A bird game full of tactics and excitement As a bird lover, you try to create the best living conditions for the birds in your sanctuary. Each bird expands a chain of powerful combinations in one of its habitats. These habitats focus on different growth factors: grabbing food, laying eggs and drawing new bird cards. Who will build the best action motor and score the most points with their birds at the end of the game? Each turn you play a bird, after which you can perform all actions in the relevant habitat. This way you can take food from a “real” birdhouse, place egg miniatures in nests or collect new birds. All options earn points in different ways. The Games Friends: “ Wingspan is absolutely fantastic! The artwork is beautiful, the game mechanics are very good and the rules are simple. As far as we are concerned, Wingspan should not be missing in any games cabinet. Really and truly! ”

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The alchemists of Kakelenburg are now known far beyond the city's borders. Their medicine is as famous as it is infamous. Seeking help come from far away to have their usually exotic complaints treated "professionally" by miracle doctors. The best from your guild are asked here: the alchemists of Kakelenburg tackle the most difficult cases of the quack profession. With high-quality technical equipment, they distill the best magic soup to reduce the suffering of patients. Distilling gives players valuable bonuses and special abilities, which give them advantages over the course of the game. This expansion also contains 20 new divination cards and 2 new ingredient books for the fool's herb. The Games Friends: " Very strong expansion. We make a lot of use of the new features and it fits well into the mechanisms of the basic game. As far as we are concerned, The Kwakzalvers van Kakelenburg: The Alchemists is indispensable for the fans! "

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As a fanatical birdwatcher, you have already gained the necessary experience with the many bird species in Wingspan. The journey continues with the Wingspan: Oceania expansion. Travel “Down Under” and discover 95 new bird species and their habitats from Australia, New Zealand and the many islands nearby. This expansion has a new food type and a new color of eggs, so that you can create the right living conditions for the newcomers. Oceania has a unique biodiversity and abundance of plant sugars. To properly integrate the ecosystem, nectar is added as a new food source in this expansion. There are also birds that cannot fly. For each bird trait or bonus card that relates to wing span, these birds count as wild cards. And the new 'yellow' bird cards give you a strong action that is performed at the end of the game. This expansion also includes new player tables, bonus cards and more “end of round” objectives. Make sure you have the best combination of birds at the end of the game and win the game “as proud as a peacock”. The base game is required to play this expansion. The Games Friends: "Wingspan: Oceania is a strong extension of the basic game. The new player boards are a good addition and the new resources also ensure that you can really play it in a new way. Recommended!"

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On an uninhabited island in unknown seas, explorers have found traces of a new civilization. In the lost ruins of Arnak, you lead an expedition to explore the new island and find lost artifacts. In your journey you will encounter terrifying guards that you will have to face off against. You do all this to discover the secrets of the island. The Vanished Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration and inventory management. Will you discover all her secrets? The Games Friends: " Arnak plays very smoothly, but the combination of worker placement and deckbuilding gives you a lot of tactical choices to make. The theme is fun and the artwork is beautiful. Highly recommended! "

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Adventures is an expansion for the card game Unstable Unicorns. This expansion pack contains 54 new cards to further expand your Unstable Unicorns adventure! This is the first expansion to include new Instant cards that are not Neigh cards. It also introduces a series of flexible "choose your adventure" style maps that give you options to select when activated. Including a whole host of new characters!

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Welcome to Crime City: the city where crimes are committed on every street corner. Deadly secrets, sneaky robberies and cold-blooded murders are part of everyday life. The local police can no longer cope and have asked for your help! Micro Macro is a cooperative detective game. Together you solve devious crimes, investigate motives and look for evidence to convict the perpetrators. A sharp eye is at least as important as logical reasoning. This is the real detective work! The Games Friends: " Micro Macro is an extremely original game, with laughably simple rules. If you put your grandmother in front of the card and just say, "Look what the rabbit has experienced today", she can get started right away. That simplicity in combination with the original mechanism and the nice cases, Micro Macro is an absolute must!

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Looking for the emerald ring. Packed with a large backpack he goes into the Roundforest. The goal: track down the legendary emerald ring of the forest spirit, which gives the finder power over the magical forest... But the search is not so easy, because the enchanted forest is alive: wherever you step, the ground begins to turn under your feet. Moreover, you always come across an unreliable figure... DE: Auf der Suche nach dem Smaragdring. Pack with a large backpack and hang out in the Roundforest. Das Ziel: The legendary emerald ring of the forest spirits, the finder who conveys power over the magical forest... But such a fact is that such a niece, the living of the blessed world: If you are still a man, you begin with the Boden below the Füßen zu drehen. Zusätzlich begegnet man of one or other flexible Gestalt, who is not always well-being.

