The Pedersen Twins are trapped in a Port Authority office building after the feds were informed of their latest smuggling operation. They've taken hostages, and now it's up to you to talk them out of making things worse. While facing off with TWO abductors at once, the new "Decide" mechanic will have you weighing your options carefully. The hostages are depending on you!

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This time it's different. A member of your own police force has take hostages. He claims he's being framed for the recent murder of the chief, and you're the only one that believe him. Some of the hostages are starting to sympathize with him, making your job more difficult. Everything is riding on your shoulders. In this pack you'll have to deal with hostages that get "Stockholm Syndrome," which means they identify with the hostage taker. Saving those that want to be saved is hard enough! Will you be up to this new challenge?

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The abductor has hijacked a bus full of people and is making a run for the border. You'll be forced to employ tactics you've never used before and deal with the challenges of negotiating in different locations. Are you up for the challenge? Innocent lives are depending on you. In this pack you will have to deal with a new type of card: "Location Cards." The abductor's bus will need to be stopped, and the all new Tactics Cards are just the thing you need to set up a road block or create a diversion.

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The Circle of Automa, a local cult, is under siege by the FBI. Your job is to de-escalate the situation and save the cult members from themselves. Will the situation end in violence? Or will cooler heads prevail? This pack introduces a stack of Abductors that you can manipulate, as well as "firefight checks" you will need to resolve when attempting to extract hostages.

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Clive Seaver's life is in shambles. His wife divorced him and he has hit rock bottom. In fear of losing his two children, he has kidnapped them. He as them hidden somewhere in Becker Swamp with his loyal, but crazy sister. One wrong move and she will take the children and disappear. In this expansion the stakes are high. You'll have to have your team search to find the Seaver kids and rescue them before anything happens.

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Valerie Stone, a name you know well. She is an extremely skilled negotiator that has almost no equal. Almost. One negotiator always outperformed her and was rewarded as she played second fiddle to YOU! In this exciting expansion, the abductor knows all your tricks. She knows the playbook, and she has taken hostages. She's out to prove to everyone that SHE is the best negotiator, and she is willing to kill to do it.

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Samuel Xavier, an angry individual on his best days, was involuntarily forced into a rehabilitation clinic for substance abuse. Now that he is going through withdrawal pains in the form of excruciating migraines, he's angrier than he's ever been before. In this challenging expansion, you must deal with Sammy's blinding headaches while trying to save hostages. If you can't reduce his pain to a manageable level, he may snap... and then it will be too late to save anyone.

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Misha Koskinin is the poster child for sensationalism gone wrong in the best of times, but today things spiraled out of control. Her opponents snuck into an event and threatened her, so she incited her loyal devotees to violence. Now you have to interject between these two groups before things spiral further out of control.

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Hostage Negotiator: Career is an expansion for the Hostage Negotiator system that requires the Hostage Negotiator base game, Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave, and multiple Abductor Packs to play. In this culmination of the Hostage Negotiator series, you will play ten years in the life of a negotiator — that is, if you don't retire in shame sooner. In each "year" or campaign round of the game, you will resolve a career card that presents you with some narrative event that relates to or could impact your career based on the choice you make. Then, in most but not all years, you will be called to the scene of the latest hostage situation. Now, the result of each negotiation will impact the overall campaign and you'll be tracking your career stress, your personal stress, your merit level (for promotions), and your rank, among other things. After the negotiation, you resolve a personal card and are once again faced with a narrative event to resolve and, based on the result of your negotiation in that "year", will be rewarded (or reprimanded) accordingly.

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Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave is a stand-alone expansion to the hit solitaire game from 2015! A rash of crime is hitting the city. Most crimes don't require a negotiator. But for the ones that do... you get the call.  Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave is completely playable without any other content. So if you don't own the original Hostage Negotiator, you are still getting a fully playable game right out of the box.  Of course, having the original as well really brings out the most in this expansion! With new Conversation Cards, new Terror Cards, new Pivotal Events, new Abductors, and new Demands that can all be integrated with the original, your Hostage Negotiator experience will be taken to an all new level!

