Grid Movement

Grid Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: advanced-squad-leader, aeon-trespass-odyssey, amerigo.

Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread is a board game featuring cooperative-game, critical-hits-and-failures, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–240 for 1–4 players with adventure, dice elements.

Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread

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

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 20 for 1 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs

The 7th Citadel is a board game featuring cooperative-game, grid-movement, hand-management. Playtime is around 5–1000 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

The 7th Citadel

Expeditions

Thunder Road: Vendetta is a board game featuring dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution, grid-movement. Playtime is around 45–75 for 2–4 players with dice, fighting elements.

Thunder Road: Vendetta

Voidfall is a board game featuring command-cards, cooperative-game, events. Playtime is around 90–240 for 1–4 players with civilization, economic elements.

Voidfall

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey is a board game featuring command-cards, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with adventure, ancient elements.

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey

Carnegie

Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction board game where players command a ship and attempt to guide it toward various locations. Each player is a member of one of three asymmetric factions, each with its own preferred destination.

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Feed the Kraken

Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introdu

Frosthaven

Guards of Atlantis II is a board game featuring area-movement, campaign-battle-card-driven, communication-limits. Playtime is around 90–120 for 4–10 players with fantasy, miniatures elements.

Guards of Atlantis II

Planet Unknown is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, events, grid-coverage. Playtime is around 60–80 for 1–6 players with city-building, industry-manufacturing elements.

Planet Unknown

Ankh: Gods of Egypt is a board game featuring action-retrieval, alliances, area-majority-influence. Playtime is around 90 for 2–5 players with ancient, fantasy elements.

Ankh: Gods of Egypt

Brazil: Imperial is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, contracts, grid-movement. Playtime is around 100 for 1–4 players with city-building, civilization elements.

Brazil: Imperial

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

Cubitos is a board game featuring catch-the-leader, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with dice, racing elements.

Cubitos

Descent: Legends of the Dark is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Descent: Legends of the Dark

Dominant Species: Marine is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, grid-movement, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 90–150 for 2–4 players with animals, environmental elements.

Dominant Species: Marine

Messina 1347 is a board game featuring grid-movement, income, modular-board. Playtime is around 60–140 for 1–4 players with economic, medical elements.

Messina 1347

Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deduction, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60 for 1–5 players with comic-book-strip, deduction elements.

Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.”

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)

Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy is a board game featuring alliances, area-majority-influence, area-impulse. Playtime is around 60–200 for 2–6 players with civilization, exploration elements.

Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy

Etherfields is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Etherfields

Honey Buzz is a board game featuring action-retrieval, contracts, enclosure. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with animals, economic elements.

Honey Buzz

Project: ELITE is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, elapsed-real-time-ending. Playtime is around 60 for 1–6 players with fighting, miniatures elements.

Project: ELITE

Glen More II: Chronicles is a board game featuring commodity-speculation, grid-movement, market. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with city-building, economic elements.

Glen More II: Chronicles

Last Bastion is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution. Playtime is around 45 for 1–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Last Bastion

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

Betrayal Legacy is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, events. Playtime is around 45–90 for 3–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Betrayal Legacy

Century: Eastern Wonders is a board game featuring contracts, grid-movement, modular-board. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with nautical elements.

Century: Eastern Wonders

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

Scythe is a board game for one to five players designed by Jamey Stegmaier and published by Stonemaier Games in 2016. Set in an alternative history version of 1920s Europe, players control factions that produce resources, develop economic infrastructure, and use dieselpunk combat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe_(board_game)

My Little Scythe

Community Chests, commonly referred to as community trusts, community foundations and united way organizations, are endowment funds pooled from a community for the purpose of charitable giving. The first Community Chest, "Community Fund", was founded in 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio, b

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War Chest

Magic Maze is a board game featuring communication-limits, cooperative-game, elapsed-real-time-ending. Playtime is around 15 for 1–8 players with exploration, fantasy elements.

Magic Maze

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

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

Sub Terra

The Quest for El Dorado is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

The Quest for El Dorado

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

Too Many Bones is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, dice elements.

Too Many Bones

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition is a board game featuring action-drafting, area-impulse, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 240–480 for 3–6 players with civilization, economic elements.

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition

Blood Bowl (2016 Edition) is a board game featuring critical-hits-and-failures, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60–180 for 2 players with collectible-components, fantasy elements.

Blood Bowl (2016 Edition)

Captain Sonar is a strategy board game about submarine warfare designed by Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier, and launched in 2016 by Matagot at Gen Con. Teams of players attempt to locate the map coordinates of the opposing team's submersible, and damage it using their weapons s

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Captain Sonar

Santorini, officially Thira or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of

Santorini

A scythe is an agricultural hand-tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It was historically used to cut down or reap edible grains before they underwent the process of threshing. Horse-drawn and then tractor machinery largely replaced the scythe, but it is still used in some

Scythe

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

Yokohama  is the second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Ka

Yokohama

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.

Karuba may refer to:Karuba, a tile-laying race game
Karuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a village
Karuba, Estonia, a village
Karuba, a brand of coffee sold at Kwik Trip

Karuba

Kingdom Death: Monster is a cooperative board game created by Adam Poots and released in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Death%3A_Monster

Kingdom Death: Monster

Raptor

Specter Ops is a board game featuring dice-rolling, grid-movement, hidden-movement. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with deduction, fighting elements.

