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

Your goal is to create a Desert surrounding your regular tiles, placing Desert Attractions of the different types (Oasis, Pyramid, Sphynx, and Obelisk), connecting them to your regular routes through Desert Stations, and placing Camels to bring people seeing the attractions and gain a few extra points as well.          

In West Story, players are building Wild West towns by purchasing cards for their player boards. They are trying to improve their available actions and get most victory points. While all actions from the player boards eventually get executed, the order of action execution is usually not easy to predict. Players will have to place cards carefully to try and maximize their chances!

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 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.

Propolis is a worker-placement, engine-building, area-control, and tableau-building game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of competing medieval bee colonies and take turns deploying worker bees to collect pollen, fortify their positions, and construct their hives to appease their queen and become the most glorious in the land! As bees compete over the realm's floral landscapes, they...

In Dirt & Dust, players are rally drivers racing through dynamic stages at breakneck speeds. Every turn and acceleration is a thrilling test of skill and finesse, pushing both the car and the driver to their limits. You'll also get a free 2 Extra Drivers promo card with the purchase of the strategy game Dirt and Dust!

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.

Trickerion is a strategic eurogame. Compete as stage illusionists for fame, fortune and the mysterious Trickerion Stone in a 19th century setting!

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.

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.

In Perch, players fight for control of locations by commanding birds of their own and other players' flocks. Earn points and command woodland creatures by having the most birds on a location, pushing your foes off the perch, and breaking ties to take the lead.  

Get the Finspan: Upgrade Pack is a deluxe token pack for eggs, chicks and schools.

In Everdell Duo, you either compete against your single opponent or play co-operatively with another player to earn the most points. You accomplish this by placing workers to gather resources, then use those resources to play cards face up in front of you, creating your own woodland city.

Lucky wizards may find an elixir fountain to fill a potion bottle along the path to Ravenskeep… but if it’s covered by a bouncy spiderweb, it will catapult them along the path (for better or worse). Rumor has it that there’s a witch roaming the path. Trapping her will fill a potion bottle, but you don’t want to meet her! Folks have also seen a raven whose feathers bestow special magic upon...

Every hundred years, the catacombs of the Council Palace tremble with unleashed magic, invoking powerful creatures and even changing the terrain itself. A challenge takes place between two powerful sorcerers to determine who presides over the Council for another century. Will you defeat your rival in this magical challenge? Will you become the next Great Wizard?

In Audience, 2 to 6 players compete to earn the most 'Share' points and become the most influential radio station! It’s a highly interactive game that combines trick-taking with majority mechanics.

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!