Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon(2019)
Awaken Realms
Design: Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot·Art: Ewa Labak, Piotr Gacek, Patryk Jędraszek, Piotr Foksowicz
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a story-driven cooperative adventure and survival game blending Arthurian legends with Celtic mythology in a dark fantasy setting. Players explore an open world using map cards, make narrative choices that affect the story, and engage in deck-building mechanics while managing survival elements.
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Vantage(2025)
Stonemaier Games
Design: Jamey Stegmaier·Art: Valentina Filic, Sören Meding, Emilien Rotival
Vantage is an open-world, cooperative, roguelike adventure game where 1-6 players explore an entire alien planet from first-person perspectives. Each player has a unique 'vantage' card showing their view of the world with six different actions coded to skills like move, look, engage, help, take, and overpower. The game features 801 location cards and nine storybook manuals, creating a narrative sandbox experience reminiscent of Choose Your Own Adventure books.
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The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship(2025)
Z-Man Games
Design: Matt Leacock·Art: Jared Blando, Cory Godbey, Tori Hasegawa
A cooperative board game based on the Pandemic system where 1-5 players each control two characters from the Fellowship, working together to protect Frodo and battle enemies at pivotal locations. The game adapts Matt Leacock's proven Pandemic mechanics to create an immersive Middle-earth adventure focused on the fate of the Fellowship.
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Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game(2024)
Brotherwise Games
Design: John D. Clair·Art: Logan Feliciano, Valeria Casale, Antti Hakosaari, David Álvarez Astruga, Jordan Kroeger, Tori Hasegawa
Based on Brandon Sanderson's acclaimed Mistborn novel series, this deckbuilding game allows players to control iconic characters and 'burn' metals to unlock Allomantic powers in fast-paced battles. The game features both competitive and cooperative modes, including solo play and challenging battles against the Lord Ruler.
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The LOOP(2020)
Catch Up Games, Pandasaurus Games
Design: Maxime Rambourg, Théo Rivière·Art: Simon Caruso
The LOOP is a quirky, cooperative, time-traveling strategy game where 1 to 4 players become temporal agents working together to thwart the evil Dr. Faux. Players engage in deck building and crisis management as they attempt to prevent the villain from completing a destructive time travel loop.
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Mage Knight Board Game(2011)
WizKids
Design: Vlaada Chvátil·Art: J. Lonnee, Chris Raimo, Milan Vavroň
A game of epic exploration and conquest that combines elements of RPGs, deck building, and traditional board games. Players control powerful Mage Knights as they explore and conquer a corner of the Atlantean Empire, developing their characters' spells, abilities, and artifacts along the way.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game(2011)
Fantasy Flight Games
Design: Nate French·Art: Even Mehl Amundsen, Erfian Asafat
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a cooperative Living Card Game where one to four players control heroes from Middle-earth and work together to complete quest scenarios. Players build decks from different spheres of influence and face challenges controlled by the game itself, with over ten years of expansions available.
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Burgle Bros 2: The Casino Capers(2021)
Fowers Games
Design: Tim Fowers, Jeff Krause·Art: Ryan Goldsberry
Burgle Bros 2: The Casino Capers is a cooperative heist game where 1-4 players work together to pull off daring casino robberies. The game features a modular two-floor casino layout with gear and room manipulation mechanics that give players more agency for clever combos and strategic gameplay.
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The 7th Continent(2017)
Serious Poulp
Design: Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter·Art: Ludovic Roudy
A solo or cooperative choose-your-own-adventure exploration board game where players journey through a mysterious continent to lift a deadly curse. The game uses a card-based system without dice, requiring careful hand management and resource optimization across potentially hundreds of hours of gameplay.
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