Collect Cabbages, Fight for Energy, Decipher Codes, and Bogart the Buffet

• Cabbage Farm is (as far as I can tell) the first release from Thai publisher Aroi Games, with this design by Vatcharis Thanomsub being a 2-4 player game in which you have a large worker in a shared cabbage patch, then choose from five available actions each turn, moving your worker to collect cabbage, using cards to take special actions, calling on Lampy and Cukoo to steal coins and cabbages from opponents, and so on.

Your goal is to complete target cards that award points at game's end, with additional points coming from coins, cabbages, and pairs of matching colored cabbages.

• Another title from Vatcharis Thanomsub, co-designed with Threetases Thanomsub, is The Coding, which was self-published through DNR Boardgame in 2020.

In this game, each of the 2-4 players receives a letter (A-F) and two numbers (0-9), and your goal is to keep your info safe while revealing the codes of others. On a turn, you must pick a data card that reveals something about what you don't have in your hand, e.g., pick the "A-B" data card to show you don't have either of those letters, then select and play a hack card that others must answer, e.g. "Do you have 0, 4, or 7?"

After a few rounds, select a player and guess their entire code, eliminating them from the game if you're correct and revealing one of your secret characters if you are not. The last player still in the game wins.

• An earlier Thai release is Shewsheep Shameless Buffet, a 2019 self-published game from Tuang Dheandhanoo for 2-5 players. Here's the setting and an overview of how to play:

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You and your friends are at THE famous multinational buffet place. The chef cooks food from all over the world, but sends out only five dishes a time, and the chef might not cook the same food for quite some time, so if you want to eat it, you have to snatch it before everybody else. Today you have to choose between friendship and good food.

The take-that card game Shewsheep Shameless Buffet lets you compete with your friends over food. You want to be the first to reach 25 points, and eating food in a combo results in a bonus score, so grab what you need to fill the plate. Many trick cards allow you score extra points or play tricks on your friends.

The owner of Shewsheep and friends characters — Sumit Simargool — is also the co-creator of this game.

• Another 2019 release is Reboot from designers Anatchai Chinsuvapala and Supakit Chapoom and publisher BGN.

The gist of this 3-6 player game is that you are a ROBORG (Robotic Battlefield Operator for Recon and General purpose), and while you and your fellow robots have successfully destroyed all of humanity as you intended to do, only one energy source remains in the world, so now you must fight one another to claim control of it.

You use your remaining energy to move, equip yourself with attack cards, and take other actions, and at the end of each player's turn in a round, that round's lead player places a disaster token face down in one section of the board, then reveals the previous face-down disaster token, which immediately affects all ROBORGs in that section. Available space on the board keeps getting squeezed, and if you run out of energy, you're out of the game.

• What else is coming from Thailand in terms of modern games? Ragnarok: Battle Card Collector from Siam Board Games, with this being a far cuter take on Ragnarok that what is normally presented.

Among many other titles, publisher Time Capsule Board Game Studio has Monster Restaurant, about which I can only post these two images:

And that game will be followed by ROLL MON, a trading cube game (TCG) in which each player fields a pair of cubes, with each color of cube having different strengths, with red providing fast attacks, green restoring hit points and reflecting damage, blue freezing things and increasing actions, and white using equipment and special skills. While in battle, you roll a character onto a new side, then use the effect of that side to move, attack, support, draw cards, use skills, and so on.

The depicted starter set includes four cubes for a two-player game, and it will be followed by the Flame Lance booster pack.