We are shaking things up and bringing you way more games than usual. And it's not even the Winter of Games yet…

Starting this month, you can expect plenty of fresh releases making their way to your table. No promises, no set schedule, just plenty of new games to discover, whenever they’re ready to play!

As the weekend approaches, it is time to put the spreadsheets away, leave the stress of the week behind and bring out the meeples, cards and other dice to embrace the weekend!

Let’s talk about the gems that came out this week:

Harmonies - Pulse

Challenge your spatial planning skills in Harmonies with the Pulse expansion. These new animal cards introduce complex conditions, creating a more dynamic board with every game. The now famous tile placement game offers a deeply satisfying, meditative experience as you watch your unique, colorful ecosystem come to life on your personal board. Thanks to Johan Benvenuto, the game designer, Libellud, the publisher, and Mizutismask for the GBA port.

Collect! Sharp and Shimmer

This expansion to this brilliant card game brings competitive flair to the card-collecting base game by introducing aggressive new animal abilities that let you directly sabotage your opponents. It injects a hilarious, high-stakes edge into the core gameplay, forcing you to constantly adapt your strategy to outsmart others. A tip of the hat to Jérémy Ducret and Johannes Goupy, the game designers, CMON, the publisher, and Moof for the BGA version.

Faraway - Beyond the Veil

The third expansion of the tactical card game lets you explore a new region in Faraway, where you must play your cards with foresight, plot your path, and optimize your decisions to achieve the highest score. A shout-out to Johannes Goupy and Corentin Lebrat, the game designers, Catch Up Games, the publisher and Moof, who developed this version.

It is worth reminding you that Bohemians and Nemesis: Retaliation were also released this week, but we already talked about them.

Enjoy the weekend and see you next week. In the meantime, take care and play fair…

No intel. No blueprints. Just a dropship, kind of a map, and a mission briefing that boils down to "kill the Queen and hope you're still human when it's over." Nemesis: Retaliation delivers on every word of that.

You play a squad of marines sent into a Facility crawling with alien horrors. Sounds cooperative, right? Well, it isn't… not really. Everyone's got a shared Mission Task, sure, but you're also secretly holding a Private Objective, and that hidden agenda might mean leaving a teammate behind, or worse, sabotaging the whole plan for a payday. This is a game where the person watching your back might also be quietly hoping you don't make it back to the shuttle.

Each turn, you get 2 Actions. You can move, shoot, search, patch a wound, whatever keeps you breathing. Move through unexplored corridors and you flip new rooms into existence, building the Facility as you go, never knowing what's behind the next door. Make noise, and something might hear you. Roll badly, and a creature crawls out of the dark and into your face.

Combat is tense rather than tactical; bullets don't guarantee kills. Fire spreads. Oxygen runs out. And that little Larva bite you shrugged off? It might be quietly turning you into something else entirely, something you won't find out about until it's far too late.

Trust is the real currency in Nemesis: Retaliation, and it runs out fast. You'll share ammo with someone one turn and wonder if they're planning to leave you behind the next. Every promise made over comms could be true, or just enough to keep you moving toward someone else's goal. By the end, the scariest thing in the Facility might not be the Queen at all, it's realizing you never really know who is on your side.

Need some tips? Communicate and don’t die!

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We would like to thank Adam Kwapiński, the game creator, and Awaken Realms, the publisher, for this opportunity to let aliens infest our platform. And our thanks also go to Tisaac and KuWizard for surviving waves of horrors long enough to deliver this BGA port.

This was your Wednesday release.

In the end, there is one thing you must do above all: survive. Take care and play fair…

Paris, at the turn of the twentieth century. You are an artist wandering the streets, striving to create masterpieces, embarking on romantic escapades, seeking inspiration and trying to keep misery at bay. Welcome to a Bohemian’s life!

