Young Jacob Marley is a game of Victorian moneylending. You and your fellow clerks are newly enlisted in the service of the famous Jacob Marley. Your task is to earn the maximum profit by lending Marley's money to the citizens and businesses of London. You hope that by doing so, you might catch young Marley's eye and earn his undying friendship. You have a...
Players are scholars and scribes poring over (studying, scribbling, erasing, more scribbling) an ancient manuscript. By playing cards to the free-form play area and then placing cubes on them to record their contributions, they hope to have their work be recognized by the Queen at story time. Scoring is similar to Acquire, where the person with the most...
Your Choice: Pets of War is a thoughtful card game inspired by real stories of animals who became symbols of hope during the war in Ukraine. Players build a small educational catalog of pets — some helped with fundraising, others became known for their incredible stories and support to people in hard times. You can’t include everyone, so each choice shapes...
(Your Name Here) and the Argonauts is single player game of adventures and legends set in Grecian mythology. You will take on the role of a hero set out to recover treasure, slay monsters, and find a place for yourself in the retelling of Greek myths. The game is played with a set of (initially) 30 cards that represent the monsters, treasures, and gods...
"Card game of Western Front Battle 1915 (solo or 2 players)" Each player has two custom decks, Officer and Unit Decks. The players also share a common Modifier Deck. Each player also uses ten-sided dice as casualty markers to track their troop casualties. Ten terrain markers used to track victory points. "The side that loses his troops loses the game. The...
What was life like for the millions of professional, conscripted or recruited soldiers, who fought in the Ypres salient during the great war? The trench experience involved the terror of mud, slime and disease and the constant threat of shellfire. Heavy artillery and new weapons such as poison gas and machine guns threatened death from afar; but hand to...
Yūgen (yoo-gehn) is a fast, semi-casual game for 2 players, with each game about 20 to 30 minutes long. There's a bit of strategy and a bit of luck involved. The players take turns drawing and placing tiles, triggering "pushes" and "pulls" on the old tiles, thus moving 3 "philosopher" figures along the board. The main goal is to push 2 philosophers out...
Yukk! is a dinner simulation. The parents have prepared a variety of "yucky" foods and the players are competing to see who can clear their plate first. The mechanics are somewhat deterministic, and the game seems better suited to younger players. The basic game play involves discarding a food card if possible. If not, the player can play a food card on...
Europek - a cheerful dragon will take you on a journey through Europe. Along the way from Strasbourg to Cracow you will visit several European countrels and learn about their culture, geography and customs. Players take turns to roll the dice and move their pawns on a board depicting the map of Europe. If a player lands on a space with a question, they...
You are a pizza delivery flunky for Za! Central, which (surprise, surprise) offers a 30 minute guarantee. To become Employee of the Week and win the coveted Golden Anchovy statuette you have to deliver 10 pizzas on time. Simple? Maybe... This is a desktop-published game with cards and counters you need to cut out, and a large paper game map. Each turn you...