Drafting Games
Games featuring drafting mechanics
Spectacular
In Spectacular, you are creating and developing your own animal park for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species, you must ensure breeding within each habitat.During the game, you select animal tiles and dice, where the dice represent food for the animals. The color of the dice must ...
Quarto
Spiel des Jahres Recommended and Mensa Select WinnerYou get 16 pieces and each piece has four possible features: short or tall, dark or light, square or round and hollow or filled. On a four by four grid, you have to line up four pieces that share one common feature. Do this and you win the roun...
Black Forest
Develop your small, glass-making domain in the woods of the Black Forest. 1-4 Players | 60-120 Mins | Ages 14+Features: Automatic Resource Growth, End Game Bonuses, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire GameDescription:In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in ...
Little Alchemists
Will you surpass your teachers’ knowledge and grow up to become the best alchemists in the land? Let’s find out! It’s time to grab your potion ingredients, sharpen your deduction skills, and get mixing! Little Alchemists is a family-friendly deduction game that’s designed to grow with the curiou...
Undaunted 2200 Callisto
Battle for dominance over the bleak, resource-rich moon of Callisto. 1-4 Players | 45-60 Mins | Ages 14+ Features: Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Open Drafting, Solo / Solitaire Game, Team-Based Game Theme: Card Game, Science Fiction, Wargame Description: Jovian...
Undaunted Battle of Britain
The RAF faces the Luftwaffe in this two-player deck-building game of aerial WWII combat. Summer, 1940. The German war machine has rolled through the continent in less than a year, crushing all before it. Britain is all that stands in the way of German victory in Europe. Command the pilots of the...
World Wonders
Buy tiles, manage resources and place wonder tokens to build your own Ancient City. 1-5 Players | 50-70 Mins | Ages 12+Features: Action Points, Tile PlacementTheme: Ancient, City BuildingDescription:Take on the role of the great leaders of the past to build your own Ancient City.Each player w...
5 Towers
Compete as master architects to acquire cards and use them to build the highest towers. You’ll get cards if you are willing to take more than everyone else. But since you can only build one tower of each of the 5 types, taking too many cards at once can limit your options in the long run. BoardG...
Cosmoctopus
Welcome, devotees! The celestial gaze of the Great Inky One falls upon you; do you have what it takes to be the most dedicated follower? Cosmoctopus is an engine-building, tentacle-gathering board game for 1 to 4 devotees. Guide Cosmoctopus through the Inky Realm, a flexible configuration of t...
Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition
Follow a trail to learn the fate of Professor Kutil and other missing explorers in Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition. In this expansion, you can test the strategies offered by two new leaders, explore new paths to knowledge on two new research tracks, and build your expedition team wit...
Sheepy Time
You are one of the Dream Sheep, the sheep that people count in order to drift off to Dreamland! Each time you jump the fence, you help your person fall asleep easier — but the Nightmares that haunt these dreams threaten a rude awakening... On a turn in Sheepy Time, you play one of two cards in y...
The Networks
In The Networks, you and your opponents are new television networks, and you need new programming. For this, you’ll need Shows, Stars, and Ads.Shows need Stars and Ads. Stars give you bonus viewers (points), and Ads give you extra money. You’ll need everything you can get; you'll have a small...
Barenpark
Up to two thousand pounds in weight and over ten feet tall, the bear is considered the biggest and heaviest terrestrial carnivore in the world. Of course, there is not just "one bear;" on the contrary, there are plenty of subspecies that differ from each other in various aspects. For instance, on...
Sunflower Valley A Tile-Laying Game
Sunflower Valley: The Card Game, a.k.a. Sunflower Valley: A Tile-Laying Game, is a fast-paced drafting and tableau-building game in which 2-6 players settle their own mountain valleys.Each player has a starting town card, a Valley Express train token that starts on this card, and a deck of twenty...
Trismegistus The Ultimate Formula
You are an adept of the mysterious art of alchemy, seeking a way to become the successor of the greatest alchemist ever living — Hermes Trismegistus. In order to do so you will be transmuting mere metals into pure gold, performing experiments, and inventing artifacts to finally achieve everlast...
Vampire The Masquerade - Heritage
In Vampire: The Masquerade – Heritage, you play the role of an ancient vampire. You shape seven hundred years of vampiric and human history in pursuit of ancient secrets, while trying to evade the inquisition and attempting to save what's left of your humanity.Heritage is a quick-playing legacy g...