In The X-Files, players take on the role of Mulder, Scully, and the X-Files team as they work to uncover global conspiracies and threats while going up against various members of the Syndicate. In game terms, 1-4 agent players team up against one opponent who controls the Smoking Man and his nefarious network. The X-Files board game focuses on material...
X610Z® is the first trading card game that is combined with a game board. This Trading Card Board Game can be played by 2 to 6 players: Individual Player (1 vs 1), Multiplayer (more than 2 players playing individually) and TeamPlayer, with teams of 3 vs 3 players (or 2 vs 2 and 2 vs 2 vs 2). Teams can form a Clan with max 3 Crews of 3 players. The Story...
Xalvage is a sci-fi trading, exploration, and combat boardgame. Players select a starship and move it along spaces on the board, collecting Discovery tokens and revealing encounters with other ships or special events. Ships can be friendly and traded with, like science crews or other merchants, or hostile like aliens and pirates. Events can be things like...
西瓜棋 (xī guā qí́), or Watermelon Game, has been described as a traditional folk game from Hangzhou for children. The set I have was purchased from a toy shop in Shanghai. Xi Gua Qi is played on a board that vaguely resembles a watermelon. It is a game of abstract strategy and the object is to capture the opponent's pieces by immobilization. Each player...
This is a four handed version of the abstract game Xiangqi, the latter also known as Chinese chess. In the tradition game, the board is divided in half by a line called the river. In the four player version, one might call this a sea. Then each player uses a standard set of pieces set up on their half of a standard board. (Hence only two sets of standard...
A game for 2 to 4 players on a kinetic, ever changing board. The object, to collect 5 unique Tokens Cards and return to the Start Tile before your opponents. A game of logic, on a chaotic board, there is no luck involved (okay, very, very little luck). Just the timing of events created by you and your opponents given the limited options available to the...
This is a sailing game published in Perth, Australia based on Australia's Americas Cup defense. Two dice are rolled to move the plastic yachts around the course. Each die represents the number of spaces you may move on a given track. If you roll doubles, you may take a card from the locker. The game is very abstract and although the map of the Perth coast...
This game is all about balance. The board itself is hinged and moves as players move their metal balls across the boards' surface. Which ever way the board is tilting towards decides whose turn it is. It is possible that a player might get two turns in a row if the board still tilts towards them after they move a ball. The first player to get all 8 of...
Published in the Old Game Journal #59. Map is about 13 x 20 inches and comes with 180 counters. Covers the entire war in about a 4 hour sitting. A melding of Victory Games Civil War and GMT's For the People but far faster and, remarkably, at least at first glance, not missing anything. Has production, leaders (dismissal and promotion), naval rules (river...
A long time ago the Kami, spirit protectors of the world, were unknown to all but those who practiced Shinto. Then, a cataclysmic event nearly destroyed us. What was salvaged from the wreckage were people who could see Kami and bond with them. Those bonds paired with schools of battle lead to powerful clans fighting against the chaos. But what happened...
Yeiri-Ri has been dedicated to the indigenous people of wixarika, or Huichol, of Mexico, taking as a board his craft called "eye of God", it is an abstract game with simple rules. Each player chooses one of the 5 colors in play, except the black color, which will be common for all, of the black each player retires a single chip, and so will be able to move...