Vendor: Battle Systems LTD
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Core Space is more than just one game. It sits in that sweet spot between board game, skirmish game and RPG, expanding to match your gaming style. From the tactical movement of the pieces (ready to use out of the box of course) to the combat strategies of your Trader crew over the course of a campaign, to the dramatic narratives that emerge from the game's events, there's something for everyone, all based on a simple set of mechanics.

None of this would matter of course without a box packed full of high-quality components that will allow you to immerse yourself in the Core Space universe. The exquisitely detailed miniatures make themselves at home in the epic 3D environment built from our award winning terrain, and the quality extends to the plastic dashboards, dice, deluxe laminated tokens and character boards and more.

If you're looking for a new sci-fi world to dive into, look no further.

SALVAGE. TRADE. ADAPT. SURVIVE.

Vendor: Tabula Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 82.95

Number of Players: 2-5

Playing Time: 120-150 minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

Survive the mysteries and perils of an ancient planet shaken by bizarre forces.

Mysthea is the iconic eurogame that launched the Mysthea universe, brought to the public in this Essential edition.

Mysthea is an area management and hand building eurogame from Tabula Games, in which time-tested euro mechanics receive a modern twist and are infused with strong thematic flair. Fight for control of unexplored floating islands, places full of anomalies and strange phenomena. Gather your powers to make entire islands move. Join forces to fight the terrible monsters that inhabit them by creating an army and strongholds on these new frontiers.

Mechanics such as the dynamic map, player customization, asymmetrical gameplay and variable scoring system ensure endless strategic possibilities, combined with an in-depth story and richly themed design. 

The game includes premium components with unique cards and 71 highly detailed miniatures.

Vendor: Winning Moves
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

A bluffing game where you try to conceal your identity.
On your turn you move two of the character pawns on the board. Movement is decided by dice.

The board is a 3D house with several traps. If you move a character to a trap space, you may spring the trap if you have the corresponding card in your hand. You can bluff by moving your opponents' characters towards the entrance or moving your own character onto a trap space, but not release it.

The portrait above the fireplace contains cards for each character plus Aunt Agatha. When you roll doubles, you may change the portrait.

You can win the game in three different ways:
1) If you can move your own game counter out of the house when it's the same as the portrait on the wall.
2) If your game counter is the last surviving.
3) If your game counter's portrait is on the wall when the detective enters the main entrance.

Vendor: Rebel.PL
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Number of Players: 1-4

Playing Time: 120 Minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

The power of geothermal energy is in your hands with Salton Sea! Players run a company that extracts lithium from this California lake and need to use their engineers wisely to optimize their actions at every step. This strategic game in an affordable, compact box, offers surprising challenges. Are you ready to harness the energy and rule the market?

Features:

• Become the best extractor of geothermal energy from the Salton Sea, one of the most unique places on earth.
• A strategic eurogame in a compact box: lots of content at an affordable price.
• The dual-use cards (money or action) give the game an especially interesting twist.

Vendor: Sylex
Type: Board Games
Price: 63.95

Number of Players: 1-4

Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

In the 14th century, the once flourishing port town of Amalfi was devastated by a tsunami. This led to a serious decline in wealth and power. As a merchant family, you are eager to rebuild. You will use your small fleet and desire to explore and restore your homeland’s greatness. 

Amalfi - Renaissance is a ship placement game in which players use their ships to establish trade routes to return with treasures. Navigate, discover, and acquire…as you lead Amalfi to its renaissance.

• Ship & Lighthouse placement game.
• Engine building game that rewards planning and dynamic resource management.
• Multiple paths of achieving goals.
• An abundance of actions to take each round.

