Each player has to gather sets of resources to build a monster from fantasy or sci-fi as a semester thesis. They only have 15 days (rounds) left. The players gain victory points by turning in sets of resources described by their thesis cards, which are unique to each player and to be kept secret as long as possible. Each thesis emphasises three of the five...
Asli is a territory game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). There is also an off-board location called prison. This game is based on Lifeline. DefinitionsA group is a stone along with all stones one can reach from it through a series of steps onto orthogonally adjacent...
Asterion, the Minotaur, awaits in the centre of the labyrinth. His labyrinth is strewn with treasure chests… and wings plucked from his more mythical victims. You can work together or against one another to ensure that the minotaur's horns impale your opponents' people, while your own flee or fly away with all the treasure they can carry. Dare to enter the...
The Crete upgrade for Asterion uses a diamond board. The game plays the same, with the following changes. Place the board in the middle of the playing surface. Place the Minotaur tile on the centre space and the Minotaur figure on it. Each player discards as many cards before the game starts and uses board spaces as follows: 4-player: discard 2 cards, use...
Astérix en Égypte is a racing game set in the world of Asterix, the tenacious "Gaulois" with a habit of beating up Romans and Pirates. Players must race across the grid-based board from the Gallic Village to Cleopatra's Palace, deposit their Palace card, and then return to the Village. The first player to return is the winner. The board is divided into two...
One day, all the stars vanished from the world. Children, chosen by Astraios bring the light back into the world. Players take turns placing a tile one at a time to connect the stars into an enclosed shape to create a nebula. Players now work with 3 tiles in their hand, and all information is open to all players. At the end of the game players only score...
User Summary Strategy game similar to several boardgames. Played on a 7x7 grid, you can move your color blobs. If you end up adjacent to the other color, those blobs change to your color. Play until the board is full. The person with the most colored blobs wins. Hexxagon is a later similar game played on a hex grid. You can play against several AI...
This mini version of Leo Colovini's Atlantis was a free give-away in Essen 2011. It is a 2-player version of the game with fewer and smaller game components. The game works the same way as the original: the players, by skillful placing of cards and the building of bridges, try to leave the city of Atlantis in order to reach the solid ground with as much...
Attacke belongs to the "Taschen-Spiele"("pocket games") series from Heyne which included 34 games. The board shows a small castle on one side of the board, which the defender must try to defend against the attacks from the attacker. Both players have just one single playing piece for their regular moves. The rest of the playing pieces (34 chips for the...