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Expeditions, Flamecraft, and more: Coming soon and up for Pre-Order!

Expeditions, Flamecraft, and more: Coming soon and up for Pre-Order!

AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!

Check out what's cooking in the board game ovens!

EXPEDITIONS

Expeditions [10% Pre-order discount]

Exploration and expansion in the sequel to Scythe. Yes, there are still bears.

Announced earlier this week, the sequel to the Stonemaier Games' acclaimed Scythe is now available for preorder!

Expeditions is a new, standalone game that takes place after the events of Scythe. You are plunged into Siberia, where a massive meteorite crashed near the Tunguska River, awakening ancient corruption. An expedition led by Dr. Tarkovsky ventures into the taiga to learn about the meteorite and its impact on the land. Itching for adventure, heroes from the war privately fund their own expeditions to Siberia, hoping to find artifacts, overcome challenges, and ultimately achieve glory.

Expeditions is a competitive, card-driven, engine-building game of exploration. Play cards to gain power, guile, and unique worker abilities; move your mech to mysterious locations and gain cards found among the tiles; use workers, items, meteorites, and quests to enhance your mech; and use power and guile to vanquish corruption.

This announcement also boasts a deluxe version, Expeditions: Ironclad Edition, featuring metal versions of the mechs included in the standard edition.

A comparison between the mechs from the base and Ironclad versions of Expeditions are shown here next to a mech from Scythe:

Photo from the recent Stonemaier Games announcement blog post.

PRE-ORDER EXPEDITIONS: IRONCLAD EDITION HERE!

The standard edition is also available for pre-order here!

Both editions currently available with a 10% pre-order discout!

FLAMECRAFT: SECOND PRINT RUN

Flamecraft [Pre-order]

 This game won the "Most times I went "awww" during a game session" award 2022.

Fitting that an engine builder where cute dragons improve village shops sold like hot cakes at the end of 2022. This adorable (and wildly successful) game is recieving its second print run, and we're now taking pre-orders on our site!

In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.

If you're one of the many who missed out on the first print, now's your chance to get in early!

STOKE THE FLAMES! PREORDER FLAMECRAFT HERE!

TOKAIDO DUO

Tokaido Duo [ 10% Pre-order discount ]

Big adventure in a small package.

The peaceful game of tactical travel, now in two player format! Discover the island of Shikoku, gaining points through the eyes of three different travellers!

  • As the Pilgrim, you will visit temples, forests, seashores and hot springs.
  • As the merchant, you will craft and sell handmade wares.
  • As the artist, you will paint a variety of beautiful sceneries, and gift them to passers-by.

Whoever gains the most points in their experiences across the board wins! Pace peacefully along the path in this tranquil time for two!

BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY! PRE-ORDER HERE!

BURNCYCLE

Burncycle [Pre-order]

Do androids dream of electric meeple?

A puzzling infiltration game for 1-4 players, burncycle puts you in command of a team of robots in the far future. Their mission: taking down evil, human-run corporations responsible for subjugating AI under their heel. Your team arrives at each corporate headquarters and must sneak inside, shutting down the companies' physical operations as well as their circuitous digital networks. As you search rooms and advance to the higher floors, you'll be rewarded with new items and abilities, but you'll also be challenged by threatening guards, fatal viruses and the architecture itself, which was built to fight off robotic intruders.

Key to this solo and cooperative experience is the idea of “creative action sequencing.” During each round of play, all players will contend with a randomly drawn set of programming directives, which tell them in what order their bots are allowed to take physical, digital and command actions. Players can choose to skip over directives at the cost of having an incomplete turn, or they can disobey the directions by paying costly action dice. The best players, however, find a way to work within the “burncycle”: essentially, organizing their actions so that they benefit the team while staying within the directive order.

Manage your resources and make careful decisions, taking this revolution all the way to the top!

TAKE BACK THE POWER! PRE-ORDER HERE!

CLOUDSPIRE

Soaring strategy!

