Speed. I am speed.
It is no surprise that HEAT is one of the most played racing car games around since the released in 2022. And there is a solid reason for this.

Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they do not want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!

Drivers can compete in a single race, customizing their car before the race to claim the top spot of the podium. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
Championship mode will come later, as we need a bit more time to change the tires.

The rules are fit the racing aspect perfectly, with tension at every turn, and the available maps make its replayability a very good choice for any card player.

With more than a thousand games already going on, there's no doubt you will find drivers to join you on the track! Click below to discover more:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=heat

Too shy to join a game you know nothing about? Never worry, we have you covered with a short tutorial done by Nekonyancer for you to learn how to play it.

We want to thank of course the Days of Wonders team, as well as Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen for their authorization to bring the game to our platform.
Let's not forget our amazing developers, Tisaac & thoun, who made a fantastic work here for you to play on (mostly) any platforms. Try it, it really plays like a charm.

Which color do you prefer to play?
If you are new to BGA, remember Premium members can select a color preference for most games from your profile!
That comes in handy to find where you are at a turn-based game.

And that's it for today!
Next week will be Essen, and we will have a big week there.
If you meet any of us while wandering through the halls, don't hesitate to say hello
That's it today. Until next week, take care and play fair!

Vrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

Years of tutelage under the late Archmage Andor have culminated in this moment; his two protégés must now become rivals and battle to determine who will become the next Keeper of the Grimoire. As protection from your rival, you have only your magical gifts, your mastery of the Grimoire, and a select few spell pages ripped from its binding. Pick carefully; the spells you choose will allow you to counter your opponent, twist the fabric of time, and deal devastating damage, but only if you are able to find synergies between spells and manage your mana reserves carefully.

In this two player strategy card game, you must fulfil your destiny and become the Keeper of the Grimoire. Defeat your opponent by drafting new spells from the magical Grimoire, casting them, managing your cooldowns, and dealing massive damage.

Each turn, draft one new spell to be added to your spell repertoire. But be warned! Your opponent has access to the same spells you do, so choose the spells you want before your opponent does! Continue updating your spell repertoire throughout the game to optimize your deck and counter your opponent.

Cast spells. Deal devastating damage or confuse and trip up your opponent. More expensive spells will have a larger impact on the game, but be careful, they will cost you more mana and will have a longer cool down. You can cast as many spells as you like on your turn so long as you have enough mana and the spells are not in cooldown. Find spell combinations that work together and time them correctly, to increase your damage or counter your opponent.

Be the first wizard apprentice to eliminate your opponent's life points to become Keeper of the Grimoire! Click below to know more about it:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... dsgrimoire

Of course, a nice tutorial is provided for you to learn how to play, if you do not wanna dive into the rules, even if they are quite simple to understand.

And lastly, before writing the usual credits and thanks we love to do for all games, we need to let you know that an expansion to the original game is coming! It's on their Kickstarter page you can find by clicking here.

We would love to thank MGoulet for the wonderful development there, as well as Grimoire Games and the game designers Cole Banning & Joe Banning for their authorization to bring the game online on Board Game Arena!

That's it for this Monday.
What's coming next? A few more games.
Brace yourselves, Essen Spiel is coming!
Until then, take care and play fair!

Produce and sell your best Champagne vintages to become cellar master of the decade (because a century would be too long)!

In Age of Champagne, players will be sending their collaborators to the various worker placement spots on the main board to perform actions.

Over the course of 10 game rounds, these collaborators will help you expand your vineyard and make investments to improve your wine press and install new wineries.

When the time is right, you can use them to run marketing campaigns that will raise the status of your produced wines, so that they will earn more points when you sell the vintages from your cellar.

At the end of each round, you will be able to prepare for the next year by transforming wines from your winery to vintages stored in your cellar, and harvest ripe grapes depending on the capacity of your wine press and wineries.

The majority of your points will be scored by selling vintages to fulfil orders. At the end of the game, players receive additional points for vineyard majorities and diversification, and for how well they performed on the eco-responsibility report; this mainly depends on the ways used for shipping vintages during the game.

Age of Champagne is a medium weight worker placement game that includes resource management and set collection. The game feels very tight with only 3 available workers each round, so you have to prioritize and will never be able to do everything you want!

Wanna taste it right from the barrel? Click the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... fchampagne

We need to thank the team behind the game, like the people from Old Hen Games who published it, as well as Lunalol for the development of the game for our platform (who did an amazing job) and of course, last but not least, the game designers Cyrille Lefranc, Christoiphe Pouey & Frank Rubarbe.

There's no doubt you will enjoy this game, but let us know if it fits your boardgamer needs!
That's it for today,
See you soon. Don't forget that Essen is coming!
So until next week, take care and play fair!

Smarter than you think, easier than you expect...