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Irish Gauge - one of three titles in Winsome Games 2014 Essen Set - is played on a map of Ireland and is similar in style to many of the stock-based cube track games released by Winsome Games since 2007. Each player's turn can trade with one of the five companies up for auction, build a track (represented by cubes) in one of these five companies, upgrade a village to a city, or ask for a dividend. The dividends are paid to shareholders of certain railways based on the number of cities/towns they are connected to and how many shares of this company have been issued. The upgrade and dividend promotions also affect the playing time and the likelihood of further dividends for each company. The game ends when a certain condition is met at the end of a player's turn and the player with the highest sum of money and stock value at the end of that turn wins the game. Irish Gauge is the first title in Capstone Games' Iron Rail series.

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Nominated for Toy of the Year 2019! The aim of the game is to survive until you are the last player. The game is actually very simple: when it is your turn, you play your action cards such as 'Dismantle' and 'Predict the Future' to avoid the Exploding Kittens. You use one card to knock down an opponent, another you use to repel an attack. And if you play the right combo, you can perform an attack that reduces the number of players by one: KABOOM! Exploding Kittens is known for the most successful Kickstarter campaign and is guaranteed to cause a lot of hilarity! The Games Friends: “ Exploding Kittens is a hilarious party game and perfect for a games night with friends. The super funny drawings and fast turns will make you want to play this game again and again. And because it can be over with one card, it remains exciting until the last move."

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Ancient civilizations used to spread stories about powerful gods who created the world and its inhabitants. These gods stood above every living thing, ruled the world and the beings who lived there worshiped them. The gods enjoyed this fact so much that some of them wanted to create a new world to spread even more of their stories and thereby attract more beings to worship them. On this new world, 7 gods from different ancient cultures send their envoy on a mission to spread stories to become the most popular god of the new world. But there is only room for 6!

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The old world is changing. The Kingdom of Lydia minted the world's first gold coin. Bartering and trading will soon be replaced by coins as the dominant medium of exchange throughout civilization... Lions of Lydia is a bag-management and engine-building game about the rise of currency. As an influential leader, you send merchants to exchange resources and increase your land holdings. When the nobles arrive, they bring into play their Lydian Lion coins - which have unparalleled purchasing power. To achieve victory, you must manage the traders well and complement their skills with the cards on your tableau. Traditional merchants produce basic resources needed to build your engine, but if you don't convert your resources into coins, you won't be able to buy the most valuable cards! Therefore, noble Lydian merchants - and their gold lion coins - are the key to success. When enough properties have been developed, the game ends and a winner is declared! Will you put together the best traders to achieve your goals? Will you be the first to get the most valuable properties? Will you become the master of the new, golden currency: the Lions of Lydia?

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The Roll Player Adventures expansion Nefras's Judgment contains 41 different backstory quests, one for each Backstory card in Roll Player. These quests are woven into the core story of the campaign and feature encounters for each player to make choices that customize their alignment. This expansion also includes: Massive Backstory Codex (300+ pages), 4 new Backstory Boards to add to each player's Character Sheet, 6 Backstory Markers and 6 Alignment Markers, and 65 new rare cards to discover.

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Beyond the comfortable confines of the Valley of Everdell, hidden deep in mysterious and undiscovered lands, a great adventure awaits. Ancient ruins? Woodland creatures from foreign lands? Giants? Gather your travel gear and gather your courage: get ready for a daring journey through the mountains of Spirecrest! During the journey you will be tested by the different weather conditions of the different seasons. This is an expansion for the board game Everdell. The Games Friends: " Everdell Spirecrest is a wonderful expansion. The nice thing is that this makes the phase between the different seasons more important, because you then go on a journey. During that journey you get extra opportunities to score victory points, but you have to also be careful of the weather. As far as we are concerned, Everdell Spirecrest is truly indispensable for fans of the basic game. "

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Do you have green fingers? In the tile placement game Botanik you try to become the best Mecha-Botanist and save the world thanks to technology and plants! In a laboratory, a leading inventor has discovered a technology to save the world thanks to flowers and plants. These must be fed using machines. She enlists her two best teams of mechanical botanists to build the best performing machine. You make a machine by connecting tiles with pipes from the source tile, so that you can water your flowers and plants. Choose the right tiles from the central register before your opponents take them, expand your network of pipes to irrigate your plants and score the most points.

