their wishes and reward you for fulfilling them. Can you place your wisps the best and illuminate the brightest forest for your cat? Light up a magical forest and lure in a curious cat with glowing wisps. Choose from a display of wisp tiles with different spatial goals Combine tiles to...

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.        

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...

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.    

Dive into AI conflict! Compile concepts, conquer reality. Discover the card game that redefines sentience.

Forest is one of the Expansion marked with "Easy" complexity: a good candidate to be among the first ones you try, or to play with inexperienced people.          

In the game Removal you take on the challenging task of moving the whole house as efficiently as possible, but at the same time as sparingly as possible, so that nothing brakes.

Terárko is the sequel to the successful game Aquarium by Czech author Michal Peichl. The game stands out due to its beautiful illustrations and simple rules. The Terárko game includes: 148 cards, a scoring pad, Czech and Slovak rules

We send the original English version abroad. In the game House of Fado, players have to manage their restaurant, attract customers, and contract and promote fadistas and musicians, thus gaining prestige for their fado house. Managers will move their staff members to different places to perform some actions, using the same bump action as in The Gallerist.

Set in the Roman provinces, among the Celtic tribes, in the dominions of medieval Italy, in the territories of the Inca Empire, in the Ottoman court, or in pre-industrial England, Dominance is a game of majorities with the outcome always hanging in the balance until the end.  

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

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!

Little Soldiers is a game where two armies of little plastic soldiers pretend to fight it out between the plates, glasses and anything else that can be found on the table. Move your characters, hide in this cheese box bunker and attack your enemies to break their little soldiers!

An expansion for Apex Legends, offering the option to play the game in single-player or co-op mode.