Board Games | Historical Games

Return to the stone age in a new cooperative adventure! Paleo is a strategy game for 24 players that sends you back to the early days of human history to undertake the ultimate paleolithic quest: completing your mammoth cave painting and cementing your legacy for all time. Each player begins the game with a couple of humans, each of whom have a skill and a number of life points. On your turn, you’ll send them to locations of different types to explore. While you can guess what resources you might find there—food, crafting materials, extra help on your mission—you never know what dangers may await you. At the end of each day, you’ll need enough food and resources to keep your people alive and on track to complete your final masterpiece. Work together to paint your legacy in stone and win the game!

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El Grande is set in 15th century Spain, at the end of the Reconquista. The players send out their caballeros to gain control over the 9 regions and become “El Grande”. However, everything depends on the location of the king - and majorities may shift in the blink of an eye. Players take turns depending on which power card they play. Each turn, players choose 1 of 5 action cards, allowing them to place caballeros on the map and perform a special action. After 3 rounds, they gain points depending on the majorities in the different regions - and extra points for the majority in the current “kingdom” and their home region. After 9 rounds total, somebody will be the new ruler of medieval Spain. ENGAGE IN MEDIEVAL INTRIGUE: Set in 15th century Spain, El Grande is a classic area control game where players compete to become the ruler of the land. DYNAMIC GAMEPLAY: Majorities in regions can shift rapidly based on the location of the king, offering strategic depth and excitement in every round. CHOOSE YOUR ACTIONS: Each turn, use power cards to select from 5 action cards, allowing you to place caballeros strategically and perform special actions. CLASSIC REBORN: El Grande, the 1996 Game of the Year, is back with a fresh overhaul, making it more captivating than ever. BONUS EXPANSIONS: This edition includes two new mini expansions not found in the original version, adding even more excitement to the game.

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  "You're looking well, darling. One lump or two?" It's the most sought-after invitation of the year: Dinoton Abbey for high tea. Now you're all gussied up in your finery and ready for some tea and chit-chat. One problem: You can't remember anyone's name. Who's that, sporting the fancy brooch with her pet chicken? Is that Jeannine? Beatriz? Oh, dear. If you're not careful, you'll commit a faux pas everyone will be gossiping about. Dinosaur Tea Party is a game of pure deduction for 3-5 homo sapiens. Each player takes a card corresponding to one of the dino guests. Players take turns asking each other questions or guessing their dinosaur's name. If someone guesses your name, draw a new card. The first player to guess three names wins.

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A whole new way to play your favorite game. The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization.

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In the A New Beginning expansion, thousands of years have passed since your ancestors struggled to survive in a harsh environment and your tribe thrives in a settlement. However, not everything is as peaceful as it seems: new dangers threaten to destroy everything you have achieved. Master new tools, build huts, and develop agriculture and animal taming to thrive at the dawn of civilization and write a new chapter in human history.

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Welcome to Whitechapel. Welcome to Jack the Ripper’s streets. Letters from Whitechapel™ is a game of deduction and bluffing set in London, 1888, the time of Jack the Ripper. It’s a game for two to six players, age 13 or older, for an average time of 90 min or less. Five important detectives are on the trail of Jack the Ripper, the most dangerous serial killer of all time. They must chase the mysterious murderer through the tangled streets and alleys of the Whitechapel district. One player plays Jack the Ripper, and his goal is to take five victims before being caught. The rest of the players are police detectives, who must cooperate to catch Jack the Ripper before the end of the game.

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  This new expansion brings a breath of fresh air to the worldwide famous game Colt Express. It is now as a team that you will try to become the wealthiest Bandit of the Wild West and what better than a second train containing precious and very well kept secret documents to spice up this adventure?

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The Union Pacific Express is still loaded with sacks of money and priceless jewels, but your banditry is about to be more dangerous than ever before! Marshal Samuel Ford is fully armed and ready to shoot down any villains who dare attack his train, and a few of your trusty sidekicks have been taken prisoner in the train's prison car. Freeing them may bring you significant rewards—but is it worth trying to slip past the marshal's watchful gaze?The Marshal and Prisoners expansion gives one of the players the chance to take on the role of the marshal himself, unlocking an entirely new way to play the game. This product is an expansion: Colt Express base game required to play.

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The West just got a little wilder! The surliest bandits this side of the Mississippi have taken to horseback to compete for new loot and maybe even take a few hostages.Horses and Stagecoach expands on the award-winning Colt Express, adding new components and new ways to play! Horses allow you to move around the train or over to the Stagecoach to nab one of the Hostage characters. Hostages can earn you a tasty ransom, but while you're holding onto them, you'll need to cope with their escape attempts. New Round cards and new final events change the way you plan your actions and always keep you guessing. At the end of the day, who will get away with the loot and who won't escape at all?This product is an expansion: Colt Express base game required to play.

