Tiny Epic Pirates

Rate 8.1


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Gamelyn Games – Website

Tiny Epic Pirates is a 45 minute, 1-4 player game of high-seas adventure, utilizing a variable rondel action system and action combo-ing!

In Tiny Epic Pirates you take control of a Pirate ship with the goal of burying vast amounts of wealth on secret island hideaways.

Each turn, you move your Captain Token around your ship’s action wheel (rondel), selecting which action to perform… Plunder, Trade, Crew Up, Attack, or Search. Each player has a randomized and unique arrangement of these actions on their rondel. Sailing your Pirate Ship is something every player can do every time they take an action.

Plundering allows you to acquire booty from settlements at a very reasonable rate. It’s amazing how negotiating changes when your blunderbuss is at the ready. A crate of gunpowder for a promise of no harm? Fair exchange.

Trading allows you to sell your ill-gotten goods to the Black Market for gold. Each Market is only interested in a specific good, so make sure you are sailing in the right direction. Timing is everything, sell your good at the wrong time and it’s worth a pittance.

Crew Up adds a new crew member to your growing Pirate Ship. Crew increases your ship’s combat advantage and unlocks new abilities for each spoke of your ship’s action wheel, making that action more powerful every time you take it!

Attacking Merchant Ships and other Pirates will grow your reputation. It also happens to be a great way to score some gold and more booty to sell. Be enough of a menace and you may just become a Legend of the Sea!

Search the high-seas for treasures left behind by the unfortunate souls that preceded you. Salvage old ship parts for temporary aid or get lucky and find something worth selling.

The end of the game is triggered once a player has buried three treasures. To do this, a player must first acquire the amount of gold required to bury at the various bury spots on the map. After all players have had an equal number of turns. The player who has buried three treasures wins the game. Ties are decided by the player who has the highest legendary status, followed by which player has the most gold.

—description from the publisher

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Prisma Arena

Rate 7.5


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Hub Games – Website

“Welcome young recruits. Hope still slumbers and must be protected from Despair’s draining embrace. You are here because your Prisma is strong and, more importantly, you give a damn. Now suit up. It’s time to train!”

Prisma Arena is a fast-paced game of over-the-top arena combat for 2-4 players. Play as novices recruited for your ability to channel Prisma — your inner light — as you learn the martial art of Prismakata. You are joined in the arena by Mo’kon, creatures that embody individual emotions. Learn to blast, strike and perform powerful combos. With quick-start rules, you can play standalone or train to become a Guardian of Hope over multiple games. Whatever you choose, train hard and fight well!

—description from the publisher

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Tiny Ninjas: Heroes

Rate 7.0


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2niverse – Website

“Tiny Ninjas: Heroes” is the second game in the Tiny Ninjas Universe and introduces more strategy with a 4×7 grid Arena. Players command a clan of 5 ninjas including a selected HERO. Dice are used to track the positioning and health of each ninja. Players acquire items, shields, and energy to perform special abilities. Eliminate your opponents HERO to claim victory.

In the DEDICATED SOLO MODE called “APOCALYPSE”, you will command a clan of 5 ninjas, including a selected HERO, and face endless waves of ZOMBIE ninjas. Defeat as many as you can before your HERO inevitably falls.

—description from the publisher

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Kodama Forest

Rate 7.4


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Indie Boards and Cards – Website

Springtime has come again, and your forest is blooming! However, the magical kodama spirits will only grace the lushest and most beautiful of landscapes. Plant bamboo and flowers to attract friendly pandas and butterflies to beautify your plot of land. Plan carefully to ensure that your two forests can be filled with as many plants and animals as possible in order to please the colorful kodama

In Kodama Forest, everyone works with their neighbors to cover as much of their shared player boards as possible. Every round, each player places one tile on the board to their right and one tile on the board to their left. Forests are penalized for every uncovered dirt section and the game ends when one board has covered all of its “5” and “10” dirt spaces. Players score both of their shared boards, with the lowest combined score determining the winner.

Balancing cooperation and competition is the key to victory.

—description from the publisher

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New Osaka

Rate 4.2


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3X Game Studio – Website

Introduction: Welcome to New Osaka, a game where 1 to 4 players runs an organization vying for control. Build mechs, buildings, & defenses, produce resources, use research labs to earn new tech, and fight off various monsters, including a giant final boss at the end of the game. Will your organization come out on top in defending New Osaka? Time to see if you have what it takes!

Background: In the year 2055, a Great War raged across the globe against the vile forces of Max Von Fury. Max was a mad genius bent on taking over the world with his AI infused robotic creations. He very nearly succeeded. Allied forces discovered his home base in the Old Osaka Prefecture of Japan and that was where Max’s last stand took place, destroying much of Old Osaka in the process. In his defeat, his final act of defiance was to open portals to another dimension within Neyagawa, Yao, and Ikoma, unleashing great monsters into our world. After a time, other portals started appearing in various nations, small at first, but slowly getting bigger.

Now, major organizations fight for control over New Osaka, the great bastion standing against the first major source of the monsters. Whichever group proves they have what it takes to defend New Osaka against the monster threat will earn major contracts around the world when the other portals start becoming a threat. Untold power and control awaits the organization that proves itself worthy!