As a struggling artist, your stomach may be empty, but your head is overflowing with ambition. You have rejected the monotony of mainstream society to chase the sublime. Your journey is defined by your routine, a fragile collection of habits that either push you toward greatness or trap you in cycles of misery. The game is played over three phases: the Wake Up Phase, where you plan your daily routine by playing Habit and Muse cards; the Day Phase, where you narrate your story, count your earned Inspiration, and spend it to acquire new cards or gain one of the coveted Achievement cards; and the Sleep Phase, where BGA does things nobody else wants to do…

You got it right: Bohemians is a card game. Each card you play is a hearbeat, a moment of inspiration captured on canvas, stage, or page, while every hardship you endure serves as a poignant reminder of the cost of your artistic freedom.

This is also a game about transformation, where inspiration is your currency, and if not spent immediately, it is stored in the Atelier, a sanctuary where you spend it to trigger powerful effects. Your goal is to become the most famous artist of your time by earning five Achievement cards. Each one represents the peak of your hard work and shows how you overcame your struggles.

Gather your courage, perfect your craft, and leave your true legacy. Will you find fame, or will you be forgotten by history?

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Thank you to Jasper de Lange, the game designer, and Portal Games for letting us add their game to our platform. And a huge thank you to jafabi, who painted a perfect picture on BGA.

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Step onto the picturesque streets of Paris and change the world with your art. Take care and play fair…

Winter is ending… somewhere… probably… It definitely is in Frosted Blooms, a 2026 Kennerspiel des Jahres recommended game.

The crisp Dutch air carries the lingering chill of winter, occasionally gracing the awakening fields with a delicate morning frost. Yet, beneath this fleeting shimmer, the first determined tulips push skyward, their bold colors promising a vibrant spring to come.

You are a gardener, and an ambitious one at that. You compete to cultivate the most amazing display of tulips. In this tile placement and building improvements game, you select patches of land and strategically place iconic windmills and barns, while assigning diligent workers to create a harmonious and valuable landscape.

Over 10 rounds, each turn you must take a tile, expand your garden, and play a card. Once you’re done with these, you can place improvements such as workers, barns and windmills, all of which, along with any objectives you accomplish throughout a game, will grant you extra points at the end.

The solo mode in Frosted Blooms gives you the opportunity to challenge the Master Gardener who knows the best secrets for growing the perfect garden and plays by his own special rules. You might learn a thing or two and become a Master Gardener yourself.

Go ahead and give the tutorial a go to learn the ropes of the game. Will your garden then blossom into the most celebrated masterpiece of the season? Only one way to find out…

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We would like to thank Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc, the game designers, as well as all the gardeners at Synapses Games for planting the seed on the platform. And a tip of the straw hat to Ábel Tibor Tóth, the master gardener who grew the BGA version.

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Plan carefully, grow with style, and make your tulip garden the pride of the lands! Take care and play fair…

The wardrobe is a mess. Why does no one tidy up anymore… All the clothes are mixed up, and it is time to organize all of this. A nice spring cleaning doesn’t do any harm, quite the opposite. Even if it isn’t Springtime where you live…

Welcome to Piles! Your objective is to arrange face-down cards sitting in front of you into sets of four matching pieces of clothing. Some articles are designed to look similar to trick you. Pay close attention when creating sets.

This game is a race. There are no turns. You all play simultaneously. Speed, memory, and reaction time are crucial to success. The game begins when the four center cards are flipped over. Once the center cards are flipped, you can instantly begin to play and look at your piles. Due to the fast-paced nature of the game, the center cards will become disorganized. Don’t worry, the center cards do not need to remain in a perfect row. They simply need to stay in the middle so all players have easy access, and guess what… we will take care of that.

Keep mixing and matching until all six piles in front of you are matching sets. And then you yell “PILES!” to claim victory. And then you realize that whoever heard you shout is wondering what’s going on. And then you have to explain that you were playing Piles! and that it is a great, simple, and catchy game and you want to play some more…

Piles! is a fast-paced set collecting card game. If you like organizing things, if you don’t like organizing things, and if you like shouting at your screen, you have some fun coming your way.

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We would like to thank KC Schrimpl, the game designer, as well as everyone at Lost Boy Entertainment for letting us add their game to the platform. We’d also like to thank Jiiru, who was super organized and delivered the BGA port.

This was your Monday release.

