Economic Games

In the captivating steampunk world of Brass Empire, corporate titans vie for supremacy in a high-stakes struggle for resources and technological dominance. As the CEO of your burgeoning corporation, you'll strategically deploy workers to mine precious ore, construct powerful buildings, and recruit formidable units, all while skillfully managing your deck of cards. This innovative 2016 deck-building game combines engine-building and area control elements, challenging players to optimize their resource flow, outmaneuver rivals, and strategically build an unstoppable industrial empire to claim ultimate victory. Experience intense corporate warfare and strategic card play in this engaging board game.

Prepare to forge an industrial empire in Brass: Pittsburgh, the highly anticipated economic strategy board game launching in 2026. This standalone iteration of the critically acclaimed Brass series immerses players in the steel city's historic industrial revolution, challenging them to build and manage a sophisticated network of canals, railroads, and factories. Strategically produce goods, capitalize on market demands, and outmaneuver rivals to dominate the resource management landscape and achieve ultimate economic prosperity. With deep strategic choices and intricate network building mechanics, Brass: Pittsburgh offers a compelling competitive experience for fans of complex eurogames and new players eager to dive into a richly themed industrial simulation.

Concordia: Special Edition (2027) invites players to relive the glory of the Roman Empire, strategically expanding their influence across the Mediterranean. As powerful Roman families, your ultimate goal is to establish robust trade networks, build prosperous colonies, and master the art of economic prowess to accumulate the most victory points. This acclaimed Eurogame is celebrated for its elegant design, focusing on indirect player interaction and a satisfying blend of strategic depth with accessible rules, making it a cornerstone for serious board game enthusiasts and new strategists alike. At its core, Concordia utilizes a brilliant action selection mechanism driven by a hand of persona cards. Each turn, players play one card to perform a specific action – such as colonizing new provinces, producing goods, trading resources, or acquiring new persona cards to expand their strategic options. The game's unique card-driven engine building allows for flexible play, where optimizing your hand and understanding the timing of your actions is paramount. Unlike many Eurogames, there's no dice rolling or random events; success hinges purely on your tactical decisions and foresight, rewarding careful planning over luck. What truly sets Concordia apart is its remarkable replayability and 'low aggression, high interaction' dynamic. While players don't directly attack each other, competition for prime building locations, valuable resources, and crucial persona cards creates constant tension and strategic races. The scoring system, tied to various Roman gods, encourages diverse strategies and ensures that no single path to victory dominates, inviting players to explore different approaches in every game. This Special Edition promises an enhanced experience of a timeless classic, offering a premium presentation of a game renowned for its smooth gameplay, intellectual challenge, and enduring appeal.

In "Towers of Sifnos," players are transported to the ancient Aegean, where they take on the roles of Greek commanders on the titular island. Sifnos, renowned for its rich gold, silver, and lead mines, has become a target for relentless pirate raids. Your charge is not merely to survive, but to thrive amidst the chaos, developing the island's defenses and securing its resources for your own legacy. This is a deeply strategic experience where the primary objective is to accumulate the most victory points. Victory is achieved by shrewdly expanding your influence over the island's lucrative mining regions, constructing a formidable network of defensive towers, and proving your military prowess by successfully fending off the waves of pirate invaders. Every decision contributes to your standing, and only the commander with the greatest foresight and influence will be remembered as the true protector of Sifnos. The gameplay is a masterful blend of card-driven action selection, hand management, and engine building. Each round challenges players to carefully manage their resources and plan their strategy. A turn begins with a 'prepare' step, where you can play cards into your personal action columns. This crucial phase requires you to pay for these cards by discarding other cards of a matching resource type, creating a compelling engine-building puzzle as you permanently upgrade your future actions. Following this, you must choose two of three distinct main actions: 'Invest' allows you to place dice onto the board's provinces to establish influence, with forts providing greater placement flexibility; 'Construct' lets you erect towers, gaining immediate rewards and bolstering your control; and 'Muster' involves deploying and maneuvering soldiers to build up military 'might'. This might becomes critical when three dice occupy a province, triggering a 'defend' phase where players compare their combined strength from dice, towers, and soldiers to repel the invasion and earn valuable bonuses. "Towers of Sifnos" distinguishes itself with its tight, interactive design and the multi-faceted nature of its strategic puzzles. The constant tension between long-term engine building and immediate territorial contention creates a highly engaging dynamic. Do you invest in cards that will power up your actions for the rest of the game, or do you seize a critical location on the board right now? The ability to build on top of an opponent’s tower, albeit at a cost, ensures that no position is ever completely secure, fostering a healthy level of player interaction without being overly confrontational. The game’s appeal lies in this rewarding strategic depth, offering a significant step up from gateway games without becoming overwhelmingly complex. It’s a compelling challenge for players who relish seeing a plan come together, combining clever hand management with tactical board presence to outwit their rivals and secure victory over the riches of the ancient isles.