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Old enemies have returned with new tricks up their sleeves. Arkyane is demanding you release his lieutenant; Conner Ogden is threatening to send the board members he’s taken hostage on an unscheduled “flight”; and Dolph Pedersen has lost his famously hot temper yet again. This exciting expansion for Hostage Negotiator includes new major demand, terror, pivotal event, and decide cards for use with the abductors included in the original Hostage Negotiator game as well as Abductor Packs 1-4.

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An entire pack of 16 all-new cards to use with the abductors featured in Crime Wave (Barrett, Lijah, and Renesha), as well as the abductors in Abductor Packs #5-8 (Cult of Automa, the Seavers, Valerie Stone, and Sammy X). Just like Demand Pack #1, this will bring a whole new challenge to abductors you’ve faced in the past.

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  Fill your house with cats, mice and dice! Form rooms using numbers. Then use the rooms' special abilities to score the most points. There are 4 unique levels (each with their own rules), and every time you play you use a random set of 4 out of 12 possible abilities. This ensures new challenges every game. House of Cats is a quick and clever roll-and-write game, and the first collaborative design by veteran designers William Attia and Kristian A Østby. ENGAGE IN STRATEGY: House of Cats is a roll-and-write game where players use dice results to create rooms, inviting cats and avoiding mice, enhancing strategic thinking with every turn. UNIQUE REPLAYABILITY: Features four unique levels, each with distinct rules, and twelve potential abilities randomly chosen to ensure a fresh challenge with every game. BUILD AND SCORE: Form rooms by grouping dice numbers and unlock special abilities to maximize your score, making strategic decisions critical to becoming the master of your whimsical household. EASY TO LEARN, FUN TO MASTER: Perfect for family game nights, this game is simple enough for children yet challenging enough for adults, ensuring fun across all age groups. COLLABORATIVE DESIGN: The first game co-designed by board game veterans William Attia and Kristian A Østby, offering a blend of innovation and engaging gameplay. Contents: 4 custom dice 12 ability tiles 120 playing sheets 6 pencils

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  HUANG is a 2 to 5 player game set in ancient China, during the time of the Warring States. You take control of one of the Warring States, battling to unite the country under your dynasty. Each player has five different leaders: Governor, Soldier, Farmer, Trader, and Artisan. Clever placement of these leaders and their corresponding tiles on the board is key, allowing you to build pagodas to score points, trigger or avoid wars, and instigate peasant revolts that bring down your enemies. Play is fast and addictive, lasting around 90 minutes, with a very short teaching time reflecting the elegance of the ruleset.

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HUANG is a 2 to 4 player game set in ancient China, during the time of the Warring States. You take control of one of the Warring States, battling to unite the country under your dynasty. Each player has five different leaders: Governor, Soldier, Farmer, Trader, and Artisan.  Clever placement of these leaders and their corresponding tiles on the board is key, allowing you to build pagodas to score points, trigger or avoid wars, and instigate peasant revolts that bring down your enemies. Play is fast and addictive, lasting around 90 minutes, with a very short teaching time reflecting the elegance of the ruleset.

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Animals from around the world are gathering for the hula hoop championships. Their goal is to keep up the hoop for as long as possible. This is represented by cards. The goal is to get rid of all of your cards; or make all other players drop out ("drop their hoop").Each player starts with five cards in their hand, plus five cards openly in front of them. When it's their turn, they can choose to play one of their open cards or one from their hand. The first player plays any card and demands the next player to play "higher" or "lower". A player can follow this, or "double" - play the same card as the player before them. Then everyone has to double (or break the double with a neighboring card or a joker. A player who cannot play drops their hoop and is out of the round. When only one player is left, or when one player has gotten rid of all their cards, they get as many cards as have been played in that round. First player to reach 77 points wins the game.