Contents:

• 1 double-layer main board
• 4 double-layer player boards
• 75 Character cards
• 54 Work cards
• 36 Destination tiles
• 10 Decree tiles
• 16 Title tiles
• 40 Ships (10 per color)
• 24 Lighthouse tokens (6 per color)
• 4 Score markers (1 per color)
• 4 Bread markers
• 12 Title cubes (3 per color)
• 4 +100/+200 markers (1 per color)
• 6 starting Deck tokens
• 1 Compass Rose

Vendor: Scorpion Masque
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Your mission: transmit secret codes to your teammates without letting the opposing team intercept.

Decrypto is a "scramble communication" game: you must give clues to your teammates that are precise enough, so they can understand you, but vague enough, to make sure your opponents don't get the message...

Contents:

• 1 Rulebook
• 1 Sand Timer
• 2 Screens
• 110 Keyword cards (440 words)
• 48 Code cards
• 8 Tokens
• 50 Note Sheets

Vendor: Wehrlegig Games LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 134.95

In John Company, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early eighteenth-century, when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition.

John Company is a game about state-sponsored trade monopoly. Unlike most economic games players often do not control their own firms. Instead, they will collectively guide the Company by securing positions of power, attempting to steer the Company’s fate in ways that benefit their own interests. However, the Company is an unwieldy thing. It is difficult to do anything alone, and players will often need to negotiate with one another. In John Company, most everything is up for negotiation.

Ultimately, this game isn’t about wealth; it’s about reputation. Each turn some of your family members may retire from their Company positions, giving them the opportunity to establish estates. Critically, players do not have full control over when these retirements happen. You will often need to borrow money from other players to make the best use for a chance of retirement. Players also gain victory points by competing in the London Season for prestige and securing fashionable properties.

John Company engages very seriously with its theme. It is meant as a frank portrait of an institution that was as dysfunctional as it was influential. Accordingly, the game wrestles many of the key themes of imperialism and globalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how those developments were felt domestically. As such, this game might not be suitable for all players. Please make sure everyone in your group consents to this exploration before playing.

The second edition is extensively revised and is not a reprint.

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Travel to the city of Tokyo, Japan, and compete to redraw their metro plans in order to meet the tourist challenges of tomorrow.

Each turn in Next Station: Tokyo, you reveal the next station card and draw a subway line on your map. You have to optimize your network to collect a maximum number of stamps and stay connected to the central green loop to earn as many points as possible.

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Number of players: 2 to 4
Language: EN/FR
Ages: 8 years
Duration: 30 minutes

Assemble your Viking crew to explore new destinations in the world and trade!

You are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings that accompany you, you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth.

Each turn, you can:

- Place a new member in your Viking crew, activate the effects of all of them with the same icon, and get another one from the available ones placed under the same color of it on the central board,

or

- Explore new destinations.

Vendor: Scorpion Masque
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world.

To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice.

If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game...and your pilot's license...and probably your life.

From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being bumpy ride!

Vendor: Game Salute
Type: Board Games
Price: 83.95

Ages: 14+

Players: 2-4

Play Time: 60-90 Minutes

Alien Frontiers is the award-winning game of resource management, dice placement, and area control set on the retro sci-fi world of Planet Maxwell.

Deploy your fleet of dice and colonize the untamed planet by utilizing orbital facilities, discovering alien technology, and constructing colonies in strategic locations to stake your claim to this far-flung frontier.

Do you have what it takes to colonize a new world?

Vendor: Studio H
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Each player plays as a clan leader and has to secretly and wisely play a card from their hand, representing a member of their tribe, to try to take over some territories. Strategy and timing will be crucial for scoring! The player that scores the most points after 9 rounds wins the game.

Subcontinent of Vaalbara, Neolithic era. Your tribe sets out to explore uncharted lands in order to establish sedentary villages. Use the various talents of your tribe to optimize your development, expand your territory and enforce your hegemony!

All players have the same deck of 12 cards representing the members of their tribe. Each turn, players choose secretly one card. In the order of initiative of the revealed Characters, players will be able to activate their powers and take over one of the available Territories. Each type of Territory has its own way of scoring points (collection, pair, diversity, risk…). Deciding between playing the best powers and high initiatives at the most opportune moment will be difficult. After 9 rounds, the player with the most points wins the game and unites the tribes of the continent under their banner!

