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In Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game you are a detective and you have to solve murders and unravel other mysteries. With the help of the game cards you go through the story and you have to continuously choose what you are going to do. Are you going to question the suspect? Are you going to investigate the crime scene? Or do you delve further into a specific clue? In addition to the cards, the game board and the tokens, this game also works with a website where you can find the police computer system. In this system you can, for example, enter the DNA or fingerprints of a suspect to see whether it matches certain people. Super awesome! You might find evidence to support your theory! Your job is to solve the case as quickly as possible with all the tools you have. The basic game contains five different scenarios that together form one large campaign. Can you unravel the mysteries? The Games Friends: “ Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is the perfect game to immerse yourself in. The story is really fantastic and once you have solved the first scenario you will definitely want to move on to the next one. Highly recommended for lovers of detective games! One of our favorite games ever! ”

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Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island features a number of epic scenarios set on a deserted island. In this board game you and your teammates have to survive and complete the assignment that comes with the scenario. You have to find food, protect your shelter and discover the island. That may sound simple, but it isn't! The rapidly changing weather, the wild animals and your own clumsiness make it difficult for you. Can you survive a few days on the island? The Games Friends: “ Robinson Crusoe is an epic adventure for the experienced board gamer. The different scenarios are super diverse, but all challenging. This game is great both cooperatively and thematically. ”

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The year is 1913. The steamship SS Atlantica is two days out of port on its journey across the Atlantic Ocean. The unsuspecting passengers fully anticipated an uneventful journey to Boston, Massachusetts, with nothing in particular to look forward to. However, strange nightmares plague the minds of those aboard the ship every night; rumors circulate of dark shapes following just beneath the waves behind the ship; and tensions rise when a body is discovered in the ship's chapel, signs of a strange ritual surrounding the corpse. This journey started like any other, but now it seems the Atlantic will never reach its destination. Immerse yourself among the passengers and crew of the SS Atlantica in this game of hidden loyalties, intrigue and paranoia for three to six players. Some players are people fighting for the ship's survival, while others are traitors sent aboard by mysterious beings to ensure it never reaches port! Since player loyalty is hidden, determining who is friend and who is enemy is crucial to winning an exciting game of Unfathomable.

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New threats have reared their monstrous heads in the land of Valeria! Scouts have reported seeing fiery dogs in the south and beasts that bring winter's deadly bite with them to the north. The king's heralds have been sent to all corners of Valeria to call on new adventurers to recruit as the workers lay the foundations for new domains. Valeria: Card Kingdoms – Flames and Frost adds two new powerful Monster stacks, a new set of Citizens to recruit, and new Domains to purchase.

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Featuring the cooperative game system used in Portal's award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dune: House Secrets delivers a deeply thematic experience that drops one to four players into the harsh desert planet of Arrakis. In this story-driven adventure game, players take on the role of rebels who must solve a series of challenging missions with a limited amount of time and resources. Players make decisions together about how the story will proceed as they decide to explore different regions of the world, follow clues, use allies, and overcome all kinds of opposition. During play, players use a variety of physical and digital game components – a card deck with essential clues and plot twists, a dozen physical handouts, and a dedicated website with additional resources – to take the story in fun and surprising directions for a truly immersive experience . Starting with an introductory prologue designed to introduce players to the vast Dune universe, the game continues with three major adventures, each taking approximately two to three hours to complete. During each episode, players can earn experience points to level up their characters between missions and unlock new options in future gameplay. Each adventure can be played individually as standalone episodes, but if players complete all three episodes, they will unravel a master-game story with an epic climax and unforgettable resolution with lasting impact on the future two games in the trilogy.

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The Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Egyptian Kings expansion is the fourth expansion in the series and introduces two brand new faction decks to the game. The Hatshepsut deck is a clan in the Nile Delta, with the deck designed around that core concept. The faction introduces a new mechanism for assigning workers to field cards to make them more fruitful and effective. The Amenhotep deck is designed around the concept of the passage of centuries, the sands of time. Locations in the deck will decrease and be discarded at the end of the round if the player does not spend resources to keep the card in the realm.

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In Crimson Seas you obtain maps to new distant lands beyond the borders of Valeria, allowing you to import trade goods from Araby to increase your victory points, purchase Tomes of great power to increase your resource production, rescue captured nobles from the villainous Amarynth Empire and plunder the wealth of the Cursed Isle. Beware of the monsters of the sea, however, as they grow in power and wreak havoc throughout Valeria. Along the top of the playing field is a new game board called "The Islands". To access the islands you must use a new action called "Sail" and to sail you must spend one map token, then you can access Araby to get goods, Nae Aerie to get Tomes, Exekratys to get lost to retrieve resources, and Amarynth to rescue the captured Noble's. This expansion has new icons, new tokens, new mechanics, new card types, and new cards for all existing card types.

