Rio Grande Games
Dice Realms Game
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Games & Puzzles
$141.00
Reader Reward Price: $126.90
Dice Realms, a new, innovative twist on “dice customization,” is the latest game from Tom Lehmann, designer of Race for the Galaxy.
In Dice Realms, each player rules a small realm, represented by two customizable dice. The removable die faces allow for the strategic improvement of farming, mining, defense, upgrades, and more. Each round, the players simultaneously roll their dice to collect grain, victory points, and coins. Then, they must decide how to upgrade their die faces to improve their realms. But the players must be careful; each round, the Fate Die is rolled, and fate can be fickle.
The future of your realm is in your hands: Will it thrive or merely survive?
Game features:
18 customizable dice with more than 650 individual dice faces
Hundreds of hours of gameplay with more than 320,000 unique starting setups
3 Custom-made dice trays make setup and cleanup a snap!
Easy to learn rules and quick, simultaneous gameplay
Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 45-90 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Resafa Game
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Games & Puzzles
$90.00
Reader Reward Price: $81.00
The game Resafa takes place during the 3rd century AD in the area of today’s Middle East. Resafa now lies in ruins in modern-day Syria, but at this time it was a fortified desert outpost that flourished as a stop along important caravan routes.
In the game, players represent merchants who travel on business trips and buy and sell goods in the various cities in the region. Resafa had no local sources of water, so it depended heavily on large cisterns to collect the spring and winter rainwater to make the area habitable. Players build water tanks and canals to distribute that water where it is needed. In the cities, they build workshops to help their businesses grow, which will allow them to collect resources and camels. They also construct gardens between the businesses, generating more resources and also victory points.
The game is played over six rounds. In each round, a player takes only three actions, playing action cards in this tight and exciting game.
Number of Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes
History Of The World Game
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Games & Puzzles
$94.00
Reader Reward Price: $84.60
History of the World retells the story of humanity, starting from ancient Sumeria and ending with modern day USA. The map emphasizes those lands where civilizations flourished. Over sixty peoples feature on Empire and Event cards.
Capitals, cities, monuments and forts are brought into play and then, just as quickly, are reduced by the armies of rivals. Control of buildings and lands enables players to collect gold. Whosoever has most gold at game end is the winner.
Major differences in History of the World
With or without dice rules
Distribution of Empire cards and Event cards
New Event cards
Gold collection mechanics
New ‘Area tokens’ strategy
New ‘Honour tokens’ provide benefits
New player array
Just to add that though there are many changes, one of our objectives has been to keep the spirit of the game intact and to incorporate elements that had featured from the very earliest versions of the game, as well as later useful developments. Hence ‘Catastrophe’ has now become an Honour. One element that has not survived the passing of time is ‘Weaponry’ – which was always too strong an Event.
Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 120+ Minutes
Power Grid Outpost Game
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$88.00
Reader Reward Price: $79.20
In Power Grid: Outpost, the colonization of the new planet advances quickly. There is a huge demand for electricity that your companies gladly fulfill.
Can you purchase the best power plants, biggest shelters, and best technologies? Can you spread your network faster from city to city than your competition? Do you expand your company economically to accommodate workers permanently so that you can avoid employing expensive seasonal workers that you must dismiss to the labor market after each assignment? Only then you can win Power Grid: Outpost!
Outpost was one of the major inspirations for Power Grid as that game was far ahead of its time. More than twenty years after the first release of Power Grid, Friedemann wants to honor Outpost with this game. He took many thematic elements of that game and translated them to the Power Grid world.
Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 45-90 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 12+
7 Empires Game
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Games & Puzzles
$89.00
Reader Reward Price: $80.10
In 18th century Europe, seven old Empires vie for supremacy. Exert your influence on them to manipulate their policies to your personal favour. The destiny of the continent is in your hands. But beware: Your impact on any individual empire can slip away from you in a heartbeat as other players make their own plans and forge alliances leading to a fascinating interplay.
7 Empires is a game with compact rules but a multitude of challenging decisions. Strategic foresight is key to winning. Only those who can correctly assess the plans of others can emerge victorious!
Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes
Free Ride Usa Game
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Games & Puzzles
$68.00
Reader Reward Price: $61.20
During the 1950s, the network of railway lines in USA was modernized because of new diesel locomotives.
This allowed people to travel to the major cities to visit beautiful old and new structures worth to see.
In Free Ride USA, you are taking charge of rebuilding the railway lines and carry passengers to the cities. Your railway lines and state-owned railway lines are free of charge, while you must pay fellow players to convert their lines into state-owned railway lines.
Choose travel routes from an open display of city cards and gain additional coins for the long east-west connections.
Visit as many different cities of America as possible to gain the most victory points.
Free Ride USA also offers a difficult solo challenge!
