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Burger Up is a card matching puzzle game about the art of burger making. Fill orders, earn prestige and be the best burger chef around! Players strive to become the most prestigious restaurant by building the biggest Burgers and by using the best ingredients. Players take turns, which consist of four phases: the Market phase where players may purchase ingredients from the market, the Building phase where players place up to 3 ingredients on their burgers, the Burger Up! phase where players may score their burgers if they satisfy an order and the clean-up phase where players draw back up to 4 cards. The game ends when no more Order cards can be revealed. A bonus is awarded to the Chef who built the most burgers and then the winner is determined, based on who has earned the most coins.

In Mandala Stones, you use artists to collect colorful stones in towers that you then score.

When daylight began to recede from the earth, people wondered how life would go on. When the creatures of the night openly claimed the world as their own, people wondered if life would go on Nightfall is an intense, competitive deck-building game, where players marshal the creatures of the night and those humans who combat them. Each player strives to seize the power to rule. Draft your cards wisely, chain together your combinations, destroy your opponents’ minions, and conquer. Nightfall is unlike any deck building game you’ve played.Choose your minions and control the eternal night.

Ohanami - the beauty of flowers. Create gardens and round for round, decide which objects and plants are suitable. After all, only the correct configuration can turn everything into one harmonic whole. Ohanami may be an easy game to play, but it is one full of tricky decisions.

You are movie producers in a failing film production company. You have one last chance to make a successful film - otherwise the company will collapse and you’ll never work in this town again! You have to use the resources at your disposal to produce this film on time and under budget, ensure it’s a high enough quality, and make some sense of the resulting story. No time to waste - roll camera! Roll Camera! is a cooperative or solo dice worker placement game of resource management and a central geometric puzzle representing your shooting arrangement. You throw the custom D6 Crew dice, each face representing a different production department (camera, light, sound, actor, production design, visual effects) and assign them to actions, either on the main board or on your individual player boards. Your player board features a specific head of department (Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Production Designer or The Star) and contains unique action spaces that can be used on your turn. Place the Crew in specific arrangements matching those on the Shot cards, resolve the constant Problems getting in your way, and hold production meetings to play Idea cards from your hand to help out. Everything costs time and money, and you lose if either one runs out. You must also ensure your film reaches a certain level of Quality in order to win! At the game's end, you'll have a unique sequence of completed Shot cards which you can "premiere" using the story cues -- it's the filmmaking game that results in a "real" movie!

In Welcome To, players are American architects in the 50s during the Baby Boom. But beware of the competition! Who will best accomplish the city’s plans by creating the nicest housing estates in the three streets they’ve been assigned? Will your luxurious parks and fancy pools be enough to earn you title of Best Architect? Welcome To is a game where everyone plays at the same time with the same cards. It’s all about cleverly combining the house numbers with their associated effects in order to become the greatest architect of tomorrow !

Welcome to the Moon is the last episode of the Welcome to... trilogy of games. After the residential housing estates of the 1950s, after the casinos of the 1960s, you will aim to conquer space... Welcome to the Moon is an evolving and narrative flip & write game. It contains 8 different Adventures that form a complete story with an increasing difficulty level. You can play these 8 Adventures independently, or successively to play out your story.

Nightfall: The Coldest War is a stand alone expansion to the competitive deck building game Nightfall. The coldest war brings you a complete all new set of cards with special powers, and features a full set of 6 exciting new starting minions. The coldest war also introduces Moon Phase cards that change the game globally and includes new fully illustrated Wounds cards. Features: 30 all new cards, which includes 6 new starter minions. Moon Phases add new global effects that alter your game play. Playable stand alone or combine with other Nightfall sets for increased strategy. More amazing art that illustrates the dark world of Nightfall.

The expansion to the cooperative building game Menara has it all: Spectacular temple floors, golden pillars... and even the tears of the gods try to keep players from shared success. The playing crew always faces a scenario of your own choice. As in the base game Menara, the temple builders get information and advice from their fellow players before each turn. Building plank cards give v12 tear stones, or in which way temple floors have to be filled with columns. The new rituals introduce players to new challenges to encounter with wise cooperation, static sophistication and quiet hands.

Congrats, filmmaker! Your career is finally finding its footing, thanks to your determination, luck, and more than a few questionable scripts. While other filmmakers burden themselves with “important” movies that have “big” budgets and are “good,” YOU are wisely blazing a trail in the opposite direction: the B-Movie! Yes, the B-movie - low on budget, but high on thrills, chills, and bloody spills. This may not be the glamorous side of Hollywood but if you roll your dice right, it could still be profitable! This time around, you'll have access to new roles and specialized equipment to help you get the job done. But your responsibility to produce a watchable film is as demanding as ever! Your movies now have unique genre requirements: crime, fantasy, horror, sci-fi, western -- or some kind of mixed-up genre soup combination. The whole thing is causing more disorganization and chaos than ever before... There's even less time to waste - Roll Camera!!