In Mice and Mystics, players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king – but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The castle would be a dangerous place with Vanestra's minions in control, but now countless other terrors also await heroes who are but the size of figs. Play as nimble Prince Collin and fence your way past your foes, or try Nez Bellows, the burly smith. Confound your foes as the wizened old mouse Maginos, or protect your companions as Tilda, the castle's former healer. Every player will have a vital role in the quest to warn the king, and it will take careful planning to find Vanestra's weakness and defeat her.Mice and Mystics is a cooperative adventure game in which the players work together to save an imperiled kingdom. They will face countless adversaries such as rats, cockroaches, and spiders, and of course the greatest of all horrors: the castle's housecat, Brodie. Mice and Mystics is a boldly innovative game that thrusts players into an ever-changing, interactive environment, and features a rich storyline that the players help create as they play the game. The Cheese System allows players to hoard the crumbs of precious cheese they find on their journey, and use it to bolster their mice with grandiose new abilities and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds.Mice and Mystics will provide any group of friends with an unforgettable adventure they will be talking about for years to come – assuming they can all squeak by...Expansion advice:For those who have expansions for this game the recommended order by the game designer for playing them is as follows (see original post HERE): Sorrow and Remembrance (Base game) Cat's Cradle (Lost Chapter 1) Heart of Glorm The Ghost of Castle Andon (Lost Chapter 2) Downwood Tales Portents of Importance (Lost Chapter 3), connected to the story in Tail Feathers 

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Build a city, make a fortune.“In Magnate: The First City, you’re a property developer out to build an empire in the midst of a citywide property boom.By snapping-up valuable land and constructing the right buildings in the right locations, you’ll attract high value tenants and start raking in the big bucks. But beware: as the city grows, everything you build will also open up new opportunities for your competitors. Will you make a fortune? Or will you be caught out when the boom inevitably turns to bust in a game-ending market crash?”---Magnate: The First City is a midweight strategy game for 1-5 players. Each turn players try to grow their property empire by performing different actions, including: buying plots of land, constructing buildings, marketing their developments and selling them completely for their capital value. Once per round, they will also get the chance to attract tenants to any empty buildings they have. If they are successful, they will start collecting rent from their tenants and increase the value of their holdings. At the same time, they will also create new development opportunities for themselves and their opponents.But in Magnate, as in real life, not all locations are equally appealing to all types of tenant. Magnate’s four types of tenant - residential, offices, retail and industry - all want to be linked to other types of tenant in nearby neighbourhoods. And they are all affected differently by what’s next door: The airport is an asset for offices, but it’s an unattractive place for new residents. By clever tactical and strategic building, players can increase their odds of attracting these tenants and improve their return on investment - without benefiting their opponents too much.But while the players acquire more and larger properties, the price of land keeps rising higher and higher. Eventually, it becomes completely unsustainable and a game-ending crash that will destroy the value of players’ properties becomes inevitable. When exactly the crash happens, however, is shaped by the players: How much land they buy and how much property they sell will more make a crash on any specific turn more or less likely. Players must time their actions carefully to avoid substantial losses while maximizing their profits. Only then will they emerge victorious as the city’s wealthiest property magnate.—description from the publisher

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The rails have progressed further to the north, which opens new opportunities for you to deliver your cattle farther than before, even to cities outside American borders. Those locations can be highly advantageous, but they require more work and effort, such as constructing branchlets to give you more opportunities to deliver and gain different rewards.Much of the content in Great Western Trail: Rails to the North (Second Edition) was included in the original Rails to the North expansion, but it has been reworked and upgraded, with the player boards being dual-layered, a game board extension that features different rail paths, and the medium town tiles being modified. Other elements included in this expansion are new objective cards, a revised building 13a-13b, new solo-mode materials for Sam, and a new breed of orange cows.

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Escape Room Game: Are you ready to embark on a journey to uncover the secrets of the city of Atlantis? Then, Thames & Kosmos EXIT: The Key to Atlantis is the perfect game for you. Can you solve the riddles to find the magic key to unlock the portal? Puzzle-Solving Game: Easy to understand, the game comes with clear instructions. Work together, piece together the 500-piece jigsaw puzzle, and uncover the mystery! Experience an exciting adventure from within the comfort of your own home! Board Games for Family Night: Ideal for everyone, EXIT: The Key to Atlantis is one of the best family games you will come across. The game can be played by 1 to 4 players, with an intermediate difficulty level For Ages 10+: The puzzle game is designed for players aged 12 and above. The convenient play time of 2 hours adds to the appeal of the game. EXIT: The Key to Atlantis will also be a great addition to your collection of party games Components: The game includes 1 500-piece puzzle, 1 story book with riddles, 1 Collection box, 1 Solution frame and 1 rulebook with clues and solutions. This game has been designed for puzzle enthusiasts who enjoy riddles!

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You built and defended your kingdom, and now that winter is here, you need to battle the harsh elements and chillingly scary monsters.Dwar7s Winter is a hand-building, resource management game with tower defense elements in the gameplay. Each player wants to achieve more victory points, but the only way to survive the winter is to work together.While Dwar7s Winter is a sequel to Dwar7s Fall, it is an independent, standalone game that includes 64 highly-detailed miniatures.

