In Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, each player controls a faction of revolutionaries—Workers, Students, Neighbors, or Prisoners—fighting against the police in the streets of a city that changes with each game. Build barricades, clash with police, occupy districts, loot shopping centers, build mutual aid networks, and liberate the city before time runs out and the military arrives! Object of the Game: When playing fully cooperatively, all factions win or lose together and must cooperate to defeat the police and liberate the city. To liberate the city, each faction must complete the objectives on 1 Conditions card. Each Conditions card specifies certain districts of the city that must be liberated and where occupations must be built. When playing semi-cooperatively, each faction has a secret Agenda card that determines how it wins the game. Factions with Social Agendas can still win together cooperatively. But a faction with a Vanguardist or Sectarian Agenda can only win alone and must work covertly to undermine the other factions. Bloc by Bloc is played in rounds and each round is 1 night. The countdown marker starts with 10 nights remaining. Each night has 2 phases, Nighttime and Sunrise. Nighttime: The Nighttime phase is when each faction takes its turn. At the start of a turn, cards are drawn from the Police Ops deck that move and deploy police squads across the city. Higher Police Morale means more cards. Next, the faction rolls action dice and spends those dice to take various actions around the city using their blocs. Each bloc represents an organized group of 5-15 people. Sunrise: After each faction has taken its turn, the Reaction card orders police to attack and police vans to move around the city. Next, factions may liberate districts and draw Liberation cards if enough blocs are gathered in those districts. There might also be a meeting to draw more Conditions cards. And don’t forget to check if the game has been won! If not, move the countdown forward at the speed of Police Morale, start the next night, and continue playing. If time runs out or any 1 faction has no blocs in the city, all factions lose. 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 60–120 MinAge: 13+

Castle Up is a competitive card game for 2-4 players set in the bustling era of the middle ages. Each player embarks on an ambitious journey to establish and grow their own city, vying for influence and supremacy in a world where strategy and cunning are key. The game intricately blends elements of moderate complexity strategy with engaging mechanics of deck building and tableau building. In Castle Up, every card action is a strategic choice, revealing layers of depth as players carefully construct their city. The game features innovative mechanics, such as cards that turn when damaged, maintaining full visibility to all players and adding a layer of tactical foresight. Resource management plays a crucial role, as players must judiciously allocate their assets to outmaneuver their rivals. Designed for competitive players, Castle Up eschews the randomness of dice, focusing instead on skillful planning and execution. As the game progresses through multiple rounds, players take consecutive turns, each action building upon the last towards an intricate web of potential victory. The game concludes when the drawing deck is depleted, with the player amassing the most victory points declared the winner. This title not only challenges the strategic acumen of its players but also invites them to immerse themselves in a richly crafted medieval experience. 2–4 PlayersPlay Time: 60–90 MinAge: 12+

In Chemical Overload, the current Master Alchemist is set to retire, but has been preparing for this by training his apprentices for years. Sure, the Academy of Alchemy has been pretty brutal so far, but the end of the road is near. The final exam is going to be rough, but it’ll be worth it, if you manage to rise above your fellow students and win the title of Master Alchemist! At the end of the final exam, you’ll be judged on the quality of your potions, which can be measured by how many Alchemy Points you’ve managed to accrue. Do this before the lab fills up with too many toxic fumes and the exam is called to a halt. You and your fellow students will start with the same basic chemicals and flasks. You’ll be combining your chemicals with the flasks of the correct size to brew magical potions. Each potion has its own effects and Alchemy Point values, and you’ll be able to use those potion’s effects throughout the game to help you gain more gold, alchemy points, more powerful chemicals, or even more powerful potions! But some potions will also add to the amount of toxic fumes in the lab! There are several thresholds, that once passed, you’ll have to draw a toxin card and deal with those effects. So you’ll want to keep an eye on that track, because once the tracker hits the end of the meter, the test is over! At the end of the final exam, the alchemist with the most Alchemy Points wins and is crowned the Master Alchemist! Chemical Overload is a Deck Building game that has elements of tableau building as well. On your turn, you’ll have a hand of cards. Any flask cards in your hand can be played to the table and remain there until used to brew a potion. There are also potions that can be played to the table for ongoing effects. As a bit of a twist on a classic deck building game, when a player gains new cards, such as new chemicals or a newly brewed deck potion, those cards go right on top of their draw pile. Any flasks or table potions gained can be placed immediately in the players tableau area. Players will be able to decide what unused cards in their hand they want to keep at the end of the round and which they want to discard, all with an eye on the cards they know they’ll be drawing next turn. Chemical Overload is for 1-4 players and takes about 45-60 minutes to play. 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 45–75 MinAge: 13+

