In Le Havre, a player's turn consists of two parts: first, newly delivered goods are distributed among the offering spaces, and then an action is performed. As an action, players can choose to either take all goods of one type from an offering space, or use one of the available buildings. Building actions allow players to upgrade goods, sell them or use them to build their own buildings and ships. Buildings are both an investment opportunity and a source of income, as players must pay an entrance fee to use buildings they do not own. Ships, on the other hand, are mainly used to deliver the food needed to feed the workers. After seven turns, the round ends: players' livestock and grain can multiply through a Harvest, and players must feed their workers. After a fixed number of rounds, each player may perform one final action, after which the game ends. Players add the value of their buildings and ships to their cash reserves. The player who has amassed the greatest fortune is the winner.

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In City of Iron, 2-4 players compete to build a small nation in a world of machines, magic, and money. Become the leader of one of four rival nations: the industrious Humans, the Path Engineers, the learned Cresarians, or the clever Boarmen. Produce goods such as machine parts and bottled demons to gain wealth, or research Steam Age technology and recruit mercenaries to rule the continent. If you want to found new cities, build schooners or airships to reach distant lands and flying islands. Your cities have limited capacity, so you must decide what to keep and what to demolish as you build advanced structures. The future of a nation is in your hands. Build unbreakable foundations for an empire or fade into the dusty pages of history.

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In Hostage Negotiator, you take on the role of a law enforcement agent charged with negotiating the release of hostages held by an unscrupulous figure determined to meet his or her demands at all costs. Each turn in the game represents a conversation between you and the hostage taker. You play cards and roll dice to increase conversation and talking points, lower the threat level, and release hostages. Hostage Negotiator uses a unique "hand-building" mechanic that puts the cards you buy directly into your hand for the next turn, instead of making you wonder when the cards will come out, as in deck-building games. In Hostage Negotiator, there are multiple paths to victory, but the hostage taker has other plans. Will you try to calm him down and make him surrender? Or will you wait and bid the time before sending the team in for a grand rescue operation? How many hostages will you rescue? These are some of the exciting decisions you'll make in a game of Hostage Negotiator!

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When a terrorist organization holds the world hostage, it's up to the legendary Solid Snake and his team to infiltrate the enemy base and sabotage the prototype weapons system before it's too late. Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game brings the stealth and drama of the beloved video game series to your tabletop. Solid Snake, Meryl, Otacon and Gray Fox work their way through interconnected missions, sneaking past patrols and defeating unique bosses with the ultimate goal of preventing world-threatening dangers.

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Get out your serving boards, cured meats, and sides as you prepare to create a delicious presentation of eye-catching bites in Charcuterie: The Board Game! In Charcuterie: The Board Game, 2-6 players take turns taking tasty food tokens and placing them on their boards, carefully considering their arrangement for the final presentation! This is the delicious appetizer game you’ve been looking for to serve to all the new or reluctant gamers in your life, while also offering seasoned players a variety of goals, recipes, and ways to maximize their plates to win. This makes every game unique and full of tasty choices.

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Every summer, the city of Águeda, Portugal transforms into a beautiful art festival with colorful umbrellas hanging over the streets, decorated lampposts, murals and other art installations throughout this picturesque city. In Águeda: City of Umbrellas, players take on the role of festival performers who decorate the city streets with their own colorful umbrellas to attract the most tourists to their streets. As an artist, you must balance the requests of the city, shops and tourists to create the most stunning arrangement of umbrellas. Players choose tiles from a central board and place them in a row on their own street board. After placing your umbrellas, select one or two tourists and move them to one of your three rows of umbrellas to score that row. Careful placement of your umbrellas unlocks parts of your tourist map, adding more tourists to your pool to place on your board. Once a player has filled their board, the scoring of your umbrella setup is based on both the board's standard score placement rules and the common "Shop" cards with different scoring objectives. Águeda: City of Umbrellas is a game for 1 to 5 players inspired by the real-life annual festival in Águeda, Portugal, called the Umbrella Project. 25th Century Games worked with the Umbrella Sky Project to create the box, incorporate their annual tourist cards into the game, and provide cultural consultancy.