Specter Ops

Arcadia Quest is a board game featuring action-retrieval, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Arcadia Quest

Deus is the Latin word for 'god' or 'deity'.
Latin deus and dīvus ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, 'celestial' or 'shining', from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.

Deus

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population over 15 million, it is home to 18% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the largest cities in Europe and in the world by population. It is a ci

Istanbul

Onitama is a strategy board game for two players created in 2014 by Japanese game designer Shimpei Sato and launched by Arcane Wonders. In Germany, the game was launched by Pegasus Games in 2017. It is thematically based on the different fighting styles of Japanese martial arts.

Onitama

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death

Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a board game featuring dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Star Wars: Imperial Assault

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.

Xia: Legends of a Drift System

Amerigo

BattleLore: Second Edition is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, command-cards, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 45–90 for 2 players with fantasy, miniatures elements.

BattleLore: Second Edition

Forbidden Desert is a cooperative board game developed by Matt Leacock and published by Gamewright Games. It is a sequel to the game Forbidden Island. It is also available on mobile.

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

Forbidden Desert

In physics, a quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction. The fundamental notion that a property can be "quantized" is referred to as "the hypothesis of quantization". This means that the magnitude of the physical property can take on only dis

Quantum

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, catch-the-leader, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, card-game elements.

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends

A duke is an aristocrat of very high rank.

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The Duke

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Examples of archipelagos include the Aegean Islands, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockho

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Archipelago

Clash of Cultures is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Clash of Cultures

Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition)

Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, elapsed-real-time-ending. Playtime is around 10 for 1–5 players with action-dexterity, adventure elements.

Escape: The Curse of the Temple

Mage Wars Arena is a customizable strategy card game by Arcane Wonders, and is the first game in the Mage Wars series. In Mage Wars Arena players take the role of powerful and experienced mages fighting in a gladiator style arena duel. Despite being a card game, Mage Wars Arena h

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Mage Wars Arena

Myrmes is a board game featuring grid-coverage, grid-movement, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with animals, environmental elements.

Myrmes

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery is a board game featuring auction-bidding, betting-and-bluffing, bribery. Playtime is around 120–180 for 3–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery

Zombicide, is a collaborative adventure board game with a modern zombie theme, created by Guillotine Games. It was launched on Kickstarter by publisher CoolMiniOrNot and raised $781,597 from 5,258 backers.

Zombicide

Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game

Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy is a strategy board game produced by Lautapelit.fi. It was designed by Touko Tahkokallio and first released in 2011. The game currently has three expansions – Rise of the Ancients, released in 2012, Ship Pack One, released in 2013 and Shadow of th

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Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy

Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a thematic cooperative board game designed by Kevin Lanzing with the help of firefighters that was released in November 2011. The objective is for players to work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building before it collapses. Since

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Flash Point: Fire Rescue

Kingdom Builder is a strategy board game designed by Donald X. Vaccarino, published in 2011 by Queen Games with illustrations by Oliver Schlemmer in German, British and international versions.

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

Kingdom Builder

Mage Knight Board Game is a board game for 1 to 4 players designed by Vlaada Chvátil and released in November 2011. The game can be played solitaire, competitively, or cooperatively. It is based on the related collectable miniatures game, Mage Knight. It has been rated as one of

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Mage Knight Board Game

Space Empires 4X is a 4X science fiction board wargame developed by Jim Krohn and published by GMT Games in 2011. It has received three expansions: Close Encounters (2012), Replicators (2018), and All Good Things (2025).

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Space Empires 4X

Summoner Wars: Master Set is a board game featuring deck-construction, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Summoner Wars: Master Set

Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis. They are used as vegetables in numerous Asian dishes and broths. They are sold in various processed shapes and are available in fresh, dried, and cann

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Takenoko

Commands & Colors: Napoleonics is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, command-cards, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90 for 2 players with napoleonic, wargame elements.

Commands & Colors: Napoleonics

Dominant species may mean:Dominant species (ecology), one of a small number of species which dominate in an ecological community
 Dominant Species (novel) by Michael E. Marks
Dominant Species 
Dominant Species 
 Dominant Species (album), an album by New Zealand singer King Kapisi

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Dominant Species

Earth Reborn is a board game featuring action-points, auction-sealed-bid, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 180 for 2–4 players with adventure, bluffing elements.

Earth Reborn

Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco is d

Fresco

Runewars is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, auction-bidding, grid-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Runewars

Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game is a 2010 board game created by Kevin Wilson based on the Sid Meier's Civilization series of video games and published by Fantasy Flight Games. While the previous board game based on Sid Meier's Civilization, published by Eagle Games in 20

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Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game

Claustrophobia is a fear or anxiety of confined spaces. It is triggered by many situations or stimuli, including elevators, especially when crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and hotel rooms with closed doors and sealed windows. Even bedrooms with a lock on the outside, small

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Claustrophobia

Space Hulk (Third Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60 for 2 players with fighting, miniatures elements.

Grid Movement

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