Your favourite spreadsheet simulator is back as a card game - Arkwright: The Card Game is currently on Kickstarter, but you can play it for yourself right now!

In the 18th century the Industrial Revolution starts. The first factories are founded by businessmen like Richard Arkwright who run the first factory for wool spinning with machines like the Spinning Jenny and the water frame.

In Arkwright: The Card Game you run a business and you will employ workers in your factories to produce and sell goods. The more workers that have a job, the more goods that can be sold - but be prepared for crises and competitors.



The game is played in 3 decades (1770/1780/1790) with 4 rounds per decade.

On your turn you play new cards to open factories & upgrade existing ones, select improvements, improve factory quality, build machines, and to employ new workers. You can also pay money to improve your stock holdings, and take out loans if you require more money for production costs.

After the card playing phase you can improve abilities by marking improvements on your score sheet.

Now each factory, for each type of good, will produce. The market fluctuates with demand, the demand may be lower than the value you produce, decreasing your profit. Workers in these factories must be payed, and machines operating in your play area need regular maintenance, so it is possible you will lose money instead of turning a profit. Selling enough of one good will improve your share holdings, and there are bonuses for having the highest appeal.

Lastly if you can’t sell in England you can ship goods overseas or store them for future rounds.



After the final round of decade 1790 the game ends. Players will sell all storehouse goods, reduce the number of shares they hold by the number of loans, and reduce further based on their personal shipping track. Then each player multiplies the number of shares by the value of his shares to determine score.

The player with the highest score wins.

Based on the universe of the Northgard videogame, Northgard : Uncharted Lands is a game of conquest and exploration set in the age of vikings.



Each player will control a Viking clan, looking to achieve victory by reaping glory in various ways or control the most prized territories of this new continent.

The game focus on streamlined rules and mechanisms, allowing for a fast-paced and smooth rhythm of play. Each turn, players alternate their actions to adapt their strategies to their opponents' moves and the expansion of the board.

Fame (Victory Points) can be earned by exploring, fighting, controlling and developing territories... The various corresponding actions are played through the cards that the players have in hand. At the end of each turn, they will have to choose a new card to improve their personal deck, as their clans develop new tactics and technologies.

The conquest of Northgard will also require a clever management of resources to build new buildings, improve your warriors' effectiveness better your hand of cards, and upgrade your clan's specificities. The Winter phase make this management more difficult, as you have to feed your units to keep them healthy and happy.

The pace of the game is set by the players, as the game will end after seven turns but can also be cut short at any time, if one of them is in control of 3 closed territories hosting certain types of buildings.

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Settlers from three Nordic empires have decided to start their voyages and set sail for new lands in hopes of finding more resources, and increasing their opportunities to expand. Building new structures, taking advantage of upcoming events, and outsmarting opponents is their path to greatness. You don’t know who your opponent might be; it might even be a different clan from your nation. Even so, you will do what is necessary. Your current lands are meager, and the resources scarce, so you’ll need to work hard to acquire the food and resources necessary to thrive!



Empires of the North is a card game in which players lead one of six clans from three different factions. The game plays out over a series of rounds, during which players explore new lands, construct buildings, trade resources, and sail to new lands with the aim of either conquering, or pillaging to gain more goods! Each action draws the clans closer to becoming the greatest empire! The game ends in the same round that any player reaches the 25 victory points mark.



Empires of the North is aimed both at the new players and also all fans who love Imperial Settlers and are looking for a great engine building experience. The box contains 6 unique, ready to play decks featuring Vikings, Scots and Inuit clans. Each deck offers a great variety of strategies and excellent replayability value.

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Happy Virtually UK Games Expo! The 2020 Awards Shortlist for the UK Games Expo Awards is now live, but before you cast your vote, many of these games are available to play right now on Tabletopia. Why not sample these outstanding contenders over the weekend?

Gembatan

You have been called to face worthy opponents in a contest of strategy and cunning. Armed with amulet tiles and dual-direction gems, your goal is to align colors to score points. You may only lay a tile if you have a matching gem to place within it, so plan your moves wisely. Legendary players align three or more amulets of a matching color to score bonus points. Earn the most points and you will be richly rewarded as the victor! For 2 to 4 players.

Noctiluca

In Noctiluca, 104 colorful translucent dice fill the pool on the game board to represent the different glowing noctiluca. Players take turns diving into the water from the edges of the shore to collect the noctiluca dice from the board and keep them safely in jars until they can deliver them to healers. After two rounds, players compare points from their successful deliveries and the player with the most points wins.

