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In Granada, on the hill of al-Sabika, the Nasrid dynasty (1232-1492) built one of the most impressive buildings in history, the Alhambra. This monumental complex houses the best preserved palaces of classical Arab Islam within its 2 km long walls. In Sabika you play the role of one of the nobles of the Nasrid dynasty who contributes to the construction of the towers, gardens and palaces of this ancient and majestic monument. In addition, you must also establish trade relations throughout Europe, the Maghreb and the Near East to generate sufficient income to pay the tribute imposed on you by the Spanish Catholic monarchs. The game ends with the inevitable fall of Granada to the Spanish Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Your ultimate goal is to appear in the historical texts as one of the most influential nobles of the Nasrid dynasty. Sabika is the successor to Bitoku, by talented author Germán P. Millán.

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In Old Masters you are a painter and you have decided to enter a competition together with some other painters. The competition is held in a studio Montmarte, Paris and the newspapers are aware of the competition. Therefore, this might be an opportunity to become famous, just like Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, or Renoir... Make sure you reach goals as quickly as possible while improving your technique. Build up a momentum and make sure you know how to think ahead, while also keeping an eye on your competition. Will you become the best painter?

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Enjoy a new flavor with Bitoku: Resutoran, a three-module expansion that you can add to the base game as you wish. Do you want the full menu? Add them all! Would you like to try a snack? Just add one. The modules include new Iwakura rocks, new Yokai cards, and three new types of Kodama lakes. Resutoran also includes a new deck that allows players to activate certain effects during the game, such as changing dice results (both their own and opponents') or gaining a lot of points.

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On your turn you can either take a specialist action or a hero action. Specialists are friendly creatures that can perform a specific action for you. And the hero is you. When you perform a hero action you must first move, and then you can visit a location and perform the action depicted on it, fight a monster or investigate a location. In the introduction you do this by turning over a chip, but you can also play 6 chapters where you read the stories from a storybook and can make choices that have all kinds of different consequences for the game. You can also get missions in this game, and when you complete them you can hand them in at a location for the rewards. Combat is simple in Now or Never, but with a twist. You have four slots for attacks, which you can upgrade during the game. During a battle you roll a D4, and that determines which attack you perform. In addition, you have four slots for permanent bonuses that always apply to a battle. Monsters only have an HP value, an attack value, and a reward when you defeat them. By upgrading these slots you can make your character strong for battles. And if you win a battle, you often gain experience, which you can use to unlock those stronger attacks. Each character has a unique set of attacks. But this is only one of the pillars of the game. You are also given an empty village board at the start of the game, on which you can build buildings for villagers to live in. You will need this for the production of goods, which you need to pay for those buildings, for example. And you can sell goods for money, with which you can, for example, buy specialists. You also sometimes need goods for mission cards and always for orders. You will also be adventuring around the board a lot to visit the different locations where you can trade resources, lives, coins, mission cards, experience, orders and other aspects of the game for each other in certain proportions. So you can specialize in fighting monsters, in researching locations, in building buildings, in populating your village, in attracting specialists, or in making mission cards and/or orders. But you already feel it coming, you are never going to be good at doing everything, you will have to make choices... After six rounds the game is over. You then have to throw away all your money and all your resources, and then it is checked how good the engine you have built is. You then produce again (just like every round), and you can then sell your produced resources for money. Each coin then translates into a victory point, which you add to your other victory points from buildings, missions and orders to determine the winner. You can play a chapter separately or knit it together in a campaign, where your reputation is also tracked during the entire campaign. You can also play underground on the back of the board, and finally a solo mode is also included.

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In Ice Floes & Foes, 2 - 6 players make it their mission to save whales and seals from fishing boats and hunters. Move ice floes onto the board and try to make the fishing boats and hunters fall off on the other side. But be careful not to push whales and seals off! Ice Floes & Foes is a family game for 2 - 6 players aged 6+, and takes about 15 to 30 minutes to play. The aim of the game is to collect 5 points. Every fishing boat and hunter you move off the board gives you a point. On your turn you may move 3 ice floes onto the board. But if you move an animal off the board, your turn ends immediately! The first player to collect 5 points immediately wins the game. Ice Floes & Foes was designed by Dennis Merkx and Kees Meis, who are best known for their game The Great Tour, which won the Toy of the Year award in 2018 in the 12 - 17 years category.

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nIn this version of Mississippi Queen you will find the original base game (Mississippi Queen was the 'Spiel des Jahres' in 1997) and The Black Rose expansion, allowing you to play the game with up to six people. In addition, it also adds the 'Black Rose'. A black ship that is controlled by the last player at the time and with which you can get in the way of other players. In addition to the rules from the original game, you will also find the mini expansion 'tree trunks and sandbanks' in this version of Mississippi Queen.

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Free Associations is a modular extension for The Unconscious. You can freely add these 5 modules to the game: Illusion Cards, Mirror Image Cards, Bric-a-brac Notebook Tiles, Scientific Research Cards and Rendezvous Goal Cards. The box is in several languages, including Dutch, and contains Dutch rules. The components have no text.

