A clever deckbuilder which uses a unique puzzly system of combining cards to optimise your turn.

After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins, they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points, attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.

2083. Humankind died out decades ago, leaving behind mere vestiges of its time on Earth. As time went by, nature reclaimed land all over. In this resurgent world, apes have kept evolving. They've been gathering in tribes, growing, mastering human items, and advancing in their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe, you need to guide it towards collective intelligence.

To win a game of After Us, you must reach 80 victory points before your opponents do. On each turn, players simultaneously draw the 4 top cards of their decks and combine them in front of them in order to form small boxes to activate. They can then activate each box, from left to right, to collect resources, gain victory points and trigger their apes’ special abilities. The core of the game lies in making the wisest combinations to obtain what you need at a given time, depending on the cards you drew. Once the activation phase is over, players can add an ape to their tribe: a chimpanzee, a gorilla, a mandrill or an orangutan. The choice depends both on the currently available resources and the sought monkey’s ability.

The latest game in the Cartaventura line sees you play a young French woman in occupied France. Join the resistance, and fight back against oppression.

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

The premise behind CDSK is simple. You need to answer a question on a topic, but as a team you decide how much you think you know about that topic. Choose between 1-10 to get a unique question based on that difficulty level. If you get it right, you move that many spaces up the board.

Too confident? You won’t go anywhere. Too careful? You’ll be crawling. But if you answer just right… you’ll zoom off to glorious victory!

Experiencing nearly a decade of critical acclaim and best seller status in France (as TTMC), CDSK localises the game and brings it to the UK.

Tonight, the queen holds a banquet that everyone will attend. Will they leave a good impression? Backstabbing is fair game, and no trick is too dirty if it allows you to place your favourite families in the spotlight.

In Courtisans, you receive and play three cards on each of your turns. One is played at the Queen's table to sway a family's influence, whether in a positive or negative manner. 

The two other cards are played in your domain and in an opponent's domain, and they can be worth positive or negative points, depending on their family's status at the end of the game. Choose where best to place your three cards if you want to end up with the most points and win.

In the Cyclades archipelago, off the shores of a divided Greece, players develop their cities and compete for supremacy under the watchful gaze of the gods.

In Cyclades: Legendary Edition, designers Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc have reworked the Cyclades base game and its many expansions to make gameplay more dynamic and fluid.

The game features a strategic bidding system that defines the actions available to each player on their turn. You must balance your finances to optimise the various actions provided by the different gods, with each player gaining the support of only one god each turn. The game features a shorter and more dynamic bidding phase than the original Cyclades thanks to a new exponential bidding scale. Six gods are available instead of the five, increasing the variety of actions available:

• Ares allows the movement of player armies and the building of fortresses.
• Poseidon allows players to move their navies and build ports.
• Zeus allows his followers to hire priests and build temples.
• Athena provides her worshipers with philosophers and universities.
• Apollo increases the income of his worshipers.
• Hera provides mercenaries to enforce your troops during battle.

Players now use landscape tiles to assemble the modular game board during set-up, allowing for ever-changing maps and game strategies. New creatures and heroes are available in the base game, offering new strategic opportunities to build metropolises and gain decisive advantages on the battlefield. Your goal is to be the first to control three metropolises, which can be obtained as follows:

• Economic development, by constructing four different buildings.
• Intellectual development, by owning four philosophers.
• Heroic deeds, when sacrificing a hero.
• Military conquest, when seizing an enemy city by strength.

Cyclades: Legendary Edition features three game configurations:

"Classic" mode for 3-5 players in which each player defends their own interests.

"Team" mode for 4 or 6 players in which you play in teams of two, co-operating with one another and competing against others.

An enhanced and refined two-player mode.

Around – 15,000 BC. AD, your clan lives in Doggerland, a vast fertile land now covered by the English Channel and part of the North Sea.

Your goal is to survive and develop in the face of the harsh seasons thanks to the resources discovered during your expeditions and the tools you will make.

Unfortunately, the harvested resources will run out and your village will have to migrate to more favourable regions. In each game, the territory is different thanks to a system of tiles revealed randomly throughout your explorations.

If you manage to produce enough animal skin clothing to protect you from the cold, feed your clan through hunting and gathering, make enough tools to help you, develop your travel and transportation skills resources, then you can devote time to increasing your population, developing your village, devoting yourself to Art, making small decorative objects and erecting megaliths to celebrate your gods.

It's up to you to do your best, so that your clan is the one that will leave the biggest mark in history!