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Featuring the co-operative game system used in Portal's award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dune: House Secrets delivers a deeply thematic experience that drops one-to-four players in the middle of the highest stakes unfolding on the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.In this story-driven adventure game, players take on the roles of rebels who must solve a series of challenging missions with a finite amount of time and resources. Players cooperatively make decisions on how to progress the story as they decide to explore different regions of the world, follow leads, leverage allies, and overcome opposition of all kinds. During gameplay, players use a variety of physical and digital game components — a deck of cards with essential clues and plot twists, a dozen physical handouts, and a dedicated website with additional resources — to steer the narrative in fun and surprising directions for a truly immersive experience.Beginning with an introductory prologue designed to get players acquainted with the massive Dune universe, the game then continues with three big adventures, each taking roughly two-to-three hours to play. During each episode, players can earn experience points to level up their characters in between missions and unlock new options in future gameplay. Each adventure can be played separately as standalone episodes, yet should players complete all three episodes, they will unravel a master game narrative with an epic climax and unforgettable resolution with lasting impact on the future two games in the trilogy.—description from the publisher

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In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens.Do you go big and create a pack of Velociraptors? They'll definitely excite potential visitors, but you'd better make a large enough enclosure for them. And maybe hire some (read: a lot of) security. Or they WILL break out and start eating your visitors, and we all know how that ends. You could play it safe and grow a bunch of herbivores, but then you aren't going to have the most exciting park in the world (sad face). So maybe buy a roller coaster or two to attract visitors to your park the good old-fashioned way?

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Detective: L.A. Crimes, the first campaign expansion for Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, consists of three separate cases that come together to form a full story. Travel to sunny California, and delve deep into the drug-filled Los Angeles of the 1980s. Experience being an L.A. detective, and realize that sometimes, like detective Foley from Beverly Hills Cop, you may need to stretch the laws a bit to suit your needs. Try some controversial methods to solve your case, all the while battling with the red tape of bureaucracy. Use all-new mechanisms of stakeout and observation to learn more about your suspects. The choices are yours, but are you willing to cross the line?

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As you journey through Lothric safe passage is rarely to be found, and the route to the Undead Settlement is no different. The vile watchdog of the Boreal Valley, Vordt is tasked with standing sentinel over the gates that lead from the Undead Settlement to the Castle of Lothric. Vordt exists now only as a savage and mindless beast, his mind long since riven into madness by endless visions of bloodshed and carnage. Will you slay the beast, or is this where your adventures through Lothric end?The Vordt of the Boreal Valley Expansion is intended for use with Dark Souls™: The Board Game.This Dark Souls™: The Board Game expansion features a terrifying new mega boss in the form of Vordt of the Boreal Valley. Included are a new gigantic mega boss tile, deadly new boss behaviours, and unique new boss treasures.The Vordt of the Boreal Valley Expansion also adds new encounter cards which provide larger battles than ever before in Dark Souls™: The Board Game. The tremendous scale of these encounters creates a whole new level of peril for you and your party. Are you up to the challenge?Contents:1 Vordt of the Boreal Valley1 560mmx560mm Mega Boss Game Board (foldable)4 Level 4 Encounter Cards18 Boss Behaviour and Data Cards2 Boss Treasure CardsVordt of the Boreal Valley Boss DialRules LeafletThis expansion includes components in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

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He is the last remaining of his kind, left brutally maimed, with the swords of the fallen spitefully embedded in his stony flesh. Imprisoned and left to rot beneath a forest filled with the corpses of his brethren, he prepares for his final breath— yet the wilful and strong soul of his kind denies him rest. Do not think him weak or mistake the pitiful creature for an easy opponent, for he is neither.Contents: 1 Last Giant Miniature1x Mega Boss Game BoardAll the cards, health dials and rules you'll need to play.

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Your fate has led you to the winding corridors of the flooded and labyrinthine Depths, distant from the light of the sun. Here you find the Gaping Dragon, an abomination hideously transformed by its ravenous hunger. Can you defeat this vile creature and escape its vicious maw, or will you fall to the endless voracity that lies ahead?The Gaping Dragon Expansion is intended for use with Dark Souls™: The Board Game.This Dark Souls™: The Board Game expansion features a terrifying new mega boss in the form of Gaping Dragon. Included are a new gigantic mega boss tile, deadly new boss behaviours, tokens for the new Corrosion condition, and unique new boss treasures.The Gaping Dragon Expansion also adds new encounter cards which provide larger battles than ever before in Dark Souls™: The Board Game. The tremendous scale of these encounters creates a whole new level of peril to you and your party. Are you up to the challenge?

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As you pace the halls and corridors of the Undead Asylum it can be found to be a lonely and quiet place, moribund and uninviting. Here dwells a demon capable of lethal rage, its mind still ruled by virulent thoughts. Beware this foe. For all that you will fight stronger, more cunning, and more agile opponents, complacency will hasten your end at its hands all the same. Can you triumph over the Asylum Demon, or will your corpse soon be another to roam the Asylum with the hollowed?The Asylum Demon Expansion is intended for use with Dark Souls™: The Board Game.This Dark Souls™: The Board Game expansion features a terrifying new mini boss and mega boss. Included are a new gigantic mega boss tile, deadly new boss behaviours, tokens for the new Pillar terrain piece, and unique new boss treasures. All the components provided are for use with the mini and mega boss encounters and offer two unique encounters!The Asylum Demon Expansion also adds new encounter cards which provide larger battles than ever before in Dark Souls™: The Board Game. The tremendous scale of these encounters creates a whole new level of peril for you and your party. Are you up to the challenge?Contents:1 Asylum Demon1 420mmx420mm Mega Boss Game Board (foldable)4 Level 4 Encounter Cards24 Boss Behaviour and Data Cards4 Boss Treasure CardsAsylum Demon Boss Dial4 Pillar TokensRules LeafletThis expansion includes components in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

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