Cloudspire is a game 1-4 players heavily inspired by MOBAs (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas). Solo and co-op modes make use of a scenario booklet, allowing you to follow the stories of multiple factions!

In this game you will be sending armies towards your opponent, with the goal of stealing their source energy. At the same time, you must develop your towers to fend them off! Perhaps you will find powerful relics to turn the tide of battle! With all this, across four unique factions, you'll have many ways to outplay your rivals!

Taking place in the floating realm of Ankar, Cloudspire tells the story of a war to acquire a powerful and rare energy known only as "the source." Every race has their own unique units and heroes as well as the ability to bid and draft mercenaries for hire. Armies are placed either individually or in stacks to conceal powerful units until the last possible moments. Heroes, in the meantime are controlled individually and may join the tide of battle or choose to explore points of interest in search of numerous resources.

The Gearloc council arent gonna protect themselves!
Protect your home from seven invading Tyrants; the Gearloc council demands it!
Return to the original and award winning dice builder RPG! Draw daily encounters filled with tough decisions and battles as you make your way to the Tyrant’s lair. Discover powerful Loot and Trove Loot to help you on your way. Build your character and unlock new dice to roll as you take down unique Baddies, each with their own special abilities and traits.

Loaded with content for solo and co-op play, Too Many Bones comes with 136 custom dice, beautiful edge-stitched neoprene mats, PVC cards and dozens of high-quality chips. Each of the four Gearlocs come with 21 custom dice, numerous character build options and completely unique gameplay mechanics and skills. This a game you’ll bring back to the table to try something new again and again. This edition of Too Many Bones includes a beautifully designed insert to store and organise all the game component!

Fight against the Tyrants and their unique skills, all in preparation for one, decisive final battle!

TOO MANY BONES: UNDERTOW

More than just the bones of a story.

Join new playable Gearloc characters Stanza and Duster as they journey down the Sibron River in search of answers in this standalone expansion/sequel to Too Many Bones!

Too Many Bones: Undertow allows for 1-2 players out of the box, but by bringing in additional Gearlocs from the original game or adding in characters like Ghillie, Nugget, and Tink, you can create an adventure for up to four players. Undertow features all new baddies, encounters, tyrants, and a double-sided battle mat. Battles take place both on land and on your raft, adding even more variety and brain-bending tactics.

DUNGEON DATE

Dungeon Date [ 10% Pre-order discount ]

High fantasy, higher fashion.

Gear up and put yourself out there! Ever wanted to date an owlbear? Think Orcs are cute? Dungeon Date is a fast playing card game for 2-4 players, wherein you and your adventurous friends grab gear, craft your outfits, and jump headlong into the (sometimes deadly) world of fashion!


Each turn, players choose and reveal action cards, visiting one of four dungeon doors to encounter monsters in the dungeon. Romance, befriend, or slay the monster you encounter by matching the style symbols for that action on the monster card. Plan carefully around the other adventurers in the dungeon -- if you visit the same door, you must fight, comparing fight values from your current action card plus the card you played on the previous turn. Visit the stylomancer to enchant your outfit with additional style symbols and claim a personal style. At the end of the dungeon season, score renown from sets of monsters collected and for in-fashion style symbols in your final outfit. Most renown wins!

FASHIONABLY EARLY? PRE-ORDER HERE!

EVERGREEN

Evergreen [ 10% Pre-order discount ]

Time to see some growth.

In Evergreen, your goal is to build a lush ecosystem by planting seeds, growing trees, and placing other natural elements on your planet, trying to make it the greenest and most fertile of all.

You choose biome cards from a common pool to determine which area of your planet you'll develop in a round. The cards not chosen make those regions more fertile, and thus more valuable. To create a huge forest, you want to grow trees, plant bushes, and place lakes, while using the power of nature to gain extra actions. Ideally you can concentrate your trees in the most fertile areas, but without them overshadowing one another as you also want them to collect as much light as possible.

COMING SOON, PRE-ORDER HERE!

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