Each player in Circle the Wagons is fixin’ to build up their own boomtown, but only one’ll build the best in the West! Blaze a trail by draftin’ cards ’round the circle and placin’ ’em in yer town, tryin’ to connect matchin’ territories to score prosperity points! But don’t forget about them three bonus cards in the center of the circle that can score ya even more points — that is, if ya play yer cards right. With over 800 unique ways to score and millions of draftin’ and placin’ combos, you’ll never build the same town twice! Circle the Wagons is a 2-player map-building game designed by Steven Aramini (Yardmaster), Danny Devine (Ghosts Love Candy) and Paul Kluka; featuring the art of Beth Sobel (Herbaceous, World’s Fair 1893 and Lanterns) and logo design of Bryan Fischer (Chicken Caesar). Circle the Wagons is the winner of the 2016 Button Shy Wallet Design Contest, beating out over 70 other games. 1–2 Players 15 Min Age: 8+

Tactical area control meets fantasy adventure in this card-driven cooperative game of animals against machines from the designer of PARKS and the creator of Bloc by Bloc. Play as one of four unique factions and assemble your crew of defenders from a wide range of animal characters to resist the machines across a modular map that changes with each game. War has come to the Wild. For millennia, animals have weathered shifting alliances and the cycle of hundred-year seasons—but they’ve never faced an enemy like this. An army of machines powered by corrupted magic is rampaging across the Commonwood, enclosing everything in its path and exploiting the warmth of the world. Across the marshes, plains, mountains, and forests, scrappy crews of defenders rise up to resist the machine occupation. The partisans hail from four factions, each determined to fight back in their own way: the Council with its fortitude and bread, the Order with its wisdom of the flame, the Sect with its ingenious inventions, and the Coven with its spells and subterfuge. Players are organizers of the animal resistance who have converged on a dangerous flashpoint in the war against the machines. Construction has begun on a new machine core and sprawling factory complex where an animal village once stood. Engines are building walls that enclose habitat after habitat while mechs guard expanding factories and toxic pollution spreads. Organizers must cooperate with each other despite longstanding factional disagreements and help their network of fellow defenders take actions in the right locations and at the right times in order to win this crucial battle. Clear pollution, fight mechs, breach walls, build camps, and rewild factories before the machines complete construction of the core and conquer this region of the Commonwood. Can the Defenders band together to heal the land and outsmart a seemingly impossible enemy? Or will the Commonwood succumb to an endless industrial winter? It’s up to you and your comrades to decide. 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 60–120 MinAge: 14+

The Newest Installment in the Drinking Quest Series! Like a typical Role Playing Game you have a character sheet, roll for saving throws, fight monsters and find treasure BUT when your character dies in the game you have to chug your drink in real life! It adds a real level of tension and excitement to the battles. Everything matters. The new Sidekick Mechanic makes for new character customization and powers! The battles are a series of one-on-one fights to the death. You either kill the monster earning coins and XP or your character dies and you must chug your drink! The cards act as the GM (So everyone can drink) and the heroes go through four themed quests in each game - each getting progressively difficult and more likely to drink. However as this is a light RPG and a light Drinking Game there is a one chug per quest maximum which prevents Drinking Quest from being a "Pass out in 10 minutes" kind of drinking game. Over the course of 2 or 3 hours, a typical game averages 2 or 3 chugs. Whoever gets the most XP wins! Whoever loses had to chug the most so it's sort of like everybody wins. 2–4 PlayersPlay Time: 60–120 MinAge: 21+

Kinfire Council is a competitive game of strategy and politics for 2-6 players. As a member of the Council, you've been charged with rebuilding the great city of Din'Lux and defending it from the dangers of the Starless Nights. Take turns sending your workers to collect resources, upgrade buildings, and construct new Kinfire lighthouses in the surrounding area, while the Cult of Altan interferes with your plans and undermines your authority. You'll vote on important city policies, arrest cultists, and dispatch your Seeker to thwart threats looming over the final bastion of civilization — the great city of Din'Lux. While you vie for power among yourselves, you also track the Cult's progress. If they win the game, then the Cult Conspirator ends up being the victor. Will you be a benevolent leader, working together with your fellow Council members, or will your plans take a more sinister turn? 2–6 PlayersPlay Time: 90–120 MinAge: 14+

