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Spletité stezky is the final addition to the world of Arnak. Its major highlight is a new double-sided map, bigger than the one in the base game, that features two new research tracks, each with unique mechanisms and components.

Zářihvozd (Wispwood) is a family tile-laying game exploring a magical forest of bright-colored wisps. They each have their wishes and reward you for fulfilling them. Can you place your wisps the best and illuminate the brightest forest for your cat? Light up a magical forest and lure in a curious cat with glowing wisps. Choose from a display of wisp tiles with different spatial goals...

Join your friends and family — and memorable Sims from years past — in The Sims Board Game as you chart your journey. Will you create chaos and try to outrun Grim, or aim for career success? What will you do next when you have to start all over again? The possibilities are endless as you explore familiar venues, connect with iconic Sims, and achieve your aspirations to claim victory!

Lost! in the Woods is a family game which includes a large map, on which one player is ‘lost’. The rest of the players have to find that player by listening to their description of the area of the map they’re lost in. The lost player determines their location on the map by drawing a location card, and describing what they see on it. However, the players are limited by a communication card,...

Climb the social ladder — or kick it over. The trick-taking game Tax the Rich features a deck depicting characters of various social ranks from the Poor to the President. Each round begins with a simple bidding phase to determine both the trump color and the number of tricks required to score bonus points. The winner of the bid must then acquire the required number of tricks,...

Dive into daring battles with 2 to 4 heroes as you face off against ten unique and intelligent boss monsters! What makes it special: All bosses are controlled by an app that dynamically responds to your actions. At the start of each battle, their tactics and abilities remain a mystery. Uncover their weaknesses, discover how to defeat them, and claim powerful loot cards to upgrade your deck and...

An expansion for the game On the Wings of Dragons, which adds a wide range of new dragon cards, caves, quest tiles, Dragon Brotherhood boards, and a new round counter that brings new income opportunities when you pass.

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents. (Why you don't already know who your agents are is a question that Congressional investigators will get on your back about later!)

In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Lay out 25 cards, each bearing a single word. The spymasters look at a card showing the identity of each card, then take turns clueing their teammates. A clue consists of a single word and a number, with the number suggesting how many cards in play have some association to the given clue word. The...

In Tianxia, players take the role of leaders of noble families who want to earn prestige, as well as favors from the powerful rulers that govern the seven Warring Kingdoms.

The Dice Pool Party will start in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Splash!Shake the pool and take a good look at the dice.Can you single out the ones that give you the most points? You have only a brief moment.        

Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise, but just when you've mastered one set, new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.

Railroad Tiles, a sequel to the roll-and-write series Railroad Ink, is a quick-playing tile placement game in which you pick tiles and place routes to build an interconnected community.            

Valheim is a 1-4 player co-operative board game in which survival depends on teamwork and strategy. Gather your fellow companions and venture forward to explore, build, collect resources, forge weapons, equip sturdy armor, battle enemies, and carve your path towards facing the ultimate evil. Take on a role in which you help tailor the adventure to your liking. The fate of everyone lies in...

A strategic survival board game inspired by local superstition and card games.Each player draws the cards in turn and combines them with each other or with the "Grandmothers" location on the board to achieve their goal. This creates simple gameplay with lots of options for both players.

A wondrous land of sweet-toothed critters, Sugarmouth is home to Macaraccoon, the renowned Bakemaster! Ensuring sugary treats for all is no easy task, though, and one fateful day, Macaraccoon announces he is hanging up his apron, to pursue his childhood dream of collecting shiny trash. But before he leaves, he'll find a successor! A fresh batch of wonder has frosted everyone’s minds: who will...

In “Millennia: Tracks of Time” embark on an epic journey to lead your civilization to greatness across thousands of years. This strategic board game, designed for 1-4 players, offers a rich tapestry of gameplay elements, including card drafting, set collection, and economic management, all woven into a novel system of obsolescence. Karma Games presents a dynamic experience where the passage of...

"TRND" is a card game played with nine types of cards, each showing one of three shapes and one of three colors. On your turn, you swap cards in and out of your hand, aiming to finish with a hand made up entirely of identical cards, same shape and same color. The more matching cards you collect, the more points you earn, so it can be tempting to hold out a little longer instead of going out...

In Wriggle Roulette, players take turns reaching into a bag filled with eel- and snake-shaped wooden pieces, trying to pull out as many eels as possible — but if the number of snakes grabbed by all players exceeds the limit, a "snake outbreak" occurs, and the player who grabbed the most pieces loses all of their eels.

In ANTS, players control ant colonies locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the garden. Expand your anthill, explore the terrain, and mark your path with pheromones. Gather food and leaves, battle rival insects, and outmaneuver your opponents. Lay eggs and hatch larvae to grow your workforce with specialized ants. Evolve your colony to unlock unique abilities and secure supremacy...

This is an expansion for Kingdom Legacy. It offers 5 rounds of play, and 30 new cards to explore. After purging most of your permanent cards, Ambitions offers a plethora of new ones. Each round, discover 4 new cards but destroy one of them. Many cards offer a choice between fame and production.  

Includes 116 wooden double-sided silkscreened tokens in six denominations ($1s, $5s, $10s, $50s, $100s, and $300s) as upgrades to the punchboard currency in Speakeasy.

Ruins is a groundbreaking card game where players craft powerful cards using transparent upgrades while competing to shed their hand first.