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The Dunaïas, metallic beings with complex powers animated by a mysterious energy, have caused terrible turf wars. The ancient humans, known by the infamous term "The Fallen", have been killing each other to control the metal creatures. Their deaths brought a prophecy of a new civilization that would respect life... Centuries have passed, but despite all this time, some tribes seeking retribution can easily destroy an uneasy peace, especially since an ancient prophecy inherited from The Fallen has been found. To avoid new conflicts, the Council has decided to test every tribe. Whoever manages to recreate a civilization with the help of the currently dormant Dunaïas will open the way to a new era of peace. The chosen ones hold the fate of the world in their hands. A New Civilization Will Rise in Dunaïa: The Prophecy...

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Two opponents compete around a hexagonal board with white and black marbles. To win, a player must push 6 of the opponent's marbles over the edge of the board. Observe, think ahead and consider your options with every move.

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Not Alone: ​​Exploration is the first expansion for Not Alone. It includes new hunting cards for the creature, new survival cards for the hunted, and new location cards for the planet. These 10 new locations can be played together, or they can be mixed with locations from the base game, not only giving you a near-infinite combination of places to explore. Revisit the planet Artemia, if you dare, in Not Alone: ​​Exploration.

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Enhance the world of photosynthesis with the Under the Moonlight expansion! The moon rotates in the opposite direction of the sun, casting its moonlight over the forest. Players collect moon points for their new forest animal to activate special powers. Which of the eight animals will be yours? The boar collects trees, the hedgehog plants seeds, the fox steals and moves seeds and the owl turns moon points into sun points. Place your animal strategically near the moonstones, activate its abilities at the right time, and be careful not to stay in the shadow of the Great Elder Tree for too long!

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Taco Hat Cake Gift Pizza! Once there is a match between a card and a spoken word, you race to hit your hand on the central deck of cards. The last one to do that has to get them all. Be quick to be the first to get rid of all your cards. But watch out, because your mind will be completely confused! Guess what? There are new powers!

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Meadow is a fascinating collectible game with more than two hundred unique cards with hand-painted watercolor illustrations. In the game, players take on the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer. To win, they collect cards with the most valuable species, landscapes and discoveries. Their journey is guided by passion, a curiosity about the world, an inquisitive mind and a desire to discover the mysteries of nature. The competition continues at the bonfire where players race to fulfill the goals of their adventures. In this medium board game for 1-4 players, you take turns placing path tokens on one of the two boards. Placing a token on the main board allows the player to obtain cards, but playing them requires meeting certain requirements. Playing a chip on the bonfire board activates special actions (which help implement a chosen strategy) and gives the opportunity to complete goals that award extra points. During the game, players collect cards in their meadow and surroundings. At the end, the player with the most points on cards and on the bonfire board wins. Meadow also contains envelopes with extra cards to open at specific times... The Games Friends: " Meadow is one of the most beautiful games we know. The drawings on the cards are all beautiful to look at. And luckily the game itself is also great fun to play! The rules are simple, but still necessary. you make a lot of tactical choices, because every new card causes you to lose another symbol. Highly recommended!

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Drunk Stoned or Stupid is a hilarious and simple party game where you can get to know your friends well! But does that make you happy... Now finally available in a Dutch edition! In each round, a player draws a card and the other players decide to whom the description of this card applies most and why. Accusations can be based on personality traits, past stories, or basically anything. The player who drew the card (declarer) considers all charges and makes the final decision as to who gets the card. The first player to receive 7 cards loses the game. There are no winners in this game... only losers.

