AGE OF CIVILIZATION: When evolution strikes!

In the Age of Civilization, you must lead your people to their glorious future. Analyze the characteristics of every era you are facing, make the best choice for your kingdom development, and become several famous civilizations in our fascinating history. By going through the rise and fall of empires, a unique civilization of yours will finally arise!
Age of Civilization is a pocket-sized civilization game. Throughout one game, each player leads up to three historical civilizations to form a unique combination of abilities. Players build Wonders, research technology, develop culture, conquer for glory, or even exploit their people. Only the player who wisely manages their workers and wealth can achieve the greatest civilization.
Game-play overview
The game is played with 6 rounds. In the 1st round, each player picks one civilization card in the market and gains a number of worker tokens according to the population value indicated on the civilization card. Players may assign workers to action slots in the public region. There are usually 5-6 actions for each player to choose and these actions change between rounds. By assigning workers, players carry out the actions' effects such as earning coins or paying coins for technologies, wonders, or victory points, etc. At the end of a player's turn, workers may return to the player or disappear according to the kind of action it was working on.
In subsequent rounds, players MAY pick another civilization card to replace their previous one. In that case, you reset the number of your workers to the population value indicated on the new civilization card and you lose the main ability of your previous civilization, but the legacy abilities of all your civilizations last forever. In each game, a player can only pick three civilization cards in total, so deciding when to raise a new civilization and which civilization combinations to pick is a big strategic decision of players. When the 6th round ends, the player with the most victory points is the winner.
Convinced? Give it a try here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... vilization
We would love to thank not only Mistergos, who developed this game for Board Game Arena, but also Jeffrey CCH and ICE Makes publishing for giving authorization to have this game here.
And that's it for today!
Come Wednesday, we will have more for you.
But that's it for the moment.
Take care and play fair!
DICE HOSPITAL: Emergency roll. Bring me Carter! (or Doogie Howser).

Dice Hospital: ERā Emergency Roll is a standalone 'flip, roll and write' game set in the Dice Hospital universe.
In Dice Hospital: ERā Emergency Roll everyone tries to treat as many patients in their hospital as possible: filling their wards, admitting patients, choosing when & where to station nurses, using screens to isolate patients, and satisfying the demands of the three Specialists.
Each round the active player flips over an ambulance card for each of the three colors revealing an action, and a dice of each color is rolled and allocated underneath the respective cards. Once the active player chooses their action, other players choose any non-selected action and associated die to do their own action. At the end of the round the player to the left of the active player becomes the new active player.
The game ends when the Ambulance deck is used up. The player with the most points wins.
Curious about it? Click this link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... hospitaler
But if you are in an emergency and can not wait to diagnose the rules, you can try the tutorial included!
We have to thank the awesome team from Alley Cat Games, and the designers, Matthew Dunstan & Brett J. Gilbert for their authorization to bring this game to the platform. But it is all thanks to the surgeon that dissected the game to develop it that we have Dice Hospital: ER online, named firgon.
Time to curate this game through your boardgaming friends!
That's it for today!
Let us know which game from this series you prefer: sharing is caring!
See you next week,
and until then...
Take care and play fair!
GIZMOS : Bright light. Bright light...

