The primary goal of this game design was to reimagine the classic board games "Risk" and "Axis & Allies" by targeting and replacing or eliminating their least enjoyed mechanics and elements, while retaining and building around their best qualities (particularly "Risk". The game is played on a map of Earth, including all seven continents, broken into 8...
You’re pirates, and you’re shipwrecked on a cursed island where you get hungrier each night. Your goal is to not starve, and escape the island with the most treasure, all the while creating uneasy alliances and backstabbing your fellow players. Search for resources: treasure, food, wood (for building an escape raft) and weapons (for fighting other...
Welcome to the exciting world of animal care. Gather food plus care plus medicine and get your animal. If the opponents fall on your animal, charge for the visit and collect victory points to win. With luck and care, you will get them to breed and you will be able to collect more. But beware of hunters, traps, predators and the dreaded coronavirus that...
1817 is a railroad operations and share trading board game in the 18xx series with a distinct financial flair. It is named after the year the New York Stock Exchange opened at 40 Wall Street in New York. 1817 differentiates itself from other 18xx games with its sophisticated financial mechanics that simulate the laissez faire capitalism of early America....
1824 Austrian-Hungarian Railway is an 18xx railway building and share dealing game for 3-6 players. It is based on Francis Tresham's game 1829 and on Leonhard Orgler's game 1837. The player who has the greatest wealth in cash and shares at the end of the game is the winner. A set of simple mechanisms form the basis of 1824 Austria-Hungary. You use the...
Australia's first railway company, the Sydney Railway Company, was founded in 1848. It proved ruinous for its founders. Shortly before the opening of the first line, it was taken over by the New South Wales Government Railways. In 1852 eight privately financed railways were planned in Victoria. Three of them were established but only one of them was a...
An economic game of investment in railway companies that operated in the Northwest of Spain throughout the 19th century, based on the “18xx” series and more specifically in 1817. Although 1855 inherits practically all the financial mechanics of 1817 (short sales, conversions, mergers, -hostile and friendly- acquisitions and liquidations), it presents very...
It is the middle of the nineteenth century and the age of steam is well underway. The Russian and Canadian governments, eager to capitalize on the new rail technology to bring together their vast countries, are sponsoring entrepreneurs to help build their railway networks. You are an investor, seeking to take advantage of their generous offer to make your...
In 1872 Stockholms Spårvägsaktiebolag (Stockholm Tramway Company) was founded with the ambition of constructing tramways in Stockholm. Having failed to do so the company was dissolved in 1874 only to be founded again two years later under the new name Stockholms Nya Spårvägsaktiebolag (Stockholm New Tramway Company). The new company was successful and on...
1888-N ("N" for "north") is an 18xx game set in China in the Beijing area. It features no special rules apart from the various private companies (which depict Chinese landmarks) and is a branch of the 1830-style games. The maps are double-sided, one side in English and the other one in Mandarin. Two to six players represent investors in railroad companies...
1889 Berlin, an 18xx game in the series originated by Francis Tresham's 1829, is set in Berlin Germany. In 1889 Berlin, 2-5 players will use money to purchase shares in railroad companies during Share Dealing Rounds. Between subsequent Share Dealing Rounds, railroad corporations then conduct operations on the game board, with the decisions being made by...
1894 is a 3-4 player 18xx game set along the border between France and Belgium. Some 1894 features: two public companies start the game floated, with every player invested in them full capitalization with shares in the IPO paying to the company novel share redeeming/reissuing model public companies that may be started later in the game and that can choose...