At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans — whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly, King Manuel I died before construction ever began.   In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family.   Azul: Summe..

When you die, you can take it with you! Take on the role of Egyptian nobles at the time of the pharaohs, preparing for death and burial in the Valley of the Kings. Players want to fill their tombs with food, canopic jars, statues, amulets and other treasures, and to do so they acquire cards that are laid out in the shape of a pyramid; the higher the card on the pyramid, the more expensive it is to buy — but when lower cards are purchased, the pyramid crumbles, lowering prices on the cards that fall. The pyramid resets each round with new offerings. You score only for cards that you remove from your deck and stash in your tomb, so if you keep using valuable cards for their effects and don't entomb them before the game ends, you could lose out on big points! Whoever collects the m..

The deluxe edition features:   - Updated artwork - All components upgraded to true deluxe - You will be able to "set up” your own experience of YEDO. Whether you want no negative interaction or a game more punishing than ever before, you will be able to set up YEDO to suit your needs and pause play style. - New modular components brings a lot of interesting mechanisms into Yedo: the Tea house with a set of unique helpers who'll join you for a turn, Specialists in place of regular Disciples, new types of missions and much, much more!   About the game: Japan, 1605 – Hidetada Tokugawa has succeeded his father as the new Shogun, ruling from the great city of Edo (a.k.a. Yedo), the city known in present times as Tokyo. This marks the beginning of the..

Crystal Palace is een “diceplacement” spel waarin de spelers aan het begin van elke ronde zelf de waarde van hun dobbelstenen bepalen. Hogere waarden zijn beter, maar kosten wel meer geld. Gedurende het spel worden de dobbelstenen op de 8 verschillende locaties ingezet en gestreden om de beste grondstoffen, patenten en knappe koppen. In een wereld met een tikkeltje aparte uitvindingen ontmoet je mensen als Phileas Fogg , Levi Straus en Charlotte Brontë en vind je dingen uit als de Denkmachine, de Bierglasteller en deKlimaatomvormer.In Crystal Palace vertegenwoordigt iedere speler een land op de eerste wereldtentoonstelling in 1851 in Londen. Om te zorgen dat jouw land de meeste aandacht krijgt, toon je spectaculaire uitvindingen en zoek je steun van de meest geniale en invloedrijkste pe..

Maracaibo, the new strategy game for 1-4 players by Alexander Pfister, is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century. The players try to increase their influence in three nations in four rounds with a play time of 40 minutes per player.   The players sail on a round course through the Caribbean. E.g., you have city tiles where you are able to perform various actions or deliver goods to. One special feature is an implemented quest mode over more and various tiles, which tells the player, who chase after it, a little story.   As a player, you move with your ship around the course, managing it by using cards like in other games from Alexander Pfister.   https://youtu.be/mrbAjs_RXaU ..

Orléans Stories is based on the bag-building mechanism known from Orléans, with this mechanisms having been further developed into a storytelling experience in which players go through different eras and face different challenges. Broadly speaking, instead of focusing on the city of Orléans and trade with the surrounding villages, player are now settling the Loire Valley. Players must farm and produce, found villages, and build fortresses and churches. They will experience times of prosperity and success, but also times of deprivation; they must defy hunger and plague, fight for their land, and perhaps conquer foreign lands to secure the lives of their settlers. In the end, however, there is peace and the joint administration of territories and villages.   The game includes..