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Players: 2-4 • Playing Time: 15 • Age: 12+ SCOPE is a game for 2 to 4 players, set in the battle of Stalingrad, where players take the role of snipers from both sides. The objective of the game is to take out enemy snipers or eliminate enemy troops for a total point value that depends on the scenario played. 5-15 min or less per game, several difficulty levels and rules that are explained in two min or less. Once you try it, you won't be able to stop playing it.

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World War II is ongoing. Germany broadly uses Enigma rotor cipher machines. The breaking of the Enigma code gives the Allies an advantage in the war — but this is just one side of the coin because the Enigma code is based on chaos, a non-measurable force lurking beyond the boundaries of our world and eager to consume all its flesh. The code decryption would stop the chaos invasion into our world. An "Agency" operates in a secret heavily-guarded Victorian mansion somewhere in London suburbs; it has been opposing the supernatural for centuries. To break the Enigma code, the Agency has gathered the world's best decrypters together. You are one of them. Your mission is to break the Enigma code as soon as possible while wandering inside the mansion with an ever-changing layout. At least, you tell others so. In fact, you might pursue completely different goals... Enigma: Beyond Code is a game of deduction. Victory depends on your ability to understand the motives of other players and locate the cards you need — while keeping others away from the cards they are looking for. Each play takes 5-10 min or less, and it is best to play Enigma: Beyond Code up to three victories. In the beginning, each player receives a character card featuring a cryptology expert who has arrived at the Agency's mansion to break the Enigma code. But only one of them is the true decrypter; the others are just masterfully posing as cryptologists. Each of them has a unique secret mission. To accomplish the missions of their characters, the players view mansion cards in turns; each of these cards represents a room or an object inside the mansion. The invited experts work as a team, which means that upon looking at a mansion card, you must tell others what is there. You may either lie or tell the truth — that depends on your goals. Lying is always a risk, while telling the truth may allow your opponents to win. The player who first accomplishes their character's mission wins the game. If no one does so within the game's time limit, chaos breaks into our world, and all players lose!

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Players: 2 • Playing Time: 15 • Age: 14+ SCOPE U-boot is a game for 2 players, in quick and dynamic 15-minute games, recommended for ages 12 and up. It is an independent and very different installment of the SCOPE system, the only similarities are its grid of cards forming the board and the many strategic possibilities it offers! In U-Boot the German player will remain hidden under the surface and the Allied player must find him and avoid being sunk. The ships move on the surface, although the cargo ships move more slowly. The submarine gives away its position when it fires a torpedo, but beware! You will have to choose as an ally whether you prefer your freighters to dodge it or move your destroyer to the area from where the torpedo was fired and sink your opponent. SCOPE U-boot has several game modes, with different levels of complexity and duration.

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Monsters of Loch Lomond is a light strategic and interactive card game for 2 - 6 players. In around 30 min, you’ll play 4 rounds in which you’ll have to secure your clan from monsters to get the lowest amount of points to win the game. It's easy to learn and is full of fun interaction and exciting situations. It comes with a score pad and rulebook including a full character overview. In the game, you are the chieftain of a Scottish clan. Each night, monsters crawl out of the lake and torment the local clans around Loch Lomond. Your clan must defend itself and chase these monsters into the highlands or towards rival clans. Find where the monsters are hiding, chase them away and make your clan the strongest in the area. In Monsters of Loch Lomond, you will be taken into the magical world of Scottish folklore, where Kelpies, Selkies and many more famous Scottish tales come to live! A must play for anyone who loves Scotland and light strategic card games. This product features art where AI was used to generate images.

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SCOPE Panzer is a game for 2 players, with quick games of 15 min or less of duration, recommended from 12 years of age. Third installment of the saga, with a very different air within the SCOPE system, and that combines the hidden movement by grids with a great amount of strategic possibilities. Scope PANZER is a card game of combat between tanks in the European theater of WWII. One player commands a squad of American tanks, which faces a squad of German tanks commanded by the other player, in a battle of ambushes and close-range encounters. It has several game modes, with different levels of complexity and duration.

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Dungeon Heroes is a tile-placement rogue-like dungeon crawl. One player controls an adventure party consisting of four heroes: a warrior, a wizard, a cleric and a rogue. The other player is the dungeon lord. He creates the dungeon and controls the monsters within. The goal of the Dungeon Lord is to construct a devious dungeon layout by placing tiles turn by turn. When the Dungeon Lord runs out of tiles, the monsters enrage and hunt down the heroes. The heroes must unravel the Dungeon Lord's scheme by disarming traps, killing monsters early and using powerful magic to reveal hidden areas. Their goal is to locate three treasures to win the game. The Dungeon Lord, quite naturally, wants to eradicate the Heroes...

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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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