Category: 1-2 Player Games

Curious Cargo

| T3d-1978

I stumbled upon a midnight market. It wasn’t selling flowers or farm goods. It was a more curious sort of cargo: energy capacitors, strange crystalline material, and something green and jiggly. Since then, I’ve been dragged into it, deep into the thick of it.

I paid a stranger more than I should have for manufacturing plans I hardly understood. Worse yet, they sold the same stuff to my best friend. Now, I have to get my supply lines up and running to prepare for shipping my cargo — and if my friend starts shipping some of this curious cargo, I’ll have to intercept their trucks and corner the market that way.

By hook or by crook, I’m going to be the king of curious cargo…

Curious Cargo is a two-player game in which you go head-to-head against your opponent by building up the infrastructure of your facility, calling in trucks at the right moment, all while perfectly timing the shipping and receiving of cargo to score the most points. Connect an interweaving web of lines to your shipping and receiving spaces. Play with two-color conveyor tiles, or step it up for an advanced experience and play with all three colors. Ship your custom-shaped cargo tokens to your opponent to interfere with their logistics plans!

The puzzling nature of Ryan Courtney’s Pipeline comes alive in Curious Cargo! With six unique player boards for each player and two game modes, a skillful challenge awaits even the sharpest competitor.

Game Mechanics:

  • Action Points
  • Network and Route Building
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 30 – 60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 3.18

Cryptid: Urban Legends

| T3d-1978

There’s something hiding among us: an elusive cryptid is prowling our city streets. The evidence is clear but, without definitive proof, the scientific community will never believe you. There’s nothing else to be done – you must track down this cryptid yourself!

Play as a determined Scientist manipulating heat, movement, and sonic sensors to scan the city, identify your quarry’s true location, and capture them. Or take the role of a Cryptid, snaking your way through the shadows and back alleys of the metropolis that surrounds you, eliminating all evidence of your existence as you go, desperately avoiding capture. Emerging victorious in this high stakes cat-and-mouse chase, played out across a sprawling urban landscape, will require all your ingenuity and foresight.

Cryptid: Urban Legends is a tense asymmetric game of competitive deductive reasoning for two players from the creators of Cryptid.

Game Mechanics:

  • Grid Management
  • Hand Management

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 20 – 40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.45

Claim 2

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

With the sudden death of the king and no known heirs, the kingdom is up for grabs! The only thing – you have to get the approval of at least 3 out of the 5 factions of the land to become the new ruler. And you’re not the only one wanting power. 

Claim 2 is a two player game split into two phases. In phase 1, players will play their cards to recruit followers from various factions to support their cause. In phase 2, players will use their followers to gain the favor of the different factions, giving them special powers to gain an edge over their opponent! Do you have what it takes?

Game Mechanics:

  •  Take That
  • Trick Taking

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 25 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.60

Brightcast

| T3d-1978

Brightcast is a fun, fast-paced, 2-player card game. It all starts with one basic rule: get one of each Spellcaster card or five the same Spellcaster card into play to win the game! Begin the game with 4 cards in your hand. Start each turn by drawing a card, then playing a card from your hand and performing that card’s action. Use your Spellcasters to claim victory and stop your opponent from trying to do the same!

Oh…and…watch out for Dragons!

Game Mechanics:

  •  Set Collection

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.33

Caper: Europe

| T3d-1978

Your role as criminal mastermind is to recruit a crew of thieves, send them to locations across Europe, and provide them with gear. It’s your job to utilize your resources efficiently to steal goods, but being a great mastermind is about more than the things you walk away with. It’s the thrill of a well thought-out plan coming together: the set-up, the sting. Properly deploy your thieves and gear to dominate locations, outmaneuver your opponent’s plans, and win the night. You’ve got six rounds to plan and play your cards. Nothing like a tight timeline to up the stakes!

Caper: Europe is a two-player drafting game. You take turns sending thieves to famous locations across Europe, vying for control through special card powers. These thieves have tricks up their sleeves, which you can enhance by adding gear to them. And controlling the locations isn’t everything because priceless stolen goods await the thief who’s clever enough to snatch them first.

Your goal is to score the most points by winning locations, collecting stolen goods, and equipping thieves with their preferred gear. The mastermind with the most points, tallied at the end of six rounds, wins.

