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In ANTS, players control ant colonies locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the garden. Expand your anthill, explore the terrain, and mark your path with pheromones. Gather food and leaves, battle rival insects, and outmaneuver your opponents. Lay eggs and hatch larvae to grow your workforce with specialized ants. Evolve your colony to unlock unique abilities and secure supremacy...

This is an expansion for Kingdom Legacy. It offers 5 rounds of play, and 30 new cards to explore. After purging most of your permanent cards, Ambitions offers a plethora of new ones. Each round, discover 4 new cards but destroy one of them. Many cards offer a choice between fame and production.  

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.

The Flower Fairies await…Tonight is the Grand Perfume Contest, and only one Scentweaver will be crowned. Your goal? Mix the best perfume and impress all the Flower Fairies with your good taste.

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

Answer questions and match the most popular choice. Only the majority scores – get into the Green Team and stay there, because winners stick together.

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.

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...

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.

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

From the Spine of the World Mountains to the bustling fishing villages of Earthquake Fish Bay flows a river where fortunes can be made and lowly traders can brush shoulders with Rokugan's elite. Will your clan become the dominant force along this River of Gold?

You are the leader of a tribe whose people explore the fabled twelve rivers flowing from a mystical lake high in the mountains. Your goal? To find the magical coloured pearls that roll down the rivers in the current. Perhaps a helpful fairy may help you on your quest! Where the rivers converge there is a village where many people and animals live in harmony. There you can make life-long friends...

Nemed is the second expansion to Inis, the area-influence game rooted in Celtic history and Lore. Nemed incorporates three different modules that will change the dynamics of your game.

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!

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.

Dark times loom over the kingdom of Thebes. The blind, old king Oedipus left the throne in disgrace and asked Polynices and Eteocles, his own sons, to rule the city together. But power corrupts and ancient feuds call for new blood to be spilled. Soon, Polynices finds himself leading an army from the rival city of Argos against his own brother. The Theban nobles support Eteocles as he maintains...

In Rebel Princess, the princesses fought off unwarranted marriage proposals from pesky princes. Twenty-eight days later, the princes returned...as zombies! The zombie horde is growing. It began with the princes, but it has spread to the local villagers, the adorable woodland creatures, and even our noble knights! The rebel princesses are the last of us. If they fail, the kingdom will fall...

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.

The Voynich manuscript, named after the bookseller who discovered it in 1912, is an enigma that has resisted human curiosity for over 600 years.Now, the manuscript has fallen into your hands. Will you be able to decipher its secrets and piece together this mysterious puzzle?

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

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.

Stínadla is an old-school co-operative game set in the world of Rychlé šípy — that is, The Rapid Arrows, a Czech comic book and novel series by Jaroslav Foglar set in 1930s Czechoslovakia that was inspired by the mysterious atmosphere of Old Prague.

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.