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It's the time of year when major Hollywood studios are thirsty for new screenplays that are sure to be the next big summer blockbuster. Screenwriters — who often work in teams — desperately try to get their foot in the door, to arrange a meeting with a powerful film director. There are so many screenwriters knocking on the door, but major breakthroughs are one in a million. Million Dollar Script is set in a lavish Hollywood office. Through extensive market research, the studio has identified the perfect hero, as well as an equally perfect villain counterpart to make millions. But other than that, these bigwigs don't take any risks; they will follow that tried and tested structure of almost every record-breaking blockbuster of the past forty years. This film will be one of the greats such as Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Avengers and Titanic. Two writing teams are invited to pitch their best and foremost ideas to a studio executive, also known as "the Exec." During the meeting, both teams work on the same film, pitching their ideas for each of the five traditional story events. Each round, the Exec chooses the pitch they prefer, which then becomes part of the shared storyline. The losing field is thrown away and treated as if it never existed, just like what should have happened with Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. Each team of screenwriters tries to worm their way into the Exec's good graces by winning the majority of the five rounds and scoring points to secure the profitable writing deal for themselves.

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In Café, players run companies that produce, process and deliver coffee to the most exquisite coffee bars in Portugal's Bélle Époque. In each round you decide how to create your trading area and coffee production. Which of the players has created the best production chain after 8 rounds and scores the most points? The Games Friends: Cafe is a clever abstract puzzle that plays just as smoothly solo as with other people. Due to the many cards, there is excellent replayability in the game box. Recommended for fans of abstract games that are cleverly put together!

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New possibilities for the Tavern of the Old Town! The Kamer Vrij expansion comes with four new modules, with which you can add even more variation to this game. The four modules introduce new rules and themes. With module A you can install your own wine cellar. With module B you can let your guests spend the night in your tavern. With module C you can deploy special bar owners and with module D you have to deal with the mayor of the Old Town, who wants to turn her municipality into a real tourist resort. The new modules can be combined with the basic game in numerous ways. This ensures endless fun in the entertainment area of ​​the Old Town! Can only be played in combination with the basic game “The Taverns of the Old City”.

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Welcome to Crime City: the city where crimes are committed on every street corner. Deadly secrets, sneaky robberies and cold-blooded murders are part of everyday life. Full House is the second part of the MicroMacro: Crime City series. It is a standalone game and some of the stories from part 1 are continued in this part. The 16 crimes in this game can be played without having played part 1. The Games Friends: " Micro Macro is an extremely original game, with laughably simple rules. If you put your grandmother in front of the card and just say, "Look what the rabbit has experienced today", she can get started right away. That simplicity in combination with the original mechanism and the nice cases, Micro Macro is an absolute must!

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You never really had any big supervillain ambitions. No, that's not your thing. You're just an honest contractor trying to make ends meet, just without scruples and not overly concerned about safety measures or working conditions. You are very proud that you always lead the way, literally, without questions. Just enjoy the excitement of the moment and the luxury of not having to make plans for more than a few hours. What's so terribly wrong with that? Goons is a strategy board game for 2-4 players that combines character development, action selection and gambling mechanics in a very special way. In Goons, players will try out a new exciting career as henchmen! They throw themselves into the heat of the fire and participate in various crazy plans of villains. The goal is to make as much money as possible, get the coolest gear, and gain respect for the local villains. Maybe one day you will finally be the one calling the shots!? On players' turns, they choose their actions using an action selection system that allows them to draw action tiles from a continuous scoring grid and combine them with another action by covering spaces on their board. Actions include going to the gym to boost your energy, buying new gear, making a little extra money as a dishwasher, and mixing things up at the nightclub. But most importantly, players commit to various daring villain plans by placing energy markers on them to increase the chances of success and reward. Each villain in the game has a unique theme and scoring mechanic, so players will have to carefully consider which ones to support. The goon with the most victory points at the end of the game wins!

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They've built their empire of cutting-edge innovation and cutting-edge technologies on a somewhat nondescript planet orbiting a fairly average star. Years of hard work and steadfast dedication to their clear vision of seeing beyond the daily toils and chores of human civilization have cemented their reputation as the forefathers of future humanity. Secretly, they have always continued to dream about the purpose of all their enterprising actions and deeds: reaching the stars. Now the time has come for them to make a second great leap for humanity, to make the outer reaches of the solar system our home. Only one of them will go down in history as the first explorer of space and a person who truly forged his will and power according to the bold words: citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger. Immerse yourself in a high-speed race to the final frontier: space. It's a deck-building showdown of quick decision-making and tactical choices. Rocketmen gives you the feeling of being at the front of a technologically beautiful spectacle of space exploration. It's up to your predictive and resource management skills to determine what kind of venture is best suited to pave the way to Earth's heavenly neighbors. It doesn't matter whether it would be a satellite in low Earth orbit or a manned base destined for the Red Planet; Plan your mission carefully, equip your shuttles and rockets wisely, but don't hesitate when your instincts tell you when it's time to launch! The universe can wait for you forever. Not your opponents!