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Human Punishment: The Beginning is a stand alone game and the Prequel of Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0 and it is a semi-cooperate, social deduction & pick-up and deliver hybrid! 3-6 players try to avoid the secret Machine revolution, but Machine spies are everywhere and they try to corrupt the Human players. There are also Outlaws, Fallen and Legion just as in Human Punishment and every faction works for their own goals. This game features a new mechanic called CWS (Connecting World System), which gives you the option to combine Human Punishment: The Beginning with Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0 to experience an epic theme night with YOUR OWN outcome!The Beginning is a fully stand alone game, but you can also combine it with Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0. Fight Machines, build Apex, avoid Deus X Machina and don't become corrupted by the Machines. Rewrite the history of Humanity!

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  They say the town of Wode Ridge has been cursed ever since Amos Wode founded the place way back in the 1800s. The sleepy, Colorado tourist trap looks plum peaceful in its postcards, but there’s a darkness about the town you can’t quite put your finger on. Some even say the town has an “other side” where the crazy roams unchecked, but I can’t speak much to that. By the 1980s, things had gotten especially weird--at least until a bunch of kids started snooping around trying to get to the bottom of the town’s supernatural goings-on. While the adults were worried about their Tupperware parties, these youngsters were out tracking down clues and finding trouble before it found them. And rumor has it they found some kind of creature in the woods too which might explain all them FBI fellers around here asking questions. And here they come now, riding around town on their bicycles. I just hope they figure things out soon. Looks like some kind of dark cloud is rolling in right behind them. Overview:Take on the role of a group of kids and their newfound alien friend, and explore Wode Ridge looking for evidence of the town’s supernatural happenings. But be wary, the Darkness knows you’re on to it, so it’ll be trying to get you before you get it. Find enough evidence to figure out what monster is currently ailing the town and then defeat it before time runs out and the Darkness overtakes you.

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  Collect the lost creatures and build the weirdest wildlife park. Will you choose the right hunter at the right time? Cards, fun & puns. Hunters of the Lost Creatures is a fast-paced people-friendly card game that you can win against your buddies or lose against your 6 year old kid. But winning or losing only depends on your decisions – not on dice or drawing luck. Join the ultimate battle between strategy and haphazardness. But keep an eye on the interests of your competitors and beware of Trolls, Thieves and Turnados. The basic rules are simple. Secretly choose a hunter for a designated hunting area: Sea, Air, Forest or Plains. He or she will catch a creature for your awesome wildlife park. You get the creature unless another player has sent a hunter to the same hunting area. The shy creatures will hide if more than one hunter is in their area. So think ahead of your opponents. Will they go for the most worthy creature? Will they try to block the creature you desperately need for a combo? Or will they place an annoying troll or thief in your park?

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Huradrim is a party game where 2 to 10 players are brewmasters looking to gather the right set of ingredients to brew the best beer for the king of dwarves! The gameplay is a mix of collecting components and discarding the right cards for fast rounds of less than two minutes! Drinking & Sober (FAMILY) MODES If you play as a drinking game, the player who first manages to assemble the right set of ingredients must show their hand and shout, “Huradrim!.” The other players will then drink a glass of the drink selected by the party for the session. The player who ends up with Huradrim in hand will have to drink twice! The last dwarf standing wins the game. In family mode, instead of using drinks, the players mark a beer on their token cards (two if they end up with Huradrim in their hand). A player is out of the game when their marker reaches 7 beers!  

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In Dragon & Unicorn Collector, you are a great collector of exotic animals. As one of the most renowned in your field, your task is to search for the rarest dragons and unicorns. You’ll need to explore the world's deepest seas, hottest volcanos, and darkest forests to collect the best specimens. Can you rise to the challenge and collect them all? Dragon and Unicorn Collector is a family oriented, casual game for 2 to 4 players. There are 14 unique dragons and unicorns, with a pair of each living in a different biome. The game includes 4 magical sparkle dice.★ Enjoy the magic of being an exotic creature collector!★ Share the fun by playing with friends and family!★ Experience the whimsical nature of the imagination!★ Play fast or slow, the game's pace is based on the number of players collectiing creatures.★ Add dragons and their matchig unicorns to your pool of creatures for the ultimate collection!Components• 28 Dragon Cards (14 Unique)• 28 Unicorn Cards (14 Unique)• 4 Sparkly Dice (2 Gold and 2 Silver)• 1 Rulesheet.