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Dig Deeper, written by Rob Daviau is the first case in the Detective: Signature Series. The story takes place in an American city in the 1970s and the players' goal is to solve the mysterious death of a local politician. The case is full of surprises and just like in the basic game, you need modern tools to progress.

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The Roman Empire is constantly looking for new areas to conquer. They sail across the sea with their ships and expand their influence by conquering islands. Yet conquering those islands is not without danger, because you quickly end up in a war with other countries. In Imperial Settlers Empires of the North Roman Banners you will find two new factions and six new islands. With the Romans you can try new strategies and discover possibilities, such as rebuilding small locations to turn them into strong Roman buildings.

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Colonists from the three northern kingdoms explore and sail to new areas in the hope of finding more resources and further expanding their empire. Build new locations, take advantage of upcoming events and outsmart your opponents. This new game in the Imperial Settlers family takes players out to sea! Empires of the North is a standalone card game. The game contains 6 unique decks with Vikings, Scots and Inuit clans (each with their own playing style).

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In Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales you will find many fun additions to the basic game Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island . There are a number of new rules and components, 10 new characters, a new deck of event cards and three new decks of Adventure, Beast and Mystery cards. In addition, you can also play five new scenarios that together form one campaign: The Lost City of Z. Here you follow Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett in his quest.

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The land of Valeria is besieged by hordes of monsters. You and your fellow dukes must recruit citizens and purchase domains to build your kingdoms and defeat the vile creatures that lurk in the surrounding lands. Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a tableau building game for 1-5 players and will feel familiar to deck building fans. The cards you buy can work for you during your turn and for all other player turns as well. On your turn, roll two dice and activate citizen cards showing the result of each individual die and the sum of both dice. Other players will simultaneously activate their citizen cards based on the roll. Then perform two actions: kill a monster, recruit a citizen, buy a domain, or take 1 from any source. The player with the most victory points at the end wins the game.

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A large solo campaign consisting of 8 scenarios that are connected by an overarching story. Play a series of matches over several seasons with the aim of reaching the big league. What happens in one scenario can affect subsequent scenarios. This expansion adds 36 Solo maps that affect gameplay and your progress in the campaign, as well as 14 new maps for multiplayer mode.

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Turn your stadium into a cultural center for the entire city with 50 new cards and 24 new infrastructure tiles. Find new sponsors, hire new employees and create the stadium of your dreams! Build new elements, organize concerts and national team matches, and more!

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For years, humans, elves, and dwarves have slowly invaded your territories and killed your kind in the name of progress. They built their castles and villages as they pushed you further into the darkness. Now is the time to rally your forces and lay waste to their kind and bring forth the rule of the Shadow Kingdoms! You are a Warden who hungers for the destruction of Valeria. You must outsmart the other Wardens to earn the right to lead an army for the Shadow Kingdoms. Visit dark shrines to gain minions, magic, gems and gold to fuel your war machine. Command monsters in battle to conquer the land and earn victory points. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game is declared the winner. On your turn, you must move your director from his current location to a new location. When your warden enters one of the 5 shrines, first take an available die from the shrine and place it on your player board, then take the shrine action associated with the shrine. There are 5 types of troops (dice colors) in the game: Goblin (green), Orc (red), Skeleton (white), Gargoyle (purple) and Gnoll (brown). Send your warden to the camp on your player board to use your minion dice to resolve battle plans and place victory tokens on your campaign board.

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A completely independent title, Vienna Connection, adds a new quality to the Detective line. This is a cooperative spy board game and experience that lets you and your friends take on the role of spies conducting covert operations during the historical era of the Cold War! Vienna Connection features four unique missions that take place across Europe, including Vienna, Prague and Berlin! In this story-driven game for 1-5 players, you command a team of Cold War CIA operatives as they conduct secret missions in various European cities. It's January 1977. CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia gets wind of Soviet activity in Austria and has no choice but to intervene. The CIA decides to send members of their Special Activities Division (SAD). The game has started. Vienna Connection is a campaign game that consists of 4 missions. It shines when played as a complete experience. Individual gaming sessions are less interesting if you don't know or experience the whole story. The game is highly language dependent. You read a lot of maps, reports and files. It's a full-fledged storytelling experience. The box comes with 100 pages of various files and documents! If you are looking for a spy game and would like to outsmart Soviet agents, Vienna Connection is the game for you. The Games Friends: " Vienna Connection is so well put together. The story is compelling and strongly written. At the end of each mission you have to indicate what you want to happen next. That is a nice aspect, but it does ensure that It is sometimes difficult to estimate exactly how well you have done. Yet that is the only point we can think of, because this is once again a winner in the Detective series.

