Standard

Collection Bundle

Moderate — you can directly disrupt opponents' decks or cut off cards they need. Competitive tension is real even if brief.

Deck building — but you're racing to build a perfect 8-card deck faster than opponents. Draw, play, discard. Fast and focused.

Dale of Merchants

Schwerkraft-Verlag

Devir

Bragelonne Games

Very high — multiple animal decks that each play differently. Mix and match creates huge variety. Expansions add more decks.

Minimal footprint. Just a small card area per player. Fits on a coffee table easily. Great for smaller spaces or travel.

Anthropomorphic woodland animals running market stalls. Light-hearted, almost cartoonish. The theme is present but thin — this is really about the cards.

Collector's Edition

Complete Collection

Low to moderate — mostly competing for worker spots and cards. Can feel like parallel solitaire. Peaceful but less tense.

Worker placement + card engine building. Send workers to gather resources, then play cards that combo off each other across 4 seasons.

Everdell

Pegasus Spiele

Matagot

Maldito Games

Galápagos Jogos

Arclight

Rebel Sp. z o.o.

High — large card pool means no two games are the same. Expansions (Pearlbrook, Spirecrest) add significant new layers.

Large. The 3D tree centerpiece alone demands space. Full spread with worker areas and tableau takes a full dining table.

Rich storybook forest world with seasons, critters, and constructions. Art and components pull you deep in. Theme is baked into every mechanic.

Deluxe All-In

Moderate — competing for planet control, shared worker spots, and area majority. Raiders actively threaten you unlike the avoidable monsters in Dwellings. Indirect conflict but you feel the squeeze.

Your workers are upgradable starships with unique abilities. Place them on a shared galaxy map to claim resources and territory, then build out your personal space station with modular tiles. A targeting system replaces dice-based combat with tactical, predictable fights. Many actions involve multiple subtasks — deeper and more involved than its predecessor.

Andromeda's Edge

Lucky Duck Games

Very high — modular galaxy setup, huge variety of leaders and station tiles, asymmetric factions. No two games play the same.

Large. Central galaxy board plus personal station boards that grow outward. Needs a full dining table.

Edge of a collapsing galaxy — you're building a space station, recruiting alien leaders, and claiming planets. Sci-fi opera with gorgeous art and chunky modular station tiles.

Legendary

High — direct combat over territory is central to the game. You will fight, you will lose workers, and you will love it. Not for the conflict-averse.

Worker placement meets area control with dice-based combat. Place a worker to gather resources and trigger powers, then fight for territory. Your tableau of adventure cards builds your engine.

Dwellings of Eldervale

Fox in the Box

High — modular board, 8 unique factions, huge variety of adventure cards and monsters. Each game tells a different story.

Very large. Hex map, player tableaus, monster miniatures, resource trays — this game is a table hog. Clear the dining room.

Mythic elemental realms filled with dragons, giants, and ancient magic. Towering monster miniatures and a hexagonal world that feels alive. Theme absolutely drips from every component.

Moderate — shared market creates constant indirect competition. When someone floods the sugar market, everyone feels it. No direct conflict but you're always watching others.

Rondel action selection — move your token around a wheel to pick actions like sailing, colonizing, selling, or building. Market prices shift as players buy and sell. Elegant and tight.

Navegador

Rio Grande Games

Cranio Creations

Ystari Games

Ediciones MasQueOca

Good — multiple viable strategies (colonies vs factories vs churches) and the dynamic market means every game flows differently. Not as variable as card-heavy games though.

Medium. Central board with market track, player tokens, and colony tiles. Fits comfortably on a standard table.

Age of Portuguese exploration. Chart unknown seas, establish colonies in Africa and Asia, build factories and churches. Historical but abstracted — you feel the era without drowning in simulation.

Very high — you're directly moving armies into other players' territories, buying control of nations out from under them, and negotiating alliances. This game is about people, not systems.

Rondel action selection controls nations — build armies, tax, produce, invade. But the twist: players buy bonds in nations. Whoever owns the most bonds controls that nation. You might control Russia one turn and abandon it the next.

Imperial 2030

Egmont Polska

Hobby World

Pensamento Coletivo

High — the investor layer means every game has wildly different power dynamics. Who controls what shifts constantly. No two games feel alike.

Large. World map board with armies, fleets, and bond certificates. Needs space to spread out.

Global power politics set in the near future. Six world powers jostle for territory — but players are investors, not nations. You fund wars for dividends. Cold, calculating, brilliant.