Live Action Risk (Lark) enables groups of all sizes to experience Risk in a simplified form. A party game of allegiances, war, and conquering other countries, Lark can be played inside or outside with each player representing a country of the world. Players battle each other with d6's, with the winner conquering and controlling the vanquished country. As a...
Do you want to sow conspiracy or stop it in its tracks? Lizards and Lies is a 2v2 (or 1v1) battler that lets you play with the push and pull of conspiracy theory moving through social media. Play as one of four characters and use unique abilities and cards to influence the network. Platform Moderators and Educators face off against Edgelords and Conspiracy...
In this latest edition of the Loaded Questions line of games, it’s not a matter of how much you know about politics, but how well you know your fellow players. However serious or silly your answers, they are never right or wrong. Players write down answers to quasi-political questions and the judge for that round must try to match the answers to each...
This is probably the earliest game based on the U.S. legislative process. The mechanics are simple roll-and-move, but the game board gives players a detailed look at the many steps a bill must take between being introduced and being signed into law. Each player starts by sponsoring a bill in either the Senate or House, and is encouraged to declare the...
5 years after the release of the geopolitical simulator Epoca Moderna (2020), the author Gola Pierpaolo creates the board game The Lobbyist. The title, set in the present day, sees players sit at the head of powerful Lobbies that corrupt prominent figures of today's society by hiring them through Cryptocurrencies, then acquiring influence and manipulating...
In the world of politics it seems nothing is every completely clear and many c operations work hard and spends millions to see that their interests are put before all others. In the game of Lobbyist - Shaping the Vote, players get to try their hand at lobbying, working to influence politicians to vote their desired way while competing with other lobbyist...
Locarno - Europe 1926 seeks to portray the restored "Concert of European Powers" following the Treaty of Locarno, Oct. 1925. Players assume the role of European statesmen seeking to outclass their geopolitical rivals and attain a position of predominance. The game is based upon Allan B. Calhamer's classic Diplomacy. However, its treatment of minor powers...
Lock ‘em Up! is a game of political dirty tricks where you have to put your opponents in jail before they do it to you. The winner is the last player with a character not in jail. The game consists of a total of three decks worth of cards split into two groups: the Character Cards, the people you’re trying to keep out of jail; and the Action Cards which...
長征 (The Long March 1934-1935) is a card game based on the historical event of "the Long March" - the 1934 campaign of the Chinese Communist Party Red Army. Players play roles of five generals of the Red Army and collect cards which represent political influences upon the party leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, etc. The artwork was drawn by the...
The Lord of the P.I.G.S. is a fast-paced multiplayer economy simulation game set in the fictional Republic of Meridia, a melting pot of southern European countries. You and your friends take the role of Meridia's leaders and vie for economic supremacy through presentation meetings, voting sessions, public opinion polls, unexpected events, and widespread...
Description from the publisher: Lords of the Renaissance is a game for 2-12 players set at the end of the Dark Ages. Each player starts as a Merchant Prince of a European Duchy, operating a bank or merchant company speculating in the silk trade. Players also act as a military or financial adviser to one of the great empires, advising their suzerains in...
Pax Porfiriana – Latin for "The Porfirian Peace" – refers to the 33-year reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico with an iron hand until toppled by the 1910 Revolution. As a rich businessman (Hacendado) in the turbulent pre-revolutionary borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, players compete to build business empires of ranches, mines, rails...