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In Télos, players compete for battles with their Greek Gods. However, they only have one goal each round: to avoid winning the last trick of a round. This is easier said than done: players should always play a higher card than what is already on the table. Can't they? Then they must play their lowest card. Zeus has a special role in this, but scores extra points if players win the last battle with him. Télos also has advanced rules: each of the six Zeus cards has an extra function, so that players have a little extra control over the game.

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Cats know how to squeeze into the smallest boxes, which sometimes gives you the feeling that they are liquid! Small boxes, large boxes, tall boxes, slanted boxes and basically any shape. A cat knows how to get into it. Hence the English cat saying: if it fits, it sits. In If It Fits you let your cats sit in the best boxes! The aim of the game is to create boxes containing cat toys and fill these boxes with your own cats. This allows you to earn points with the cat toys. All boxes have open and closed sides. The closed sides are recognizable as the upright walls of boxes. When a player connects two open sides of boxes, they become one box. A box can theoretically consist of all the cards from the draw pile, as long as face-up sides are placed together. A box is closed when there are no more open sides.

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Greenville 1989 is a cooperative narrative game in which each player represents a character who has experienced or witnessed supernatural events. They must describe these events to their fellow players, who must then locate and rescue this character. This main role changes every round, giving everyone the opportunity to be lost or found - and you want to be found, otherwise the group will be drawn closer to the void that engulfs the city and threatens to swallow you all.

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In The Isle of Cats Explore & Draw, players choose a set of cards each round and then draw their discoveries on their boat. Explore & Draw is a competitive card game for 1-6 players that is ideal during a short break or to take with you on holiday. In the game you are residents of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and you must save as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique shape and belongs to a family. You have to find a way to fit them all on your boat while keeping families together. You'll also find treasures, Oshax (special cats), and ancient lessons that give you another personalized way to score points. Complete lessons, fill your boat and keep cat families together to score points, and the player with the most points after seven rounds wins.

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The world is in danger! Sinister supervillains create conflict, take power and subjugate humanity. At Marvel United it is your job to prevent that! In Marvel United, 2 to 4 players take on the role of superheroes who work together to thwart a supervillain's master plan. You create your own story by drawing the villain's cards and playing your own hero cards to counter the villain's sinister machinations. With your cards you can move your heroes, save civilians, defeat criminals, eliminate threats and use your heroes' special superpowers. Think carefully about what you play as your heroes can combine their skills to act as the perfect team. Meanwhile, the villain will roam the city, diligently working on his plans, spreading chaos, sending his minions and attacking the heroes. Only when the necessary missions are completed can the heroes attack the villain directly and defeat them for good! The Games Friends: " We surprisingly enjoyed Marvel United. The rules are very simple, but it's great that you can also use each other's actions. Furthermore, it plays very smoothly and quickly. We are fans! " DE: Die Welt ist in Gefahr! Finest Supervillains write Unfrieden, journeys with their own power and unterjochen die Menschheit. If Marvel United is a European Union, it will be prevented! Bei Marvel United schlüpfen 2 bis 4 Spieler in die Rolle von Superhelden, die gemeinsam den Masterplan eenine Supersvillaken durchkreuzen. I understand our own history, in this way we see the villain's maps and our own hero's maps are played out, and we understand the villain's finsteren machenschaften. With your cards, you can move your heroes, move your heroes, move them, explore them, and experience superpowerful heroes. Above all, it was a great experience, so the heroes could combine with great talent, or as a perfect team. In the meantime, the villains will continue to attack the city, attack their plans, spread chaos, develop their accomplices and attack their heroes. Once these strange missions have been absolved, the heroes can directly attack the villains and behold them in an end-good manner!

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The "C" Team Pack contains four illustrious Acquisitions Incorporated characters that you can play immediately in Clank! or in Clank! Legacy Acquisitions Incorporated!

