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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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  Flashback is back in a scary universe that will give you chills.Take on the role of Lucy, a young woman with strange powers, who inherits a mysterious mansion in which dark and disturbing events have taken place. Explore this eerie place and learn more about Lucy, her power, her family, and her role in this grand story.Using the Flashback mechanism, travel into the past through Lucy’s visions, and meet the shadow that haunts the mansion. Put yourself in the shoes of the characters and discover their points of view, collect clues, solve mysteries, and answer the questions you’ve been asked.In Flashback: Lucy, you will be travelling from era to era, discovering the mansion at different moments in time. Before and after each of Lucy’s visions, explore the mansion with her cat, Gredin, in an interactive comic strip. And, of course, discover even more original and immersive gadgets!

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Hoppy Salmon features the same gameplay as Happy Salmon, but with an Easter twist. Each player starts with a deck of cards that each feature one action: High Five, Egg Spin, Fish Bump, and Hoppy Salmon. When the game starts, everyone flips over the top card of their deck and calls out the action shown. When two players have a match, they celebrate by performing the action. (If you don't match anyone, you can wait or you can slide your top card to the bottom of your deck and reveal a new card.) Each time a player celebrates a match, they discard that card. The first person to get rid of all their cards wins.

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  In Skyrockets, players take turns playing cards in order to flip the matching sand timers (your fireworks) without letting any run out. Keep the timers running as you advance along the Festival Countdown Track, and work together to amaze the crowds and earn the highest in 30 unique festivals! Each festival in Skyrockets introduces a unique challenge to overcome. Cooperation, clever gameplay and a little luck will be required to earn a 3-Star rating in each festival! Inspired by the hit game Kites!

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  Quicksand is a real-time co-operative game in which players work together to deactivate the "Quicksand", a dangerous trap of gears and sand. You can't just race as quickly as possible, though, because you must avoid setting off the trap. To set up, choose one of the 20+ scenarios, then lay out the gear tiles in the specified path and place the appropriate sand timers — which have different amounts of sand in them — on the first gears of the path. (The path might have obstacles on it based on the particular scenario.) Gears feature both a color (orange, yellow, gray) and a shape (square, circle, crescent). Each player starts with a hand of three cards, with a card showing one of the three colors, one of the three shapes, or a sand timer. Once the game starts, players play a card in turn to try to advance the sand timers and keep them from running out, refilling their hand after they play. When you play a color or shape card, you flip all of the sand timers currently on this color/shape, advancing them one space on the path if that next space is empty. When you play a sand timer card, you flip any one timer, advancing it, if possible. (If no timers are on gears matching the played card, nothing happens.) If a sand timer runs out, flip it and place it next to the gear on which it was previously located. If someone plays a sand timer card, they can recover this timer by flipping and placing it back onto the gear — but only if that tile is empty. If a set-aside timer runs out again, players lose the game. Once a timer reaches the last open space on the path, played cards matching that gear's color/shape will flip it — and if it runs out, you lose the game with no chance of recovery. If the sand timers fill the final gear tiles on the path without this happening, you win!

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