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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.

You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world's seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over four weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean.

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...

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

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.

Got Five! is a game of logic and deduction in which players try to uncover the five hidden numbers placed on their stand. Each player can see everyone else’s tiles, but never their own, and must rely on shared information, clever questioning, and careful note-taking to narrow down the possibilities. All tiles revealed during the game are public, creating a constantly evolving puzzle that...

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!

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!

Onward is the spiritual successor to Skytear, the competitive card-driven game inspired by MOBA video games such as League of Legends or DOTA2.

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.

In “Thiefdom,” take on the of a cunning master thief and orchestrate the ultimate heist in the medieval city of Bacharach. This immersive board game, designed for 1-4 players, invites you to lead a daring guild of thieves, mastering the art of deception while outsmarting the vigilant city guards. Navigate through a complex network of city streets, competing against rival guilds to prove your...

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.

Valencia is a reimplementation of Strasbourg, which has been redeveloped & revised. It now plays with 2 players, and will contain new game content.

As the sun sets on the great Mayan empire, in the heart of Chichen Itza beneath the great pyramids and temples, ancient seals that once bound mythical creatures have been broken. The gods and beasts of legend — serpents of the sky, jaguar spirits of the underworld, and other beasts of lore — emerge from the forgotten realms to reclaim the world of mortals. Their siege is relentless, their power...

Empires rise, technologies are born, and legends are written, across three great ages of human history. In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you become a leader of civilization at the crossroads of time, guiding your people from the dawn of antiquity through the medieval age and into the modern era. Every choice matters as you balance expansion, innovation, culture, and war in a richly strategic 4X...