What’s new this week: Tiny Epic Vikings and TRAILS. Get ready to lead a clan of Vikings to raid the frigid Runic Isles in Tiny Epic Vikings and take a hiking adventure to explore iconic US landmarks and National Parks in TRAILS.

Tiny Epic Vikings is the next in Gamelyn’s Tiny Epic series of small box but big game. In this game, you will lead a clan of Vikings over 3 eras (with 3 phases each) in hopes of claiming the icy lands in the Runic Isles. Play Viking cards that represent your clan’s leaders, choosing the best builders, harvesters, explorers, and warriors. Raid and conquer the islands with settlers, build boats and temples to gain influence, and battle for the favor of the gods. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 60 minutes

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Featuring the artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series, TRAILS invites you to take a hiking adventure in the beautiful outdoors. Enjoy a relaxing hike collecting acorns, spotting wildlife, and earning wilderness badges. – – 2 to 4players – – 20 to 40 minutes

In TRAILS, players hike back and forth along the Trail. Each turn, you move your Hiker on the Trail to gather resources or take Photos. Along the way, you may gain bonuses from encountering Wildlife. At Trailhead and Trail End, you can turn in resources to earn Badges and begin your journey back in the other direction. Each time a player visits Trail End, the Sun will set over the Trail. As night falls, Trail sites grant more powerful actions, but they won’t last forever. When the Sun leaves the Trail, the last round will occur.

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Mobile Markets is the next game in the Smartphone Inc series. It is a stand-alone economic game where players are CEO’s of consumer electronics companies competing for the new mobile technologies generation. – – 1 to 4 players – – 40 to 80 minutes game play

Get ready to compete for customers by planning research technologies, marketing campaigns, production and sales.  The winner will be the CEO who makes the most money over the 5 rounds of the game.  Those CEOs will have to create products to satisfy 3 types of customers, variety seeking, regular and complex.  Some customers will pay more for a phone as long as it has the right features.  Each round starts with the drawing of an event card.  The first phase of the round is planning.  Players have 2 tiles with 5 symbols on each side.  Planning involves placing those tiles face up with some overlap.  The symbols left face up will affect the following phases of pricing, technology, marketing and production.  The number of symbols covered up will also affect production.  The second phase is pricing.  All phones are priced at $5 at the start of the round.  Symbols revealed in planning can cause prices to go up or down. Pricing will determine player order for the rest of the round.  Phase 3 is technology.  In this phase players can use the technology symbols exposed to add abilities and phone features.  In the 4th phase of marketing exposed symbols will be used to acquire additional abilities and possibly to lure private customers that no one else can sell to.  The number of phones that can be built in the 5th phase of production is determined by the number of production symbols face up plus the number of symbols covered up during planning.  Phase 6 is sales.  In turn order CEOs will sell to the available customers any phones that meet their demands for price and features.  Players featuring the lowers price will go first in turn order.  Profits are determined by price less cost.  All phones have a base cost of $1.  Costs will increase based on the additional features a CEO is adding to this run of phones.  Profit is determined by price less cost and the number of phones sold.  After 5 rounds the player with the most profit will be the winner.  

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Rebuilding Seattle is an economic city building game centered around Seattle’s Great Fire of 1889. Each player will be responsible for managing the zoning and expansion of a major Seattle neighborhood. Each round your population grows, and you can either build a new building, expand into a new suburb, activate an event, or build an iconic landmark, before earning profit based on your neighborhood’s commerce. At the end of the game, the neighborhood with the highest victory points will be the winner. – – 1 to 5 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play

The game is all about taking one of the neighborhoods of Seattle and adding suburbs, buildings, and iconic landmarks as well as managing your population growth in order to gain profit and points.  It is played over three rounds with four phases to each round: increase population, build, profit, and clean up. Each player starts the game with one of the asymmetrical neighborhoods and a suburbia tile.

Each round starts with a designated population increase. During the game, players will need to work to reduce their population as overpopulation will adversely affect their scores during three of the event scoring opportunities that happens each round.

During the Build phase there are three types of actions players can do.  Most likely they will buy suburbs and/or buildings from a shared market, looking to find shapes and types that will fit well into their city.  The second is to enact one of the 3 laws in their neighborhood.  The third is to activate an event.  There are 6 different events.  Each event will be activated once in each of the 3 rounds of the game.  The event cards can be triggered by any player on any turn.  These events can lead to actions being taken by the person who triggered it and all other players as well.  Timing when to activate is key. When all 6 have been activated that round is complete. Three of the 6 event cards trigger scoring opportunities.

There are several tracks that players are working to enhance throughout the game.  Scoring will depend on how well a player has managed to move on the various tracks.  There is an amenity track and three quality tracks.  The quality tracks represent entertainment buildings, shopping buildings and restaurants. There is a profit phase after all players have finished their building actions.  The various buildings will include a polyomino building that needs to be placed on your city and suburbia tiles.  Those buildings will provide money during the profit phase of each round, or movement on the quality tracks, or set a player up for additional scoring opportunities at game end.  After the events cards have all been used for the third time, the player with the most points will be the best builder in all of Seattle.

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These new games arrived in this week: Motor City, Solar Sphere, One Deck Galaxy.

Motor City is a strategic roll-and-write game about running an auto plant in the heyday of Detroit. – – 1 to 5 players – – 45 minutes game play.

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In Motor City, you have two player sheets, each with multiple areas. These areas are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you make progress. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way and opportunities to unlock more points. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses.

The game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll colored dice based on the number of players, then place them on spaces on the blueprint table based on value and color. Each player drafts one die and uses it. Once everyone has drafted a die twice, all players get to use the remaining die on the blueprint table.

After eight rounds, you score points for your progress in engineering, assembly, testing, and more. Whoever has the most points wins.

Solar Sphere is a dice placement/manipulation game with elements of engine building, resource management, and set collection. The players’ task is to build a dyson sphere and become the savior of mankind. – – 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 90 minutes game play

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In Solar Sphere, you will command a mothership and compete with your fellow Captains. You will use your ships and drones to gain resources, hire crew members, fight the Resistance, and ultimately build the Sphere. The game is played over a series of rounds. Each round consists of the following 4 phases: Dock, Deploy, Battle, and Recover. Players can manipulate their dice using drones. However, players have a limited supply of drones, which are also used to upgrade dice placement spots or to support in fights against aliens. Players can always recycle used drones to get them back into their supply. Or, spend them for instant benefits.

By building the Sphere, hiring crew members, and attacking the Resistance fleet, you will gain Faction icons that can be worth points at the end of the game. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

Take a journey to the stars in One Deck Galaxy, a solo or 2-player cooperative sci-fi follow-up to One Deck Dungeon!  Build up a newly starfaring civilization from one homeworld to an epic Federation, all while confronting a challenging Adversary. Its multi-use cards represent both encounters/locations and the technologies, colonies, or research you can acquire from them. – – 1 to 2 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

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