Vendor: Schmidt Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Number of Players: 1-4 Players

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

Your goal: Choose dice, then place the numbers into the matching colored area, put together tricky chain-scoring opportunities, and rack up the points. The dice you don’t use are as important as what you do because every die that’s smaller than the chosen one can be used by the other players, keeping everyone in the game at all times.

Vendor: Flatout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Number of Players: 1-5 Players

Playing Time: 30-45 minutes

Recommended Ages: 10+

An expansion for CASCADIA™—more puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting featuring the habitats & wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. In the Landmarks expansion for Cascadia, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, and provide dynamic end game scoring bonuses! In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique Wildlife Scoring Cards and Habitat Tiles to add variety and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players!

Contents:

• 45 Unique Habitat Tiles
• 5 Unique Starter Habitat Tiles
• 35 Wildlife Tokens
• 30 Deluxe Wooden Landmarks Tokens
• 60 Unique Landmarks Scoring Cards
• 15 Unique Wildlife Scoring Cards
• 15 Nature Tokens
• 1 Full Color Scorepad
• 1 Rulebook

Vendor: Cool Mini or Not
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Vendor: Plaid Hat Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Number of Players: 3-7 Players

Playing Time: 90+ minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

Congratulations! Humanity is dead! The bad news is that all they left behind is their garbage and a broken gig economy. That’s why we need freelancers like you: ready to take any job, no matter how loathsome. As a freelancer, you will delve into ruins, brave the wilds, and slay the hordes of hideous creatures that litter the dark forgotten corners of the world. All so you can gather loot and return home, ready to blow it all and start over again the next day. It’s a lousy gig, so it’s perfect for the likes of you.

Freelancers condenses the fantasy RPG campaign experience into a single night of fun and mayhem. Create a character, roll funky dice, and blaze your way through multiple stories set in a world of magic, monsters, and murder. Better yet, no game master is required, as a magical companion app does all the storytelling for you! 

• Immerse yourself in fully-voiced, industry-leading audio as you play. 
• Explore hundreds of branching paths in five highly replayable campaigns. 
• Mix and match a multitude of species and jobs to build your own unique character. 
• Pick up and play, simple rules, low commitment and no prep. 
• From the award-winning studio behind Forgotten Waters and Dead of Winter.

Contents: 

• 1 location book 1 cloth bag 2 sets of polyhedral dice
• 1 pad of map sheets 1 pad of species sheets
• 1 pad of job sheets 4 role boards 187 mini cards
• 9 standees 129 tokens and counters

Vendor: Unstable Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Explore a dark, enchanting world and battle your opponents in this 2-4 player turn-based competitive strategic board game.

Throughout the game, you'll collect resources, learn new spells, summon a companion, and - if you're lucky - unlock your Shadow Form, all in the quest to become the ultimate Shadow Caster.

The last player standing after this supernatural showdown wins the game!

The Standard edition of Casting Shadows inlcludes 73 standard-sized cards, 4 rules reference cards, 5 custom dice, 7 Hex tiles, 13 Resource tokens, 4 Player boards, and 4 meeples.

Your turn consists of 3 phases:

Phase 1
Take the 5 Resource dice and roll them in front of you to form your Resource Pool, which contains the Resources you can spend this turn. If you start your turn on a Hex tile that grants you a specific Resource, add the corresponding Resource token to your Resource Pool.

Phase 2
During this phase, you get 4 Action points to spend, and you can use them to perform any of the Actions below in any order. Each Action costs 1 Action point. You can perform the same Action more than once on your turn if you still have Action points tospend. You do not have to spend all 4 Action points each turn, but unused Action points do not roll over to subsequent turns.