The Number is an expert mix of mechanics: Bluffing, Risk-taking, but also Guessing (a mechanic that involves anticipating your opponent’s next moves and adapting your strategy accordingly).

First - Choose
Each turn, everyone secretly writes a number from 000 to 999 on their boards, then reveals them at the same time.

2 - Check
Line up the numbers from biggest to smallest and check if your number is approved (it doesn’t share digits with any of the numbers below it) or eliminated (at least one digit in common with any of the numbers below it).

3 - Resolve
If your number is approved, gain as many points as the first digit of your number. Then, you must cross off the digits you used in your number from your board. You will not be able to use them for the rest of the round.

It's so quick you will not be able to decide at first if you like it or not. So the best way to sort this dilemma is to try it a few times online by reaching the game page, available by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=thenumber

Of course, the page includes a tutorial for you to learn the game simple and ingenious rules.

We cannot thank the Repos Production team enough for their strong efforts to bring this game online, as well as the outstanding work done by Moof to develop it, and of course the authorization from the game designer, Hisashi Hayashi.

That's it for this Monday!
What will come next could also impress you.
More and more novelties are joining BGA each day, thanks to all of you.
See you on Wednesday, and until then, take care and play fair!

2083. Humankind died out decades ago, leaving behind mere vestiges of its time on Earth. As time went by, nature reclaimed land all over. In this resurgent world, apes have kept evolving. They have been gathering in tribes, growing, mastering human items, and advancing in their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe, you need to guide it towards collective intelligence.

After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins, they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points, attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.

The game shines through its original mechanisms, and that is why you should absolutely try the very short and well made tutorial available by Nekonyancer to know more about it.

Of course, you can check out the rules and start your very first game on the dedicated game page by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=afterus

We want to thank the wonderful Catch Up Games team, as well as Florian Sirieix (hey ^^) for their authorization to bring the game online, and of course the wonderful and talented thoun for the development done on BGA.

That's it for today, enjoy your Wednesday Release Time (WRT), and see you next week for another amazing game!
Until then, take care and play fair.

The fierce and friendly pick and pass card game.

Collect enclosures, rescue animals, and install upgrades over 3 years and build the highest scoring wildlife park you can in this fast-paced card game. Do not let the cutesy look fool you into thinking this is going to be easy though! Can you keep the Lions away from the Anteaters on the Savannah plains? Are your sloths lonely or living a happy life on an Open-Air island? Your Zuuli adventure awaits!

If you are not afraid to play it, here is the link to the game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=zuuli

Of course, you should never miss the included tutorial.

Published by Unfringed and created by Chris Priscott, we would like to thank the whole team as well as n_e_s_s_u_n_o who developed it for Board Game Arena!

And that's it for today.
Until Wednesday, take care and play fair!

At the start of the game, each player receives 9 unknown cards and set up their Mine by placing them face down in front of them, in a 3x3 square. They flip the center card face up and the game can begin.

The goal is to fill the 9 slots of your mine with cards granting you the most points.

On your turn, you can play up to 2 cards from your hand. Play Gem cards in your mine – cards of your favorite color earns you points, as well as cards played in the right spot (each gem and Mine slot is numbered from 1 to 9). Use Adventure cards to your advantage to reveal, swap or steal cards in play and build the best Mine.

But beware: as soon as a Mine is entirely revealed, the game comes to an end and the player with the most points wins!

Click the link below to discover this wonderful game:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... padventure
Nothing would be possible without the help and authorization of the Amazing Games team and the Babel Dread game designers, and we would like to thank them all for making this possible.

Also there's been sweet work done by Mistergos to make it happen and playable on the platform, and he deserves a lot of love from you all!

And... that's it for today!
We are sure you are more than busy these days, especially if you have kids going back to school. (or you are that kid).
The best for this year to you, have fun, play fair and... take care!

A mini-expansion for Sea Salt & Paper, presented as a booster pack: 8 new cards with 5 new effects.
It's a bit more salty and spicy.

Discover the new effects:

- The Cast of Crabs: 1 point per crab
- The Seahorse: replaces a card in a series (shell, octopus, etc.).
- The Starfish: played at the same time as a pair of cards to cancel their effect but earn 2 extra points.
- The Lobster: draw 5 cards from the deck and choose one. Play with a crab.
- The Medusa: to be played at the same time as a swimmer. All other players can only draw one card from the deck on their next turn.

You can play this expansion by selecting the right option on the settings from the game page:


We would love to thank the fantastic Bombyx publishing team members, as well as Bruno Cathala and Théo Rivière for their authorizations, and the wonderful work done by Thoun on this game adaptation.

But wait, there's more...
An official tournament! With prizes!

The "Qualifier" phase ends in mid-October. There are a total of 256 places for the "Groups" phase to be won.

