Rio Grande Games

Beyond the Sun is a space development game in which players make collective decisions about humanity's technological progress in the Spacefaring Era. But it is of course not just about cooperation, you also want to become the leading faction in the field of economy, technology and space travel. The game is played over a number of rounds until a number of objectives have been achieved by the players. The winner is then the faction with the most victory points. You get those victory points by developing technologies, improving your economy and by colonizing areas. On your turn, you move your figure to an empty action space and then perform that action. Then it's time for the production phase where your population grows and you can trade goods. Finally, you can try to achieve an objective. You develop your technologies on a 'technology tree', in which you work towards better possibilities. This means you can try many different tactics and every game is different! The Games Friends: " Beyond the Sun is a very fun game that plays smoothly. Because the technology tree is different every game, the replayability is high. The turns are also short and the actions are clear, so it is never boring. The artwork could have been a bit nicer, but that is compensated by the quality of the game. "

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Roll for the Galaxy is a space empire building dice game for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your population, which you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins! This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the original game. The Games Friends: " Roll for the Galaxy doesn't look like much, but you just have to look past it. The game itself is a lot of fun. The actions are quite similar to those of Race for the Galaxy, but through the use of We think it's sufficiently different. Highly recommended!

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Dice Realms, a new and innovative variant on 'dice customization', is the latest game from Tom Lehmann (designer of Race for the Galaxy). In Dice Realms, each player rules a small realm, represented by two customizable dice. Each round, players roll their dice simultaneously to collect grain, victory points and coins. Then they must decide whether they can upgrade their planes to improve their empire. But the players have to be careful; each round the Fate Die is rolled and to determine fate... The future of your empire is in your hands...

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They have so much stuff across the sea. And it's so much better than your stuff. Finer craftsmanship. Better quality materials. Shinier. They have crowns, tiaras and diadems - and that's just the hats. It's time to get some of that stuff. You want an easy life and you are willing to work hard for it. So you've collected some old salty dogs, plus a sourpuss and a bitter goldfish. And you sail out. The sea is a tough mistress, but a good cook, at least if you like 'everything really salty'. There's a red sky tonight, so they'll be making a batch of Sailor's Delight, which you understand has tuna in it. And soon you will attack merchant ships and steal their treasures. But the real treasure is the happy memories you will make. This is Dominion®'s 15th expansion. It contains 500 cards, with 40 new Kingdom cards. It has a lot of treasure and durations, with cards that give you loot and properties that change stacks. And the events return.

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Faiyum is a strategy game for planning enthusiasts. The basic rules are simple: play your cards one by one on your personal discard pile. After you play some or all of your cards, you take them back into your hand in "reverse" play order, so it's important to play cards in the best order. Newly purchased cards go directly into your hand, so the timing of getting and playing them is also important. Each card has easy-to-understand actions, but only by creating the best combined "engine" will you become a master advisor of Faiyum. This game has a card mechanic reminiscent of deck builders and the market mechanic used successfully in Power Grid. Acquire more and more valuable cards and use the structures built on the game board to your advantage. In the end, the most cunning advisor who makes the best card combinations, Faiyum, wins.

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Free Ride, another beautiful game by Friedemann Friese, designer of High Voltage and Vrijdag, takes us to the Golden Age of Railways in Europe. Around the end of the 19th century, a growing network of railway lines was built in Europe. This allowed people to travel to the big cities to visit beautiful buildings influenced by Art Nouveau and historicism. In Free Ride you are responsible for building the railway lines that will connect the major cities of Europe. Then you move your train along the growing rail network to transport passengers to visit the famous structures in these cities. Moving your train along your railway lines and state railway lines is free. If you use railway lines owned by your fellow players, you must pay them, which converts their lines into state railways. To pick up passengers, you can choose from an open view of city maps that show different passenger travel routes. Move your train to one of the cities in the picture and choose that itinerary by picking up this starting city map along with the destination city map. When your train arrives at its destination, complete this itinerary and receive victory points for both cards at the end of the game. Initially you can only provide one itinerary. Your train will later be able to carry two itineraries at the same time and travel faster over the rail network. The goal of Free Ride is to visit as many different cities in Europe as possible.