Empires of the North

Empires of the North is a card game in which players lead one of six clans from three different factions. The game plays out over a series of rounds, during which players explore new lands, construct buildings, trade resources, and sail to new lands with the aim of either conquering, or pillaging to gain more goods! Each action draws the clans closer to becoming the greatest empire! The game ends in the same round that any player reaches the 25 victory points mark.

Empires of the North is aimed both at the new players and also all fans who love Imperial Settlers and are looking for a great engine building experience.

Tapestry

Tapestry is a two-hour civilization game for 1-5 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier.

Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people — your civilization is unique!

In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and military) to earn progressively better benefits. You can focus on a specific track or take a more balanced approach. You will also improve your income, build your capital city, leverage your asymmetric abilities, earn victory points, and gain tapestry cards that will tell the story of your civilization.

The Taverns of Tiefenthal

Can you turn your tavern into the talk of the town? Do you expand your seating capacity, or the size of your beer cellar? Hire new staff perhaps? The more wealthy customers you attract, the more money you have to expand. Prestigious nobles will come by to see what all the fuss is about, making your tavern the hottest spot for miles around.

The Taverns of Tiefenthal combines dice placement with deck building to create a challenging and accessible game for all skill levels – a hallmark of all Wolfgang Warsch’s games. With multiple ways to expand the game, the game has hours and hours of replayability.

Ishtar

From the award-winning designer Bruno Cathala, Ishtar is a game in which you play the role of a gardener aiming to transform the dry desert into the Lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

To accomplish your mission, you will have to plant flowers, which, if you place them well, can help you gather precious gems and activate actions. Whether to buy Trees (which will block the link between two Flower spots, as well as earning you points) or to purchase upgrades (such as getting two more points per Tree card at the end of the game), collecting gems will be a crucial part of the game.

Get them before your opponents, recruit apprentices, send them to earn points in the copses of flowers you have created, block others and think carefully of the upgrades to purchase if you want to become the best gardener at the end of the game!

Rats To Riches

So what's the big idea? Well... you're a pack of filthy, scheming rats. You're racing to collect $100, working your way to a better class of sewer. You do this by investing in assets, sabotaging other rats and building your sewer empire! A game of Rats to Riches takes 5 minutes to learn, 30 minutes to play, supports 2 to 5 players, and can accommodate players as young as 8 years old.

Solar Storm

Work together, or die alone in this cooperative survival game for 1-4 players that will make even the most hardened crews and solo players swelter. Hand management, careful use of your actions, and teamwork are the key to weathering the Solar Storm.

In Solar Storm, you are crew members on board a ship that has had its energy core taken out by solar flares. Even worse, the ship is caught in the sun’s gravitational pull which is causing even more damage. It is only a matter of time before you and the rest of the crew perish.

You and the other crew members must repair the ship whilst using resources to divert what little power is left, back to the energy core. You must work together if you have any hope of survival. Get moving. You have limited resources and more solar flares are continuously causing more damage. Can you survive this Solar Storm, or will you perish in the burning abyss?

Break the Code

Break the Code is a logical deduction game played with number tiles and question cards. You win if you can guess all of your opponent's tiles in a two-player game or if you can guess the face-down tiles in the center for a three- or four-player game. Put on your thinking cap! Deduce all of your opponent's tiles (or the center tiles) and correctly guess their colors and numbers in order from left to right.

D6 Dungeon

D6 Dungeon is a race to be the first to find a route through a perilous dungeon. A brave adventurer, you will encounter monsters from terrible dragons guarding hoards of gold to pesky little orcs, ancient, undiscovered treasure chambers, cursed glyphs. Lots of stuff.

As you explore you also come across the items you need to get through and learn spells that can alter the very corridors in front of you. But beware; you are not the only one in the dungeon and your opponent will have a very different view of what it looks like…

Kingdomino Duel

Roll the dice, choose the ones you want, and put them together in pairs to create your dominoes. Domino by domino, fill in your map while entrusting the territories of your kingdom to loyal dignitaries. Gather favors from wizards in order to cast powerful spells that will allow you to rule without having to share.

Kingdomino Duel is a standalone game that preserves the essence of the acclaimed original Kingdomino. In this game, instead of adding dominoes to your kingdom, you will choose two dice to combine into a single "domino" that must then be drawn into your kingdom.