"Concordia Venus: Balearica / Italia" is an expansion map pack for the acclaimed Eurogame, "Concordia Venus" (which itself is a standalone game compatible with the original "Concordia"). Players take on the roles of Roman patricians, establishing vast trade networks and colonizing provinces across the Mediterranean. The ultimate goal is to accumulate the most victory points by strategically expanding their empire, collecting sets of goods, and demonstrating mastery over various Roman deities. This highly strategic game challenges players to balance immediate gains with long-term prosperity, all within the historical backdrop of the burgeoning Roman Empire. At its core, Concordia utilizes an elegant hand management and action selection system. Players start with an identical hand of seven personality cards, each granting a specific action like moving colonists, producing goods, selling goods, or recruiting new specialists. Crucially, playing a \"Tribune\" card allows players to retrieve all previously played cards, dictating the tempo and rhythm of their turns. This simple yet profound mechanic ensures players are constantly evaluating their card play, planning several turns ahead, and adapting to their opponents' moves. The Balearica and Italia maps introduce fresh layouts and strategic challenges, forcing veteran players to re-evaluate their established build orders and trade routes. Concordia is celebrated for its deep strategic gameplay wrapped in accessible rules. It's a game of efficiency, timing, and resource management without the often overwhelming complexity found in other heavy Euros. Its unique appeal lies in its \"point salad\" scoring system, where nearly every action contributes to victory points, making every decision feel meaningful. The lack of luck, direct conflict, and clear path to victory encourages diverse strategies and high replayability. \"Balearica / Italia\" enhances this by providing new geographical puzzles, ensuring that each game offers a fresh, engaging challenge for those who appreciate elegant design and cerebral gameplay.

The Concordia: 8 Forum Cards mini-expansion is an essential upgrade for fans of the acclaimed strategy game Concordia, enriching the core experience with powerful, unique abilities that challenge players to adapt their economic and expansion strategies in ancient Roman times. It maintains the original goal of achieving prosperity and influence across the Roman Empire, but introduces exciting new avenues for tactical advantage and strategic planning, ensuring every game presents fresh and compelling choices. This mini-expansion seamlessly integrates into Concordia's elegant card-driven gameplay. At the start of the game, players draft two Forum Cards, selecting one to keep. These cards provide asymmetrical player powers or special actions, such as gaining extra resources, relocating colonists more efficiently, or altering scoring conditions. They introduce a significant layer of strategic depth, forcing players to consider new synergies with their existing hand management and set collection decisions, and respond to the evolving board state with a broader array of tactical options. Players love the Concordia: 8 Forum Cards for its ability to significantly boost replayability and introduce intriguing strategic variability without adding unnecessary rules complexity. It maintains the game's streamlined nature while offering tough new choices from the very first turn. The unique appeal lies in how these diverse Forum abilities transform familiar strategies, encouraging creative problem-solving and ensuring every game feels distinct and engaging, making it a must-have for seasoned Concordia enthusiasts looking for more depth.

