A strategy game of control as winter draws in. As the forest prepares for its long stillness, two players guide opposing herds of deer through a woodland landscape of fading paths and closing space. This is not a game of conflict, but of positioning, and of gentle shifts that build pressure until nothing more can move. The Wintering is an elegant...
Roll and run game. Movement is determined by a die. The first player to reach space 120 wins the game. On some spaces events benefit or hinder the player. The players may gain and loose tokens while playing. The player with the most tokens at the end of the game is the starting player for the next game. This promotional game is from the 1950s. —user...
Wirikuta is a postcard-sized game, compact and replayable, designed as a narrative and mechanical prologue to Oniria. Players take part in a symbolic pilgrimage along the path leading to Wirikuta, the sacred desert of the Wixárika people. Each game action represents the advancement of groups, a step, a threshold, or a trial. Rather than seeking perfect...
Welcome to the Wizard's Garden. In this part of the garden is the Alesalitis plant, a rare and strange little plant that has a tendency to change its color, and flowers every time another Alesalitis is planted next to it. From this plant you can harvest two types of needed flowers: Dovetail, which is a white flower, and Ravenclaw, which is black. Wizard's...
Wolf & Raven is a 2-player cooperative asymmetrical deck-building campaign game. In Wolf & Raven, 2 players take on the two roles: one plays the Wolf and the other plays the Raven. They must pay costs for each other to hone hunting skills and overcome hazards on their journey to spot and eventually catch their prey before hunger overwhelms them. Primary...
Woomal is an educational cooperative board game published internally by The Guides and Scouts of Finland as part of the 2009-2011 Finnish-Senegalese environmental project of the same name (the word means 'development' in the Wolof language of Western Africa). Although the game contains a lot of snippets of text describing basic environmental problems and...
A World above the Cloud is an exploration and conservation board game inspired by Ladakh, a beautifully tended high-altitude mountain desert in the North Western Indian Himalayas. You can play this game in three ways: Cooperatively or Competitively or Solo. In the cooperative game, you and your fellow players are the Guardians of Ladakh, on a quest to...
Set after an apocalypse, a team of rebuilders and survivors must work together to resist the entropic efforts of the scavengers, demolishers, assassins, and Boss. Can they gather the resources to rebuild their home city before they are killed? Played on a randomized map of 25 tiles, co-op, character-based and location-based abilities are unlocked as more...
World Bank: The Game casts players as governments of developing countries. The goal of the game is to acquire resources of various kinds, dealing with debt, foreign aid, multinational cartels and natural events in the process. While the game involves rolling and moving around a circular board, there are a number of subtleties; players may trade amongst...
from the author's website: The World Peace Game is a hands-on political simulation that gives players the opportunity to explore the connectedness of the global community through the lens of the economic, social, and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war. The goal of the game is to extricate each country from dangerous circumstances and...