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Trapped in a temple, players must work together to solve a series of puzzles in order to escape. For each puzzle, one player will hold the answer key and guide the others to find the solution.

Build stations, buy stock, and ship goods, in a tycoon board game that keeps things fast and simple.

Build statues in your honor, claim royal titles, race for goods, but don’t get too greedy or your subjects will have something to say about it!

Every year the board game industry grows and incorporates more and more dedicated players. The last few years have been termed the "board game renaissance," and in a lot of ways, it truly is the best era in gaming thus far. By the time industry magazine ICv2 reports of the most recent figures (typically 10-20% annual growth since around 2008), a plethora of new board game publishers have already sprung up. With the growth of Kickstarter, starting a publishing company has become a lot more accessible for those that don't have the financial resources to afford printing thousands of copies of a game on their own.

Running a Kickstarter campaign is a lot of work. There are a plethora of hoops that a creator must jump through in order to be successful.

Win the guilds to your side, secure the favor of the King, and maneuver and manipulate your way to victory. Strategic and logical, Blackstone Castle is a game of grid manipulation in which all the information is open and available to players.

Survivors are counting on you. Can you protect your settlement, drive back raiders, and create a home in a post-apocalyptic landscape?

Remnants will have players vying for control of limited resources in a game that blends real time dice rolling with resource management.

Dungeon crawling is slow! Why not race through the dungeon instead? It's a dungeon full of traps, monsters, and loot.

One lone cadet survives on a space station. Mission Control is the only hope for escape, but communication is malfunctioning. Will the cadet be able to decipher what Mission Control is saying?

Players are artists trying to capture the loveliest painting of the emperor by staying close on his heels. Jockey with your fellow artists for a prime position, but don’t bump into the emperor as he takes his walk.

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