It is said that for every person who has inhabited the Earth, there is more than one shining star in the universe... In Nebula you will have to collect stars to position them in your galaxy. Stars come in various stages, from red giants to white dwarfs, which you can get from star clusters. You can get stars by investing Time or going to Chaos. Then you must position them in some orbit and constellation respecting the law of gravity. Finally, there will be objectives, both personal and shared, that can reward you, and also some stars without glow that will remind us that death is part of stellar life. Give life to your Galaxy and find harmony within your constellations. The stories that will be invented while you watch them will last over time... 2–4 PlayersPlay Time: 30–45 MinAge: 8+

Each year as the mid-summer festival begins, the seven panda clans gather to celebrate their many years of peace and prosperity. After all the feasts, stories, and games, the Elders host the annual competition wherein the bravest of all pandas gather to battle for honor and glory. The panda clans each have their own powers and abilities, and the Elders consider those strengths carefully as they assemble their teams. In the dice-drafting game Panda Royale, each player starts with a single yellow die, and over ten rounds builds a hand of ten dice to earn the most points, with each color of dice having its own scoring properties. Players vie for the best drafting order to pick from the allotted dice each round. This quick-paced game can play up to ten players, and games play in 20–30 minutes. 2–10 PlayersPlay Time: 20–30 MinAge: 8+

Our once great Empire was struck by a devastating plague… will you answer the call to save it? Once standing tall and great, we now need to rediscover and rebuild our fallen cities. There are still survivors among the ruins – we must take them in our care and cure them. In order to stay ahead of the plague, we must implement new inventions and technologies. Our influence will expand as we rebuild, but the plague will still lurk in the shadows, ready to strike when we least expect it. Once it does, it will be difficult to adapt, but we will survive. In addition to the procurement of important resources, our imperative will be to get the plague under control. In Pest, players slip into the roles of leaders of the ruling houses of a once great empire that was struck by a cataclysmic plague. The plague has left much of the empire in ruins, so now it is up to the players to restore it to its former glory. Pest is played in 6 rounds. Each round before players take their turn, a plague card will be revealed which shows how the plague will spread in that round. On their turn, players will be able to select among many actions on their player board using a unique action selection system. Thus, players will be able to move their containment team on the board, quarantine and cure infected people, rebuild, assign workers, harvest for resources, and more. As their house influence grows, players will be able to play more actions, generate more resources, and house more people. This will bring forth new technological advancements which are much needed to get the plague under control. The game ends after the 6 round is over and players count their final amount of Renown (victory points). The player with the most Renown is the winner and declared the savior of the empire! 1–5 PlayersPlay Time: 60–150 MinAge: 13+

Around five thousand years ago, a resilient group of farmers and hunters built a thriving community on the Orkney Islands of Northern Scotland. Rather than discarding their empty shells, broken tools, bones, and other waste, they used them to form large mounds of earth over hundreds of years. Later generations dug into these midden piles to create a series of rooms and tunnels to shelter from the harsh winds and cold winter months. The aim of Skara Brae is to gather various resources in order to feed, clothe, and shelter the growing number of settlers. Players take turns drafting cards and using their workers to furnish, cook, craft, clean, and trade. At the end of each round, players need to provide for their settlers and will likely create more midden that needs to be cleaned up. After four rounds, the player with the most points wins. 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 45–60 MinAge: 13+

Travel the spectacular 800 mile long Arizona Trail as you take in the sights and sounds of the mountains, canyons, plateaus and deserts seeking out the amazing variety of wildlife such as the Roadrunner and Javelina, while avoiding the Gila Monster. From Saguaro National Park, the Sonoran desert, through the largest Ponderosa pine forest on Earth and into the Grand Canyon, you will interact with the incredible diversity of Terrain, Flora and Fauna found in State 48... aka Arizona. Players will call upon the legendary Jackalope and Lost Dutchman to aid in their travel. Turn order is determined for each round of travel and actions through a unique movement and observation mechanism. Players will need to acquire an interesting blend of key Natural and Personal resources to obtain advantages and create their own mural of Arizona wonders through efficient placement of polyomino depictions. After 8 weeks/rounds of travel, the player who builds a reserve of the most Arizona Grit and Superstition Gold is declared ... TRAILBLAZER 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 40–160 MinAge: 14+