Explore the rich industrial landscape of Catalonia in this highly acclaimed fan expansion for the iconic Brass board game. Players are thrust into the pivotal era of the Industrial Revolution, tasked with establishing a dominant economic empire across Spain's vibrant northeastern region. The ultimate goal is to amass the most victory points by strategically developing industries, constructing crucial transportation links, and efficiently managing resources to outmaneuver rival industrialists. This expansion offers a fresh geographical challenge and intricate strategic decisions for dedicated fans of the Brass series. Catalonia retains the core, beloved mechanics of Brass, inviting players to make critical choices between building new factories, developing advanced technologies, and expanding their network of canals and railways. Each round demands careful planning as players balance short-term income generation with long-term strategic positioning. The innovative 'flipping' mechanic for industries—where built industries are only valuable once consumed by the market—remains central, creating a dynamic economic puzzle that forces players to adapt to an ever-changing board state. Managing loans, income, and rival actions is paramount to success. What truly captivates players about the Catalonia expansion, much like its esteemed predecessor, is its profound strategic depth and the satisfying challenge of optimizing an industrial engine. It offers experienced Brass enthusiasts a captivating new map and regional specificities that demand a mastery of economic principles and network building. This fan creation revitalizes the game with a new historical flavor, ensuring high replayability and endless opportunities for strategic innovation within one of the greatest economic Eurogames ever designed. It's a must-play for those seeking a sophisticated industrial development experience.

Concordia: Aegyptus / Creta is a highly anticipated expansion for the critically acclaimed strategy board game, Concordia, offering players exciting new maps and strategic challenges. In this elegant eurogame, aspiring Roman merchants vie to establish prosperous trade networks across the ancient Mediterranean. The ultimate goal is to accumulate the most victory points by efficiently colonizing provinces, producing valuable goods, and wisely managing your hand of personality cards to expand your influence and wealth. This expansion introduces two distinct maps: Aegyptus, designed for 2-4 players, and Creta, tailored for a more intimate 2-3 player experience, each presenting unique geographical layouts and strategic considerations. Gameplay in Concordia is renowned for its streamlined yet deep card-driven action system. Players start with an identical hand of seven personality cards, each allowing a specific action like moving colonists, producing resources in cities, trading goods, or purchasing new, more powerful cards. The core loop involves playing a card, executing its action, and eventually using a 'Tribune' card to recall all previously played cards, including any new ones acquired. This deck management combined with clever area control, resource management, and economic engine building creates a constantly evolving strategic puzzle, where every decision about card play, colonist placement, and resource production has significant long-term implications for your burgeoning empire. Concordia is beloved by strategy enthusiasts for its remarkable elegance, minimal luck, and profound strategic depth, making it a cornerstone of modern eurogame design. The Aegyptus / Creta expansion significantly enhances replayability by providing fresh geographical canvases and varying player count dynamics, forcing seasoned players to adapt their strategies and offering new tactical puzzles to solve. Its unique appeal lies in the absence of direct conflict, focusing instead on efficient economic growth and indirect competition, rewarding forward planning and clever card optimization. Discover new pathways to victory and solidify your legacy as the most influential merchant of the ancient world.

Concordia: Solitaria transforms the acclaimed eurogame Concordia into a compelling experience for 1 or 2 players, maintaining its elegant blend of strategy and efficiency within the Roman Empire. Players strive to establish a vast trading network, colonize new provinces, and ultimately become the most influential Roman merchant. The core goal remains earning the most victory points by carefully planning your actions and specializing your settlements, all while adapting to the unique challenges of a solo opponent or a tight two-player duel. At its heart, Solitaria uses Concordia's signature card-driven action system, where each turn you play one of your limited action cards to perform tasks like moving colonists, producing goods, trading, or buying new action cards. For solo play, the 'Contrarius' automa provides a dynamic and unpredictable opponent, mimicking a human player's actions with minimal upkeep, forcing you to optimize your strategy under pressure. In a two-player game, Solitaria offers a more focused and competitive interaction, where every move on the shared map matters even more. Fans adore Concordia: Solitaria for its brilliant adaptation of a beloved classic, delivering a robust solo mode that truly feels like playing against another human. It captures the essence of the original's strategic depth and replayability without the need for a full group. Its streamlined rules for the automa make for engaging decisions without overwhelming complexity, making it a perfect choice for those seeking a highly replayable and strategically rewarding game for solitary sessions or intimate duels.