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Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologies pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we`re sorry. Inside the cake-inspired box, you`ll find 250 terrible apology cards and 250 hurt cards. Everyone starts with seven Apology Cards. In each round, one person is the Hurt Party, the person whose feelings were hurt, and they read out a random Hurt Card explaining what has hurt them. The Hurt Party then decides which apology is their favorite, and gives their Hurt card to the player with the best (or worst!) apology. The first player to collect 5 Hurt Cards wins the game!

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I MUSTACHE U is a playful exploration of humanity where players make predictions about each other's life experiences and earn points for correct predictions. Think you can judge a book by its cover? Think again. I MUSTACHE U unlocks social interaction to help players meet playful people, make memorable moments, and connect with their community. I MUSTACHE U to play.

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  You want to fight a dragon? Let's think about this a moment... Setting aside the fact that it has a large mouth full of nasty, sharp, pointy teeth, it outweighs you by about four tons, it flies, and it breathes fire. And you're going to pick up a sharp, pointy stick and wrap yourself in metal skin like some kind of TV dinner waiting to be cooked? Of course you aren't! But the king commands it, and all the other knights are watching, so you have to do something! I Would Fight The Dragon... is a fun, fast-paced game of bluffing and bluster. Show no fear, make your excuses, and foist gear onto the other knights to help them on their way. One brave soul will be facing the dragon today. Don't let it be you!

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The morning stretches over the tops of the tall, rugged mountains that dominate the Iberian Peninsula. Hammers ring, iron on iron, fighting stubbornly for every inch of new track against the unforgiving and unyielding terrain. The age of the railroad is coming to Iberia, but it won’t be easy… In Iberian Gauge, you will invest in railroad companies during Stock Rounds. During Operating Rounds, each share of stock allows the shareholder to build track for that company, in the order those shares were purchased. But building in such hostile terrain is expensive! Leasing track from other companies reduces the cost and keeps your railroads expanding. Failure to expand will sink your stock values, leading to ruin! Iberian Gauge is a game of simple rules with varied strategies & tactics for 3-5 players ages 12 and up, playing in about an hour. COMPONENTS 1 game board 110 wooden Locomotives 60 Share cubes 5 Player tiles 5 Railroad Dividend disks 5 Railroad Share Value disks 5 Railroad Initiative tiles 1 Priority Deal token 1 Round Marker token 150 Currency cards

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  Icaion is an Engine Territory Building, Resource Management eurogame designed by Martino Chiacchiera and Marta Ciaccasassi. The game is set in the regions around the giant crystal on the surface of Icaion, the planet below the clouds from which the floating islands of Mysthea detached millennia ago. In Icaion you become a Seeker, an expert adventurer, sent out by the Organization to hunt for treasures, Qoam, relics and artifacts from ancient times. Beware, in the farthest lands from the City a titanic being lurks, moving relentlessly while spreading an illness all over the world. This Colossus has been a mystery for the people of Icaion and you will inevitably cross its path.