Ahoy: Fang & Fortune is an expansion for Ahoy, featuring the Leviathan and the Coral Cap Pirates. The Leviathan: A terrifying beast that consumes all in its path, growing gargantuan. Coral Cap Pirates: Jolly rascals who just want to throw a party... after some light mercenary work. Mix and Match. you can use the Leviathan and Coral Cap Pirates to replace one or both Smugglers from the core game. Play with any combo you want!

Ahoy: Rivals & Renegades is an expansion for Ahoy, featuring the Blackfish Brigade and the Shellfire Rebellion. This expansion adds two new factions to Ahoy. You can use them in place of the Bluefin Squadron and Mollusk Union in the core game, or add them all together in a two-versus-two team mode! * Blackfish Brigade: Fierce orcas who menace the seas with their roving whale pod. * Shellfire Rebellion: Tenacious turtles who use catapults to launch comrades far and wide.

Recruit reinforcements to the battle with 4 additional gods and 4 additional monsters! These characters boast advanced abilities such as adding another character to the board during the game or pressuring your opponent with an alternate victory condition. Add the Gates module to your play session to spice up the board with powerful tile abilities. When a character passes through a gate, they trigger its power.

How to play The objective of the game is to complete the Necronomicon. Each player is dealt five cards at the beginning of the game. Each card represents part of a section of the book. Each section of the book is completed by collecting at least 5 cards from that specific section, identified by a symbol. The game is divided into several rounds, each of which ends when a player manages to complete a certain number of sections of the book (each round will be more complicated than the previous one). The complete sections of the book are marked with tokens until the Necronomicon is completed and the game is won. During a turn there are only two moves: draw card (to choose from the deck or the discard pile) and perform an action by placing a card on the table, which will serve to bring new cards into the hand or to get rid of others mainly. You’ll have to decide whether to sacrifice an important card to take advantage of the card’s action or to play more conservatively. The card that is played on the table is available for the next player, who in turn will decide whether to draw it or take a new one from the deck.The turns are fast but must be played with caution, since when completing the sections of the book can not remain cards in the hand, as they will lose sanity if another player ends the round earlier. Once a round is finished (managing to complete the sections of the book and discarding the remaining cards) the tokens are placed on the completed sections of the book and the players who have been left with cards in hand will lose sanity points. The rounds follow each other until all the sections of the Necronomicon are completed and the game is won. 2–4 PlayersPlay Time: 20–60 Min

Not Enough Mana is a "potion" drinking card game for 3-6 fearless wizards (legal potion drinking age may vary depending on your kingdom’s laws). You’ll be destroying each other using epic spells, curses and artifacts while replenishing your mana by drinking magical potions*. Your goal is to eliminate all other wizards from the game, either through depleting all their health points or by K.O. (also known as Too Much Mana). In their turn, players cast spells and curses, equip artifacts and face epic events by drawing and playing cards. Spells require mana points, which the player can replenish at any point in the game by drinking mana potions. If a player loses all health points or is incapable of making a move on their turn, they are removed from the game. The last player wins. 3–6 PlayersPlay Time: 60–120 MinAge: 18+

Assemble a colorful altar to celebrate your loved ones in Ofrenda, a card-placement game inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead. The Día de los Muertos is almost upon us. It is time to prepare the ofrenda – a bright, inviting altar to remember those who have passed away. Gather the portraits of your family members, place candles and marigolds to guide their spirits, and make offerings of the things they loved in life. Ofrenda is a competitive card-placement game for 1–4 players in which you must draft and carefully arrange the portraits of your late relatives on your player boards. Fulfill their wishes, making sure to seat them next to their dearest cousin or far from the food they like least. As your altar starts to fill up, however, it might become difficult to keep everybody happy! 1–4 PlayersPlay Time: 60 MinAge: 14+

