Corrupted Kingdoms is a fun strategy and negotiation game set in a fantasy world, where you take on the role of an evil corporate monster, fighting for power over the pathetic united kingdoms and its political elite. To advance your hidden agenda, and enrich the lives of your friends and associates, you will use your horde of minions to corrupt and subvert the assembly of the realm. Use the right kinds of "persuasion", increase your own power, and push backroom deals through the assembly, all while looting the kingdom and its people of all its worth.

At the start of the game, each player will choose a fantasy corporation to play as (Dragons, Sorcerers, Giants, Witches, Vampires or Orcs), a Hidden Agenda which will guide their evil plan, and some starting minions (Zombies, Demons, Goblins, or Golems).

Over the course of the game players will influence the assembly of the realm (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Gnomes) using their minions and influence. Propose bills through lobbying efforts, buy useless and pretty luxuries, and get the politicians who represent the (ahem) "people" to push their nefarious legislation into law.

Program the First Computer: Together in real-time, players build and program the world`s first computer, deciding between speed and initiative with thoughtfulness and deliberation.

2–4 Players
15–30 Min
Age: 14+

"I am very anxious to see the Galapagos Islands, -- I think both the Geology & Zoology cannot fail to be very interesting."
- Charles Darwin, Letter to his sister, Catherine in August 1835.

Assist Charles Darwin during the Beagle journey across the Galapagos Islands, discovering new species and researching them in order to improve your knowledge.

During their turn, the active player must choose between two actions:
* Research: Put 2 research pieces on 2 different species tiles on the board, gaining the knowledge of air, land or water habitat.
* Discover: use the acquired habitat knowledge to place new species tiles on the board, obtaining victory points and evolution, characters and objects cards. Additionally advance the Beagle on its track.

The game finishes when the Beagle reaches the last space of its trip, leaving the archipelago through New Zealand. The players score the evolution points according to the final goal card, adding them to the points obtained during the game. The player with more points in the scoring track wins.

2-4 Players
45-80 Min
Age: 9+

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel is a 15-30 minute two-player card game that brings the `War of Currents` to light in an easy-to-learn, fast-playing, but seriously strategic game.

Players take control of Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison and build a company that claims projects in regions around the United States, advance the latest technologies, engage in a propaganda war around AC and DC technologies, and buy stock shares in smaller electricity companies.

2 Players
15–30 Min
Age: 14+

Become the greatest electricity inventor!

* Control a famous inventor and other 19th century luminaries
* Claim electric projects across the United States
* Invent, commercialize, and patent key technologies
* Wage a PR battle against your opponents
* Buy and sell shares to manipulate a dynamic stock market

Intended for...
...gamers who love any of science, business, or history. Who want to make crunchy decisions but in a system that is easy-to-learn and accessible to casual and serious gamers alike.

Tesla vs. Edison lovingly presents the War of Currents theme. In running your electric company you are both a starry-eyed inventor and a ruthless businessman. You feel pride in bringing electricity to the masses and developing miraculous new technologies, even as you file patents, engage in a propaganda war, and roll up your sleeves in the stock market. Balancing both sides of an inventor’s enterprise is required to achieve your victory.

The roles of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison in the development of electricity in the United States and world.

Summary
You control a start-up company in the early days of the U.S. electric industry. In the beginning you only have your lead inventor, some shares of preferred stock, and some money. Over the course of the game you will be hiring other famous technicians and business people to work for you. Each luminary in the game has their own unique ratings, and the inventors also have their own special abilities.

The actions that you allocate this team of exceptional historical figures to take will determine the fate of your company. There are four focuses in the game: claiming electric projects on the map, advancing up a tech tree, investing in public relations to improve public opinion of your company or the technologies it uses, and buying and selling stock on a dynamic market. You will need to pay attention to all of them but can win the game by specializing in just a specific one or two of your choice, or trying to build a more balanced company. The path you take is up to you.

Turn Overview
A game of Tesla vs. Edison takes six turns, broken into three phases of two turns each. At the start of each phase you reveal luminaries that will be available to be hired via an auction, along with the propaganda opportunities that you will have for the phase ahead. After the luminary auction is over the turn begins.

Proceeding in order from the most famous company to the least, players choose one of their luminaries to take one of the four available actions. This process continues until each player has exhausted all of their luminaries and taken the corresponding actions. Each action takes less than a minute. Then, at the end of the turn, profits are distributed to players based on their current stock price. This will fluctuate during each turn and is impacted at different times and in different ways by each of the four core actions: claiming projects, discovering and, if available, patenting new technologies, engaging in public relations, and buying and selling stock.

After the sixth turn is over the player with the most valuable stock portfolio, including holdings in your and your opponent’s companies, wins the game.

COMPONENTS:
* 1 board, depicting the United States, ca. 1890
* 5 inventors: Tesla, Edison, Brush, Maxim, Thomson
* 35 Stock certificates
* 102 Wooden markers in 6 colors
* 36 Luminary & Propaganda cards
* 1.64 Million dollars in luxurious bills
* 12-page rule book

Ages 14+
Players 2 - 5
90 minutes