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You and your family have come to Nevada City to set up a farm and help the city grow. Can you outperform the other homesteaders? Each player in Nevada City starts the game with a family - mother, father, daughter and son - and a homestead mat where you can set up farms, fence livestock and develop silver mines. You start the game with a mine, a farm, and a ranch, along with some money and an assortment of resources. The city consists of a few buildings and other buildings will become available for construction over the years, with the game lasting four years. A year lasts a number of turns until all players have used all their characters and hired workers. During a turn, a player chooses one of their characters and performs actions until all of that character's actions are used up; a character cannot perform the same action during a turn. A character can purchase new real estate from Town Hall, start working on his mine, farm or ranch, claim a building, construct a building, use an existing building, reserve a contract with terms for improving the town, or work to fulfill the contract. Each character and worker has a different set of skills that can boost the actions they take, such as finding extra silver in a mine or bringing wood to a construction site. You earn victory points (VPs) for constructing buildings and receive rewards from those buildings when other players use them. You also earn VPs for completing contracts, with those contracts having different values ​​depending on which buildings are present at the time. Each player receives a private objective card at the start of the game, and all players score points for these objective cards based on how well they perform against other players, so pay close attention to their choices. Various events take place every year, allowing players to suffer from drought or reap the benefits of fertile land, among other things. At the end of a year, the workers leave unless they get married. Nevada City also features advanced rules that add additional buildings and events to the game, a sort of gambling sub-game, a more volatile production market to make life in the West less predictable, and additional sons and daughters. Moreover, at the end of a year the unhired workers become noisy and start shooting up the city, so you have to use your gun skills to get them down and try to avoid getting hurt or you will lose a skill . The Games Friends: " Nevada City is a good board game that deserves a little more attention. You are going to try to build as many buildings as possible in the city. Because the buildings are also places where you can perform actions, the playing field keeps changing and is No round is the same. Highly recommended!

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Space Station Phoenix is ​​a game where you will place workers and manage resources. It takes place in one of the possible futures of Earth. The players are representatives of the Galactic Council, and they have been sent to Earth to build space stations to observe and perhaps communicate with humanity. Players start the game with nine ships and a station hub. These ships act as action spaces that players use to gather resources, explore the nearby planets, and build their stations. In many games, players start with a small resource engine that they build up to a larger one. In Space Station Phoenix, players start with the best production engine they'll ever have and start tearing it down part by part. As the game progresses, their actions become more efficient, but the number of ways to perform those actions begins to decrease.

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The fast-paced collecting game for 2 players. On behalf of the Baroness, you begin the search for noble pheasants for the pheasantry. Unfortunately you are not alone... Find the most beautiful birds to complete the game with the most valuable animal collection.

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For some, collecting fine art is a hobby. For a select few, it's a cutthroat world of buying, selling and manipulating the market. Can you stay one step ahead of the other collectors and build the most valuable collection? Art Decko is an artistic new take on deck building. The paintings are beautiful (and expensive) but can become more valuable as the game progresses. Showing a painting in a museum increases the value of all works in that genre. All players with such a painting benefit from it, but who benefits the most?

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Fabulous riches are discovered in the Rocky Mountains. Gold and silver mines are opening in remote boomtowns and the mine owners want men and equipment and supplies to work the Mother Lode. Now, they say, it's time to build the tracks through the Rockies! The sooner a railroad gets to a mine, the greater the profits for the mine owner before the mine is exhausted. The iron horse means money, and a lot of it. There is no luck in the game, just shared incentives and emerging alliances between players. A game for three to five players for less than an hour, designed by the modern master of train games.

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Each player controls colored mice and tries to collect pieces of cheese in Chateau Roquefort. During their turn, players spend action points to bring new mice into play, reveal passageways in the castle, move their mice around the castle, or push a tile into play, which changes the maze below. If two of a single player's mice reach a spot with the same type of cheese, the player receives a piece of that cheese. The first player with 4 different pieces of cheese wins the game.

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Elevate the important structures of Findorff, one of the 23 districts of Bremen, the birthplace of Friedemann Friese. Findorff has three "F"s and is named after Jürgen Christian Findorff, who was responsible for draining and exploring the swamp in northern Bremen, for mining the peat and for populating the swamp with residents. In Findorff you will find an economic board game with a raw material market for peat known from High Voltage and innovative raw material management that is necessary for building railway lines and houses. Your focus is on erecting the right combination of the 25 historic buildings from the period 1803–1916. Level up the Reed Chair Factory or the Slaughterhouse to earn many thalers, or smaller structures such as Schools, the Beer Hall or the Peat Skipper Shelter to win the game in small steps. You can even take advantage of this period's high mortality rate by running a cemetery!

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In Glory Islands, players simultaneously play sailing cards from their hands. The card values ​​determine the turn order, how far ships can move on the board, and where a player's pirates are placed on the board. Depending on where they are placed, pirates can receive glory, treasure tokens, or barrels. The cards can also provide bonus actions that players can use to gain an advantage over their opponents. When pirates occupy all spaces on an island, the player with the most pirates on that island gets the most glory. The game ends when one or more pirate ships have completed the route around the islands. The player with the most glory will be crowned "King of the Pirates"!

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