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Icarus is a collaborative storytelling game about the collapse of a great civilization. Every game begins in a city-nation known as Icarus at the height of its power where, in celebration, the city has decided to erect a massive, ever-growing monument in the center of town to display its prestige to the world. During the game, you will be stacking dice to represent the construction of this monument, drawing cards from a story deck to create the escalating events in the city, and influencing the outcome of those events through actions driven by your characters’ motives. And when the dice tower finally falls, your civilization falls with it and the game comes to an end. Features: A GM-less collaborative storytelling game about how great civilizations fall World building in a box. An excellent pairing with other tabletop role playing games. Stack your failures with this beautiful set of custom dice. Once the dice tower falls, so does your civilization! Contents: 20 Icarus Dice 12 Pillars of Society Cards 5 Motive Cards 12 The Cracks In Our Facade Cards 12 The Rifts Between Us Cards 12 The Final Hours Cards 1 Bitter End Card 50 Sheet Aspect Pad

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Ice Duo is actually two complete games in one box: Ice Dice and Twin Win. Ice Dice is a press-your-luck game that was specifically designed to be an introductory game for the pyramids. It features a special pair of dice designed for this game but useful now for many others. Twin Win is a quick little hidden goal game with a bit of bluffing and a bit of strategy.As a Pyramid Arcade expansion, IceDuo will bring a Pyramid Arcade set up to the five trios needed for several popular games, in five of the ten colors.

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In Ice Floes & Foes, 2-6 players will try to save the seals and whales from the fishing boats and hunters. Shove ice floes onto the board and aim to get the fishing boats and hunters to fall off the board on the other side! Be careful not to shove the seals and whales off the board though! Ice Floes & Foes is a fun family game for 2-6 players, age 6+, and plays in about 15-30 minutes. The goal of the game is to collect 5 points. Each fishing boat and hunter you shove off the board gets you one point. On your turn, you may shove three ice floes onto the board. But be careful, because if you shove an animal off the board, your turn ends immediately! The first player to collect a combination of 5 fishing boats and hunters ends and wins the game!

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Idus Martii is a hidden role game for 5 to 8 players.According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The Ides of March are come", implying that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."Players are members of the Senate who must plot in favor of or against the magnicide of Julius Caesar. But it is not that easy, as they need to identify who shares their convictions in order to partner against the other players...whilst keeping a look out for those only looking to fatten their purse.There are four roles that are dealt each turn:The "Consul" decides who plays in the round by assigning the other roles. The Consul is passed in clockwise order at the start of each round.There are two "Edils" who vote, secretly, whether Caesar should live or die.The "Praetor" sneaks a peek at one of the two Edils’ played vote cards and may then force them to exchange their card.These two votes are then shuffled, revealed and their results will either move the ‘kill’ or ‘save’ caesar token up the track. The game ends once everyone has played the Consul twice. Then players reveal their role card, total votes are tallied and Caeser either lives…or dies.But the decisions are not that easy. At the beginning of the game, players are dealt two faction cards (either in favour, against or neutral to “magnicide”) and must discard down to one mid-way through the game… keeping all players on their toes!

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Travel 2000 years back in time to re-live one of the most influential episodes in Western history: The Last Supper. Players control one of the different clans that inhabit the city, collecting stones, bread, fish and dinars while trying to become the most influential group by sitting their followers closest to Jesus and the apostles. The immersive game and interesting decisions will appeal to a broad audience and become a must-have for the most zealous gamers.☆ Re-live the Last Supper in Ierusalem: Anno Domini, a highly thematic mid-weight eurogame by Carmen G. Jiménez.☆ An intelligent mix of mechanics which includes deckbuilding, resource management and worker placement.☆ The art of Enrique Corominas (Game of Thrones) and LA Draws (Magic the Gathering) transports you directly to 33 C.E♦ Set collection♦ Worker placement♦ Deck construction

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Edo — what we now know today as Tokyo, Japan — was a thriving city with an estimated population of one million, half townspeople and half samurai. With a huge shopping culture, Edo's main district, Nihonbashi, was lined with shops, selling kimonos, rice, and so much more. Nihonbashi is the focus of IKI: A Game of EDO Artisans, which brings you on a journey through the famed street of old Tokyo. Hear the voices of Nihonbashi Bridge's great fish market. Meet the professionals, who carry out 700­-800 different jobs. Enter the interactivity of the shoppers and vendors. Become one with the townspeople. One of the main professions in the world of Edo is the artisan. Each of the Edo artisans uses their own skill of trade to support the townspeople's lives. In this game, not only are there artisans, but street vendors, sellers at the shops, and professions unique to this time and age. Meet the puppet masters, putting on a show. Meet the ear cleaners that people would line up for. The goal of this game is to become the annual Edoite, best personifying what is known as "IKI", an ancient philosophy believed to be the ideal way of living among people in Edo. Knowing the subtleties of human nature, being refined and attractive — these are all elements of a true IKI master.

