Category: Small Games

Fallout Shelter: The Board Game

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Build a better future underground in Fallout Shelter: The Board Game, a post-nuclear worker-placement board game for two to four players. Based on the hit mobile game from Bethesda Softworks, Fallout Shelter sees you take on the role of a vault officer fostering happiness among the citizens of your vault. With the election of a new Overseer looming, the officer who can gain the most happiness among the dwellers is sure to lock up the election and attain victory.

As an officer, you’ll have to direct your dwellers to where they’ll spend their time in the vault, whether it’s spending some time relaxing in the lounge, gathering vital resources like food in the community gardens, or battling a radroach infestation in the game room. The choice is always yours, but remember, you’ll have to balance happiness and efficiency to lead your people to a brighter future underground!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • 60 – 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.03

Fairy Tale

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Players use card drafting and simultaneous action selection to score points while interfering with other players’ ability to do so. The game consists of four rounds. In each of them, players are dealt five cards. They simultaneously select one each and pass the remainder, repeating until done. Then, they start playing cards simultaneously, playing three and discarding two. When the cards are revealed after each selection, card abilities turn other cards face-up or face-down. At the end of the four rounds there are 12 cards in front of each player. The players each score based on their face-up cards.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.77

Fairy

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Every round, reveal a new card. Simultaneously, all players choose a hand gesture to guess how the card relates to the previous one (☝️ for higher value, ? for lower value, ? for same suit, or ✊ to guess a fairy).

Guess the correct value relation and get two points. Guess same suit correctly and get four points. Call one of the three fairies in the deck? That’s seven points!

Any wrong guess loses you a point. First player to fifteen wins!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 10 Players
  • 5 – 10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Fado: Duetos e Desgarradas

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“The Great Day of Fado” is coming.

There is no memory of such an event, thousands of tourists and fado lovers from all corners of the world are expected. Managers from all over the country are working on the organization of the event. From north to south of Portugal, one, two and even three shows are planned simultaneously. It will be days, nights and, sometimes, even early morning parties!
Failure is out of the question, and to organize the perfect show, it is necessary to choose the best artist, the right alignment, the perfect melody and the most appropriate of the scenarios. It is the ideal time for some managers, hitherto unknown, to show how much they are worth.

No one will miss and this is your moment to shine!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • 20 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.75

Exploding Kittens

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Exploding Kittens is a kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The deck is made up of cards that let you avoid exploding by peeking at cards before you draw, forcing your opponent to draw multiple cards, or shuffling the deck.

The game gets more and more intense with each card you draw because fewer cards left in the deck means a greater chance of drawing the kitten and exploding in a fiery ball of feline hyperbole.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • ~15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.08

Enchanted Plumes

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In Enchanted Plumes, players strive to complete magical peacocks by assembling plumes in sparkling rows from top to bottom.

Skillfully placing feather cards of the same color from row to row is key, as the top row value will count against your score, while all lower rows count as positive values.

Once the peahen card is revealed, the player with the most valuable plumes wins the game and is bestowed with the luck of the peacock!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • 20 – 40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.38

Duel for Cardia

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Cardia is a fast paced, strategic card game for two players: Choose your card wisely to win each encounter against your opponent.
In gratitude for her liberation, a mighty djinn created the wondrous city of Cardia. Legend has it that whoever wins over the four factions and gains their five powerful signet rings will rule the city. Your goal is set!

Players will each pilot one of two Decks, made up of the same cards for each, with values from 1-16 and with each card having unique abilities. Play your cards at the moment your opponent does not expect them and use their abilities wisely to outwit them!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • ~15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.78

Dungeons of Draggmar

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In this new dynamic fast paced action card game explore forgotten dungeons, keeps and fortresses. Defeat monsters, demons and bandits lurking in the forgotten tunnels through Draggmar and claim fame and riches.

The game is full of tactics and hard decisions that could result in a huge punishment if not played wisely. Dungeons Of Draggmar is a game where you will lose a lot but every victory will make you celebrate and enjoy the next step of your conquest even more!

  • An easy to learn experience for new players and fun for experienced ones
  • Replay value and a possibility of choosing the difficulty of the game
  • A dynamic, fast, and intense system
  • The game is for 1-4 players

Dungeons Of Draggmar is a fast paced action driven card game. The game takes place in rounds called Dungeon Runs where a player tries to conquer a dungeon using his Heroes and Items and claim the head of the Boss at the end of the run. Of course most of the runs end in failure but then there is always a second chance to be successful!

Earn FAME after every Dungeon Run, hire stronger Heroes, grab better Items and head again straight to the darkness of the deepest dungeon and claim victory!

You need to constantly be prepared, think in advance, sometimes trick or get help from other players and sometimes work alone to achieve your goal!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 10 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00

Dungeon Mayhem

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In the action-packed Dungeons & Dragons card game Dungeon Mayhem, you win by being the last adventurer standing.

Play as one of four brave, quirky characters — barbarian, paladin, rogue, or wizard — battling it out in a dungeon full of treasure! With magic missiles flinging, dual daggers slinging, and spiked shields dinging, it’s up to you to prove your adventurer has the guts to bring home the glory!

Illustrations created by Kyle Ferrin in the four decks of cards represent Sutha the Skullcrusher (barbarian), Azzan the Mystic (wizard), Lia the Radiant (paladin), and Oriax the Clever (rogue). Pick one of these characters and play their mighty power cards such as Azzan’s Vampiric Touch to swap hit points with an opponent or Sutha’s Whirling Axes to heal yourself while dealing crushing damage to the rest of the party.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • ~10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.16

Dragon Farkle

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Gather your courage! The long-enjoyed peace of Yon has been disrupted by a ferocious and mean-spirited dragon — he’s terrorizing the locals and eating their livestock without their permission! Fortunately, a few wannabe heroes (that’s you!) have risen to the challenge of slaying the beast. Get yourself a brave companion, gather a powerful army, and enter the Dragon’s Keep for cheese and country in Dragon Farkle!

To play, you gather an army of loyal soldiers or steal them from your opponents, hire suspicious-looking companions and gain allegedly useful items (most of which aren’t even cursed), then fight that dragon you’ve heard so much about — or don’t, if you hate winning…

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.45