swap_horiz Anachrony Alternatives

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Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

Through the Ages is a tabletop game where players develop civilizations across millennia. It’s notable for its complex r...

Resource Management Civilization Card Drafting Heavy Euro

8.9 Great

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Terra Mystica

Terra Mystica is a heavy strategy board game designed by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag in 2012, notable for its un...

Fantasy Resource Management Area Control Heavy Euro

8.8 Great

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Brass: Lancashire

Originally designed by Martin Wallace in 2007, this deeply strategic economic game tasks players with developing industr...

Industrial Revolution Economic Network Building Heavy Euro

8.8 Great

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Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix

Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix is a 2021 expansion to the board game by Dirk Knemeyer, introducing the Ixian and Tleilaxu f...

Sci Fi Expansion Deck Building Worker Placement

8.7 Great

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Star Wars: Rebellion

Published in 2016 by Fantasy Flight Games, this epic asymmetrical board game recreates the Galactic Civil War, tasking t...

Sci Fi Epic Asymmetric Area Control

8.6 Great

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Food Chain Magnate

Published in 2015 by Splotter Spellen, this cutthroat economic game challenges players to build a fast-food empire using...

Corporate Tile Laying Economic Heavy Euro

8.6 Great

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Dune: Imperium

Designed by Paul Dennen in 2020, this acclaimed strategy game blends deck-building with worker placement, requiring play...

Sci Fi Asymmetric Deck Building Worker Placement

8.5 Great

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Terraforming Mars: Prelude

Terraforming Mars: Prelude is a 2018 expansion for the engine-building game by Fryxgames, notable for introducing corpor...

Sci Fi Corporate Expansion Engine Building

8.5 Great

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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team

Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a skirmish miniatures game released by Games Workshop in 2018, adapting the larger Warham...

Sci Fi Squad Based Miniatures Skirmish

8.4 Great

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Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

Released in 2008, this cooperative game expertly captures its television source material, forcing players to manage a st...

Sci Fi Cooperative Thematic Hidden Traitor

8.4 Great

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Nemesis: Lockdown

Nemesis: Lockdown is a 2022 standalone sequel to the survival horror game by Adam Kwapiński, notable for introducing a m...

Sci Fi Horror Semi Cooperative Standalone Sequel

8.4 Great

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Cosmic Encounter

First published in 1977, this classic sci-fi game is historically influential for its design, assigning players unique a...

Sci Fi Chaotic Alien Negotiation

8.3 Great

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Lords of Waterdeep

Lords of Waterdeep is a worker-placement board game released in 2012 by Wizards of the Coast, set in the Forgotten Realm...

Fantasy Dnd Eurogame Worker Placement

8.2 Great

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Teotihuacan: City of Gods

Teotihuacan: City of Gods is a 2018 strategy board game by Daniele Tascini, notable for using a dice-as-workers mechanis...

Ancient Civilization Eurogame Worker Placement Dice Placement

8.1 Great

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Viticulture

Released in 2013, this worker-placement game tasks players with building a profitable Tuscan vineyard, navigating summer...

Farming Economic Stonemaier Worker Placement

8.0 Great

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Star Realms

Star Realms is a competitive deck-building card game designed by Robert Dougherty and Darwin Kastle in 2014, notable for...

Sci Fi Card Game Deck Builder 2 Player

7.7 Good

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Stone Age

Released in 2008, this foundational worker-placement game tasks players with guiding a prehistoric tribe to gather resou...

Family Prehistoric Worker Placement Dice Rolling

7.6 Good

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Dinosaur Island

Released in 2017, this worker-placement game has players build a dinosaur theme park by extracting DNA, constructing att...

Theme Park Dice Worker Placement Set Collection

7.5 Good

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Coup

Released in 2012 by Rikki Tahta, this social deduction game challenges players to bluff, manipulate, and deduce their wa...

Sci Fi Card Game Bluffing Hidden Role

7.4 Good

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Tiny Epic Galaxies

Designed by Scott Almes in 2015, this strategy game is famous for packing a push-your-luck dice system into a tiny box,...

Portable Sci Fi Dice Rolling Micro Game

7.4 Good