• TRAVEL: Move your Character from your current Hex tile (the Hex tile where your Meeple currently stands) to any adjacent Hex tile.
• COLLECT: Move a Spell, Counterspell, or Resource card from next to your current Hex tile to your Spell Book by spending the required Resources shown in the card’s Collection Cost. After you Collect a Spell or Resource card, immediately replace it with the top card from the Main deck. If you Collect a Counterspell card from the Counterspell deck, you do not need to replace it with a card from the Main deck.
• REFRESH: Move the card next to your current Hex tile to the discard pile and replace it with the top card from the Main deck. You cannot Refresh a card from an Ancient Rune Hex tile or a Dusty Desert Hex tile.
• REROLL: Choose any number of rolled Resource dice and roll them again. You cannot Reroll Cursed Crystals.
• PROTECT: Remove 1 Cursed Crystal from your Resource Pool. Heads up: Any Cursed Crystals remaining in front of you will hurt you at the end of your turn!
• CAST: Spend Resources to use a Spell card effect from your Spell Book. You can use each Spell card effect only once per turn. In addition to an Action point cost, some Actions (such as COLLECT and CAST) require you to spend Resources. Remove spent Resources from your Resource Pool by returning that Resource to the central area of Resource dice and tokens.

Phase 3
During this phase, you may absorb any remaining Shadow Fragments in your Resource Pool by moving your Shadow Tracker up by that amount. If you’ve absorbed enough Shadow Energy and you are in your Base Form, you may immediately transform into Shadow Form.

When the dust settles and the echoes of the last spell fade, there can be only one victor. The last player standing is crowned the champion and wins the game.

Vendor: Kosmos
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+ 

After a long journey you have arrived on a mysterious island. You build the first houses, create fields and paths through the jungle, and advance further and further inland.

My Island is a legacy game. This means that your game changes and evolves as you play it. Everyone has their own island, which they redesign in each game. Three games together form a chapter. And for each chapter there is a sealed envelope containing new rules and various materials with which you can change your playing surface again and again. Experience the history of your island and discover its secrets in 24 fascinating games.

Following the success of My City, nominated for the 2020 Spiel des Jahres Award, this legacy game by renowned author Reiner Knizia offers many innovations.

Vendor: Board Game Tables
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

2023 Spiel Des Jahres Winner!

In Dorfromantik: The Board Game, up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population, while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible, but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas.

The better the players manage to do this, the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign, the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new, additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher in this cooperative game.

Contents:

• 104 Hexagonal Landscape tiles
• 33 Task markers
• 5 wooden Hearts
• 1 Balloon tile
• 1 plastic stand
• 1 Score pad
• 1 Campaign pad
• 5 boxes with secret contents to unlock
• 1 Rulebook

Vendor: LongPack Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

This expansion for Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate unlocks more constructed options for two players or adds a four-player draft.

Contents

Vendor: LongPack Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

It is the late 13th century and history is altered by the rise of the Worldbreakers, individuals who harness the mysterious substance mythium to magnify their natural talents. The Mongol princess Khutulun, a Worldbreaker and a descendent of the great Chinggis Khan, is reuniting the distant tribes of the Mongol Empire. However, other factions are rising to oppose her, each with their own agenda.

Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate is a customizable two-player card game. Players start the game with a Worldbreaker that has a unique special ability and a deck of 30 cards. Each player aims to be the first to reach 10 power, which is gained by developing Location cards and by attacking the opponent.

The game is divided into rounds, during each of which the players alternate taking turns. A turn is composed of one action, such as gaining mythium (the currency of the game), drawing a card, playing a card, or attacking the opponent. Worldbreakers has three card types: events, followers, and locations. Events are impactful one-time effects. Followers are people who join your cause and can either defend your board or attack your opponent. Finally, Locations are places where mythium can be collected. They have a numbered list of stages, each of which can be developed for a one-time bonus such as power or resources.

Proper timing and resource management is key to victory: wait too long, and your opponent will mount a crushing attack or finish developing their Locations for a power advantage. Who will wrestle control of mythium and forever reshape history?