You command an army of stag beetles. They are fighting each other on a cloven oak tree. The winner takes the ultimate delicacy – the oozing sap. The rules are simple, yet the tactical and strategic approaches are nearly endless. The goal is to get three of your stag beetles to the opponent's front row first. To get there, you'll need to push the enemy bugs...
Malebranche is a small abstract strategy game inspired by Mitsuo Yamamoto's King's Valley, with the addition of special powers on the pieces. It's published in XVgames's bagstract format. In this small portable game with the board printed on the bag, players randomize with dice a set of 4 pieces plus a damned soul. The pieces have different powers. Players...
A group of archeologists just made the headlines. After decoding an ancient Mayan manuscript, they found the location of a secret temple in the jungles of El Salvador. The document revealed the existence of an unknown secret city, that can only be seen from the top of a large, circular temple. The secret passage to reach the temple is a set of very large...
Mechanisms is a game of moving tiles and scoring points. Players compete to add points to their own towers and keep points away from their opponents. Each turn, players use 1-3 action cards to move tiles and cards around the play space. In addition to the actions they take on their own turn, players may place Chain tokens on cards they have previously...
Michis is a game of skill and strategy with some chance. In this one, we are going to play gangs of kittens who fight in a house for control of a toy. The objective of the game is to throw your cat tokens as close to the toy as possible, which will be transformed into points that will allow you to win the game. Michis implements the dynamics of...
Little turtles just came into being and need to reach water as soon as possible! Their path will not be easy, as they are so small, and the coast is grassy and pebbly here and there—not to mention that crawling on the sand is not easy at all! And to top it off, a stealthy pelican is waiting for a misstep to disturb them. In Миссия Черепашки ("Mission...
A risk-taking dice game of colorful combinations. GO ALL IN | STEAL CARDS | CREATE NEW COLORS | WIN THE JACKPOT Players take turns making wagers, rolling the dice, and mixing colors in order to earn points. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. How to win points: On their turn, a player draws three cards and places them face...
The basic premise is simple: the board, resting on a platform, is full of wooden discs and trees and other bits. There's a ring of light in the middle, covered by a cardboard disc and a blazing fire. Cauldrons circle that disc. The goal is to get one's own cauldron to the ring of light by pushing the bits on the board. You start pushing from the side of...
Octopush is a light strategy game where players race their octopi across the board while trying not to get knocked off by other players. Players will draw cards from a small personal deck and play cards to move their octopi around the board. Falling off the opposite side from where you started will score you big points, but pushing others off the board and...
OLLO is an abstract game that can be played by 2 to 4 players. Played on a board with 12 marbles glass of each color, the goal is to align 4 marbles of its color. The rules are very simple, the first player put a marble glass on a corner of the board, then the other players must put their marbles on the board by pushing one or multiple marbles from the...
It’s the year 3327 and the human race has expanded deep into the solar system. However, supporting civilization on such a large scale uses lots of resources which are in scarce supply! Powerful, Hyperdriven Rockets piloted by adventurous privateers, such as yourself, compete for the desperately needed and lucrative resources found on the billions of...
The water stretches to the horizon. But even though the sea sometimes seems quite calm, the animals of the Baltic Sea know how to pass the time. Who is beating whom here? Does the starfish beat the seagull or the seal beat a cockle? Ostsee-Schach is a refreshing, fast chess variant by Dirk Holdorf, in which 2 players aged 8 and up compete with Baltic Sea...