64 spots are being distributed in France by us and our partners, 64 on several Board Game Arena tournaments open to all:

The first two rounds of the competition will be held on BGA, and the remaining 128 rounds will be shared between our partners around the world.

The "Groups" phase will take place on BGA only from late October - early November. Qualifiers will be divided into 8 groups of 32 players and will play with the Extra Salt extension. The top 4 players in each group will qualify for the "Final" phase.

The "Final" phase will take place in late November or early December. The 32 players will compete in a 1 vs 1 knockout format with the Extra Salt extension activated. This stage will also be on BGA only.

And many prizes to win!
Go to their Facebook official page here to know more about it: https://www.facebook.com/studiobombyx

EDIT: 2 new sessions were added for BGA:
- FISH n ChampionCHIPS – Qualificateur 5 : https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=235750
- FISH n ChampionCHIPS – Qualificateur 6 : https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=235747

And... that's it for today's release!
The Summer of Games is now terminated. Let's see how many of you were able to come to the front page and click each day:
1 day and 1 gift open | 81554 clicked it!
10 day streak (everyday without missing a release) | 9805 trophies
20 days | 4514 trophies
And... THE WHOLE 31 DAYS, everyday | 2530 whale trophies distributed!

Thanks a lot for your participation. Remember these trophies are unique and you can be proud to have won them.
See you later for more exciting news.
Until then, take care, and... as always... PLAY FAIR!

In Forest Shuffle, players compete to gather the most valuable trees and attract species to them, thus creating an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna.

To start, each player has six cards in hand, with cards depicting either a particular type of tree or two forest dwellers (animal, plant, mushroom, etc.), with these latter cards being divided in half, either vertically or horizontally, with one dweller in each card half.

On a turn, either draw two cards- either face down from the deck or face up from the clearing- and add them to your hand, or play a card from your hand by paying the cost to put it into play.

Each tree and dweller shows a cost, and to pay this cost, you must discard cards from your hand into the clearing face up. If you play a tree, flip the top card of the deck into the clearing, then place the tree in front of you. If you play a dweller, pay only the cost on the dweller you choose, then slide this card under a tree that has an empty side that matches the dweller you want to play. (A tree can have cards played on all four sides of it: top, bottom, left, and right.)

Alternatively, you can play a card face down as a tree sapling. This card costs nothing and can have dwellers played on it, but it has no species, whereas each tree is one of eight species.

After you play a card, you can use the effect on this card (drawing cards, placing additional cards, taking another turn, etc.) or gain the bonus you gained if you paid for this card with cards of the same color — or both, if applicable, with the effect taking place before the bonus.

If at the end of your turn the clearing contains ten or more cards, place all of these cards in the box out of play.

During set-up, three winter cards were placed into the bottom third of the deck. When the third winter card is drawn, the game ends immediately, then players tally their points based on the trees and dwellers in their forest. Whoever scores the most points wins.

That's it and you can play it right now by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=forestshuffle

But if you are curious about the game and want to play it in no-time, do not forget that you can learn it in a bliss by selecting the interactive tutorial.
We can only thank Lookout games and their team, as well as the game designer Kosch and the developer firgon for bringing the game to your beloved platform.
They deserves a lot of love for this and their strong support, especially cause they release the game for all as FREE from now until Essen Spiel (after which it will go Premium).

It's the end of SUMMER OF GAMES.

There's today... and tomorrow.
And after Thursday, the calendar displayed on the home page will end.
So, how many of you were able to catch more than a single trophy?
And how many of you will be able to check them all on tomorrow night?
We will share the statistics about them in the dedicated topic.

Thanks a lot for your support of BGA. There's now more than 9 Million accounts and a huge part of the players can use the platform thanks to the Premium users. That's a huge international community, and we are more than happy that more and more people join the platform every day.

That's it for today,
Thank you for reading,
And until next week... Take care, and play fair!
(and the best to everyone going back to school soon).

Assemble your Viking crew to explore new destinations in the world and trade!

In Knarr, you are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings who accompany you, you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth. Each turn, you:

Place a new member in your Viking crew, activating the effects on each of them with the same icon, and get another from those available under the matching color on the central board, or
Explore new destinations, with the opportunity to trade with those places and get more gains or reputation.

Check more about the game by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=knarr

Don't forget that you can learn the game in a hurry by playing the tutorial included!

Let's celebrate Bombyx, the publisher, as well as the game designer Thomas Dupont and obviously, the almighty developer behind this version : thoun.
Thanks a lot to them for bringing this title to the platform, especially as the game is a novelty from 2023.

That's it for today!
We're only a few days before the end of the Summer of Games Calendar.
How many badges/trophies were you able to collect ?
See you on Wednesday for the usual WRT and until then,
play fair and take care!