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Despite the fact that the North American auto industry developed later than in Europe, innovations in mass production of vehicles and the immense internal market made the American auto industry the largest and most powerful in the world. In Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering, you will drive the development of new engines and bodies to bring the best possible range of vehicles to the market. You will also have the chance to demonstrate the power of your engines in the first Grand Prix held on American soil. Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering reintroduces Matthias Cramer's original design with improvements and simplifications that reduce the luck factor. Let the roar of the engines resound, let the design of the new models attract buyers from all corners of the world, and gain the prestige necessary to become the most famous car manufacturer.

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Embark on a grand adventure to Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, and meet its steadfast ruler, King Dain Ironfoot. Set sail from the Gray Havens, home of the venerable Círdan the Skipper, eldest of the Elves. Lead your armies from Rhûn, or launch an assault on the Shire with the fearsome Men of Dunland. Fire and Swords is the new expansion for War of the Ring The Card Game, designed by Ian Brody. This expansion broadens the game's horizons by introducing fresh battlefields for the "War in the North", along with new factions and a new location type called Skirmishes, populated by numerous characters from the Lord of the Rings saga. Within Fire and Swords you will discover a wealth of content, including 60 faction maps, 9 additional paths and 9 new battlefields. Additionally, you'll dive into 13 skirmishes, representing the smaller settlements and fortifications such as the Fords of Isen and Bree. Three new factions join the battle: the steadfast Northmen who fight for the Free Peoples, along with the fearsome Easterlings and cunning Ruffians allied with the Shadow. This expansion can accommodate up to six players, with customizable scenarios tailored for smaller groups. Plus, experience solo/cooperative gameplay with all-new Shadow Maps, seamlessly integrated with the already available Against the Shadow expansion for solo adventurers.

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A flock of deadly birds is attacking! Can you save the innocent and survive long enough to escape? The Vignette requires both the Core Box and one of the Feature Film Boxes to play the game. The Vignette provides the unique Killer and one Final Girl, while the Feature Film Box provides the location. In Terror from Above, the birds will invade the location of your choice. Will the Carnival suddenly be overrun by a flock of birds? Or will Creech Manor be invaded by their overwhelming numbers? Just like other killers, you can choose any location to play Terror From Above! This Feature Film Box is not playable on its own and requires you to also own the Core Box.

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This expansion for the narrative board game Detective: City of Angels includes 4 all-new cases and 200 cards to expand your investigative gameplay. The Games Friends: " Bullets over Hollywood is a great expansion for the basic game. The cases are about as difficult as in the basic game, but have some nice new additions. Highly recommended! "

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Islebound: Emerald Edition is a special edition of the game with some modified components and rules. It is best viewed as a variant of the game, rather than a 2nd edition. Islebound: Emerald Edition Upgrade Pack was available for owners of the original edition. The metal coins and painted wooden ships were also available separately as Islebound: Emerald Edition Deluxe Components. This edition of Islebound removes the book resource from the original game and replaces it with emeralds. Emeralds have different uses than books. You collect them when visiting a player-controlled city and when you take over a city. Emeralds must be used to purchase building cards, and they can also be used to perform special abilities, such as retaining pirates and snakes after battles! The building deck has been adjusted to account for this resource change. It includes modified building cards from both the original game and some from the Metropolis expansion. There will be no building card expansion for Islebound: Emerald Edition, and the Metropolis expansion is not compatible with this version.

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Beneath the dense canopy of the Pacific Northwest rainforests exists a thriving ecosystem. Salmon swim upstream, wildflowers and lush ferns cover the moss-covered ground, and a gray wolf stalks its next prey. In Canopy: Evergreen, players compete to grow the tallest trees, collect sets of wild plants, and create abundant habitats to help native wildlife thrive. In the game, players take turns drawing new cards for their forest from three growth piles. Each time you look at a pile, you can either choose it and add the cards to your rainforest tableau, or put the pile back face down and add an additional card to it. As the piles grow, you must seek out the plants and animals that will provide the most benefit to your forest – but choose carefully, as the flora and fauna also contain hazards such as fire, disease and drought. After three seasons, the player who has grown the most abundant rainforest wins! Canopy: Evergreen is a standalone game that features card drafting and set collection similar to the original *Canopy* game, but with new rules for gathering food, growing trees on your forest board to gain permanent bonuses, and feeding interactive wildlife. Lose yourself in the evergreen forest with new plants, animals, and eco-friendly 3D tree tokens that grow as you play!

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Canvas: Reflections is an extension of the critically acclaimed Canvas. In Canvas you place transparent cards on top of each other to create paintings. It is both a strategy game and a unique artistic experience. The expansion, Canvas: Reflections adds millions of unique combinations with its double-sided transparent cards.

