Action Points

Action Points is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: a-feast-for-odin, above-and-below, altiplano.

Galactic Cruise is a board game featuring action-points, connections, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 90–150 for 1–4 players with aviation-flight, economic elements.

Galactic Cruise

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–5 players with fantasy, novel-based elements.

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

Endeavor: Deep Sea is a board game featuring action-points, action-retrieval, chaining. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with environmental, exploration elements.

Endeavor: Deep Sea

Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60 for 1–6 players with comic-book-strip, fighting elements.

Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60–600 for 1–4 players with adventure, aviation-flight elements.

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

Stationfall is an interactive fiction game written by Steve Meretzky and released by Infocom in 1987. It was published for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game is a sequel to Planetfall, one of Infocom's most popula

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Stationfall

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze is a board game featuring action-points, campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 20–60 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze

Wonders of the World are lists compiled over the ages that catalogue remarkable natural and man-made constructions.

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World Wonders

Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60 for 1–6 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 30–90 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, deck-construction. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2 players with adventure, bluffing elements.

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American CGI animated television series created by George Lucas and produced by Lucasfilm Animation. Set between Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), it follows Jedi Knights An

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Tiletum is a board game featuring action-drafting, action-points, contracts. Playtime is around 60–100 for 1–4 players with renaissance elements.

Tiletum

Weather Machine is a lumino kinetic bronze sculpture and columnar machine that serves as a weather beacon, displaying a weather prediction each day at noon. Designed and constructed by Omen Design Group Inc., the approximately 30-foot-tall (9 m) sculpture was installed in 1988 in

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Weather Machine

Arkham Horror: The Card Game – Revised Core Set is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, communication-limits. Playtime is around 45–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Arkham Horror: The Card Game – Revised Core Set

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition

Imperial Steam is a board game featuring action-points, contracts, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 120 for 2–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Imperial Steam

Kemet: Blood and Sand is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 2–5 players with ancient, fighting elements.

Kemet: Blood and Sand

Traditionally, an oath is a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who object to making sacred oaths is to give an affirmation instead. Nowadays, even when there is no notion of sanctity involved, certain promi

Oath

Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition is a board game featuring action-points, increase-value-of-unchosen-resources, market. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with pike-and-shot, religious elements.

Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition

Radlands may refer to:Radlands (album), 2012 album by Mystery Jets
Radlands (game), 2021 board game by Daniel Piechnick
Radlands (skatepark), skatepark in Northampton, England

Radlands

Sleeping Gods is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, events. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Sleeping Gods

Summoner Wars (Second Edition) is a tactical card game designed by Colby Dauch and Plaid Hat Games which iterates on the 2009 title of the same name. In Summoner Wars, players aim to eliminate the opponent's summoner using factions by moving units and deck building. It was physic

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Summoner Wars (Second Edition)

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two

Zombicide: 2nd Edition is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60 for 1–6 players with fighting, horror elements.

Zombicide: 2nd Edition

The Hallertau or Holledau is an area in Bavaria, Germany. With an area of 178 km2, it is listed as the largest continuous hop-planting area in the world. According to the International Hop Growing Convention, Germany produces roughly one third of the world's hops, over 80% of whi

Hallertau

Kanban EV is a board game featuring action-points, hand-management, variable-phase-order. Playtime is around 60–180 for 1–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Kanban EV

Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country of England.

Moonrakers

Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, hand-management. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2–4 players with medical, spies-secret-agents elements.

Pandemic Legacy: Season 0

2XKO is an upcoming free-to-play fighting game developed by Riot Games, set in the Runeterra universe from League of Legends. It is scheduled to be released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.

Project L

The Search for Planet X is a board game featuring action-points, deduction, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 60–75 for 1–4 players with deduction, puzzle elements.

The Search for Planet X

Unmatched: Cobble & Fog is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Cobble & Fog

Unmatched: Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2 players with animals, card-game elements.

Unmatched: Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors

Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf

Eric M. Lang is a Canadian game designer. He began his career as a playtester for FASA before publishing his first game, Mystick independently in 2000. He has since worked with publishers Fantasy Flight Games, WizKids and CMON, among others. He is the recipient of the 2016 Diana

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Cthulhu: Death May Die

Detective: City of Angels is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 30–150 for 1–5 players with murder-mystery elements.

Detective: City of Angels

Horrified is the only studio album by American grindcore band Repulsion. The album was recorded for US$300 at the basement studio of engineer Larry Hennessy over the course of three to four days in June 1986. Horrified features fast songs combining elements of thrash metal, death

Horrified

Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1 is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1

Pax Pamir: Second Edition is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 45–120 for 1–5 players with economic, educational elements.

Pax Pamir: Second Edition

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, campaign-battle-card-driven. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth

Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula is a board game featuring action-points, contracts, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with dice elements.

Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One

Unmatched Game System is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched Game System

Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot

Cerebria: The Inside World is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with fantasy elements.

Cerebria: The Inside World

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 40–60 for 2–4 players with medieval, territory-building elements.

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done

Dice Hospital is a board game featuring action-drafting, action-points, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with dice, medical elements.

