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Bioma
Fernando Cunha
Bioma
Fernando Cunha
Judged 4 Times
Bioma is a quick strategic game for 2-4 players where you control animals on a shared grid. Use predators to catch its prey and avoid laying the ground for the opponent’s turn. Move animals under the foliage and make surprise attacks in a game of quick turns and simple actions. Main mechanics: grid movement, action points, set collection, memory.
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Finalist
Final Score: 29.25
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Vendy, Vidi, Vici
Stefan Barkow
Vendy, Vidi, Vici
Stefan Barkow
Judged 4 Times
In Vendy, Vidi, Vici, players are Roman generals assembling armies from a vending machine in order to conquer regions for the glory of Rome. This simple to learn light game of puzzly drafting and spatial placement uses a unique, vending machine-inspired drafting system. Use your coin cards to recruit units, then conquer regions to assemble the highest-scoring province to win!
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Finalist
Final Score: 27.25
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Portents
Christopher Chan
Portents
Christopher Chan
Judged 4 Times
Portents is a tile pushing puzzle game for 1-2 fortune tellers who are trying to make a future for themselves. 30 Minutes. Ages 14+. Brain burning pattern recognition and hand management on a sliding puzzle. Cat driven solo mode.
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Finalist
Final Score: 26.75
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run/hack
Mike Berg
run/hack
Mike Berg
Judged 5 Times
run/hack is a competitive cyberpunk strategy game for 1-4 players. Defend your servers while collecting bounty for cash to upgrade your gear, so you can hack into rival servers; all without being noticed by roving security forces.
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Finalist
Final Score: 26.60
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Coral Clash
Robert Elliott
Coral Clash
Robert Elliott
Judged 4 Times
Coral Clash is a thematic “no elimination” Pure Strategy Arena game in an archipelago. It’s used to settle disputes using a dynamically shrinking arena floating on the sea. Win by being the first player to push an opponent’s last champion into the sea. Each space of the Arena contains energy, keeping it afloat. Energy can be adjusted in a space each time it is interacted with and is needed to power some actions. Each turn, perform 3 different actions or the same action twice with 1 champion.
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Finalist
Final Score: 26.25
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Plantae Mea
Louissia Bulver & Juliette Groussin
Plantae Mea
Louissia Bulver & Juliette Groussin
Judged 4 Times
Plantae mea is the first “solo” board game to play with your own plants. Team up with your vegetal mate and help it to grow new leaves and stems. Mind the sun, the water and even you can become its ally as much as its enemy. A strategic tile placement and pattern building will allow the player to get the most points. But the plant can also turn the tables. Inspired by the variable player powers mechanism, the plant has its own ability sheet and action cards. So who will be your best plantmate?
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Finalist
Final Score: 26.25
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Oblivion Galaxy
Conan Daly
Oblivion Galaxy
Conan Daly
Judged 4 Times
Oblivion Galaxy is a game about the economics of trying to escape a dying galaxy, and the hard choices that must be made in desperate situations. You are the leader of a prophetic cult in a sci-fi far future, who has seen the approaching apocalypse. You must construct the means to escape the coming doom! A worker placement & recall game for 1-4 players, where players must build and then sacrifice their engines to try & rescue all their acolytes, while the board is consumed from the outside in.
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Finalist
Final Score: 25.75
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BBQ SOS
Joe Slack & Sylvain Plante
BBQ SOS
Joe Slack & Sylvain Plante
Judged 5 Times
You’ve gathered with your friends for a friendly neighborhood barbecue. But once the grill gets fired up, everyone wants to be the cook! BBQ SOS is a game of time management, resource management, and area control on a shared grill. Fit your Tetris-like food items on the grill, cook them to perfection, and score bonuses by placing them just right. You'll want to do 5 things, but you'll only have 2 actions. How will you decide? Figure it out and you'll be the “King or Queen of the Grill”!
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Final Score: 25.60
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Flipping Tables
Nicholas J. Reese
Flipping Tables
Nicholas J. Reese
Judged 5 Times
Flipping Tables is a solo-friendly Flip and write. You're a final contender for the Maitre D position at a restaurant getting ready for its grand opening, and they need to see if you have what it takes to take on the responsibility. Play your cards right (and maybe suck up to the managers) to score big and snag the job.
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Finalist
Final Score: 25.40
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Honour the Gods
Thomas Fern
Honour the Gods
Thomas Fern
Judged 4 Times
Honour the Gods is a narratively driven, medium/heavy RPG dungeon crawler, set in the realms of Norse mythology. 1-6 players journey through the Realm of Mists to save the World Tree from the Great Dragon, Nidhoggr. Featuring a 12 part narrative campaign, procedurally generated maps and encounters, fully customisable player characters and innovative tactical combat, exploration and honour-based experience mechanics.
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Finalist
Final Score: 25.00
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Shapely
Matt Golec and Arun Mehra
Shapely
Matt Golec and Arun Mehra
Judged 4 Times
In Shapely, you make shapes using abstract pieces and guess what your opponents created. During play, you’ll be challenged to make shapes with fewer and fewer pieces. Balancing speedy play with skillful shape making is the key to succeeding at Shapely! This family-weight game features simultaneous play, tactile pieces, and the opportunity for players to flex their artistic muscles -- even if they feel they can't draw.
