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Tropicalia is a worker‑placement game where players gather and sell fruit across a shifting island. Earnings are used to buy buildings and events that expand each player’s personal board with bonuses and points. The winner is the one who builds the most valuable island by the end of the game.

Penguin Kaboom is a fast‑paced cooperative dice game where players act as a penguin squad defusing bombs in Penguinvania. Each mission offers unique challenges as the team races against time to stop the villainous Orca Bomber. Quick rolls, smart teamwork, and escalating tension decide whether the city is saved or blown to icy rubble.

Thesauros is a Eurogame that combines several mechanisms. Players use closed auctions to determine turn order and secure resources, while map additions and open drafting expand strategic options on a dynamic game board. Success depends on moving from point to point, collecting sets, and placing different types of workers, creating layered tactical depth!

Welcome to the post-apocalyptic world of the Colossi. Children of the Colossi is a card-driven Euro game with a modular game board, featuring worker placement and area majority mechanics. Collect colossus eggs, tame the young, and use clever strategies to tip the scales of victory in your favor.

In this game, you take on the role of a master builder competing to leave your mark on history by adding the legendary and majestic calendar to the ancient Orloj. Precision, balance, and knowledge of the cosmos will be the keys to completing this complex task.  

You awaken in the dark, your skin cold, your mind blank. Looking north, you see a bright star that doesn't change its position as the night goes on... It's the star at the north pole: Polaris.  

In a far-away land, dwarven Brewmasters are competing to make the most delicious drinks for the upcoming Orctober BeerFest! Players take on the role of one of these Brewmasters, managing their brewery, farm and workers.  

In Fearless, you walk through a gloomy forest and try to stay on the safe path. If you still wander astray, you try to turn back again as close as possible.

In Formidable Farm, you tirelessly try to fulfill the wishes of the village population for field crops.

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...

Hledači drahokamů brings a breath of fresh air to the world of board games. If you used to enjoy Battleship but now find it too simple, this game is for you – instead of ships, you will discover the color and type of your opponent's hidden gems.This abstract game of spatial deduction will really test your imagination. The goal is clear: reveal the position, color, and type of all your...

A trick-taking game set in the movie world—compete for awards in Best Film, CGI, and Soundtrack.

In Roblins!, you take control of a goblin clan and its gold chamber. Your goal is to steal the enemies entire gold treasure.

You and your ragtag crew of squirrely thieves just pulled off the biggest heist of your bushy-tailed lives, grabbing a whole winter's worth of acorns back from the clutches of a greedy raccoon. Now you're at the rendezvous point, up to your cheeks in nuts, and it's time to split up the haul. To get away with more than your fair share, it'll take sneaky sleight-of-paw and every underhanded trick...

In Suna Valo, two individuals take on the task of establishing their own farm in the Solarpunk world of Overgrown. Located in the picturesque "Sunny Valley" (Suna Valo), nestled at the foot of a mountain and crisscrossed by a broad river, the village of Foriro has been erected — a place of new beginnings! The farmers in this village supply valuable goods using their transport drones and river...

In Timber Town you are a beaver architect, constructing a new town on the riverbank using buildings sent drifting down the river.

Welcome to the playground! In Tricky Kids, you and your classmates are trading toys and snacks in a chaotic kid-economy where value is totally made up. It’s a trick-taking game with a twist: you write the numbers on your cards. At the start of each round, you assign values that total 21 across your hand then use those cards to try to win tricks and collect points.

Twinkle Twinkle is a tile-laying puzzle game for 1-4 players where players draft stunning transparent tiles to fill their star charts. Connect Constellations, build Asteroid Belts, and avoid falling into Black Holes in this modular scoring adventure. With dynamic turn order, strategic planning, and endless puzzle combinations, Twinkle Twinkle offers tactile fun and replayability for space...

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

Tha anamal wath a bag nasa, twa tasks and lavas an Afraca Can you guess what is this? Elephant!  

The brilliant forest wizard Elixirus invites you to his annual "Magic Potion Mixing Contest," held in his wooden hut in the middle of a deep, enchanted forest. As apprentices from different teams, you will gather at this special place to impress Master Elixirus with your homemade potions. First, you must find the right ingredients in the forest, which you will then mix in your bottles to create...