Expansionist is a board game of land and event tiles set in a fictitious medieval world. As the leader of your people you head the push across the mountains to newly discovered, uninhabited, fertile lands. Once there you must lay down your claim and build your settlements. But other communities are flooding through and you must race to secure the best...
The Expansive Hospital is a board game in which players collaborate and compete to build a hospital with plastic blocks. Players have to build and treat patients at the same time, since the hospital is under constant expansion. There are many different kinds of patients and plastic blocks necessary to treat them. Designing the blocks is difficult because...
Two teams consisting of six tribe members each land on a desert island. They try to survive by exploring the island and collecting provisions, with each team doing their best to outsmart their rivals. The teams face off in exciting elimination challenges. After the tribes have merged it’s every player for himself. Players individually vote for those tribe...
In 1884, the major European imperialist powers – Great Britain, France, Germany and Belgium – were busy struggling to get a piece of the cake that was colonial Africa. At first they sent missions dedicated to exploration, but this quickly changed to vying for favorable concessions, treaties, and even settlements. This race for supremacy and the desire to...
In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition on behalf of the British Royal Navy to find and explore the last portion of the Northwest Passage, regardless of the cost. The Royal Navy gave Franklin two heavy Ships (HMS Terror and HMS Erebus) filled with scientific equipment, 1000 books, a crew of 128 men, and enough food to last for three years. They left...
Sumatra - Island of many rare species On behalf of the most famous zoological gardens of the Western World a few teams of big game hunters set out to the jungle of Sumatra to catch some nearly extinct species for the benefit of posterity. While also the black market lures with attractive prices, the inhabitants of the island have a say in the matter as...
Explore is designed to provide a fast-paced and fun gaming experience with materials that can be found around the house; all that's needed is a deck of cards and some six-sided dice. No need for anthologies of rules either. Explore is simple enough that many of the test-players have the mechanics memorized by the second game. The Explore Engine uses the...
Due to global warming, Antarctica is the “New Frontier”, ready to be explored and settled. Each player is an explorer looking to discover new terrain, claim territory, and build homesteads. Each round has three phases. Phase 1: Each player will stock up on resources for the discovery phase (Phase 2). Players fill their player’s area with 9 evenly...
New crew have arrived to aid you in your exploration. However. They won't just work for anyone - you must prove your ships are worthy their services first. Players recruit crew cards by achieving their prerequisites. As soon as players reach this target, they take the relevant crew card from the pile and place it faceup in front of them. In most cases...
Milan, early 20th century, the city is in turmoil as more than 200 new buildings are rushed to being completed in time for welcoming the best minds of the planet. The 1906 Universal Exposition is approaching and, as one of the 40 exhibiting nations, you are confident that your engineers and scientists will impress the world. Who will exhibit the most...
The 1958 World Expo, an international exhibition, took place in Brussels from April 17 to October 19, 1958. It was the first World Expo since World War II. As many as 42 million visitors were able to discover pavilions from 44 countries. The Atomium was constructed especially for the occasion, and today still represents one of Belgium's most recognizable...
In Exposaurus, natural history museums compete to assemble the most sensational exhibits of dinosaur fossils and gems. As the museum directors, players send explorers to start new excavations and recover findings that should be part of the museum collection. Each exploration, however, results in an explorer leaving that player's museum to work at the...