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

Cooperate and frantically search treasure of the Sleeping Dragon!

You are a group of adventurers, searching for objects hidden within the treasure of a golden dragon. Each round, players will need to work together to find the objects they need. The dragon's slumber is disturbed by every mistake you make or objects you forget! Loot the treasure for 3 rounds without waking him up, and you win the game! Be careful though, because if you make too many mistakes, the dragon will wake up... and he's always hungry after his nap!

The latest edition of a classic from legendary game designer, Wolfgang Kramer. Welcome to Expeditions: Around The World.

Embark on an adventurous race around the world in Expeditions: Around the World! Discover extraordinary destinations, immerse yourself in new cultures, encounter exotic wildlife, and marvel at stunning landscapes!

Three expeditions depart from Northern Europe, engaging every player in each thrilling journey. With secret destinations in mind, players aim to influence expeditions, reaching as many as possible to shape courses and score victory points. Experience detailed, stunning artwork, and fascinating facts on each location card.

Get ready for a tabletop journey, where every location card is a ticket to explore the world. Let the wonders of travel unfold in the palm of your hands with Expeditions!

One of the most hyped releases of 2024. A classic tableau builder card game with a unique scoring system.

A fast game for 2 to 6 players, with an original and climactic reverse-scoring mechanism. The game scales very well to all player counts, and provides speedy play but with crunchy decisions.

Create a tableau of 8 cards, from left to right. Each card can help previous ones score, and is in itself an opportunity to score later. You'll need careful planning to play your cards effectively, but remember they will be scored in the opposite order you played them.

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Welcome to Alula, a mysterious continent with ever-changing geography, shaped after the rhythm of the seasons. Roam across the land in search of its secrets, meet its inhabitants and list its wonders in order to gain more fame than your opponents.

Throughout a game of Faraway, you will play a row of 8 cards in front of you, from left to right. These cards represent the regions you will come across while exploring the lands. Characters on these cards will grant you victory points if you later fulfil the conditions they demand. At the end of the game, you walk back the same way, scoring cards in the opposite order you played them. There lies the heart of the gameplay. Throughout the game, the cards you play will serve both to set new objectives, and to meet the ones you played previously.

Each turn, you play a card from a hand of 3. Then you pick a new card from a face-up river. As play is simultaneous in Faraway, you must take into account a clever priority system in all of your choices – being last to pick a card leaves you with fewer options and often less profitable choices for the next turns.

Communicate… without a word. A cooperative deduction game for 2 players with 168 illustrations, 3 game modes and aimed at beginners as well as experts.

Both players must guess their partner's secret picture among a grid of many illustrations while giving clues about their own secret picture.

During each turn, back and forth, a player must pick and remove from the grid a picture they think is not their partner's secret image. Ideally, the chosen card should give their teammate a clue about their own card.

If at any point, a player removes their partner's secret card, the game is lost.

In From the Moon, players are representatives of factions trying to complete missions departing from our Moon in order to help humankind survive elsewhere in the galaxy. Indeed, the fate of the Earth is sealed, and time is running out!

The plan is to launch three survival missions before all life on Earth ends. To do that, each faction will contribute by building parts of the ships and build their own lunar base to store the necessary resources.

In the end, which faction will be most suited to lead the future of our race out there, far away in space?

The brand new Big Box edition includes Hellapagos and its expansion, They're No Longer Alone.

After your boat was shipwrecked, your group of survivors has found themselves on a deserted island where water and food are very scarce. The only way to escape this nightmare is to work together to build a big raft, but time is short as a hurricane is coming which threatens to wipe you out! Each turn the castaways must choose one of four actions: catch fish, collect water, gather firewood or search the shipwreck. Team up to survive, but there’s not enough for everyone: be prepared to sacrifice your companions in case of shortage! You have to be as treacherous as you are diplomatic to secure a place on your last chance to escape!

They're No Longer Alone expansion:

By exploring their island, the castaways of Hellapagos have made a discovery that will change everything! There are other marooned voyagers here that have already established themselves, and apparently for quite a few years, because they seem to have forgotten the basic moral code of a civilized life!

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

Iki Akebono does what any great expansion should do – takes the base game and builds clever systems into it that don't disrupt the previous flow of the game, but will add to seasoned players' experiences.

IKI: Akebono introduces a new location to discover in Edo: the bridge of Nihonbashi, which expands the main street and offers players new opportunities. Players can stop at the bridge to meet famous personalities from the Edo era (like Hokusai Katsushika, Sanyo Rai or Tokunai Mogami) and to trade with the ships (built by the players) in the river.

