A game that primarily uses a board or board-like components (such as tiles) as the basis for gameplay.
Will your garden flourish as you fill it with beautiful flowers, paths, and walls? A beautiful game, with lovely artwork, relaxing theme, and elegant components.
Cute, clever, and inclusive action selection makes ArchRavels such a great casual game with a unique theme. Players will choose from one of four characters, each with an ability to buy or trade yarn, craft items, and complete a special action in a race to fulfill orders and become a master knitter.
Draft hexagonal terrains and animal species to create an ecosystem based on scoring cards and largest masses. Cascadia's drafting system and subsequent puzzle is a delightfully engaging design that is simple in practice, but can ramp up in difficulty based on any play group.
In Explorers, each player places 4 different landscape tiles into the frame of their individual game board, along with 3 scoring tiles. Landscape tiles show four different terrain types: grasslands, bodies of water, desert, and mountains. On your turn, you reveal a scroll, which indicates the landscapes you are allowed to cross off. The active player crosses off 3 spaces for the terrain type they choose, while other players can cross of 2 of the same type or 3 of the other type shown on the scroll.
Explore the world as you tour exotic destinations, collect souvenirs, and plot your way across the globe in order. Trekking the World has the feel of a traditional board game paired with the strategy and elegancy of modern gaming.
Build your city, filling it with skyscrapers and utilities, but be sure to create the perfect layout, or those features might end up counting against your final score!
Designed by Phil Walker-Harding (Imhotep, Sushi Go!) and published by Blue Orange Games, Neoville is a tile-laying puzzle game about building nature-based cities.
Score points by playing tiles to create lines of matching colors. But leave no color behind, as your final score will be that of your lowest scoring color at the end of the game.