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Paladins of the Western Kingdom is set during a turbulent time in the history of Western Franconia, around 900 AD. Despite recent attempts to develop the city, the surrounding villages are still threatened by outsiders. Saracens explore the borders, while Vikings plunder riches and livestock. Even the Byzantines from the east showed their dark side. As noble men and women, players must gather workers from the city to defend themselves against enemies, build fortifications and spread the faith across the land. Fortunately, you are not alone. In his great wisdom, the King has sent his best knights to assist in our efforts. So prepare the horses and sharpen the swords. The Paladins are approaching. The aim of the game is to be the player with the most victory points at the end of the game. You earn points by building outposts and fortifications, appointing monks and entering into confrontations with outsiders. Each round, players enlist the help of a particular Paladin and gather workers to complete tasks. As the game progresses, players will slowly increase their faith, power and influence. These not only influence their final score, but also determine the meaning of their actions. The game concludes at the end of the seventh round. The Games Friends: " Our favorite game in the West Kingdom Trilogy. There are a lot of choices, but the actions still feel logical. We think the strong element is that you cannot focus on everything in one game. This means that you can always do something different. try something else and you will be able to play Paladins for a long time. A great recommendation that will remain one of our favorite games for a while. "

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New adventures in the search for El Dorado! With this expansion, the expedition leaders will face new challenges, such as curses and demons. But don't worry, you will also get help from an unexpected source. This way you can hire special heroes and start your journey with your personal animal sidekick. Heroes & Demons continues with three new terrain tiles, new expedition cards and new cave tokens. Furthermore, this expansion has additional rules. There are now demon cards, a kind of punishment cards that take up space in your deck of expedition cards. You also run the risk of curses, which saddle you with demon cards or set your pawn back. Heroes & Demons can only be played in combination with The Search for El Dorado. The Games Friends: "An absolute must for fans of the basic game. The new tiles and cards provide even more variation and therefore you can make endless combinations. Highly recommended!"

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The dreaded Black Death has descended on the city of Bristol. You race through the streets in one of three available apple carts, desperate to escape to the safety of the countryside. If your cart is the first to leave town and it is full of only healthy villagers when you leave, you and your fellow cart mates successfully escape and win the game! However, some of the villagers in your car may already be sick! They hide their early symptoms from you so that they can enjoy their last days in peace. If you leave town with an afflicted villager on your cart, you will catch the plague. You have to do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't happen! On the surface, Bristol 1350 is part cooperative, part racing game, and part social deduction. In reality, it's a selfish struggle to get yourself out of town as quickly as possible without the plague, by any means necessary.

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Don't worry, this is just an occupational hazard. In So, You've Been Eaten. a miner collects crystals from the stomach of a gigantic space beast. The beast digests the miner using bacteria and immune responses. It features an asymmetrical 2-player experience and two different solo modes, as well as a 0-player mode, which pits the game's artificial intelligences against each other. Designed by Scott Almes and illustrated by Kwanchai Moriya. Mechanisms: Hand Management Set Collection Variable Player Powers Dice Rolling Action Points

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Lately it feels like we're all dinosaurs trying to avoid falling meteors. In this game for 2-4 players you try to avoid all of life's little disasters. You may fall into a pit of hot lava or be forgotten by your dino date, but the dino that survives it all wins the game! The first person to reach 50 points or the last person standing wins!

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Life is a challenging adventure or nothing. You're not sure which of the two, but you've narrowed down the choices. You are rich in life experience, but have always had difficulty exchanging this for goods and services. It's time to seek your fortune, or indeed anyone's, whoever is closest. To the west lies the land of milk and honey, full of giant bees and gigantic cows. In the east the land of eggs and licorice. There are treacherous swamps in the north and alluring jungles in the south. But these have all already been expertly looted. You have heard legends that tell of a fifth direction that has never been explored. Where treasures are still hidden in the earth. You have your sword and your survival kit, inherited from your ancestors. You've recruited recruits and hired mercenaries, you've polished your armor and reassured your partner. You hang up a sign that says “On an adventure”. And then another sign with the text “Beware of the dog”, in case some people had the wrong ideas. You saddle your stallion and set off. This expansion contains 400 cards, 6 tableaus and 60 tokens. 30 new kingdom cards are introduced, including some "durable ones", which are also active in subsequent turns. There are also reserve cards, which you can save for later, and event cards, which allow you to buy things other than cards, such as tokens that change the effects of cards. Dominion: Adventures can only be played in combination with Dominion. You need the victory and money cards from there.