The Akebono expansion also adds new character cards, building cards, and new pipe, tobacco, and fish tokens for more strategic depth and decision making.

The brand new edition of the classic drawing game, Kontour.

You try to get the other players guess a word by drawing a picture, but it’s not so easy: You only get 30 seconds and 15 pencil strokes!

Tap into your imagination and sense of minimalism to win!

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

KRONOLOGIC Paris 1920 is the first part of a series. KRONOLOGIC contains 3 puzzles, each with 5 different solutions at increasingly complex difficulty levels. That's enough to do a good fifteen different games.

KRONOLOGIC Paris 1920 takes place at the Paris Opera at the beginning of the 20th century. But everything does not go as planned and events take place. This is how, for example, a person was poisoned and died in the night. But who is responsible?

All players will investigate, but the first to discover the solution will be the winner. it will then be necessary to look for clues to define who the accused is and where he committed his misdeed. But in KRONOLOGIC , we also add the temporal dimension, that is to say that we must also know when the crime took place.

KRONOLOGIC therefore presents itself as a modern Cluedo where you have to find the “who”, the “where” but also the “when”! Each turn, a player will give public information and receive private information depending on the location, the character questioned and/or when!

Everyone will carry out their investigation secretly by taking notes. Enough to make the neurons smoke! It must be said that the game is by Yoann Levet and Fabien Gridel, well known for their deduction and logic games (Turing Machine).

The investigator who has the solution first will be the winner.

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

In Line-it, you build an ascending or descending line of numbered cards to score points. Will you play safe and bank the points to start a new line, or will you keep trying to add to the line to claim a jackpot?

The deck consists of cards in four colours numbered 1-100 and six "Bet" cards numbered 3-5. Shuffle the deck, then lay out cards in the market equal to two more than the number of players. Starting with the first player, each player must pick a card, then either start a line/add it to their line or place it in their hand. Your maximum hand size is two, and if you can't add the card to your hand or your line (because it would break the ascending/descending pattern), you must score your line, and then play that card to start a new line. You can add one Bet card to your line without regard for its ascending/descending status or the value of your end card.

After drafting a card, you may choose to play one card from your hand into your line, then you may choose to score your line. When you score, if you have a Bet card in the line, see whether you've added a number of cards to your line after the bet that at least equals the value of the Bet; if so, take a positive number token equal to the Bet card, and if not, flip that token to its negative side instead. Next, discard three cards from the line, then flip all the remaining cards face down and place them in your scoring pile.

After everyone has drafted (and optionally played and scored), discard unchosen Bet cards, then place unchosen number cards under the jackpot token that matches their colour: yellow under the star, green under the leaf, etc. If during your turn, you add the third card of a colour to your line, you immediately claim the cards under the matching jackpot token and place them in your scoring pile.

When you can't lay out enough cards, each player in turn plays one card from their hand, then scores their line and tallies their points. You earn 1 point for each scored card, then gain/lose points from the Bet tokens you collected. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

In Looot, you need to gather resources and capture buildings to develop your fjord. Fill your longships and complete your construction sites in order to rack up your victory points. Store up the most riches, and you’ll be crowned Jarl of the Vikings!

A wonderful combo of area control and tile placement. Balance your adventures across the main board, and use what you loot on your tile placement board.

You are the head of a fiefdom and its future is in your hands. Will you develop agriculture with fields and mills? Or will you become a pious church-builder or prefer to feast in your sumptuous palaces? Develop your lands in your image and become the most influential lord in the kingdom.

Explore the essence of medieval urban life through 8 distinct tiles: fields, farms, villages, forts, markets, barracks, churches, and palaces. Each tile features its own scoring system yet linked to others, offering a rich and immersive gaming experience. Unleash strategic manoeuvres, from daring assaults on rival fiefdoms to reserving tiles for future use. Harness the power of tactical combinations to amplify your income and pave your way to triumph!

Miller Zoo is an introduction to cooperative gaming, legacy gaming systems, and resource management games.

Miller Zoo is THE cooperative family game where you play as the team in charge of running one of Canada’s most interesting zoos!

Your job is to work together to take care of your zoo’s animals, and to welcome new ones to their new home. Like a team, everyone plays together at the same time to overcome challenges, unexpected situations, and crises.

Play as the real Miller Zoo team and meet all the animal's needs before the card stack is empty.

A game follows 4 steps in order: dawn, morning, afternoon, and evening.