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 IKI: Akebono introduces a new location to discover in Edo: the bridge of Nihonbashi, which expands the main street and offers players new opportunities. Players can stop at the bridge to meet famous personalities from the Edo era (like Hokusai Katsushika, Sanyo Rai or Tokunai Mogami) and to trade with the ships (built by the players) in the river. The Akebono expansion also adds new character cards, building cards, and new pipe, tobacco, and fish tokens for more strategic depth and decision making.

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The world in 2030. The new great powers China, India and Brazil are in ascendance, threatening the hegemony of the old Imperial powers United States, Russia and Europe. This has sparked a new global race for power and influence. Ultimately, these six states are only puppets in a treacherous game, because their fates are controlled by powerful international investors operating in the background. Each player takes on the role of such an investor who is on the constant lookout for the maximum return on his investment, and therefore tries to obtain ruthless control of great powers. But control of a state may also slip away – so the cunning investor must always be ready to take advantage of the new conflicts and strategic possibilities of the ever-changing landscape.Imperial 2030 is for 2 to 6 players, and it combines economic calculus and military skills in a unique strategy game without any luck of cards or dice.

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Imperial Miners is a light engine-building card game from the designer Tim Armstrong (Arcana Rising, Orbis) in which players build their mines using a clever card activation system. This standalone game is set in the popular Imperial Settlers universe and offers beautiful illustrations, easy rules, and satisfying gameplay full of combos and synergies between the cards. In Imperial Miners players build their own mines by playing cards to their tableau. They start from the ground floor and develop downwards. Each time a card is added to the mine it activates itself and all the cards above it rewarding a player with satisfying combos. Cards belong to six different factions and offer various abilities. Players are free to mix different factions in their mines for better results.Imperial Miners offers an impressive replayability thanks to its wide range of different cards and progress tracks, which are added to the game during setup (3 out of 6 in the game box). Players advance the tracks throughout the game acquiring immediate benefits to synergize with their cards trigger even more satisfying combos.★ stunning production value and a great MSRP★ a stand-alone game set in the award-winning Imperial Settlers family★ simultaneous gameplay with no downtime, delivering a great experience in just 45 minutesComponents:• 136 Mine cards• 18 Event cards• 5 Surface boards• 3 double-sided Progress boards• 5 Progress markers• 60 Coin tokens• 60 Victory Point tokens• 44 Machine tokens• 24 Collapse tokens• 40 wooden Cart markers• 1 rulebook

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Settlers from four major powers of the world have discovered new lands, with new resources and opportunities. Romans, Barbarians, Egyptians and Japanese all at once move there to expand the boundaries of their empires. They build new buildings to strengthen their economy, they found mines and fields to gather resources, and they build barracks and training grounds to train soldiers. Soon after they discover that this land is far too small for everybody, then the war begins... Imperial Settlers is a card game that lets players lead one of the four factions and build empires by placing buildings, then sending workers to those buildings to acquire new resources and abilities. The game is played over five rounds during which players take various actions in order to explore new lands, build buildings, trade resources, conquer enemies, and thus score victory points.

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Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North is a new, standalone card game in the established Imperial Settlers universe, with players heading to the far north where three different factions live: Scotsmen, Inuits, and Vikings. Take on the role of leader, and make your faction into the best empire in the world! Choosing the faction is only the first step, though, as each faction can be played using one of the two separate and unique decks. Yes, in the base game, players will find six pre-constructed decks ready to use straight out of the box. Each one offers a completely different gameplay style! Develop your economy, deflect your opponent, and fight for dominance in the north. Learn new mechanisms, and experience a unique style of Imperial Settlers. Will you be able to create the most successful civilization in Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North?

