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Massive Darkness is a dungeon crawl that is fully cooperative, meaning you don't need a dungeon master to control the game, it is handled through the AI on the cards for each enemy. Unlike other dungeon crawlers, the enemies form mobs, these act like large enemies which get weaker as you kill off individual monsters in the mob. The other thing that makes Massive Darkness unique is the class system. Each hero class works slightly differently with their own mini game that chang

Sea Salt & Paper is a set collection game with a push your luck element where every card in the game depicts a sea creature made of photographed origami. The game is pretty simple, once you wrap your head around it's weird structure and scoring. But the esoteric gameplay can be a barrier to entry for new players and unseasoned gamers

In Paleo you control a group of humans in the paleolithic era. You begin the game by combining two decks of scenario cards with a base deck to form the scenario deck. This will give you a set of goals for surviving. You win by achieving certain milestones, which are mark by adding to your cave painting. You lose by gaining too many skull through tragedy such as losing members of your tribe.

In Roll Camera you take on the roles of the production crew putting together a movie. On your turn you roll 6 dice which become your workers. They can perform actions on your own player board or on the main board. Actions such as building set or solving problems, or shooting a scene. Over the course of the game you must shoot 5 scenes before you run out of time or money. Then at the end of of the game the quality of your movie must be either "Not Bad" or higher or... "So bad

Marvel United is a simple boss battler where players take on the roles of Marvel Heroes fighting a supervillain. The primary hook is how your turn affects the next player, with you paying forward any actions you took to the next player. Each Hero has a different mix of actions and special abilities and each villain plays differently than any that came before it, with some even altering the very basic structure of the game itself.

In Deception Murder in Hong Kong players are creating a narrative together about a murder. One player is the Murderer, one player is the Forensic Scientist and eveyone else is Investigators. Each player has 4 means cards and 4 clue cards in front of them and the Murderer secretly points to one of each while only the Forensic Scientist is watching. Then the players try and work out who the murder is and how they did the murdering.

Runebound is an overland fantasy adventure, You play as characters in the Terrinoth universe attempting to defeat some big bad, while competing with your fellow heroes to be the best at it. You'll have random encounters, go on quests and fight monsters or even each other as you explore the lands around Tamalir.

Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is a surprisingly competent dungeon crawlers and an even more competent campaign game. Based on the characters from the very long lived card game Red Dragon Inn, which is basically a munchkin-esque, beer and pretzels D&D spoof, Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is so much more than what the source material would make you think.

In Canvas players collect and layer clear cards on top of one another in order to create new works of art, while attempting to meet scoring conditions for points.

Detective Club uses the art cards in a hidden traitor style game, similar to Spyfall, where all the players know the clue word except one, The Conspirator, and the players need to work out who doesn't know. The clue giver puts out a picture and then writes a secret word that relates to their chosen image in all of the notebooks bar 1. These are dealt out to the players secretly. Each player looks at their notebook and must play a card they think matches the clue word, includi

What better way to kick off the festive season than a deep dive into the future to root out crime and corruption? The Millennium series of games set in the Chronicles of Crime system follow a series of crimes across time starting in Paris in the 15th Century and culminating in 25th Century.