- At dawn, each teammate draws a hand of 4 resource cards.
- In the morning, each teammate draws a need card and places problem tokens on the animals according to the cards.
- In the afternoon, all teammates are free to play their cards in any order.
- In the evening, the team will have to manage crises according to the problems that could not be solved during the afternoon.

The game contains 6 envelopes to discover, with new animals, new challenges to make the game evolve.

A brand new reimplementation of Zuuli, published by Oink!

The fierce and friendly pick and pass card game.

Collect enclosures, rescue animals and install upgrades over 3 years and build the highest scoring wildlife park you can in this fast paced card game. Don't let the cutesy looks fool you into thinking this is going to be easy though! Can you keep the Lions away from the Anteaters on the Savannah plains? Are your sloths lonely or living a happy life on an Open-Air island? Your Zuuli adventure awaits!

My Puzzle Aventure is the puzzle that tells stories.

It is a collection of puzzles in which children live exciting adventures. They look for the pieces to turn over one by one and discover an incredible story while putting the puzzle together. Will you be able to find the Dragon?

My Puzzle Adventure is the revival of a classic: the jigsaw puzzle. Complete the puzzle then, once the 42 pieces are placed, remove them in order and discover the story by turning them over. Each new piece provides the clue to find the next one.

Along the way, plenty of obstacles and puzzles will spice up your adventure and turn puzzle storage into a host of epic stories.

You can choose from our three familiar heroes:

Lina the brawler

Timon the Wizard

Sachat the thief

In Nekojima, “The Island of Cats” in Japan, an electricity network is developing to supply the various lively districts of the island. The installation of electric poles becomes more complex due to the narrowness of the territory and its curious population of cats strolling on the cables.

Nekojima is a wooden game of skill and dexterity in which you will have to keep an entire installation in balance. Players must take turns placing or stacking Denchuu 電柱 (Electrical Poles) respecting the locations without any hanging cables touching. But be careful not to be the one to bring down the structure. This game requires reflection, concentration and skill.

In competition mode, the player who knocks down the structure loses.

In cooperation mode, the goal is to go as far as possible.

Available through Hachette Boardgames UK.

In this magnificient limited edition of Quoridor, choose to play as PAC-MAN or one of the 4 ghosts. Two game modes are available: Choose to play Quoridor the classic way by taking on the maze challenge, or try out a variant that will let you recapture the feel of the famous PAC-MAN video game!

A permanent base is being built in the Shackleton crater at the Moon's South Pole. You're leading one of the space agencies that are working together to expand their presence on the base, while at the same time the three major corporations sponsoring the mission are each pursuing their own agenda. In Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, you will build structures on the base, while also funding projects from the corporations that provide special abilities and scoring opportunities.

Arrange your grid to score as few points as possible !

In Slide, you need to arrange the numbered cards, aiming to score as few points as possible. But watch out, you’ll need to keep an eye on your opponents and one step ahead to win the game!

Available via Hachette Boardgames UK.

A tense and nail-biting area control game set in a dystopian future vision of Paris.

- Rich and dark graphic choices, inspired by the indie film of the same name

- Territory control enriched with the Agents' special powers

- Constant balance betwen profit and risk with the Corruption and Necro rebels mechanics

 To become the master of Neo-Paris, send your Executives on missions in the different districts. Develop Verses, build servers hire Agents to get their hands dirty in your stead, and try not to get caught by Interpol who will hunt down the most corrupt!

Neo-Paris, 2047. Humankind escapes reality by moving into virtual universes called "Verses" developed by powerful large corporations whose main aim is to increase their market share...

The highly critically acclaimed 2nd edition of the award-winning classic, Zhanguo.

In each of the five rounds of the game, you’ll have to go along with the Emperor’s plans by hiring workers to build magnificent Palaces and contribute to the realisation of the Great Wall. You will install Governors, with the support of Officers, in the various regions to consolidate control. You will send a ship in search of the elixir of long life so desired by the Emperor. 

With this, you will earn a place for your family’s insignia in the immense Terracotta Army that is destined to watch over the Emperor’s Mausoleum for eternity. To help you in this challenging task, 6 cards will be at your disposal every round. These cards represent the will of unification from the Emperor in the form of currency, writings, and laws. They will give you permanent support during the rest of the game or you can play them directly to the Emperor’s Court to obtain approval for your actions.

When you are in the presence of the Emperor at his Court, you will have to know how to approach or move away appropriately, because only at the right distance can you obtain the emperor’s approval.

At the end of the game, the player who made the greatest contribution to the Emperor’s cause by scoring the most Victory Points will win.