Who will prove themselves as the greatest inventor at the Science Fair?
Fast, fun, and addictive!
The Great Science Fair is drawing together the sharpest minds of our generation. However, only one can be crowned champion. They will have to prove they are the best by thinking on the fly and building their machines quickly and efficiently. Whose project will rise to the top?
In Gizmos, players look to create the most magnificent of machines, taking on the role of inventors at the Great Science Fair. By utilizing four different types of energy marbles taken from the innovative Energy Dispenser, they will purchase and construct new Gizmos. Players need to plan ahead, because Gizmos will be able to chain-react with each other giving multiple results from a single action. The player with the most victory points is declared the winner.
At the beginning of the game, you have 4 actions:
File : Move a card from the public area to your Archive, allowing only you to build it later.
Pick : Take one energy marble from the 3D marble dispenser into your storage.
Build : Build one machine and add it to your line-up! You have to pay the marbles with colors corresponding to the card cost.
Research : Research some blueprint cards and File or Build one of them. The rest go to the bottom of the deck.
Machines give you victory points and allow you to do more actions when conditions are met. As you build, new attachments can trigger chain reactions, letting you do even more on your turn.
Curious? You have to be! Click here to find out if the game is for you!
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=gizmos
No games without a publisher, and it is all up to the CMON team and the authorization of the fantastic Phil Walker-Harding, who is also the designer of this very unique game.
And what about this adaptation for BGA? It's been ported by Fletcheese, who did an incredible job bringing the game online and playable on most devices. Try it!
That's it for today!
Have you already played the 500+ games available on the platform?
Don't worry, next week we will release another amazing game... or two.
Until then, take care and play fair!
Bye Billy.
CUBOSAURS: Paper angry birds.

Because they are basically birds with teeth for some...
Evolution!
Each type of dinosaur you draft has its own scoring rules, earning or costing points depending on the number of these specific cards you have gathered by the end of the round. To score higher than your opponents, you must decide each turn whether you want to take the hand of cards you were offered, or to pass it to the next player. But declining a hand has a real cost: you must be able to add a new card to it, taken from your dinosaur herdā and this card must be different from all other cards already in the hand. If you are smart, you can use this to your advantage and get rid of the cards negatively impacting your collection. If you want a chance to win, you will also have to avoid being left with no other choices than taking the worst handsā¦
That's it and you should try it out by clicking the tutorial included.
Or if you want to dive deep into the wilderness of an unknown rule? Click below to check the gamepage:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=cubosaurs
We would love to thank Fabien Tanguy and the Catch Up Games team, as well as Tabaskov for developing the game for Board Game Arena!
If you like some small card game with a nice twist, you can dive in it right now, and if not, you should give a second chance to the dinosaurs. They deserve it.
That's it for this Monday,
See you in a few days for another amazing release,
Until then,
Take care and play fair!
VAALBARA: What it feels to be the king?

Neolithic clan leaders settle once and for all who will rule them all.
Each player plays as a clan leader and has to secretly and wisely play a card from their hand, representing a member of their tribe, to try to take over some territories. Strategy and timing will be crucial for scoring! The player that scores the most points after 9 rounds wins the game.
Subcontinent of Vaalbara, Neolithic era. Your tribe sets out to explore uncharted lands in order to establish sedentary villages. Use the various talents of your tribe to optimize your development, expand your territory, and enforce your dominance!
All players have the same deck of 12 cards representing the members of their tribe. Each turn, players secretly choose one card. In the order of initiative of the revealed Characters, players will be able to activate their powers and take over one of the available Territories. Each type of Territory has its own way of scoring points (collection, pair, diversity, riskā¦). Deciding between playing the best powers and high initiatives at the most opportune moment will be difficult. After 9 rounds, the player with the most points wins the game and unites the tribes of the continent under their banner!
You should try out the tutorial included to learn more about the very-specific mechanics of the game, since it only takes a few minutes to understand what it is all about!
And you can click the link below to find out how smart it can be, and how smart you need to be:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=vaalbara
We must thank all of the Studio H for their authorization, as well as the fantastic work done by Moof who developed it for Board Game Arena. Thanks to it's minimallistic display, it works very well on mobile as well as on desktop. Try it!
The game designed by Olivier CipiĆØre is already a hit on some countries, and he deserves a lot of thanks for allowing the game to be published here as well.
That's it for today's release!
What will be next?
Let me check my crystal ball... I see...
Large animals from the past... Complex machineries... What seems to be dice... Ancient civilizations... and a moon?
Ok, it's all mixed up, but what i can clearly see is that we will have a fantastic year of releases!
See you next week and until then,
Play fair and take care!
Arena season 12: go!