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Gold is the lifeblood of war! As the Hun horde made its way through Europe, they forced the Germanic tribes to exodus. These warring peoples spread within the borders of the Western Roman Empire and would eventually cause the collapse of the empire through plunder and war. In the twilight of antiquity and at the dawn of the Middle Ages, the so-called "barbarian nations" founded kingdoms on the former imperial territory. In Barbarian Kingdoms, an asymmetrical and competitive strategy game, each player controls their own emerging kingdom and battles for dominance over Western Europe. The first player to control seven territories or eliminate two kings wins the game.

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In Avant Carde you want to build a collection of beautiful cubist works of art. Each player starts with a deck of ten cards: 1s and 2s in six mismatched suits and four high-value cards, each in a different suit. Each player draws a hand of seven cards, and then presents the best exhibit by matching suits and numbers, e.g. red 11, red 1, purple 1, purple 13. Each card you play earns you $1, and in turn players can buy cards from the gallery piles: a 2 costs $2, a 3 $3, etc. Once per turn, you can bury a top card in a gallery pile at the bottom of that pile. If you don't spend all your money and don't have a change token yet, take a change token from the bank; it's worth $1 when you decide to spend it. End your turn by discarding all played cards and cards remaining in your hand, then draw a hand of seven cards, shuffling your discard pile as necessary.

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Gain access to powerful one-time abilities tied to your experiment board. Introduce even more asymmetry to Nucleum and change your strategies in a whole new way. Add Patrons to the world. Each experiment board now has an associated Patron represented by a beautifully illustrated map and a backstory with a breakdown of abilities, as described in the rulebook. Additionally, the Patron set comes with a second set of cards for solo players. There are also new challenges and abilities for each experiment you play, breathing new life into the solo mode.

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With these 70 milestone and award tiles you can put together all the goals entirely according to your own wishes or leave everything to chance!

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Nature introduces two new ways to play Pampeor: Nature Park and Cardal Transmission.

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Explore the ancient sea of ​​Vastitas Borealis or the larger Amazonis map with longer general parameters! Both cards represent a new region of Mars, with new placement bonuses, ocean planes, and a new set of milestones and awards.

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20 promo cards that go perfectly with the Prelude 2 expansion for Terraforming Mars!

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Queen Gimnax has ordered the conquest of the northern territory. You are sent as a royal cartographer to map this area and claim it for the Kingdom of Nalos. But you are not alone in this wilderness: the Dragul use their lookouts to stop you. To limit their influence, you'll need to think carefully about how you draw your map. Conquer as much of the territory the queen wants and you will be declared the best cartographer in the kingdom. The Games Friends: “ Cartographers is one of our favorite Draw & Write games. Because there are many goals to choose from and the goals are constantly changing, there is a lot of variety in Cartographers. Highly recommended!”

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Develop the Autobahn by building and upgrading Germany's national highway network to improve your position within the BundesAutobahn organization. Expand the network, start different projects, promote employees to optimize your strategy and ensure you make the best contribution to the Autobahn. Upgrade your player board to gain access to new departments and create different ways to achieve victory. Develop Germany's iconic Autobahnen, race against other players to transport goods or set up a gas station empire.

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In the alternate storyline of Fractures of Time, Anachrony's first major expansion, the four original Paths and the newly formed, optimistic Path of Unity have gained access to a powerful new technology called Flux. Flux Cores can be acquired in the Amethynia Valley, the new main zone of the expansion. By using the Flux Cores to power their Fracture Device, players can move one of their already placed Exosuits to a new action space instead of placing a new one, or immediately retrieve some of their Worker or Free Action markers. This may result in never-before-seen action efficiency, but like the Time Rifts, the Flux technology is a double-edged sword. Without a sufficiently advanced Fracture device, overuse can cause temporary failures; frantic negative effects such as shutting down the Exosuit slots, temporarily disabling buildings, or making players more susceptible to anomalies. The Valley also holds other secrets. The advanced technology of the Operators allows players to remove the Temporal Glitches, upgrade their classic Path technology with new quirks, and even enable the Harvesters themselves as a powerful new class of Workers, who are immune to the side effects of the Flux.