Dice Hospital

The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided among several su

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire

Fall of Rome

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea is a 2018 fantasy-themed 4X area control board game published by Gamelyn Games and designed by Scott Almes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_Land%2C_Air_%26_Sea

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the surface of the soil, but roots can also b

Root

Western Legends is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, betting-and-bluffing. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–6 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Western Legends

Yellow & Yangtze is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, hand-management. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Yellow & Yangtze

The Altiplano, Collao or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes. The bulk of the Altiplano lies in Bolivia, but its north

Altiplano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Island

Dinosaur Island

Gentes may refer to:Gens, in Ancient Rome, a family of those sharing the same nomen and a common ancestor
Gens (behaviour), in animal behavior, a host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species
Ad gentes, a decree by the Second Vatican Council

Gentes

Nemo's War (Second Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Nemo's War (Second Edition)

Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, hand-management. Playtime is around 60 for 2–4 players with environmental, exploration elements.

Pandemic Legacy: Season 2

Pandemic: Rising Tide is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 45 for 2–5 players with environmental elements.

Pandemic: Rising Tide

Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photopigment-bearing autotrophic organisms, such as most plants, algae and cyanobacteria, convert light energy — typically from sunlight — into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism. The term photosynthe

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Photosynthesis

Inside The Box Board Games LLP is a defunct British tabletop game publishers formerly based in London, UK.

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Sub Terra

Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a genre of literature characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Elements of romance, magic, and the supernatural are also often present. Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramati

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Sword & Sorcery

This War of Mine: The Board Game is a 2017 Polish cooperative board game published by Awaken Realms, designed by Michal Oracz and Jakub Wiśniewski as an adaptation of the video game This War of Mine. It has been noted for its bleak, unforgiving gameplay, often forcing players int

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This War of Mine: The Board Game

A Feast for Odin is a Euro-style game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game focused on placement of irregular cardboard polyominoes into boards owned by each player. The polyominoes are between 2 and 12 square units large, with art depicting various Viking-theme

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A Feast for Odin

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative living card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games since 2016. It is set in the universe of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game which is itself based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft and other cosmic horror writers. Th

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Arkham Horror: The Card Game

The Schwarze Kapelle was a term used by the Gestapo to refer to a group of conspirators in Nazi Germany, including many senior officers in the Wehrmacht, who plotted to overthrow Adolf Hitler. Unlike the Rote Kapelle, the name given by the Gestapo to the Soviet spy network in the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarze_Kapelle

Black Orchestra

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure is a board game featuring action-points, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Conan

Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, campaign-battle-card-driven, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–5 players with fantasy, horror elements.

Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition)

Dead of Winter: The Long Night is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with bluffing, deduction elements.

Dead of Winter: The Long Night

Evolution: Climate is a board game featuring action-points, events, hand-management. Playtime is around 60 for 2–6 players with animals, card-game elements.

Evolution: Climate

The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe. Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the ti

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Iberia

Pax Renaissance is a board game featuring action-points, auction-dutch, increase-value-of-unchosen-resources. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with educational, pike-and-shot elements.

Pax Renaissance

Reign of Cthulhu is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, hand-management. Playtime is around 40 for 2–4 players with horror, novel-based elements.

Reign of Cthulhu

Star Trek: Ascendancy is a grand strategy game set in the Star Trek universe. it is published by Gale Force Nine.

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Star Trek: Ascendancy

Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield, or simply Benny, is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. The New Adventures were authorised

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Summerfield

The Oracle of Delphi

Vast: The Crystal Caverns is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Vast: The Crystal Caverns

Above and Below is an installation by American artist Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is on display at and owned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The artwork was inspired by undergrou

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Above and Below

Blood Rage is a 1987 American slasher film directed by John Grissmer, written by Bruce Rubin, and starring Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, and Julie Gordon. Set on Thanksgiving, the film follows a woman and her adult son who are stalked at their remote apartment community by the son's

Blood Rage

Burgle Bros is a series of cooperative board games designed and self-published by Tim Fowers for up to four players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgle_Bros

Burgle Bros.

Cthulhu Wars is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Cthulhu Wars

Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, hand-management. Playtime is around 60 for 2–4 players with environmental, medical elements.

Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

Raptor

Runebound (Third Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 120–180 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Runebound (Third Edition)

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, inc

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Shakespeare

Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization is a board game for 2–4 players designed by Vlaada Chvatil and published by Czech Board Games in 2006. Its theme is the development of human civilization and the players determine the progress of their own civilization in different fields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Ages%3A_A_Story_of_Civilization

Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

Trickerion: Legends of Illusion is a board game featuring action-points, action-queue, catch-the-leader. Playtime is around 60–180 for 2–4 players with post-napoleonic elements.

Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with bluffing, deduction elements.

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as genetic drift and natural selection act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less c

Evolution

Kanban: Driver's Edition is a board game featuring action-points, commodity-speculation, variable-phase-order. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Kanban: Driver's Edition

Xia: Legends of a Drift System is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60–180 for 3–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

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