Congratulations to all participants and winners from the previous season!
But wait, what exactly is "the Arena?"
The Arena is the competitive mode on BGA. If you master a game and want to play it competitively, this is THE mode to use, so you can challenge the best players and get the most experience points.
The Arena is organized in seasons of 3 months each. Achievements are awarded to the best players at the end of each season.
To play in the Arena: select "Play" and then choose "Arena" instead of "Simple game."
Read more about Arena mode
Arena format and Gurus
In the last 5 seasons, it was you (more exactly the gurus) who chose the game formats for the Arena: player number, options used, ...
We are very happy to see that this way of doing things contributed to making the Arena more popular: thank you to all gurus for their smart suggestions and their votes!
Rules updates
No Arena rules are changing this season. It does not mean we are 100% satisfied with how the Arena is running, but you seem to appreciate the current rules so we want to keep them as they are for now.
Season 12 is NOW Launched.
The new Arena is now open for its new season.
Some Explanation About: Relegations
At the end of each season, after winners have been awarded, you are relegated.
Some custom relegation rules may have been applied to a game for some reason (ex: we decided to reduce the number of leagues), but in general here is what happens:
- For games with 6 or 5 different leagues, all players are decreased by 3 leagues.
- For games with 4 different leagues, all players are decreased by 2 leagues.
- For games with 2 or 3 different leagues, all players are decreased by 1 league.
- For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena points is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
And i think to myself... IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD!

It's also a new year that starts with a big name in game!
In Itās a Wonderful World, you are an expanding empire and must choose your path to the future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You will carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world.
Itās a Wonderful World is a card drafting and engine building game for 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources, and which ones will be kept for construction to produce resources each round and/or gain victory points.
When a card is fully built, it is added to the playerās empire to increase the playerās production capacity for each round. The mechanical twist being that the production phase works in a specific order. You will have to plan your constructions carefully!
If you never played the game, you will soon discover why it won so many awards all around the globe. And it is easy to learn because there is a TUTORIAL available for you!
Ready to play? Click this link below to go to the game page, plenty of players are already waiting for you!
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... erfulworld
We would love to thank the developers who did an amazing job here first, Kayvon & Mogri. It is not their first game and they ensured you can play from pretty much anywhere on any device. Kudos to them!
Of course, no games without game designers, and it is all up to FrƩdƩric GuƩrard, and the wonderful teams from La Boite de Jeux & Origames.
We would like to warmly thank them for authorizing the game to be ported to our platform.
And now, what are we gonna do tonight?
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!
See you next week, and until then, take care and play fair!
CAPER: Europe- Will you be the mastermind? + 2023

Play your cards right and you will be the greatest mastermind ever to roam Europe!
Your role as criminal mastermind is to recruit a crew of thieves, send them to locations across Europe, and provide them with gear. It is your job to utilize your resources efficiently to steal goods, but being a great mastermind is about more than the things you walk away with. It is the thrill of a well thought-out plan coming together: the set-up, the sting. Properly deploy your thieves and gear to dominate locations, outmaneuver your opponent's plans, and win the night. You have six rounds to plan and play your cards. Nothing like a tight timeline to up the stakes!
Caper: Europe is a two-player drafting game. You take turns sending thieves to famous locations across Europe, vying for control through special card powers. These thieves have tricks up their sleeves, which you can enhance by adding gear to them. Controlling the locations is not everything- priceless stolen goods await the thief who is clever enough to snatch them first.
Your goal is to score the most points by winning locations, collecting stolen goods, and equipping thieves with their preferred gear. The mastermind with the most points, tallied at the end of six rounds, wins.
You can play it here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=capereurope
And there is a tutorial available there!
We would like to thank the Keymaster Games team and Unai Rubio for their authorization to bring the game on BGA, as well as Kayvon and Mogri who developed this version for the platform! They all deserve some love!
And lastly:
Today, the 2022 Winter Calendar has ended. There were plenty of games released, and if you missed them, you can check the list here:
Also, a lot of you participated this year in the daily gift opening craze!
-> 72812 players have opened at least one gift
-> 16039 players have gotten the first award (3 days opened in a row)
-> 6249 players have gotten the second award (10 days opened in a row)
-> 3089 players have gotten the third award (20 days opened in a row)
-> 1518 players managed to make it to the final award! (31 days opened in a row!) Congratulations!
You all deserve some love.
Thanks to all of you for playing games on Board Game Arena. This year has been very tough but the best is still yet to come.
You will be able to witness the changes on our platform during the next months.
As always, don't forget to drop your feedback (we care) and to report any issues (bugs, etc).
And lastly...
Play fair and take care!
We wish you a very good, healthy, and happy new year 2023!
WAR CHEST: Fight for the hexagons!