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With Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Japanese Islands you add more variety to the base game, with two new decks and extra island cards. On those cards you will find the Japanese faction with which you connect Empires of the North with the base game of Imperial Settlers.

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This journey just got a lot more dangerous. The creatures that initially came aboard the SS Atlantica were just the beginning. The terrors from the deep have stirred, and it will take all the strength of men to drive them back to whence they came. But the ship's passengers have awakened to the danger, and new allies have arrived to help in the fight for survival. The fate of the Atlantica hangs in the balance. Fantasy Flight Games is excited to announce From The Abyss, a brand new expansion for Unfathomable! In this expansion, the SS Atlantica and her journey to Boston are plunged into even deeper danger. New, terrifying monsters emerge from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the waters themselves becoming violent enough to throw passengers overboard. New treachery moves are there to sabotage the ship, and with the mythos deck doubling in size, fresh dangers will threaten the Atlantica at every turn. Luckily, the people aboard the ship have some new tools at their disposal, and with eight new playable characters, new card types, and more of everything that made the original game so great, the battle for the fate of the SS Atlantica has never been more been so fierce!

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Imperial Miners is a light engine building card game for 1 to 5 players, designed by Tim Armstrong (Arcana Rising, Orbis), where players mine mines using a smart card activation system. Set in the popular Imperial Settlers universe, this standalone game features beautiful artwork, easy-to-understand rules, and satisfying gameplay full of chain reactions and engine building synergies. In Imperial Miners, players create their own mines by playing cards in their personal tableau. They start at the surface and develop downwards. Whenever a card is added to their mine, it activates itself and all cards above it, rewarding players with satisfying chain reactions and combos. The cards belong to six different factions and offer different strategies. Players mix different factions in their mines to get the best results. As they develop their mines, players also progress on progression maps. At setup, three of the six available progress cards are randomly chosen for the game. These cards each offer a different strategic focus. Throughout the game, players progress to gain additional bonuses that help them develop their tableau, activate the synergies between cards, gain victory points and achieve even more satisfying combos. The combination of progression cards influences strategies and ensures that the game is different every time you play. Imperial Miners offers impressive replayability thanks to a wide range of different maps and modular progression maps. Players also take their turns at the same time, so the gameplay is fast and lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The simple rules, beautiful artwork and rewarding engine building mechanics make it a perfect game for both casual and experienced players.

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Batman: Everybody Lies is a crime-solving deduction game for 2-4 players set in the Batman comic book universe. Players take on the role of four key investigators - journalist Warren Spacey, tenacious reporter Vicki Vale, brash detective Harvey Bullock or the cunning Catwoman - who are drawn into a series of mysterious events unfolding in Gotham City. Throughout the game, players make decisions together and try to solve a series of challenging cases. They visit famous locations in Gotham City (such as the Batcave, Arkham Asylum, Blackgate Penitentiary and the Gotham City Gazette) and cross paths with famous Batman characters (such as Batman, The Penguin, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow and more) as you're looking for leads, identifying suspects and gathering enough information to save Gotham City. The game also adds a brand new Hidden Agenda, which assigns secret objectives and unique winning conditions to each player based on the DC character they are playing.

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Set in ancient Mesopotamia, a cradle of civilization, at a time when the location of Ur was a coastal area, players work to build the Great City of Ur, expand its districts and establish themselves as powerful builders. Tabannusi: Builders of Ur features a beautiful board where the city of Ur is divided into 5 regions, each tied to a specific color die. There are 3 construction districts, 1 temple district and 1 harbor district. Each turn your worker activates one of these districts. When activating a district you must first take a die from the district. This die matches the color of the district and has two functions: 1) The die itself becomes a source of its color. 2) The value of the die determines which district your worker will activate next turn. Through various actions you can increase your influence in the different districts, expand construction sites and turn them into buildings to score valuable victory points. But you will also exert your influence in the temple district to earn the king's favor. In the harbor district you can obtain ships with important skills and for gaining victory points. You need to spend your actions wisely and always make sure that you keep an eye on the overall timing of the game. The moment a district is cleared of dice, a score takes place. The Games Friends: Tabannusi did not disappoint us at all. We sometimes find the games in the T-series a bit too complicated, but that's actually fine with this game. It is certainly an expert game, but it still plays smoothly. Recommended!