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Because Uruguay has no natural resources of its own and does not want to be too dependent on its neighbors, the government has set up initiatives to improve energy generation and distribution throughout the country. Fortunately, Pampero, the strong winter wind, blows throughout Uruguay and is the perfect place to generate energy through wind turbines. Pampero is a card-driven action selection game based on smart hand management that requires a good dose of strategic planning. Each player must find a balance between income, energy supply and action cards to optimally meet the different scoring criteria of each game. You must expand your energy network and meet all the energy needs of the entire country to become the most profitable player.

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Build your own castle complete with towers, walls and characters! The higher you build, the more steps your baron can take to collect gold coins on the path. But because each tile must connect to the numbers of the tiles below it, it will become increasingly difficult to continue building. Will you be the first to collect 7 gold coins?

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Teotihuacan expands into an empire! The city grows beyond its old boundaries, military expeditions projecting its influence all the way to the Yucatan Peninsula. Fighting men become settlers, new resources are discovered, and the wealth brought by obsidian attracts new discoveries. Teotihuacan: Expansion Period is a modular expansion for Teotihuacan: City of Gods. It introduces several new options to enrich and expand the gaming experience. Obsidian — a new, "wild" resource in the game, more powerful than others, used for special actions in other modules, as well as for faster gameplay, added to the new resource collection action boards. Mansion – A new action board has been added to the game to replace the Palace board, with new options to climb temples and strengthen your workers. Altars and Shamans — this module adds a whole new dimension to the game. Previously empty spaces between action boards are now devoted to altars, home to shamans - new playing pieces that move counterclockwise and perform their own set of powerful actions. Expanding the Empire — the new empire board offers a wealth of possibilities, while integrating perfectly with the base game. The new Conquest board, compatible with previous expansions, allows players to use warriors to reach new lands and then turn them into colonists to continue on the Avenue of the Dead. Advanced Teotibot - new features for Teotibot, your solo opponent, make it compatible with all new content. ... and more! Major discoveries are added to the game, more powerful than regular discovery tiles, but harder to find. Special mask tiles that allow you to collect sets of up to 11 masks! More priests and priestesses, a new seasonal tile, new technology tiles, starting tiles and royal tiles.

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Discover new areas to map and test your skills as the royal cartographer of the Kingdom of Nalos. In your eternal quest for glory, venture into the heart of the Ice Giant Kingdom to complete the discovery of this polar region. Rekindle the eyes of Kethra, who sits atop the Twin Mountains, and scour the market of Hornhelm for new, advanced items to enhance your art.

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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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Sometimes all those maps in Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition can be a bit confusing, so a playmat is very useful. You can lay everything out clearly there. Perfecto!

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Terraforming Mars: Automa offers a new solo experience for playing Terraforming Mars. Instead of a race against the clock, in Automa you have to compete against corporations and special maps controlled by algorithms. In addition, it is possible to add any desired extension to create a challenge that suits you exactly.

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The Clear Sky expansion is a bundle of all Stretch Goals from the Pampero Kickstarter. It contains additional components that can be used in combination with the existing rules of the basic game, as well as three new game concepts

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Formidable opponents line up against you. Your people are ready. History beckons. In your hands lies the fate of one of the greatest civilizations in history. Under constant threat of attack, you must conquer new lands, oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances, and lead your people into the age of empire. Expand too quickly and unrest will bring your civilization to its knees; However, if you build up too slowly, you may become just a footnote in history. As one of eight radically asymmetric civilizations, you battle to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen. Imperium: Classics is a standalone game that features the Carthaginian, Celtic, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Roman, Scythian and Viking civilizations and an individual solo opponent who acts like each nation. It is also fully compatible with Imperium: Legends for players looking to expand their pool of civilizations even further. The Games Friends: One of our favorite deck builders. The rules are quite complex, but after a few games you get used to it and it plays smoothly. Due to the different peoples, there is a lot of variation in the box and you can really use it for a while. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a card game with a challenge!

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Expansion set for the board game Pandemic. State of Emergency offers three new challenges: the Hunterlands Challenge, the Emergency Events Challenge and the Superbug Challenge. In the Hinterlands Challenge, the virus spreads to people from animals. In the Emergency Events Challenge you make smart use of quarantine to prevent the global spread of the disease. The Superbug Challenge introduces a fifth disease that threatens the world and is untreatable. Find a cure and produce enough vaccination to overcome this superbug disease.