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In the not so distant future, humanity has finally decided to spread beyond the borders of our world. The United Nations is offering grants to any company willing to invest time and money in terraforming the big red planet. Prestige and opportunity await the company that has the biggest impact on making Mars habitable. In Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, each player takes on the role of a company working to build oceans, increase temperatures, and increase oxygen levels in the Martian atmosphere. Each player will have a hand full of Project Cards that they will build and use to race against their fellow Entrepreneurs and achieve the highest Terraforming Rating. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is a standalone card game version of Terraforming Mars. It offers the same complexity and decision-making in half the playing time and you can pick it up faster than its big brother. How fast can you terraform Mars? The Games Friends: Terraforming Mars, but faster and more streamlined. Even though the big game will still be on the table often, we may pull this version out a little faster. Not because this version is immediately better, but because you can have it ready within the hour. Highly recommended!

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"Wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?" The McFly family photo slowly fades away... It's 1955 and you're in a time paradox with Biff, Lorraine, George and Doc Brown! Work together to move through Hill Valley to prepare the DeLorean, avoid Biff and his gang and help George and Lorraine fall in love. Boost the DeLorean to 88 MPH - all just before lightning strikes the Clock Tower, sending you back to the future. In the fully cooperative game Back to the Future: Back in Time, each player takes on the role of an important character from the film: Marty McFly, Doc Brown, Jennifer Parker or Einstein the dog. The objective of the game is to have the characters move through 1955 Hill Valley, collecting certain items in an attempt to repair Doc's famous DeLorean time machine, defeating Biff Tannen and his friends, while Marty's parents fall in love. Only once that is accomplished can players accelerate the DeLoreon to 88 MPH on Main Street before the clock tower strikes 10:04 PM!

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The 'Peleton' expansion for the basic game Flamme Rouge brings new possibilities to the game: 2 new colors of riders (pink and white) with which the game can be played with 6 players and even up to 12 players, with each player having their own rider ( Sprinteur or Rouleur). By adding 2 types (Strength or Platoon) “Dummy” teams, the game becomes even more exciting for 2 players and the game is also suitable for a solo race. With the legendary cobblestone tiles, the road leads to 1 lane, only the best are fast enough for this course. With exhaustion approaching, you can pick up a little speed on the Care Zone tiles and the road will become 3 lanes. The Games Friends: The Peloton expansion is a fun expansion for Flamme Rouge. With the extra material you can now play it with many more players and the new terrain tiles provide a nice variation. As far as we are concerned, this expansion is indispensable for fans of the base game.

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Rare Roses is a game with artwork by Nene Thomas, in which you play a floral designer who specializes in rare roses. You compete with other designers to become the best in the city. You buy rose buds from the market for your stock and you have to manage your stock from buds to flowers. Ultimately, you lose that inventory if you don't use it to fulfill orders. Rare Roses is an easy to understand game for the whole family that will provide hours of entertainment.

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Far south of The Last Ruin lies a clifftop village called The Monument. For generations it protected an ancient shrine until the day a crystal meteorite fell. The inhabitants of the meteor slowly crept into the world - bizarre monsters from a nightmare, attacking everyone in their path. As they spread across the land, there was no intelligent malice or grand invasion strategy; the creatures behaved like a fungus and sporadically spread into new territory. After many fruitless attempts to drive away the monsters, the people of The Monument fled as their village collapsed, banished to distant lands, resigned to a nomadic existence. Twenty years later, there are rumors that the bizarre monsters are becoming weak. They are slower, less impervious to attack, some undergo gradual petrification until they crumble into dust. Is it the atmosphere? Do they die of old age? Are they suffering from some strange disease? No one knows for sure, but as word spreads, various factions have their eyes on the vacant, ruined village of The Monument. The original villagers, now refugees, are desperate to return and rebuild. But they have to do it quickly, before someone else claims their home. This is their chance. It is now or never. In Now or Never, you and up to three friends compete to rebuild your ancestral village as best you can and guide the rest of the villagers on their journey home. Although the meteorite creatures have lost much of their power, many of them remain, and you must fight them to protect traveling villagers. Now or Never is the third game in the Arzium storybook series that includes Above and Below and Near and Far. Now or Never is a competitive strategy game that allows you to: Choose one of four asymmetrical characters to play. Rebuild the village so returning villagers have a place to live. You must carefully choose what and where to build to maintain an advantage and reap the greatest rewards for long-term planning. Collaborate with other players by hiring their specialists to perform special actions. Fight dangerous creatures to save villagers. Explore a fantasy landscape full of bizarre places, technology and peoples. Now or Never features two game modes: standard and story. When playing in story mode, you read from a storybook as you explore, make choices, and learn more about the characters and world. Each character has their own set of stories, unique to the locations they explore and diverse in plot, perspective and motif, allowing you to choose the direction your own story will take. Travel to the monument and help rebuild your old house!