Embrace your inner Marie Kondō and let’s get organized. Take care and play fair…

It's the year 820. Baghdad is buzzing with poets, scholars, and astronomers, all gathered under the House of Wisdom. And you? You're a wayfarer. A wanderer with a caravan and a handful of dice, ready to chase everything the world has to offer: the lands beyond the city walls, the rivers vanishing out of sight, and the stars scattered across the night sky. The Caliph is watching. He wants to know what's out there. And you're going to find out…

Wayfarers of the South Tigris is a strategy game mixing placement, collection, and engine building. You start with a couple of workers, a few dice, some coins and provisions in your pack. Every turn, you make a choice: you can roll out a die, sending it onto your board or onto a place you've already discovered, unlocking whatever that spot has to offer. You can send out a worker into the wider world on the shared map, to strike deals, gather resources, or push your journal forward. Or, when you're worn out, you can rest, catch your breath, and if you've truly spent yourself down to nothing, you're rewarded for it.

The game rolls on for as many turns as it takes, until the end-game is triggered. That's the moment every wayfarer eventually reaches: the far edge of the journal, five spaces waiting at the very end, each one big enough for only one traveler.

The instant someone claims their spot, the countdown starts. But nobody's cut off mid-story. Every player gets one last turn to finish what they started, one last die to roll, one last card to claim, before the journals close for good.

Pack your provisions, roll your dice, and see how far your story takes you. The map is waiting.

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A heartfelt thank you to Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald, the game designers, as well as Garphill Games, the publisher, for putting a map in our hands and letting us wander. And thank you to Victoria_La for building the road leading to BGA.

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You now have the map in your hands, so let’s wander. But remember: take care and play fair...

A mad scientist named Dr Foo has built an unstable time machine, the Omniscience 2000, and is using it to hop between seven great Eras of history, spawning duplicates of himself and tearing open rifts in spacetime.

Those rifts are slowly shredding reality itself. If too many pile up on one Era, it turns into a Vortex, and if the universe accumulates too many Vortexes, everything is destroyed and the players lose together. Yes, the LOOP is a coop game! Standing in Dr Foo’s way is a ragtag squad of Time Agents, you and the other players, armed with a personal deck of quirky "Artifact”.

Each Agent's turn feels like a little adventure of its own. You hop from Era to Era, spending your Energy to move, then dip into you hand of cards to patch up rifts, take down Foo’s duplicates, or scrounge up more energy for later. With every turn that ticks by, Dr Foo grows bolder, spinning off more duplicates and hurling rifts into the timeline, forcing you and your team to stay one step ahead or watch the universe collapse.

Like in most coop games, there is one way to win and multiple ways to lose. Success means the team puts away four sabotaged pieces and therefore save spacetime, closing with a triumphant "K.U.D.O.S!" from headquarters and, well, some XP, but that’s a BGA exclusive... Failure means the Agency's wall of shame gains new names, and the universe quietly ceases to exist. NO PRESSURE… but… EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON YOU!

You’ll have a Designated Instructor accompanying you through the tutorial if you want to get acquainted with how to defeat Dr Foo and his terrible time machine. Otherwise, the first time portal is waiting for you.

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Our gratitude goes to Maxime Rambourg and Théo Rivière, the game designers, and everyone at Catch Up Games for allowing agents to save the universe on BGA. And thanks to Oberstille for building a machine (the good kind, not Dr Foo's) that runs so smoothly on the platform.

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We recommend you listen to the Foo Fighters while playing, as it couldn’t be more on brand. Whatever music you choose, take care and play fair…

You know it for sure: you’re gonna hit 2,500 this round. You’re only 200 points away from victory. You pick your three dice and roll them. It feels like they’re rolling in slow motion. One star… two stars… The third die is still rolling… It’s in the hands of fate now, you’ll bust or you’ll Tally Up!

The goal of Tally Up! is simple: be the first person to hit 2,500 points. This is a high-stakes group gamble where you’re all building up a shared pot of points, but will you know when to walk away with your winnings before the whole thing crashes?

The game revolves around a player who chooses three dice to roll, each with its own level of risk and reward. Once those dice are cast, the numbers on them create a "running total" of points for everyone in the round. But watch out for stars: if two of them show up at any point, the round ends in a bust, the points vanish, and anyone who stayed in the game walks away with absolutely nothing for that round.