Small Railroad Empires is a pickup and deliver, track-laying and set-collection board game for 2-4 players, where players build railroad tracks, send trains with goods from industries to cities, and complete achievements to earn prestige! During their turn, players will build their tracks by placing 2 trains on the modular board. When building tracks, players must pay the gold costs for the different terrain that the track passes through. Once a track connects an industry that produces a good with a city that demands that certain good, the player may send a train to complete the delivery and earn gold depending on the track length. Players will also race to complete achievements such as: "Be first to make 4 deliveries" or "Be first to build 3 Tunnels" for which they will earn extra prestige. Finally, when all players run out of tracks to lay down, the game ends. Player calculate the final prestige points they have from the achievements and the player with the most prestige is the winner! 1–4 Players 30–60 Min Age: 13+

The Warring States period was a pivotal era in Chinese history, marked by constant warfare, significant bureaucratic and military reforms, and the consolidation of power among rival states. The game is set around 260 BCE, a time when the seven warring kingdoms were locked in fierce conflict, both against each other as well as against nomadic groups like the Xiongnu, who posed a threat from the north. Although sections of the Great Wall of China had been constructed as early as the 8th century BCE, the later years of the Warring States period saw a surge in defensive building projects. Before Qin ultimately unified the kingdoms, extensive fortifications, watchtowers, and new sections of the wall were erected to bolster defenses. 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 game lasts four rounds in which you install Governors in the regions and bolster the power of rival ruling houses, thus gaining their favor. You also sell goods to merchant ships that sail the Chinese shores to gain wealth and other benefits. Nevertheless, you must not forget about the nomadic warriors who pose a constant threat on the northern borders of the seven kingdoms. Thus, you must train soldiers and build walls and towers to weaken the invaders and protect your interests, earning prestige in the process. Each round, the nomads advance toward the borders of the seven kingdoms and gather even larger numbers. When they reach the border, a battle takes place that affects all players. At the end of the game, the player who was the best governor, politician, merchant, and protector wins. 1-4 Players Play Time: 60-120 Min Age: 14+

Not every world in the Battletech universe is Terran-compatible. Now roll out high-quality neoprene maps of some true Alien Worlds for your Battletech gaming table! Roll out high-quality neoprene maps on your BattleTech gaming table! Each map is 34" x 22", the perfect "two-map" size for most games. The maps are high-resolution with great color quality, making them some of the most beautiful and durable BattleTech maps ever produced. The neoprene is also thin for ease of storage, and double-sided for versatility. The choice of battlefield is in your hands!

Not every world in the Battletech universe is Terran-compatible. Now roll out high-quality neoprene maps of some true Alien Worlds for your Battletech gaming table! Roll out high-quality neoprene maps on your BattleTech gaming table! Each map is 34" x 22", the perfect "two-map" size for most games. The maps are high-resolution with great color quality, making them some of the most beautiful and durable BattleTech maps ever produced. The neoprene is also thin for ease of storage, and double-sided for versatility. These neoprene BattleMats have all terrain removed, so that players can customize their battlefields as they see fit. The choice of battlefield is in your hands!

The sky was dyed red. What seemed like a hum became an explosion in my ears, which left me stunned. A ball of fire and ash crossed the sky towards the interior of the island. A second later, the ground shook as the object hit the mountains. In the ashes is a tabletop action role-playing game that you can play in a book. It uses innovative mechanics that will allow you to live adventures using a combination of tactical combat, decision making, skill selection, and equipment customization. Much more than a gamebook! During combat you will play action cards based on your specialties and you will move around the board to fight your opponents. You must consider the actions of your enemies to find the optimal strategy to defeat them. You’ll live a unique experience in an epic campaign, full of memorable scenes, epic confrontations, and continuous discoveries. All your decisions will affect the story and you will see how your characters evolve depending on the options you choose. You only need this book and a pencil to live an adventure full of action and mystery. Explore Obor Island and choose your destiny! Author: Pablo Aguilera Illustrator: Àlex Santaló, Jesús Gonzalo, Goretti Pérez and Darío Pérez Game mechanics: Cooperative, Hex Movement, Legacy, Mission/Scenario/Campaign, Programmed Movement/Action, Roll and Write/ Flip and Write, Semi-cooperative, Solitaire, Storytelling (Cuenta cuentos) Player Type: Amateur, Explorer Gaming Situations: Home Alone, Less than One Hour