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The Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Barbarian Hordes expansion adds two new barbarian clans with their own unique card decks to the Empires of the North game: One clan consists of daring pirates who sail the sea on their abundant rafts, while the other clan is full of notorious robbers who sabotage other clans and demand ransom.

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The Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Egyptian Kings expansion is the fourth expansion in the line and introduces two brand new faction decks to the game. The Hatshepsut deck is a clan located on the Nile Delta, with the deck being designed around that core concept. The faction introduces a new mechanism of assigning workers to Field cards to make them more fertile and effective. The Amenhotep deck is designed around the concept of the passing of centuries, the sands of time. Locations in the deck will decline and get discarded at the end of the round if the player won’t spend resources to keep the card in the Empire.

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Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Japanese Islands expands the Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North with two new decks and additional island cards, with the Japanese faction connecting the world of Empires of the North with the Imperial Settlers base game.

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Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Roman Banners includes two new Roman decks and additional island cards. The Romans sailed far and wide looking for wealth and new realms to conquer! Their legions discovered new lands to expand their dominance and fill their reserves. It wasn't long before they found themselves in conflict with the Empires of the North. The expansion Empires of the North: Roman Banners introduces two new Clans to the game, as well as 6 new Islands. Roman Clans offer new strategies and solutions, such as rebuilding previous Locations into majestic structures with enhanced power. The clan of mighty Flavian expands its empire by relying on previously built structures and foundations. The more has been built, the easier it gets to acquire new structures. The Clan introduces a new mechanic of building on foundations. The adventurous Trajana marches bravely toward new territories. But maintaining a constantly growing empire requires to cover constantly increasing costs. Developing a stable economy is necessary to fulfill Trajana’s ambitious plans. The expansion includes also 6 additional Island cards (4 Nearby and 2 Distant Islands) with new abilities increasing the replayability of the game even further. 4 new score tokens in colors matching the clan wooden markers can be used as a replacement for the score tokens found in the base game

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The counselor of the South Shore has passed away. The Emperor declared it your task to take care of the neglected villages of this abandoned land. Restore old buildings, revitalize the trade routes, and discover the truth behind local myths and legends about the wrath of the lighthouses...Empires of the North: Wrath of the Lighthouse is a story-driven solo campaign for the awardwinning engine building card game: Empires of the North.The expansion comes with 15 unique solo scenarios played in the order corresponding with the story included in the Campaign book. When playing the campaign mode, players gain access to the new type of cards including Event cards, Legacy locations cards that last from one game to another, and Lighthouses cards that are shuffled to Island decks. Additionally, each of the scenarios can be played individually, just like the scenarios in the base game.In story mode you will play alongside a Campaign book and slowly discover how the plot unfolds.Why is the number of lighthouses on the coast increasing? Why do the people so strongly oppose the cathedral being rebuilt? And those seas constantly assaulted by storms...Empires of the North: Wrath of the Lighthouse is designed by Joanna Kijanka, co-designer of the base game and all previously released expansions to the game. The expansion includes 55 cards, a Scenario booklet with 15 unique scenarios, and a Campaign book with more than 50 story branches.★ A single-player expansion to the Empires of the North★ 15 new scenarios connected with an overarching story★ 3 new types of cards, including Event cards and Legacy locations

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The Industrial Age is starting to boom. You are in need of more workers for your factories, and you also need more workers to build railroad tracks to expand your railway network. This, in turn, will enable you to deliver the goods from your factories to cities with high demand — but be sure to earmark goods for fulfilling profitable public contracts because when the connection to Trieste is made, your net worth is all that matters. Imperial Steam is a highly strategic yet accessible economic and logistics game that sees you making difficult decisions as you manage your business's operations while navigating fierce competition to ensure your victory!

