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Most anticipated games of Essen Spiel 2017

Posted on November 3, 2017

We’ve took a breath after these amazing four days of Spiel 2017. Long lineups for the gaming tables, our favourite bloggers, glorified game designers and hundreds of games! For those who can’t visit Essen, but wants to be informed, we’ve gathered some great hits from Spiel 2017, that you can try on Tabletopia right now!

ESSEN 2017

1. Clans of Caledonia

1–4 Players; 30–120 Min; Game on BGG

 

Clans of Caledonia is a mid-to-heavy economic game set in 19th-century Scotland. Players represent historic clans with unique abilities and compete to produce, trade and export agricultural goods and of course whisky!
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13 Spooky Games to Play This Halloween

Posted on October 27, 2017

Hey boo! Happy Halloween!

Tired of “trick-or-treatin” and wearing the same costumes? Too many Pennywises on the streets this year? Why not play some horror board games on this eery night instead? Check out our selection of 13 sinister games ideal to celebrate this spooky day!

1. Cult

2–5 Players; 45–90 Min; 2016; Game on BGG

 

Cult is an worker placement, action bidding game for 2–5 players with a unique theme of managing a sinister cult.
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Tabletopia in September: Another Venture Underground

Posted on September 27, 2017

During September we’ve been working hard towards release of our tablet apps. We will show them to you very soon. Meanwhile, our game catalog is continuing to expand.

New Additions to Our Game Library

Take a look at the most popular games added recently:

Helionox is deck building game where great leaders vie for control in a shattered solar system.

Love Letter is a game of risk and deduction, where your goal is to get your love letter into Princess Annette’s hands.

Stellar Leap is space exploration game, built around action programming and hidden objectives.

Champions of Midgard is a middleweight, Viking-themed, worker placement game with dice rolling in which players are leaders of Viking clans.

Feudum is an economic medieval game of hand and resource management.

La Granja: No Siesta is a farm management game, built around dice drafting.

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Tabletopia in June: Our Monthly Progress

Posted on July 5, 2017

Welcome Summer! We hope you all enjoy it, but don’t forget about board games 😉

New Games in June

Almost 450 games are now in our catalog, find some of the June’s most  popular games below:

Hand of Fate is an adventure deck-building game that can be played competitively or co-op based on the best-selling multi-platform, storytelling video game.

Archmage is a hybrid of euro-style and thematic board games, featuring exploration, resource management, area/map control, etc. by Game Salute.

Covil is a tableau building resource management and area control game for 1 to 4 players.

Minerva is a unique tile-laying resource-management strategy game from the acclaimed author Hisashi Hayashi.

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Tabletopia in May: +25 Games, Play Later and Other News

Posted on June 5, 2017

It’s time to wave goodbye to May and say thanks for the great stuff it brought!

Did You Play These New Games in May?

We have reached 425 games on Tabletopia in May, and here are some of the hottest newcomers in our catalog:

Orléans is an innovative bag-building euro game where players compete in different areas in the medieval setting. #30 on BGG Top 100.

Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game and a sequel to Martin Wallace’ 2007 masterpiece, Brass.

Sailing Toward Osiris is a euro-style game with worker placement, resources management, project completion, and no direct conflict.

Secret Hitler is a social deduction party game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930s Germany.  #1 most-anticipated party game of 2016!

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Round the World with Tabletopia: 15 Games From Different Continents

Posted on May 26, 2017

Summer is the time of vacations and travelling. Here at Tabletopia we love playing games set in different countries and on different continents. It’s almost like visiting them without leaving the comfort of your sofa, he-he.

Today, we’ve picked 15 excellent games from all around the globe for you, check them out below.

EUROPE

1. Greece: Santorini

2–3 Players; 20 Min

 

Santorini is a very popular fast little strategy game with a sprinkle of variable player powers set on Greek Islands in the ancient times.

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David Sirlin: “Codex was one of the most difficult game design things I’ve worked on”

Posted on May 5, 2017

We’re glad to present an interview with David Sirlin, a famous video and tabletop game designer and fighting game player, the developer of Codex: Card-Time Strategy.

The interview features the captivating story of the 10-year history of Codex and problems it tried to solve, as well as answers to the question why this game is so successful and which faction David likes best himself. Read on!

Hi David, to the people who don’t know about David Sirlin, who are you? What do you do?

I’m a game developer and former pro fighting game player. I wrote the competitive gaming book Playing to Win and I was lead designer of Capcom’s Street Fighter HD Remix and Puzzle Fighter HD Remix.

I’ve designed and published several tabletop games, including Yomi, Puzzle Strike, and Codex, and I’m currently working on a video game called Fantasy Strike.

How did you start designing games and board games in particular?

I worked in the video game industry for a long time. As I worked at several different companies, and did consulting for lots more companies, I saw so many of them make bad games.

I started to realize one of the reasons they made bad games was each company’s “burn rate”. That means the amount of money they have to pay employees every month. If a game needed, say, 8 more months of development, maybe they could only afford 1 month of salaries, so they’d have to finish and release it anyway.

I wanted to make a game that I thought was very good quality, so I started thinking about how to not fall into the burn rate problem.

By developing a card game, I wouldn’t have to pay a team of programmers every month for a long time. I could do all the graphic design myself. For character art, I could pay contractors. If such a game needed more months of development, I’d only have to worry about my own expenses, rather than the expenses of a whole team. This way it could take as long as it needed.

This is how I developed Yomi. It turned out that getting the art I needed for Yomi took so long that I developed Puzzle Strike and Flash Duel while waiting for the Yomi art to finish.

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Tabletopia in April: 400 Games, Back on Firefox & Opera

Posted on May 3, 2017

As we welcome May, let’s look back at the new games and features April brought to Tabletopia.

400 Games!

We have reached 400 games on Tabletopia in April! Hooray! More coming each day.

Take a look at some of this month’s newcomers (many more in our catalog):

Castle Panic is a cooperative tower defense game about defending the castle in the center of the board from monsters that attack out of the forest at the edges of the board.

Cytosis: A Cell Biology Game is a worker placement game that takes place inside a human cell.

Burgle Bros. is a cooperative game for 1-­4 players about organazing and pulling off a heist.

Dead Man’s Doubloons is an action-packed simultaneous action selection game of high piracy.

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12 Space Games

Posted on April 12, 2017

Today is celebrated as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on April 12 in 1961. To commemorate this day, we have composed a list of 12 (definitely not a coincidence, he-he) space games you can play on Tabletopia.

Aliens and races, space exploration and domination, mining for recources, population of planets, space technologies and innovations, galactic escape: we have it all, take a look!

 

1. Alien Frontiers

2–4 Players; 60–90 Min

 

Alien Frontiers is a game of resource management and planetary development for two to four players. During the game you will utilize orbital facilities and alien technology to build colony domes in strategic locations to control the newly discovered world.

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Tabletopia in March: Solo and Hotseat Play Modes, Categories, and More Games!

Posted on April 3, 2017

March is over, and we’re ready to sum up the good stuff it brought to Tabletopia.

New Games

A bunch of excellent games debuted on Tabletopia this month, you can check them in the New Releases category. We recommend trying:

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a worker-placement game with dice set in dystopian future by Stonemaier Games.

Last Friday is a hidden movement, hunting and deduction board game, inspired by the popular “slasher” horror movie genre.

Dinosaur Island is a worker placement game about creating the world’s greatest dinosaur theme park. Yep, Jurassic Park in a game!

Long Live the Queen is a dynamic tactical tug-of-war game for two players about plotting to seize the throne.

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