swap_horiz Caverna: Cave vs. Cave Alternatives

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Everdell

Everdell is a stunningly beautiful worker-placement and engine-building game set in a charming forest village. Players m...

Nature Strategy Resource Management Beautiful

8.9 Very Good

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Barrage

Barrage is a unique economic game centered around building dams and generating power. Players compete to control river s...

Strategy Engineering Resource Management Area Control

8.3 Very Good

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Seasons

Seasons is a card drafting and set collection game where players collect cards representing different seasons and elemen...

Strategy Resource Management Card Drafting Worker Placement

6.5 Fair

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Agricola

Agricola is a seminal worker placement game where players manage a farmstead, feeding their family and expanding their h...

Strategy Card Drafting Worker Placement Farming

9.6 Brilliant

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Terraforming Mars

In Terraforming Mars, players represent corporations working to make the Red Planet habitable. You compete to raise the...

Strategy Sci Fi Resource Management Heavy

9.1 Excellent

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Ark Nova

Ark Nova is a modern masterpiece of zoo management. Players design and manage a modern, scientifically managed zoo, aimi...

Strategy Modern Resource Management Complex

9.0 Excellent

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Earth

Earth, produced by Disneynature, is a visually spectacular documentary showcasing the beauty and fragility of our planet...

Strategy Resource Management 4K Resolution Engine Building

8.8 Very Good

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Stone Age

Stone Age is a classic worker-placement game where players lead a tribe of prehistoric humans. You must gather resources...

Strategy Resource Management Family Friendly Civilization Building

8.8 Very Good

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Splendor

Splendor is a fast-paced, addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissan...

Strategy Resource Management Fast Paced Accessible

8.6 Very Good

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Dune: Imperium

Dune: Imperium blends deck-building and worker placement to capture the political and military tension of the Dune unive...

Strategy Sci Fi Resource Management Competitive

8.4 Very Good

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Scythe

In a future where humanity has conquered death, the only way to die is to be 'gleaned' by professional Scythes. Neal Shu...

Strategy Sci Fi Philosophical Dystopian

8.2 Very Good

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The Castles of Burgundy

The Castles of Burgundy is a tile-laying game where players develop their estates by placing tiles and managing resource...

Resource Management Eurogame Area Control Worker Placement

8.1 Very Good

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Concordia

Concordia is a masterpiece of modern board game design. It replaces the dice-rolling luck of Catan with a elegant card-d...

Strategy Resource Management Roman Empire Eurogame

8.0 Very Good

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Akrotiri

Akrotiri is a worker-placement game set on the lost island of Thera, where players excavate ruins, uncover artifacts, an...

Strategy Exploration Resource Management Route Building

7.7 Good

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Keyflower

Keyflower is a worker placement game where players develop a village, constructing buildings and attracting villagers. P...

Strategy Fantasy Resource Management Medieval

7.7 Good

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Architects of the West Kingdom

Architects of the West Kingdom tasks players with constructing a cathedral for the king. Players deploy workers to gathe...

Resource Management Risk Management Worker Placement Engine Building

7.6 Good

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Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan is a classic two-player board game that involves resource management and strategic placement. Players...

Strategy Resource Management Family Friendly Economy

9.3 Excellent

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Realm Grinder

Realm Grinder is a complex and darkly humorous idle game set in a fantasy world. Players manage a realm, grinding resour...

Strategy Fantasy Resource Management Incremental

9.0 Excellent

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Lost Ruins of Arnak

Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in an Indiana Jones-style exploration theme. Players lea...

Strategy Adventure Exploration Worker Placement

8.9 Very Good

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Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game where you manage a group of colonists living inside an asteroid. Y...

Strategy Sci Fi Resource Management Management

8.9 Very Good