Welcome to the Barbary Coast, a Wild West mess of saloons, dance-halls and gambling dens in Old San Francisco. In this elimination card game players try to avoid being Shanghai'd - using "Upstairs Ladies", "Old Shellbacks" taking advantage of "Drunken Sailors" or just by plying opponents with "drinks". Other players gang up against a Shanghai'd player with...
Onward to Venus is based on the Doctor Grordbort graphic novels from writer/artist Greg Broadmore, with those books being a parody of sorts of the British Empire in the late 19th century, but instead of the race for Africa, we now have the exploitation of the Solar System, which is populated by various natives who resent the Earthling settlers. The game...
Your new awareness emerges all at once. You know immediately, before you even recognize your own existence, an all-consuming hunger. Hunger and also…. fear? Because somehow you know, you are not alone. Beneath these immediate drives lies something deeper, a spark, a joy, a hope. The glee, the audacity to split, to drive a wedge in your very self and become...
おとひめクエスト (Otohime Quest) is a fast dice game from Japan for 2 players. The game is themed on the popular Japanese folktale Urashima Taro in which the young fisherman Taro is rewarded for saving a turtle. He is taken undersea to Ryugu palace and is entertained by the Princess Otohime for several days. But when he returns to his home, he has been gone 300...
Storyline: Scientists now knew it was the end of the world. They predicted that a scourge of natural disasters would hit the earth getting increasingly more dangerous until they wiped out all life on earth. The nation's government leaders came up with a solution to build a giant government facility larger than any structure on earth capable of withstanding...
Paths to Aegis is an automa rogue-lite deck-building board game. The game allows for 1-4 player cooperation as each player takes their own character with a unique set of abilities and strengths as they discover new tiles on their way to defeat Cerberus by gaining more powerful cards and leveling up. Each turn the player rolls the die to move across the...
Super fast and simple, conventional point-to-point game about Patton's historically failed attempt to grab logistically strategic Breton ports and liberating Brittany. (Simpler, sleeker system than Postcard Brittany but retaining the essential gameplay objectives.) German units, roadblocks, and blanks begin game hidden - to stay so in a 2-player game until...
A relatively simple 12-turn point-to-point (sudden death) campaign game about General George Patton's attempt to fight through France's Lorraine and break through the fortified Siegfried Line behind the Saar River before Winter 1944. If his player scores big successes at the start, his fuel may *not* be diverted to Field Marshal Montgomery's (over-, it...
You and your opponents step onto the platform, weapons ready. Everyone at the prestigious Pearwood House is watching. Evaluating. Victory may go to the last fighter standing, but it may also go to the most aggressive fighter, whether or not that fighter is conscious at the end, so do not back down. Pearwood House is a card-driven martial-arts-style combat...
ペンギンセンス (Penguin Sense) is a push your luck game from Japan. As Emperor Penguins, players swim out to see in search of food for their young. But they risk being attacked by predators such as seals or orcos. Each player takes turns to take a food chip, worth 1-4, and then flip the Sea Card underneath the chip. Each card shows some aspect of life at sea...