In Clockwork Islands players take over the role of explorers in a mysterious land with undiscovered riches and dangers. The game uses worker placement to assign crew to various tasks to include: scouting, gathering food, exploring ruins, etc. Players gather clues to determine the location of various runes that are located on the islands. The game includes...
Cloister Games is a nicely presented compilation of four medieval games, typical of those found etched onto monastery floors. Fox and Geese is played on a board instantly recognizable to us as solitaire. The single Fox wins by jumping over the geese, landing on an empty point and thereby diminishing the flock until it is no longer viable. The geese win by...
From back of box: Clone is a challenging new game that combines skill and luck on a unique battlefield. The objective is to attack and eliminate your opponent's forces and prevent them from cloning lost pieces by destroying their cloning stations. Whether advancing your forces across the board into enemy territories or beaming them directory into any...
Nominated for 2025 Charles S. Roberts Awards (“CSR Awards”) recognize excellence in tabletop conflict simulations. This is a game of modern naval combat; the focus is mainly on Convoy operations. Additional scenarios introduce rules for battle in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. Ground battle is abstracted, although air and missile strikes against the...
The Cloud Dungeon is a Papercraft RPG that you cut apart as you play – it's a book that transforms into a tabletop game. You and your fellow dungeon greedy friends are headed to a Cloud Dungeon to seek your fortune – mostly the piles of gold and jewels, as seen on the Cloud Dungeon informercials. As you progress through the book, learning the rules as you...
COALITION! is a game about the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815) for two to six players that can be completed in a single evening. The scope of the game is grand-strategy with some operational components (as the execution of maneuvers as Marching to the Sound of the Guns), being the British player launching successive Coalitions to destroy France and his Empire....
Europe is in turmoil! The emerging Prussian Kingdom under Frederick the Great moves to expand and consolidate its power at the cost of Austria while the Franco-British struggle for global primacy has already engulfed Spain and leads both nations to seek new allies on the Old Continent. Will Russia and the Ottoman Empire, two seemingly disinterested...
Europe is in turmoil! The fire of the Protestant Reformation has engulfed Central Europe, while the nascent Swedish Empire battles with the vast, populous and battle-ready Poland over the supremacy in the East and the Baltic Sea. Will the Holy Roman Emperor remain on his throne? Which side of this enormous conflict will the nations of Europe choose? And...
The Realpolitik Expansion is a standalone game that brings all the great features and mechanics of Coalitions to a lower player count. It’s based on the Austro-Prussian (1866) and Franco-Prussian wars (1871), conflicts that made the unification of German a reality. Players take on the roles of leaders of France, Prussia, Austria and Italy to try to reshape...
The Codex Arena is a tactical 2-player duel game in which each player commands one of history's greatest military minds — Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, or Richard the Lionheart. The game is not a simulation of historical armies. Every player commands the same units on the board: infantry, ranged, cavalry, and siege. What makes each...
We go back to the years around 1925. The Voynich Manuscript, which no human has been able to translate to this day is written in an unknown script and language and profusely illustrated with images of unidentified plants, enigmatic astronomical drawings, and puzzling human figures. Find the missing pages of the medieval codex and discover the secret behind...