Concordia: Gallia / Corsica (2016) is a highly anticipated expansion for the acclaimed Roman-era strategy game, Concordia. This pack introduces two vibrant new maps, Gallia and Corsica, inviting players to expand their ancient Roman empire across distinct geographical challenges. The core goal remains to establish trade routes, settle provinces, and strategically collect diverse action cards to outmaneuver opponents and accumulate the most victory points, ultimately becoming the most influential merchant family in the Roman world. Gameplay in "Concordia: Gallia / Corsica" masterfully retains the elegant, card-driven mechanics of the base game while injecting fresh strategic depth. Players manage their hand of personality cards, each granting a specific action such as moving colonists, producing goods, selling to the market, or acquiring new cards. The Gallia map offers a larger, more sprawling landscape perfect for 3-5 players, encouraging broader expansion and resource management. In contrast, the Corsica map provides a tighter, more confrontational experience designed for 2-3 players, demanding shrewd spatial planning and direct competition for limited resources. Fans adore "Concordia: Gallia / Corsica" for its remarkable ability to breathe new life into an already brilliant game. The expansion excels by providing tailored experiences: Gallia offers a grander stage for larger groups, while Corsica is frequently celebrated as one of the best 2-player maps in the entire Concordia series, known for its intense player interaction and clever choke points. This dual offering significantly enhances the base game's replayability, ensuring that every session feels fresh and strategically engaging, making it an essential addition for any Concordia enthusiast seeking new challenges and optimized player counts.

In Gods & Mortals, you ascend to the pantheon of ancient Greece, embodying legendary deities like Zeus, Ares, or Athena. Your goal is not mere conquest, but to achieve ultimate supremacy by cleverly manipulating the mortal civilizations that worship you. Set across the Aegean, the game features four distinct mortal factions—the Trojans, Achaeans, Minoans, and Amazons—vying for territorial control. These factions are not your loyal subjects but rather instruments in your grand design. Your objective over five rounds is to prove your divine prowess by outwitting the other gods, growing your influence, and ensuring your name is the one most revered when the final reckoning arrives. The gameplay innovatively merges area control with a stock market-like investment system. Mortals are treated as joint-stock companies in which you invest your divine essence. During each round's 'divinity phase,' you will allocate your resources to the factions you believe will prosper. However, your allegiance is fleeting. You can 'abandon' a faction at a key moment to capitalize on its success, reaping rewards to further your own agenda. Following the investment phase, the 'action phase' unfolds with quick, interactive turns. Here, you play cards to command armies, spark conflicts, erect temples, and unleash your god’s unique, powerful abilities. This creates a fascinating codependency: gods need mortal belief to fuel their power, and mortals need divine patronage to survive and expand, making every decision a delicate balance of support and exploitation. What makes Gods & Mortals compelling is its fresh take on strategic conflict. The blend of area control with speculative investment forces players into a constant state of flux, rewarding adaptability and shrewd timing over brute force. You are not just a warrior god; you are a divine investor playing a long game of influence. The asymmetric powers of each god guarantee that no two games feel the same, offering deep strategic paths and high replayability. While the rules are designed to be accessible, the decisions are described as 'crunchy' and meaningful, creating a satisfying experience for players who enjoy emergent strategies and high levels of interaction with minimal downtime. It’s a battle of wits where the most cunning god, not the strongest, will claim victory.

Expand your ancient Roman empire with "Concordia: Balearica / Cyprus," an essential expansion for the critically acclaimed strategy game Concordia. This pack introduces two new double-sided game boards, Balearica and Cyprus, offering fresh tactical landscapes and strategic challenges. The core goal remains the same: cleverly manage your hand of persona cards to expand your trading network, establish colonies, and accumulate wealth and influence across the Mediterranean, ultimately aiming to be the most successful Roman merchant. Gameplay revolves around elegant hand management, where each persona card played triggers a specific action – from moving your colonists and building trading posts to producing goods and acquiring more powerful cards. The new maps, Balearica (for 2-4 players) and Cyprus (optimized for 2-3 players), introduce unique geographic features and resource distributions that demand tailored strategies. Players must adapt their plans, consider new adjacency bonuses, and navigate tighter competitive spaces, especially on the smaller Cyprus map, leading to intense player interaction and clever maneuvering. "Concordia: Balearica / Cyprus" is beloved for enhancing an already brilliant design without adding unnecessary rules bloat. It provides exceptional replayability and offers new strategic puzzles, particularly for smaller player counts, which many expansions neglect. Fans appreciate how the new maps refresh the Concordia experience, allowing them to explore alternative opening moves and mid-game developments, solidifying Concordia's reputation as a deep, rewarding economic strategy game that stands the test of time.