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The Necromancer leads an undead army to the fortress walls. A powerful artifact lies within the stronghold. A magical item imbued with immense energy. The Necromancer's powers are waning and his magical essence is fading with each passing moment. He will regain his powers if he manages to take the castle by storm and claim the artifact. So if the undead army manages to breach the fortress within eight turns, it will capture the artifact and achieve victory. If not... well, if not, the Necromancer's powers will fade away completely and the undead army will turn to dust. Stronghold: Undead is a rebalance of the original Stronghold: Undead expansion for the second edition of Stronghold, which is now a standalone game. It features a new board with new paths to siege the castle, undead mechanics, and more ways for both sides to ensure their victory!

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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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Rise of the Empire is an expansion for Imperial Settlers that adds a completely new layer to the base game by introducing an open world campaign. The realm of players will evolve from one game to another and you will achieve new goals, technologies and areas. In this expansion you will find 220 new cards divided into three types: provinces, objectives and technologies. In addition, this expansion ensures that the number of rounds increases from five to four. Make your version of Imperial Settlers more extensive than ever with this mega expansion!

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Hidden among the detritus of the old world, you stand with a few familiar people and study the map. The commander steps inside under the dim light and slams her fist on the table - you go east - following the rumors, hoping against hope that the last outpost is still standing... The No Man's Land State Pack introduces something new to the 51st State. Build your outposts on a shared map, upgrade them to get better goods and strengthen your defenses. Don't drop your outposts. Once you're removed from the map, you're left depending on your state...

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Gutenberg is a board game for 1-4 people in which players will play as the pioneers of printing in the 15th century. By carrying out assignments, they build their wealth and fame. By improving their printing facilities and gaining customer support, they will develop their production capacity. The game is won by the printer with the greatest recognition and wealth. By bidding on specific actions, players develop their workshop and acquire new fonts, inks and decorations. The unique system of rotating gears allows you to combine bonuses and earn a large number of points. The game is won by the player with the most points after six rounds.

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Dreadful Circus is a fast-paced strategy game by Bruno Faidutti (The Citadel, Diamant). It takes us to a mysterious world somewhere in the depths of our minds. As ringmasters we will try to organize an unforgettable evening of shows, fighting with each other to attract the attention of the largest audience.

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Lord Nore, the Lich King, sacrificed his essence to become the Shrine of the Titans, allowing Wardens to resurrect their strongest warriors. As the shrine was magically created, it also unearthed ancient spells that will help you turn the tide of battle or manipulate your status within the war. The listless Wraiths have finally awakened from their slumber and now crave retribution for the many injustices done to monster kin over the centuries. Now is the time to send your hordes into great battles and crush the humans, elves and dwarves of Valeria who have overrun your lands. With these new powers at your disposal, can you reclaim your glory and become the next general of the dark army? Rise of Titans is an expansion for Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria with four modules: Shrine of the Titans, Great Battles, Ancient Spells and Wraith Dice. You can play with one or more modules, mix and match as you like. Modules can all be included in a game of Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, although we recommend that you don't do so until you know them all very well.

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Basilica is a two-player tile-laying game set in medieval Florence and offering plenty of interaction with other players. The game has easy-to-learn rules. In this game, players take on the role of competing architects who oversee the construction of a beautiful cathedral. Each turn they place tiles to enlarge the cathedral and create areas of one color, while placing construction pawns to gain advantages and control areas. In addition, players perform commands to move or remove builders, increase skills, block spaces or demolish previously built cathedral parts. There are four tile colors in the game. The players' goal is to create the largest possible areas representing a single color and to have more pawns in these areas than their opponent. Basilica, designed by Łukasz M. Pogoda, was first published in 2010 and further developed by the expansion Festum Fatuorum in 2012. The new edition from Portal Games includes the base game with a revamped game board, premium custom-made wooden pawns with medieval characters , and the expansion, which offers players a premium full-game experience.

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strong>Cry Havoc is a card game set in a Science Fiction war. Each player takes control of one of the 4 armies. Every army has different skills and units. This game contains 54 miniatures, a large game board and more than 100 unique cards. Each card has a new artwork. The Games Friends: Cry Havoc is recommended for fans of fighting games, such as Risk and Dune. The rules are quite simple, but you still have high replayability through the different factions. In addition, the artwork also looks beautiful.

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Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write is a standalone game set in the universe of Imperial Settlers and Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North. Score as many points as possible: grab your pencil, roll your dice and create the most prosperous empire! The Games Friends: “ Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write is a great dice game with simple rules. You can finish a game in no time and it's nice that you can focus on different tracks. Nice for in between!"

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A new Third Edition of Prêt-à-Porter, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Prêt-à-Porter is an economic strategy game in which players try to run successful fashion companies, participate in design shows and offer their designs for sale.

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