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In Dreams is a slightly surreal storytelling game for one, which uses vivid imagery and evocative prompts to immerse you in a dreamworld you wouldn’t have otherwise imagined. In this storytelling solo game, the player writes a story in which a character in a dreamworld must complete a specific goal before waking. The player begins by drawing cards to create a randomized character with a starting temperament. Card draws will also determine the goal the character must achieve by the dream's end in order for the player to win. Storytelling then begins by drawings cards to create an Encounter. An Encounter consists of 2-4 short prompts as well as a location. All Encounter cards include surreal artwork to help inspire fresh and creative interpretations each game. The player must immediately write about the generated Encounter, including all of the prompts and the location while attempting to move the character closer to their goal. Some Encounters will prompt the player to generate an Event. Two cards from the Event deck will determine what is happening as well as the tone. These cards too include surreal artwork for inspiration. Events are resolved in the same manner as Encounters. The game continues, with the player drawing and resolving Encounters and Events through storytelling until the character's goal is met.

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Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager for discovery, could help the renowned scholar finish writing his most famous work?

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  Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown! Working on the same game board with the other players (but beginning at your own entrance), you'll dig a competing network of tunnels by spending increasingly valuable materials to lay polyomino tiles onto the map. You want to extend your tunnels to connect with buried gold and materials, with workshop locations that can transform resources, and especially with toppled statues. Statues are key to scoring, and you'll spend carts to move them through the tunnels to prime scoring locations near the heart of the mountain. A major aspect of the game is the cascading production. You begin with a line of four trolls, and every troll shows the combination of resources — gold, stone, iron, marble, carts, runes, and hammers — that it produces. When a new troll is hired, place it above two other trolls, forming a "pyramid". The new troll activates, gaining its resources, and any trolls beneath it ALSO activate, gaining any resources that they have room to carry. In this way as you hire more trolls, you gain bigger and bigger windfalls of resources as the end of the game nears. The timing of your hiring turns versus your building turns is important as you try to maximize your cascades while making sure you get the trolls you want from the shared market and also stay competitive on the map. The game ends shortly after the last player hires their sixth troll, then the player with the most honor (earned for digging tunnels of increasing quality, for excavating great halls, and for moving statues closer to the heart of the mountain, especially onto matching pedestals) is crowned the Mountain King and wins!

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  Cooperative and solo module.   Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown!  

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In the Palm of Your Hand is a new team-based game from first-time designer Timothée Decroix! Help your grandparent relive their memories using 11 different 3D objects and over 100 beautifully-illustrated cards!One player (grandchild) must “mime” memories depicted on cards by using objects in the palm of another player (grandparent), whose eyes are shut.The grandchild draws 2 random cards from their hand, secretly looks at them, then uses any of the 11 3D objects included in the box to mime the memories in the grandparent's palm.Cards are added (by the opposing team and from the deck) until there are 8 cards total. The grandparent then opens their eyes and must find the 2 correct memories out of the 8 cards on the table!The game ends once everyone has had a chance to be the grandparent!★ EMOTIONAL AND INNOVATIVE GAME: A board game for kids and families, that combines creative imagination, beautiful artwork, and sense of touch!★ FUN FOR FAMILY AND GAMERS: Feel some brand new sensations, and let your imagination fully express itself. Up to 8 players. Cooperative or competitive mode.★ THE EXTRAODINARY LIFE OF GRANDPA LEON: His memories are depicted on 100 beautifully illustrated cards. The game also includes 11 Objects that will be used to mime Leon's memories★ DELIGHTFULLY TACTILE AND TEAM-BASED GAME: player 1 (grandchild) must mime memories depicted on cards by using objects in the palm of player 2 (grandparent), whose eyes are shut.★ FIND THE RIGHT MEMORY: Other players only see the mime and add cards that seem to correspond. Grandfather opens his eyes and must find the right memory among the cards on the table.

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