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Are you loyal to the noble House Atreides or a secret agent of the treacherous House Harkonnen? Take on the role of iconic characters from Dune... use your actions, tactics and cunning to discover who your enemies are... then defend your allies and attack your enemies to ensure your victory! In this game of tactics and deception you are secret agents amid the sands of Dune. Your goal is to learn the identity of your enemies while protecting your nobles. Use the help of strange new tools and allies to gain power and knowledge. Be smart, practical and persuasive! Hide your true colors while you learn theirs. In the final rounds of battle, you have to trust your gut. Who are you going to defend and who are you going to stab in the back? The fate of Dune comes down to you. Let the adventure unfold in the new classic social deduction game Dune: Betrayal.

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Earth digs deep, water flows wide, fire rises high, wind blows free and emptiness slips among the rest. Can you gain the insight you need to discover true elemental wisdom? A gorinto is a kind of Japanese pagoda of the five elements: earth (cube), water (sphere), fire (pyramid), air (crescent) and void (lotus). In this pagoda you would often find a relic of a Buddha or saint, and together they form the realm of perfect understanding. In Gorinto, you take turns taking element tiles from the Path (edge ​​of the game board) and moving them to the Mountain (game board). You collect each element according to a unique pattern. With the elements collected each turn, you can collect more elements during subsequent turns and rounds. At the end of each round you score points based on objectives selected at the start of the game. At the end of the game you also score points for two certain elements. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Do you manage to arrive at a perfect understanding?

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Your explorers have discovered a hidden valley deep in the mountains of Pandoria, separated by rivers and great lakes. Here your people can develop the country undisturbed. But as you begin to inhabit these new lands, you discover that you are not alone: ​​trolls from the surrounding mountains come here too. You'll compete with increasingly powerful trolls to have the greatest influence in these 7 new areas. Trolls & Trails includes a new double-sided game board to play solo against the trolls, or to have an alternate map with "trails" across the mountains.

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Lands of Galzyr is an adventure game with an open and persistent world, where everyone's actions have consequences in both current and future games. Players take on the role of cunning adventurers as they traverse the land completing missions and seeking fame and prestige. Each game picks up where the last ended thanks to a clever save and load mechanism, without the need for paper accounting. You can play the game as many times as you want and even switch players between sessions. Lands of Galzyr is set in Daimyria, the same world in which Dale of Merchants and Dawn of Peacemakers take place. Go on an adventure with both familiar and new animals! Features of Lands of Galzyr: - Story-driven adventure: Battle quests, challenges and quirky animals on your journey to become a legend! - Open game world: experience the joys and thrills that Galzyr has to offer by going wherever you want and doing whatever you want. - Save Mechanism: Your actions have far-reaching consequences, as each game picks up where the previous one left off. - And more!

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In this third installation you can play as Mikey, Brand, Mouth, Data, Andy, Stef, Chunk and Sloth and search for the hidden treasure of One-Eyed Willy! Each character offers their own special ability, as everyone must decode clues and get the answers needed to reach The Inferno. Make sure the dreaded Fratellis doesn't add any obstacles in this challenge that requires the collective focus and dedication of the gang! As with previous releases from designers Jay Cormier and Sen Foong Lim, The Goonies: Escape with One-Eyed Willy's Rich Stuff features a strong narrative storyline from the iconic franchise as a guide for players to work together and unlock new locations and resources using a code revealing mechanic. Lose yourself in real-time puzzle solving and thrilling suspense, with no time pressure to interrupt the fun. After all, "Goonies Never Say Die!"

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Teams of toons compete against each other in Looney Tunes Mayhem. Each team races to be the first to collect 5 Victory Points (VP). Looney Tunes Mayhem is built around the "Mayhem System", a character-to-character team battle system where the most direct method for a team to gain VP is by KOing their opponents. Characters use items and powers to fight the enemy team, with battle damage changing each round based on the chaos die. When a character is eliminated, he is removed from the board and his opponent gains VPs, with the eliminated character returning to play the next round.

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