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In this third campaign expansion for Marvel Champions: The Card Game, you and your fellow heroes must challenge the powers of Thanos. This massive expansion features a brand new campaign with five exciting scenarios that pit you against members of the zealous Black Order, including Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive and of course the Mad Titan himself. As with previous expansions, you can play each of these scenarios individually or as part of a larger campaign, and with a whole host of new modular encounter sets, there's plenty of opportunity to mix things up for all your Marvel Champions content. Of course, a new wave of expansions also means more heroes, and The Mad Titan's Shadow starts with the mighty champions Adam Warlock and Spectrum, both of which come with fully pre-built and ready-to-use decks right out of the box.

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Something otherworldly is heading towards Arkham, in 'The Blob That Ate Everything Scenario Pack'. First presented at Gen Con 2019, this standalone adventure takes players back into the world of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. In this scenario you find yourself on the shores of Blackwater, where something unnatural is causing more and more problems. It all started with a strange meteorite impact, which caused the entire city to be put into lockdown. No one is allowed to leave the city and only a few researchers are allowed to enter. But time is running out as the unnatural creature destroys everything it encounters. Despite this, the quarantine is still in effect, making killing the creature the only way to save everyone. If that is at least possible... The Games Friends: "The Blob That Ate Everything is a nice scenario for Arkham Horror. The fact that it can spread slowly (or quickly!) across the board is nicely done and it's also nice that each enemy is part of a larger Totally recommended!"

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Of course you have already met many heroes in Arkham Horror The Card Game. After all, every Deluxe expansion contains new researchers with whom you can play. But the new Investigator Decks are still a good addition. With such an Investigator Deck you can get started very quickly. It has everything you need, making it ideal for new players. You can now also play more easily with more people, without needing two versions of the basic game. Useful!

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Hello, student beings! The Cosmic Faculty of the Technical Academy of Creation is pleased to welcome you to your Civolution, the final exam in Civilization Design! For this occasion we have prepared a humanoid scenario on an isolated continent. Here each of you holds the rank of a local deity who is closely connected to his own civilization and must lead it to success in relation to the other civilizations. Your development possibilities are endless and range from cultural and technical progress to evolutionary adaptations. For example, what would be more advantageous for your tribes: inventing the wheel or getting wings? Show us your skill in operating your civilization console and show how well you can adapt to changing environmental conditions and mild creation chaos. When the exam ends after four eras, whoever has accumulated the most success points will not only pass the exam, but will also become a full member of the Technical Academy of Creation and have the opportunity to be promoted to the next instance. Civolution is a medium to heavy Euro-style game that uses a dice selection mechanic to trigger actions on a tech tree. As you discover how to best use your dice and bring your unique cards into play, countless strategies and paths to victory will emerge. But each time you play, you will only explore a fraction of the possibilities afforded by the system and the game’s many cards.

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In Spectacular you are busy creating and developing your own zoo for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species, you must ensure that breeding takes place within each habitat. During the game, you select animal tiles and dice, with the dice representing the food for the animals. The color of the dice must match the habitat color of the animal tiles. Each turn requires crucial decisions, where you must consider whether to choose a die of a certain value or to secure an animal tile that may no longer be available. At the end of the game, you score points for each area of ​​connected tiles of the same habitat, based on the sum of your dice of that color. However, points are only awarded if dice with values ​​of 1 or 2 are placed on certain “family” tiles within the habitat! During the game, you also build lookout towers, which earn you points for all three dice adjacent to them. To make your park even more spectacular, you also try to collect as many different species as possible, with increasing points for more variety. The player with the most points wins the game. After a few games you can challenge yourself by playing with three (out of 18) mission tiles. While they offer the opportunity for a higher score, they also increase the difficulty of the puzzle. Spectacular offers simultaneous play and allows for interaction between players, as your opponents’ decisions will affect which tiles and dice are available to you. The game also comes with asymmetrical player boards (on the back). Spectacular offers simple rules, quick setup, short playing time, engaging puzzles and can be played by 1 to 6 players with little waiting time, even with a larger number of players.

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Welcome to Machi Koro 2: Polis! Your favorite, loving and quirky town is back. The standard buildings in the city haven't changed much, but the race for new buildings and landmarks with unique effects will be greater than ever. Are you ready for this new adventure?

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Who will be the first to create a line with cards of the same color? Take turns playing a card. Try to extend your line or block an opponent's. Don't focus too much on one line, because before you know it someone else will walk away with the victory.

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