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Finalist
Final Score: 25.00
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Dynasty
Jason Riddell
Dynasty
Jason Riddell
Judged 4 Times
Dynasty is a worker progression game set in an alternate version of the classic tale, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Players will take on a noble house, and use their Heirs- their workers- to influence the events of the story. We call the game worker progression because actions an Heir takes are remembered by the game, granting the acting Heir- and their children- new abilities and resources that persist throughout the game. Whose name will be etched in the annals of Three Kingdoms lore?
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Final Score: 24.75
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SCRAPS (previously known as D.A.S.H.)
Daan Rousseau
SCRAPS (previously known as D.A.S.H.)
Daan Rousseau
Judged 6 Times
Build a spaceship through double deckbuilding and worker placement to leave our nearly destroyed planet.
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Final Score: 24.50
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HOLAMBRA
André Estevez; João Victor Fiori; Jonathas Joba; Lucas Pereira; Pedro Ometto
HOLAMBRA
André Estevez; João Victor Fiori; Jonathas Joba; Lucas Pereira; Pedro Ometto
Judged 5 Times
HOLAMBRA is a roll-and-write, color-placement, windmill-rotating game for any number of players, including a solo mode. The players are exhibitors in the biggest spring event in Latin America. The matches are fairly quick (30-45 min), and the players end up with a beautiful, colorful grid/garden of their own. It’s simple to explain but there’s enough strategy to keep experienced gamers entertained. At the end, the player with the most organized garden is the winner.
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Final Score: 24.40
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Pit Wall
Mitchell Reinhart
Pit Wall
Mitchell Reinhart
Judged 7 Times
Pit Wall is a racing game with a mix of worker placement, push-your-luck, and resource management. Unlike most racing games, players take on the role of race engineers rather than drivers. Modern formula racing pushes engineering to its limits, and it takes more than a fast driver to win races. Players will use their six engineers to manage the various systems on their race car. Can you balance the speed required to win with the necessary choices to keep all four wheels moving?
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Judged 7 Times
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Final Score: 24.29
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Enceladus
Bruno Crépeault
Enceladus
Bruno Crépeault
Judged 5 Times
As the colonists are travelling towards Saturn, your team of engineers, chemists and workers are preparing the planet’s sixth largest moon for colonization. When they arrive, who will have been the most efficient builder, the most brilliant scientist and the most skillful in humanizing the icy Enceladus ? Enceladus is a modular board no-conflict space exploration game, with resource engine and building construction mechanics, and a low luck-factor.
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Final Score: 24.00
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Junk City!
Robbie Gustafson
Junk City!
Robbie Gustafson
Judged 4 Times
Junk City! is a cooperative game where players build junk robots and defend the town from an alien invasion. It is mainly a dice placement game where players will be rolling dice every round and using them to take different actions, but the game also has tower defense, card drafting, and engine building mechanics. This is a tough and tight coop game where players need to work together both during the draft phase and during the game to synchronize and synergize their actions for maximum effect.
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Final Score: 24.00
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Moriarti Vs Moriartee
Alwyn Wong
Moriarti Vs Moriartee
Alwyn Wong
Judged 4 Times
You are the world's greatest criminal mastermind, Professor James Moriarty. However, there is an imposter claiming your greatest feat – the defeat of Sherlock Holmes. Prove that you are the real deal by taking over the City. In this Area Control and Blind Bidding hybrid, outplay your opponent by predicting their intentions, and feigning your own, creating strategic set ups that will cascade your wealth and influence. There can only be one "Moriarty" - The true Napoleon of Crime, is that you?
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Final Score: 23.75
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Witches' Quarrel
Shanti Pothapragada
Witches' Quarrel
Shanti Pothapragada
Judged 4 Times
Witches' Quarrel is a 2 player, 10-minute deckbuilder with legacy mechanics, where you play the role of a witch in a quarrel with another witch. Play spells to gain power, learn new spells, and deal or block damage. The first witch to take 10 damage loses. Play each game with a selection of 5 changing spells, but everything starts in 36 sealed envelopes: complete achievements to unlock new spells, witches, and new story of two children learning witchcraft.
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Final Score: 23.75
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Dice Fight: Ready to Roll
Aaron Wills
Dice Fight: Ready to Roll
Aaron Wills
Judged 4 Times
"Dice Fight - Ready to Roll" is a light game for 1-6 players featuring simultaneous engagement and "Take That" action cards to keep the fun rolling along. You can learn the game in five minutes and be finished about 20 minutes later. When you finish, you'll likely want to grab a new score sheet and take on your friends again and again. So get Ready to Roll and bring some fun and energy to your table with this roll and flip and write family game!