Game Mechanics:

  • Area Majority / Influence
  • Closed Drafting
  • Set Collection

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 25 – 35 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.11

Botanik

| T3d-1978

In the hushed intimacy of her laboratory, the eminent researcher Beatrix Bury has just discovered a technology allowing to mechanically generate all kinds of edibles. Subtropical plants, stellar potatoes, Orion mandarins, this new technology opens a way to save the people of Forharms, prisoners of a world made of rust and toxic vapors. It’s in the urgency of a threatened world that the scientist puts two of her best teams in charge of developing her plan… that can seem quite demanding at times. Each team is engrossed in its mission and Beatrix’s laboratory becomes the battlefield of fierce competition to produce the best performing machine. You are promoted to the head of one of these two teams, and must prove yourself worthy of the head researchers’ trust. Rise up to the challenge!

Develop the most effective network of mecha-botanics, the combination of plants and science! Botanik offers fluid mechanics (one action per turn), in addition to an ingenious exchange system, associated with tiles of different groups/colours.

Game Mechanics:

  • Open Drafting
  • Pattern Building
  • Set Collection
  • Take That
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.76

boop the Halls!

| T3d-1978

A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players.

The Mensa award winning, Game of the Year, boop, is back with a new Holiday edition and has really leveled up game play (literally!!).

The hoomans are hanging ornaments on the highest boughs of the tree, but those clever cats are leaping up and boopin’ them right off. You can win “Naughty” by knocking off 3 of your opponent’s ornaments or “Nice” by lining up three cats in a row!

The 4-tiered game board ‘tree’ presents a surprisingly mind-bending 3D challenge for players. And the alternate win condition of knocking off 3 of your opponent’s ornaments creates new strategic problems to solve, elevating the play experience to a new high!

Game Mechanics:

  • Grid Movement
  • Pattern Building

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 20 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.33

Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes

| T3d-1978

Recreate World War Two in 20 minutes! The perfect wargame for non-wargamers, Blitzkrieg! allows two players to battle across the War’s most iconic theatres, winning key campaigns and building military might.

Players draw army tokens from a bag to determine their starting forces and to replenish their losses. Rather than ‘fighting’ battles with dice or cards, players allocate their military resources to each theatre’s campaigns, winning victory points, further resources, special weapons, and strategic advantages as they play. Refight World War Two several times in one evening!

Includes Solo mode by Dávid Turczi.

Game Mechanics:

  • Area Majority / Influence
  • Deck Building
  • Hand Management
  • Race
  • Solo / Solitaire Game
  • Take That
  • Worker Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 2 Players
  • 20 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.92

Beer & Bread

| T3d-1978

Beer & Bread is a multi-use card game for two players. Its clever structure of alternating rounds puts a fascinating twist on player interaction, card drafting, and resource management.

Founded on the fruitful lands of an erstwhile monastery, two villages have held up the dual tradition of brewing beer and baking bread. While sharing fields and resources, they still find pride in their friendly rivalry of besting each other’s produce.

Each of you represents one of these villages. Over the course of six years – which alternate between fruitful and dry – you must harmonize your duties of harvesting and storing resources, producing beer and bread, selling them for coins and upgrading your facilities.

However, in order to win, you must maintain the balance between your baked and liquid goods. Because, after the sixth year, you only score the coins collected from the type of good – beer or bread – for which you earned less. The village with the higher score wins.

Game Mechanics:

  •  Closed Drafting

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 30-45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.32

Battletech: Beginner Box

| T3d-1978

In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe, players each take control of one giant walking war machine (a BattleMech, aka ‘Mech) and battle until one is destroyed or until the scenario objectives being played are completed.

BattleTech is the world’s greatest armored combat game, filled with a myriad of epic stories and gaming experiences to satiate any player: miniatures to RPG play, hobby painting to fiction, and beyond. The BattleTech Beginner Box is the first step on that fantastic journey and includes everything you need to get started: two high-quality miniatures, quick-start rules, a mapsheet, cards to represent your MechWarrior’s unique skills, dice, and more.

Game Mechanics:

  • Dice Rolling
  • Miniatures
  • Paper-and-Pencil
  • Player Elimination
  • Variable Player Powers
  • Wargame

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 2 Players
  • ~120 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.43