Ratzzia

The pantry shelves are nearly overflowing with food and the mice are rushing to collect what they need to ensure their families have enough to eat through the harsh winter. Each family forages for themselves, trying to do the best for the wee offspring. The first to fill their little sack will be the envy of all mousedom.

Ratzzia is a game for two to five players. The dice represent the mice in each player’s family. Each time they roll the dice they must arrange the die results on the board in order to get as much food as possible.

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Hey Tabletopians!

Between July 30th-August 2nd, Gen Con Online will be taking place instead of traditional Gen Con. Tabletopia is pleased to announce that all attendees will receive 7 free days of Tabletoipa Premium Gold!

Additionally, we'll be hosting several events and livestreams on our Twitch channel, which you can sign up for right now! All these events will take place on our Twitch channel, and signing up isn't required to attend, but will send you a reminder prior to the events starting.



Click the image above to reserve your free or $2 tickets (Gen Con requires all game events carry a small fee to encourage actual attendance)!

We hope to see you there!

7 new games have made their way to steam as DLC! If you don't want a Premium membership, but would like LIFETIME access to a particular game, you can now buy the following as one-off purchases:

• Tapestry
  
• Scythe: The Rise of Fenris
  
• Hansa Teutonica + Expansions
  
• Pocket Investigations
  
• Zoom In Barcelona
  
• Guards of Atlantis 2
  
• Wizard Kittens + Magical Monsters Expansion

We hope that these DLC options give you more flexibility with how you use the platform, and remember - if you want to play the game with friends, only the host of the game needs to own the DLC!

Deep in the forest, an innocent rabbit - Eila is attracted by something shiny on the hill. With courage and passion, she sets out on a journey to find the mysterious light and you will be in her role to experience this wonderful adventure story. Make good choices for Eila as every step you take will make a huge change. Now, join this magical odyssey through a series of unexpected events.

Eila and Something Shiny is a unique solo-game set in a mystical world, with a strong and interactive story-arc played through 5 chapters. During a player's turn, they make choices for the main character - Eila, and try to fulfill objectives for each chapter. In this immersive adventure, players may need to manage resources, solve puzzles, and make tough decisions. Player's decisions will also greatly alter the story line and ending, so each time you play through the chapters, the game is different!



Their GORGEOUS Kickstarter campaign is currently live!

And you can try the prologue and first adventure for yourself right now on Tabletopia!

Presented by BGG and The Dice Tower, Virtual Gaming Con is on RIGHT NOW, and you can play any game on Tabletopia for FREE! No Premium account or DLC purchase required for any of the games!

There's plenty of events happening, so be sure to check out the Virtual Gaming Con events page, as well as the VGC Discord server! And don't forget to join our Tabletopia Discord!

Rap Godz is a modern board game that puts you in the role of an up and coming hip-hop artist on your path to greatness.

The gameplay is a mix of strategy and storytelling as you play cards that represent events in your emcee's career and life. Along the way you will have to earn money, build up your street cred, and improve your rap skillz. Starting beef with players might put you on top but can also knock you out when you least expect it.

Prove you are the ultimate Rap God by taking over cities, hitting career goals, and earning the most record sales plaques by the end of your third album.



Recently, several prominent board game creators and developers (including Isaac Childres of Gloomhaven fame, and Variable Player Podcast host Danny) pledged to donate $10 to Black Lives Matter for every copy of Rap Godz sold. Between the various donors contributing, over $30k was raised!





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As you might have noticed since March, Tabletopia became more popular than ever due to the self-isolation that makes it impossible to play board games offline. Two times we were upgrading our infrastructure and twice we were doubling the servers that are processing games for players and rendering games for designers. It all helped keep Tabletopia in good shape and handle the increased number of users, even with our free basic level of subscription.

All this hard work - with the help of our amazing boardgaming community that was spreading the word about digital board games - helped us to achieve two major milestones in Tabletopia history. Each tweet, facebook post, livestream, video or blog article helped us to get here. We are proud to announce that Tabletopia has now 1,000 games and 1,000,000 registered users! And 555,000 from this 1 million were registered during the last three months! By the way, game number 1,000 is Roll Player Adventures!



We are now adding dozens of new games each week, we run live streams on Twitch, and you will see us partnering with all major online boardgaming events this year. And it’s possible because of your interest and passion that can't be stopped by self-isolation. We believe that you should be able to play with your family and friends offline and online, and we are trying to cover your back with the second one!

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