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In DragonFlame, players take turns stocking Castles with valuable treasures, beautiful princesses, pesky knights, and powerful relics.

At the end of each round, players will choose which castle they want to attack, one dragon per castle. However you must make your choices wisely. Although castles have rich treasures, they also determine turn order for the next round. To make matters worse, some cards may be played face down, so your opponents can seed a castle with nasty curses or knights that will cost you glory points — or you can do the same to them! Mitigated card luck gives players meaningful choices, and the rounds are quickly resolved but with undercurrents of bluffing and deeper strategy.

Set in the mid-1800s, the age of whaling, New Bedford gives 2-4 players the chance to build the Massachusetts town of the same name into a thriving community. Gather resources to add buildings with new actions and launch ships to go whaling. Go out longest for the best choice, but wait too long and the whales become harder to catch. And don't forget to pay your crew when ships return! Carefully balance time management and timing to earn the most points in this medium-weight worker placement and resource management game.

In Lap Dance, 2-4 adult players compete in getting the job position of club manager in the most prestigious strip club in town. To achieve that, they will need to make sure each customer walking in to the club leaves with a big smile on their face. Each customer has different desires — dancers, drinks and various luxuries — and places a number of orders. Players try to fulfill those orders as well as possible. To achieve that, every player has access to different dancers, drinks and luxuries as well as the help of a personal assistant. If things get rough, favors can be asked from other staff members of the club.

In Operation: F.A.U.S.T., a highly social bluffing and deduction game, players find themselves in occupied France during World War II, tasked with a mission to recover Europe's most valuable pieces of art before they are looted by Hitler's Third Reich. Operation F.A.U.S.T. (Fine Art Underground: Stolen Treasures) supports 3-8 players and takes about 30 minutes. To win the game, you must gather intelligence, locate Europe's most at risk treasures, and recover them before your opponents. Use your network of spies, double agents, art dealers, French resistance members and Allied soldiers to achieve your goals, but take care not to reveal information to others. With stakes this high, no one can be trusted!