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Final Score: 23.25
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Sendero
Elena Marimon & Alex Larrain
Sendero
Elena Marimon & Alex Larrain
Judged 4 Times
Sendero is an abstract maze building game for 1 to 4 players, ages 10+. It plays in under 30’. Draw tiles from a common display and place them in your 5x5 board, trying to reach an exit. There are 96 unique tiles with different colors, patterns and pathways. Score Victory Points at the end of the game based on the length of your path, the patterns created, plus your own private goals. Add or remove challenges to adjust to the player's age. Sendero is simple to learn yet hard to master.
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Final Score: 23.25
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Sagas: Bretland
Phoenix F. Levesque
Sagas: Bretland
Phoenix F. Levesque
Judged 6 Times
Sagas: Bretland is a strategy game where you are a Viking leader in search of wealth, land, and fame. Starting with a small raid party on the shores of Bretland, you will explore the undiscovered and randomized land. Expanding your colony, gathering resources, completing objectives, and raiding existing Anglo-Saxon settlements will be key in besting any other Viking leaders that may stand in your way. Forge your saga and become the next great Viking leader! 3 - 6 players, 120 minutes.
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Final Score: 22.50
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Cardtropolis
José Llavina
Cardtropolis
José Llavina
Judged 5 Times
Cardtropolis is a super-hero themed card game for ages 7-10. As a player, you are tasked with capturing the city's most powerful Super Villains. Capture them outright by using Super Heroes and Sidekicks or by revealing the Crook when solving a mystery. But keeping your captured Super Villains from the clutches of other players will be a challenge. Play as free-for-all or collaboratively in teams. Fast paced and strategic, the player with the most Super Villain points at the end wins the game!
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Final Score: 22.40
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Rigadoon
John Glynn
Rigadoon
John Glynn
Judged 7 Times
Rigadoon is a nautically-themed abstract strategy game. There are nearly a dozen actions each of the ships in your fleet may deploy each turn. From setting off cascading chain reactions to running other ships aground, from blasting ships across to the opposite side of the board to claiming your treasure on an island; there are countless combinations of actions floating between you and victory.
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Final Score: 22.00
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Primordial Secrets
Garth Avery + Hanna Lisowska
Primordial Secrets
Garth Avery + Hanna Lisowska
Judged 4 Times
Before the birth of time itself, unfathomable god-like beings held court in the great void. Primordial Secrets is an interactive deckbuilding strategy card game with secret action selection and simultaneous play. To claim victory, you must not only build your own engines and combos, but also be ready to adapt, anticipating and disrupting your rivals’ risky gambits, and building around powerful royals if you are crafty enough to gain their favor. The unborn universe shall be yours to mold.
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Final Score: 21.50
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Umbrella Sky
Amir Salamati
Umbrella Sky
Amir Salamati
Judged 4 Times
Umbrella Sky is a tile-laying, city beautifying game with colorful umbrellas, banners, and light bulbs for 2-4 players, plays in 30-45 minutes, and is recommended for ages 8 and up. In Umbrella Sky, players compete with each other to decorate their street and get the attention of tourists by hanging beautiful umbrellas in different colors and patterns! In addition, by creating specific combinations, players can claim banners and light bulbs and score more points!
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Final Score: 21.50
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Routes
Richard Woods
Routes
Richard Woods
Judged 5 Times
Routes is a medium weight economic strategy game for 1 to 5 players that lasts 15-30 minutes per player. In this game players take control of a fledgling airline and compete to build the most successful company. Their decision making skills are really put to the test as they compete for the most profitable routes, plan ahead to achieve their Company and Secret Goals, adapt to the events that take place, and race to win the coveted Industry Awards.
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Final Score: 21.40
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Destination: Archipelago
Michael Duarte and Jackie Beilhart
Destination: Archipelago
Michael Duarte and Jackie Beilhart
Judged 4 Times
Compete to have the best vacation! Destination: Archipelago is a 2-4 player game with two phases. During phase 1: research the archipelago you will be visiting. Placing tiles--you’ll be able to create a different map each time you play. Then in phase 2: travel around the islands on the map, complete activities, and talk to locals to gain vacation points and cards that modify game play.
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Final Score: 21.25
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Aquarium: The Catch and Release Card Game
Myles Wallace
Aquarium: The Catch and Release Card Game
Myles Wallace
Judged 5 Times
You are in a fishy business! You only have a few hours and a couple casts of your net in order to catch the best sea creatures for your aquarium. On your turn, draw and discard up to 3 times until you find a card you want; then add the card to your aquarium to score points. But beware—you may get a shark! For 2-5 players ages 8+, Aquarium takes 20 minutes to play.
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Final Score: 20.60
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Astronots - Betrayal Awaits
Yael-Jeremy Demers & Shark and Sandals
Astronots - Betrayal Awaits
Yael-Jeremy Demers & Shark and Sandals
Judged 5 Times
Astronots - Betrayal Awaits is a sci-fi themed social deduction party game where players are divided into two teams and are racing each other to victory. The Crew members musts find the antidote before the parasites contaminate everyone aboard. In Astronots, it is forbidden to play your own cards. Players pick and play cards from others' hands. Whilst bluffing, you'll need to decipher who's friend or foe and convince the other players that you have the cards that will lead their team to victory.
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Final Score: 20.00