Gameplay: You have ‘motor cars’ and characters you use to activate buildings on the map. You have battle mechs you can move around to take over research stations and take on monsters (rolling dice to beat the monster level). Beating monsters produce special resources and points. And you also have production mechs that you can move to factories to produce resources that let you upgrade buildings, mechs, and earn points. The final round, all players fight a giant monster. Players generate points for how they do all of these actions and the player with the most points wins.

—description from the publisher

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Ankh: Gods of Egyp

Rate 9.3


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CMON – Website

Play as a god of ancient Egypt, competing to survive as society begins to forget the old ways, so that only you and your followers remain.

Build caravans, summon monsters, and convert followers in your quest to reign supreme in Ankh: Gods of Egypt. Deities, monsters, and the people of ancient Egypt have been lovingly reimagined and interpreted in beautiful illustrations and detailed miniatures, and players will truly feel like gods as they shake the very foundations of Egypt. All gameplay in Ankh, including combat, is streamlined and non-random. Compete and win solely on your godly wits alone.

—description from the publisher

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Starlight

Rate 7.0


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Out Of My Mind Games – Website

Starlight is a narrative-driven cooperative tabletop game for 1-4 players set in the Draconian System. You and your friends are close to completing your pilot training when an unknown enemy attacks and destroys your home planet. You manage to escape and find yourself guarding the last remaining refugee ship. Throughout Starlight you fight in epic space battles, upgrade your ship and explore the fringes of space. But questions still remain: who attacked you, what do they want and will you be able to help rebuild the Medellian civilization?

Starlight is an epic cooperative game that is built upon four pillars of gameplay: Space Exploration, Space Combat, World Exploration and Pilot/Ship Customization.

—description from the publisher

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Frosthaven

Rate 7.1


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Cephalofair Games – Website

Frosthaven is the story of a small outpost far to the north of the capital city of White Oak, an outpost barely surviving the harsh weather as well as invasions from forces both known and unknown. There, a group of mercenaries at the end of their rope will help bring back this settlement from the edge of destruction.

Not only will they have to deal with the harsh elements, but there are other, far more dangerous threats out in the unforgiving cold as well. There are Algox, the bigger, more yeti-like cousins of the Inox, attacking from the mountains; Lurkers flooding in from the northern sea; and rumors of machines that wander the frozen wastes of their own free will. The party of mercenaries must face all of these perils, and perhaps in doing so, make peace with these new races so they can work together against even more sinister forces.

Frosthaven is a standalone adventure from the designer and publisher of Gloomhaven that features sixteen new characters, three new races, more than twenty new enemies, more than one hundred new items, and a new, 100-scenario campaign.

In addition to having the well-known combat mechanisms of Gloomhaven, Frosthaven will feature much more to do outside of combat, such as numerous mysteries to solve, a seasonal event system to live through, and player control over how this ramshackle village expands, with each new building offering new ways to progress.

Characters and items from Gloomhaven will be usable in Frosthaven, and vice versa:

As revealed during PAX 2020, Frosthaven will be interchangeable with the original Gloomhaven board game. To an extent, anyway. Namely, you can use Gloomhaven’s characters in Frosthaven and vice versa. What’s more, some of the first game’s items will become available throughout the sequel.

Frosthaven has a whole new set of items but there is a mechanic for bringing items over from ‘Gloomhaven’. However, as it is a remote location, these products get imported and are not there as standard. Resources are much more valuable and you have to build items through a crafting system rather than just buy them.

—description from the publisher

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Sanctuary: The Keeper’s Era

Rate 7.0


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Tabula Games – Website

Sanctuary: The Keepers Era is a competitive, fast paced, hand management card game, the starting chapter of a story which takes place in a brand new fantasy setting.

The game features six unique Faction decks illustrated with more than 135 stunning artworks by a team of international artists.

According to the legends of Elnerth, a powerful mystic energy was flowing dangerously through the world. To avoid catastrophic events, that energy was split into six parts called the Essences.

Sanctuaries are the only way to channel the power of the Essences. Players impersonate the Keepers, each one is attuned to an Essence and rules over a Faction. The Keepers are fighting each other to preserve their Sanctuaries and themselves. The goal of the game is to destroy all the oppponent’s Sanctuaries, to become the only Keeper able to shape the fate of the world through their Essence.

Choose your Faction, each one with its own peculiarity, and dive into the dark and wondrous world of Elnerth.

—description from the publisher

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Holi: Festival of Colors

Rate 7.5


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Floodgate Games – Website

In HOLI: Festival of Colors, players gather to celebrate the end of winter as they spread colorful powder on each other, dancing and celebrating new beginnings.

Mechanisms & Features
Area Control – Colored powder tokens spread across the board and onto other players, covering the board in the pattern selected
3-Tier Board – Players ascend to have their powder fall from above, giving up victory points for better control
Puzzle-like Action Selection – Color cards determine the pattern colored powder will fly in, giving players room to select the pattern that works best for them.
Variable Scoring Condition – Each game can have slightly different scoring conditions, adding depth and replayability

—description from the publisher

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