Western Canada’s Largest Tabletop Gaming Convention! Join us March 14-16, 2025, at the Vancouver Convention Centre - East (aka Canada Place) in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Usher in a new era of culture and progress in Brussels in this dynamic Euro! Bruxelles 1893 combines many mechanisms and offer multiple paths towards victory. You’ll find bidding, area majority, and worker placement packed into its interactive gameplay.
Join this game if medium-heavy weight strategy games (3.6/5) and vintage art nouveau aesthetic appeal to you.
This year, Holi takes place on March 14th- why not celebrate with a game?
In HOLI: Festival of Colors, players gather to celebrate the end of winter as they spread colorful powder on each other, dancing and celebrating new beginnings.
Mechanisms & Features:
Area Control - Colored powder tokens spread across the board and onto other players, covering the board in the pattern selected. 3-Tier Board - Players ascend to have their powder fall from above, giving up victory points for better control. Puzzle-like Action Selection - Color cards determine the pattern colored powder will fly in, giving players room to select the pattern that works best for them. Variable Scoring Condition - Each game can have slightly different scoring conditions, adding depth and replayability.
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are quack doctors making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot's swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode!
This is a game that I only learned recently, but it's quickly become one of my favorites. Because it's fairly quick, I'm hoping we can get in more than one play.
The Midnight Queen is dead… As her kingdom weeps, the Queen’s dying command was to invoke the Rule By Midnight: a trial of combat and guile, where the Princesses of the Twelve Lands meet in secret to battle and scheme against one another. At the stroke of midnight, the most powerful Princess left standing will be crowned the new Midnight Queen!
Queen By Midnight is a battle-royale deck-building card game of guile, deception, and brawn! Six Princesses each feature unique tactics to battle for the right of the Midnight Court, but only one (and maybe their inner circle) will be the winner.
The Shackleton Series is a 6-episode puzzle adventure. The storyline follows the true account of how 28 men got trapped in ice off the coast of Antarctica for 2 years, and everyone made it home alive! Find clues, and solve puzzles, to uncover the mysteries of how Shackleton and his crew managed to escape from Antarctica.
Merv: The Heart of the Silk Road is an economic game charting the rise and fall of the greatest city in the world. In Merv, players are vying to amass power and wealth in the prosperous heart of the Silk Road. Through careful court intrigue, timely donations to the grand mosque, and favorable trade deals, players attempt to redirect as much of that prosperity as possible into their own pockets. Meanwhile, beyond the city walls Mongol hordes approach. If you help construct the city walls, you give up on precious opportunities to build up your own stature, but leave it unprotected and you will burn with the city. Every decision is weighty and the consequences of each misstep are dire. Will you rise to prominence or fade into oblivion? Learners are welcome.
Come for the ridiculously cute meeples, stay for the fun, light strategy game of card drafting and area control. If you are a fan of "Keep The Monsters Out" this is made by the same designer! A fairly simple game but planning available card streaks to match what you would like your meeples on the board to be able to do keeps it feeling strategic.
I played this game once at a convention and have been dying to play it again. It has been a little bit, so please bear with me for rules. I have added extra time to the play time to account for learning time.