After every single roll, everyone has to decide: stay in to chase a higher score, or play it safe and go out to bank your share of the current total? If you go out, you safely add your share to your total score and sit back to watch the others. If you stay in, you're hoping for more points from the "Up Die", a special die that, when in play, can double your points, add extra rolls, but also penalize the group.

But there is more: a bit of chaotic luck involved with the "Tally Up!" bonus. If the initial roll lands on three stars, everyone needs to rush because the first person who clicks (or taps or whatever needs to be done on your device) on the "Tally Up!" button grabs a 200-point bonus, even if they had already decided to bow out of the round.

So, will you play safe or get greedy?

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We're staying in on this one: thanks to Eric Olsen, the game designer, and Messy Table Games, the publisher, for letting us use their game. And we're banking our thanks to BanBan, the game developer, for the BGA port.

This was your Wednesday release.

Happiness is only a roll away. Take care and play fair…

Your birthday is coming (yes, it is, maybe not in the coming days but it eventually will) and you’ve decided that this year, you’ll make the birthday cake. And what better place to do so than your own shop…

Got What It Bakes? is a strategic, yet cozy, roll-and-write game (even is solo mode), where you run an artisan bakery. Over the course of three rounds you will plan, draft and bake, building your bakery's reputation one recipe at a time.

Each round begins with planning: study the recipes on offer and decide which breads and pastries are worth chasing. Then comes the drafting, where dice become ingredients. Finally, you mix and bake, turning your carefully gathered resources into finished creations worthy of a display case.

But a bakery doesn't run on flour alone. Manage your Time and Money carefully: spend too fast and you'll be caught short on the recipes that matter most. Invest wisely in kitchen and tools upgrades, and your bakery will grow with every round.

Sometimes the oven isn't the only thing that needs heating up. Use a Refreshment at just the right moment, and you'll get the boost needed to push a difficult creation over the finish line. And when the pressure's on, you can always reach for the "Bake if You Dare!" action, a shortcut that trades safety for speed, and might cost your whole batch.

Play it safe or risk it all. Either way, by the end of three rounds, you'll know exactly what you're made of and what you bake.

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We would like to thank Marianna Béres and Anikó Sajgó, the game designers, and Myam Games, the publisher, for letting us borrow a slice of their oven. And thanks to Ábel Tibor Tóth (Doctor Neo Cortex) for cooking the BGA port to perfection.

This was your Monday release.

Licking the spoon does not cost anything. Take care and play fair…

We are starting the back-to-school month with a bang! Hegemony: Lead your Class to Victory made a massive splash upon release and received multiple awards, because of how it simulates real-world politics and macroeconomics.

In this asymmetric, card-driven political-economic simulation, you control a completely different socio-economic class of a modern nation, each with its own unique components, actions, and paths to victory.

There are four roles you can play: the Working Class, whose goal is to find jobs for the workers, increase its population and secure high wages;  the Capitalist Class whose objective is pure profit; the Middle Class, which balances between higher wages and lower taxes; and the State, that must maintain social stability and legitimacy.

While you have your own separate goals, all the players are limited by a series of policies that affect most of their actions, like Taxation, Labor Market, Foreign Trade, etc. Voting on those policies and using their influence to change them is also very important. Through careful planning, strategic actions and political maneuvering, you will do your best to increase the power of your class and carry out your agenda.

Hegemony: Lead your Class to Victory is played over a five rounds. Each one consists of multiple phases: the Action Phase, the Production Phase, the Elections Phase and the Scoring Phase. At the end of the 5th round, there is an additional Endgame step and end-game scoring is applied.

Will you take the side of the workers and fight for social reforms, or will you stand with the corporations and the free market?

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Our thanks go to Vangelis Bagiartakis and Varnavas Timotheou, the game designers, as well as Hegemonic Project Games ,the publisher, for letting you try to achieve hegemony on the platform. And a big thank you to both Thalack and scottwever for the BGA port of this heavy machinery.

This was your Wednesday release.

You’re the only person who can provide guidance in this raging war, so take care and play fair…