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In Monuments you can choose between the Mayan, Inca, Greek or Egyptian civilization. Over the course of the game you build your mighty Monument layer by layer. As impressive as this is, it's also important to grow your population, produce resources, expand your territory over land and sea, build buildings, and keep your opponents at bay. Monuments plays smoothly and quickly. Each turn you play an action card and discard it, or you take all discarded cards back into your hand. When someone builds the fifth and final layer of his or her Monument, the game is over. But only the player with the most victory points wins! An AI opponent for solo play is included.

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Amritsar, India is home to the Sri Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple. This spectacular building is world famous as a sacred site for the Sikh community and is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites on earth. After it was demolished several times, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire in India, rebuilt it in the early 19th century with marble, copper and covered the upper floors with 750 kilos of pure gold. Hence it was called the Golden Temple. In Amritsar, the players represent various personalities of the time who helped the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire rebuild the Golden Temple for 3 decades, by providing him with the necessary materials for the different parts of the temple. To do this, players must plan their workers and associated actions in the most optimal way. At the end of the third decade, the player with the most victory points wins the game.

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A set of metal coins for Amritsar. With this you can make your version of the game even more beautiful!

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In Luna Capital, players will build a settlement on the moon as efficiently as possible. At the start of the round, players choose a card and, depending on the phase, 1 - 4 tiles. They then place a card (the one they just chose or one they already had) and all the tiles in their settlement. Challenges lie in the fact that the cards must be adjacent to each other, in a maximum of 3 rows, and that the numbers on the cards must increase per row. In addition, laying 1 tile in the first phase is easy, but 4 tiles in the fourth phase is a serious challenge. The game lasts 3 rounds, each consisting of 4 phases, so each player takes a turn 12 times.

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As a nature photographer and adventurer, you travel the world in search of wild animals to supplement your photo collection. Perfect Shot is a unique game in which there are different sized holes in different places on the animal cards. The idea is to place a card on the pile with as many animals as possible from the card at the top visible through the holes of the card you play. This sounds simple, but you have to estimate this before you put the card on the pile and this does not always go well... Twice during the game you can try a 'Perfect Shot', where you get 2 points if you manage to photograph an animal perfectly. You can also buy albums in which you can collect the animals (chips) that you photograph, where set collection bonuses can be earned.

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In Monuments you can choose between the Mayan, Inca, Greek or Egyptian civilization. Over the course of the game you build your mighty Monument layer by layer. As impressive as this is, it's also important to grow your population, produce resources, expand your territory over land and sea, build buildings, and keep your opponents at bay. Monuments plays smoothly and quickly. Each turn you play an action card and discard it, or you take all discarded cards back into your hand. When someone builds the fifth and final layer of his or her Monument, the game is over. But only the player with the most victory points wins! An AI opponent for solo play is included.

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Cuzco is the reimplementation of Java, the second game in the Masker Trilogy, designed by Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer and originally published in 2000. Now Cuzco is back with beautiful 3D resin (stone) temples, just like the other two games of the Masker Trilogy. In Cuzco, players build up the country with villages, towns and crops. They build and expand temples, they organize festivals and they build lakes. Just like Tikal and Mexica, players in Cuzco have a number of action points per turn (6) that they can use to perform these actions. Victory points are earned as soon as a pond is completely converted, a festival is organized, a temple is built or expanded and at the end of the game. The Inca who is highest in a city receives the most points.

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Instead of throwing all the new game mechanisms on your plate, we have split them into 6 modules. You can add a single module to the game, a few, or all at once! These are the new modules, as shown on the box art. From top, clockwise: 1 – Forts. In the base game you have to watch out for pirates and other players when sailing, and nothing else. If you deliver spices to your home island, they are safe. Not anymore! You start with a fortress on your home island that you can use to defend yourself against other players who want to steal your spices. Pirates get 2 forts on the 'High Seas' to help them. But if you defeat them, those fortresses can become yours! 2 – Settlements. Because there are more options to spend your money on in this expansion, it is fair that you can also earn more money. You can now build settlements on local islands without trade cards on them. These settlements produce crates of merchandise for you, and also act as a port to protect you from attacks! 3 – Treasures. Like settlements, treasures help you get more money. If you find a treasure you get extra money! You can spend this nicely in modules 1 and 6. 4 – Events. You can no longer only find trade cards on islands. When you least expect it, lightning strikes! Or do you summon the Kraken? Or who knows, maybe something helpful will happen! This also means that you can no longer safely look at the last map of an island. It could be an event, which means the deck is empty and you can be attacked! 5 – Coral reefs. Another danger for you, your opponents and the pirates! Do you play it safe and sail around it, or do you take the risk and hope you get through it safely? Getting stuck is no fun, unless it happens with the pirates! 6 – Crew. If there are no more cards on the islands in the base game, they are no longer interesting. Not anymore! You can also build settlements there, but the locals on the island are also looking for something to do! Pay a local for their services and upgrade your ship in a whole new way! But be careful in battle so your crew doesn't die!

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In Monuments you can choose between the Mayan, Inca, Greek or Egyptian civilization. Over the course of the game you build your mighty Monument layer by layer. As impressive as this is, it's also important to grow your population, produce resources, expand your territory over land and sea, build buildings, and keep your opponents at bay. Monuments plays smoothly and quickly. Each turn you play an action card and discard it, or you take all discarded cards back into your hand. When someone builds the fifth and final layer of his or her Monument, the game is over. But only the player with the most victory points wins! An AI opponent for solo play is included.

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