Drafting Games
Games featuring drafting mechanics
The Castles of Burgundy
The Castles of Burgundy is set in the Burgundy region of High Medieval France. Each player takes on the role of an aristocrat, originally controlling a small princedom. While playing, they aim to build settlements and powerful castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, and use...
Splendor: The Sun Never Sets
Splendor: The Sun Never Sets is an expansion for the elegant and strategic board game, Splendor, where players compete to build the most prosperous and influential Renaissance trading empire. By collecting gem tokens and developing a portfolio of cards representing mines, trade routes, and artisa...
Monkey Palace
Stack brick on brick to build a palace, while boosting your income above others. 2-4 Players | 30-45 Mins | Ages 10+Monkey Palace is a jungle-themed game of light strategy that incorporates both collaborative and competitive elements.Players must strategically work together to construct the M...
Revive
Revive civilization, 5000 years after everything was destroyed. Lead your tribe and explore the frozen earth. Harness its resources. Recruit surface survivors to your cause. Build factories with powerful machines. And populate ancient sites to relearn your tribe's forgotten technologies.--Revive ...
Furnace
Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies, extracting resources, and processing them in the best combinations possible. Each...
Calico
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats!In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and...
7 Wonders Duel
In many ways 7 Wonders: Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders as over three ages players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders: Duel is that, as the titl...
Ticket to Ride Europe
Ticket to Ride: Europe takes you on a new train adventure across Europe. From Edinburgh to Constantinople and from Lisbon to Moscow, you'll visit great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. Like the original Ticket to Ride, the game remains elegantly simple, can be learned in 5 minutes, and appea...
The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth - Allies Booster
The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth - Allies features various characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's universe who will come to the aid of either the Fellowship or Sauron. Collect power tokens in each chapter and use them to call upon your allies and benefit from their effects. Requires the bas...
Splendor: The Silk Road
Embark on a Trade and Prestige Adventure along the Silk Road! Get ready to explore new territories, forge lucrative trade routes and win the support of cities! Whether you’re a novice trader or a seasoned merchant, Silk Road offers new strategic possibilities! COMPONENTS 7 Cities tiles (both sid...
In the Footsteps of Darwin
SPIEL DES JAHRES NOMINEE 2024 MEEPLE EXCLUSIVE Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager f...
Imperium: Horizons
The Imperium series continues in this asymmetric card-based civilisation building game for 1–4 players, charting the rise and fall of fourteen of the greatest civilisations from history. Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons. In your hands lies t...
River of Gold
From the Spine of the World Mountains to Earthquake Fish Bay flows a river where fortunes can be made and lowly traders can brush shoulders with Rokugan’s elite. Will your clan become the dominant force along this River of Gold? In River of Gold, players take on the role of river merchants allie...
Monikers
Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrity, where players take turns attempting to get their teammates to guess names by describing or imitating well-known people.In the first round, clue givers can say anything they want, except for the name itself. For the second round, ...
The Quacks of Quedlinburg
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, each of the player charlatans ("Quacksalber" in German) makes their own secret brew, drawing ingredients from the shared supply bag to do this. Take care with what you draw, though, for a pinch too many peas will spoil the whole mixture. If you stop in time to cook o...
Ark Nova
In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will he...