A self-published game that shares components with Aras An Uachtaran, with both games being themed to Irish politics. From a review by Stuart Dagger in Sumo Magazine: This is a 4 hour game, with each player taking the part of one of the groupings in the Irish parliament. Play is split into 15 rounds, in each of which players campaign and fight elections....
大名 (Daimyo) is a two-player worker placement game from Japan. Become a Daimyo in the Edo period, work with people in various positions over eight periods to enrich your country, and ultimately aim to become a Rōjū. At the end of the game, the winner is the player who has earned the most Honor Points by acquiring territories, advancing technologies, and...
The representational game Damocles uses simultaneous self-regulating play to structure players’ ongoing struggle for total political and economic control of several adjoined kingdoms. In Damocles, players act as the heads of state of small neighboring monarchies, each intent on ultimately controlling the entire minor region. Surrounded by greater and...
Dangerous Parallel is an instructional game that was created in 1969 by the Foreign Policy Association and published by Scott, Foresman & Co. In the game students are divided into small groups of 2 to 6 members, each playing a ministerial role in the government of six nations that correspond roughly to the real-life participants of the Korean War conflict....
Welcome to the assembly of darkness! In Dark Assembly, you become a member of the Diet of the world of darkness and receive tributes from supporters. Also, you earn money if you sell them on the black market. However, the VIPs controlling the assembly will require players to pay tributes to them. In the town where have spiteful intentions, how much money...
A card game to be played with anyone that wants to know what everyone thinks about things without letting anyone else know what they think. The base game consists of two types of cards, questions and yes/no cards. The questions are always formatted so that they have to be answered with Yes or No. I think you can see where this is going. One person draws a...
Set thousands of years in the future, the board game DarkStar is based on classics such as Dune, Cosmic Encounter, and Diplomacy. Strategically, DarkStar plays out something like Chess, although the game mechanisms are wildly different. Your key pieces are squadrons that you move around the board in stacks. The board itself being gridded into systems...
Welcome to the forum, and to this meeting in particular. It is an honor to sit here with those who represent the big capital in the world through your megalomanic investment firms. Tonight in DAVOS, we are going to play out our activities for the coming 3,5 years. One by one we will be taking over the world's largest corporations in one of the 4 blocs; In...
(from the rules:) Days of Decision (DOD) is Australian Design Groups' strategic level game of the politics and conflict leading up to the Second World War. Two to seven players each manage the economics and conduct the political and military operations of one or more of the Major Powers involved. Days of Decision consists of 2 games in 1. The standard...
Days of Decision II is a strategic level game about the politics and conflicts that created the Second World War. The period covered is 1936-46, and the players can make (or choose not to make) many of the decisions that led to the war. The game is very detailed in its political aspect, and is more a political game than a wargame. Each country affected by...
DE/LE BELGOTRON Fully bilingual Dutch/French - 2 games in 1 The quiz: Players compete in a cyclists' race, cycling from the Belgian Coast to the Belgian Ardennes. During the race, they answer trivia questions about Belgium. The first player to reach the cyclist with the yellow jersey wins. Anyone can win, whatever their knowledge about Belgium. The...
From the publisher's website: HP Lovecraft wrote about the reanimation of corpses when my Flapper Grandmother was doing the Charleston with the boy in the band (Grand Dad). In this intermediate level game you take Lovecraft’s start and make your own story. First you find clues that reveal what is going on. Once the plot is outed you make a choice. Am I...