In War Chest you take on the role of medieval battlefield commanders, vying to gain control of tactical battlefield locations.
War Chest is an all-new bag-building war game! At the start of the game, raise your banner call (drafting) several different units into your army, which you then use to capture key points on the board. To succeed in War Chest, you must successfully manage not only your armies on the battlefield, but those that are waiting to be deployed.
Each round you draw three unit coins from your bag, then take turns using them to perform actions. Each coin shows a military unit on one side and can be used for one of several actions. The game ends when one player- or one team in the case of a four-player game- has placed all of their control markers. That player or team wins!
You can enjoy it now by clicking right here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=warchest
And of course, there is a tutorial available for you to learn how to play it.
We would love to thank Alderac Entertainment for giving their authorization to have this game on the platform, as well as the game designers Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson for their help.
And... there's no games on #BGA without a developer, and it's all up to the fantastic work of tchobello that you can play it from any device. Or most.
That's it for today!
There's still a few days left for the Winter Calendar.
Are you ready for the latest releases of this year?
Until next week, take care and play fair!
CAVERNA: A long time ago, in a far, far away grotto...

An all-time hit that is rocking Board Game Arena Now!
Yabba-dabba-doo!
Following the same lines as its predecessor (Agricola), Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement game at heart, with a focus on farming. In the game, you are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains. You begin the game with a farmer and his spouse, and each member of the farming family represents an action that the player can take each turn. Together, you cultivate the forest in front of your cave and dig deeper into the mountain. You furnish the caves as dwellings for your offspring as well as working spaces for small enterprises.
It is up to you how much ore you want to mine. You will need it to forge weapons that allow you to go on expeditions to gain bonus items and actions. While digging through the mountain, you may come across water sources and find ore and ruby mines that help you increase your wealth. Right in front of your cave, you can increase your wealth even further with agriculture: You can cut down the forest to sow fields and fence in pastures to hold your animals. You can also expand your family while running your ever-growing farm. In the end, the player with the most efficiently developed home board wins.
You can also play the solo variant of this game to familiarize yourself with the 48 different furnishing tiles for your cave.
Caverna: The Cave Farmers, which has a playing time of roughly 30 minutes per player, is a complete redesign of Agricola that substitutes the card decks from the former game with a set of buildings while adding the ability to purchase weapons and send your farmers on quests to gain further resources. Designer Uwe Rosenberg says that the game includes parts of Agricola, but also has new ideas, especially the cave part of your game board, where you can build mines and search for rubies. The game also includes two new animals: dogs and donkeys.
You can try it right now by clicking here, but don't be late: there are already close to 1,000 games in progress!
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=caverna
Of course, we would love to thank Uwe Rosenberg from bringing this game to the platform, as well as the publisher Lookout Games.
Let's not forget the two developer that made it possible: Tisaac and Vincent, who brilliantly brought this game online. They have super powers!
That's it for today.
Enjoy theses "end of the year" days, and as always...
Take care and play fair!