Number of Players: 1-5
Playing Time: 30-60 Minutes
Factory Manager Game
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$53.00
Reader Reward Price: $47.70
Welcome to the world of Power Grid. After Power Grid taught you the tough competition between energy producers, now you get to know the road traveled b y energy consumers. Start to be a Factory Manager and make the important decisions to improve your own factory. Fight against the other competitors for the best factory equipment available in the market to be the best player at the end of the game. Power Grid - Factory Manager is a Business-Buildup-Game. You start with a small factory and try to improve it. At the beginning you may simply focus on increasing the production. Later you are confronted with new challenges: track the ever increasing energy price and cleverly distribute your workers for the best benefit. By being close to the theme, the game is logical and coherent in its main features. A clever new mechanism improves the game by affecting the player order and the actions on the market. But don't say we did not warn you: Because of only 5 turns the game is exciting right from the start. Be careful all the time or your fellow players will mercilessly leave you behind! Designer : Friedemann Friese Number of players : 2 - 5 Playing time : 60 - 90 Recommended ages : 12+
Tikal Game
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Games & Puzzles
$53.00
Reader Reward Price: $47.70
Each player is the director of an expedition intent on exploring Tikal in search of the secret paths that lead to the temples and precious treasures that have remained hidden for over 1000 years.
A player receives points during four scoring rounds for each recovered treasure and for each temple that he controls. But, both temples and treasures can change hands.
The expedition that earns the most points exploring Tikal wins the game.
Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 90 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
Prairie Railroads Game
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$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
America is opening the Great Plains and America’s railroads are forging ahead, across the Mississippi and going West as fast as they can. Hardy pioneers are building towns & cities as they raise cattle and grow wheat & other crops. The railroads are needed to carry this bounty to the hungry East. Six major railroads are funded by aggressive investors looking to get rich in this venture. The railroads vie for dominance in this expanding market, driving west. Players are investors and railroad Presidents in this struggle to capitalize this explosive market to the greatest extent possible. Balancing time vs money is critical in this game. The ability to react to organically growing markets increasing constantly adds a level of decision making where recognizing savvy opportunities is a key to success.
Messina 1347 Game
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Games & Puzzles
$86.00
Reader Reward Price: $77.40
The smash hit from Essen Game Fair 2021 is now available from Rio Grande Games!
In 1347, merchant galleys from the Crimean Peninsula arrived in Sicily and docked at the ancient port of Messina. The galleys had rats. The rats had fleas. And the fleas carried a plague that would come to be known as the Black Death. Over the next four years, in cities across Europe, half the population would die.
In Messina 1374, the latest game from the designer of Underwater Cities and Praga Caput Rengi, players take the role of noble families with landholdings in the countryside around Messina. They attempt to rescue people from the plague by relocating them to their estates. As the plague in Messina worsens, the players will build small independent communities while attempting to control the plague with fire. In the final rounds of the game, the plague begins to abate, and players return the rescued citizens to repopulate the resilient city of Messina.
Number of Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Druids Game
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Games & Puzzles
$59.00
Reader Reward Price: $53.10
The Druids of different tribes compete within the Sacred Forest, with the aim of being named Archdruid. Each Player controls a Druid and his Animal Companion (a Wolf) and will have to manipulate the forces of Nature (i.e., the 4 Elements: Water, Air, Fire, Earth), generate Magic Gems and activate a series of several Druidic Runes in order to succeed.
The Druid who activates the most powerful series of Runes will become the Archdruid of the Forest.
Number of Players: 2-
Playing Time: 45-90 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Dominion Game 2e Seaside Expansion
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Games & Puzzles
$46.00
Reader Reward Price: $41.40
Features: One of the most popular expansions for Dominion gets a new edition 9 new cards (never been published) Replaces 8 cards from the original expansion released in 2010 This is an expansion only! Must own the Dominion base game to play. Number of Players: 2-4 Playing Time: 30 Minutes Recommended Ages: 14+
Beyond The Sun Game Leaders Of The New Dawn Expansion
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Games & Puzzles
$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
Following the discovery of hyperspace travel in the year 2246, a renewed sense of unity and purpose ripples across the whole solar system. The factions in power need to position themselves quickly to seize this golden opportunity, and strong leadership is necessary to get ahead in the race to colonize the galaxy. Thanks to the Omniweb Engine, a data-mining network that covers the entire population of the solar system, each faction can search with pinpoint precision for candidates with the exact skills and traits they need, both domestically and militarily. Can your faction find and groom leaders with the perfect combination of internal ingenuity and external prowess to rise above the others? Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn expands core game with a new solo mode, asymmetric factions and leaders, and new viable strategies around the planetary area control board. # of Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 45-90 Min Age: 14+
Race For The Galaxy Expansion & Brinkmanship
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$46.00
Reader Reward Price: $41.40
As empires expand into space, they encounter mysterious alien artifacts and races uplifted to sentience eons ago. Meanwhile, Imperium factions provoke other worlds to ally and rebel as the galaxy drifts towards war. Can you build the most prosperous space empire in these challenging times? Expansion and Brinkmanship bundles 3 previously published expansions (The Gathering Storm, Rebel vs. Imperium, and The Brink of War) into a single product, now compatible with 2nd Edition Race for the Galaxy. This product is an expansion for the Race for the Galaxy 2nd Edition base game. It requires the base game to be played. Please note: This product replaces RIO363, RIO386, and RIO416, which are now out of print. Number of Players: 1-6 Playing Time: 30-60 Minutes Recommended Ages: 12+
Beyond The Sun Game
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Games & Puzzles
$94.00
Reader Reward Price: $84.60
As Earth begins to die, it is time for humanity to look Beyond the Sun. The faction leaders that once ruled the planet separately, now work together to develop cutting-edge technology and explore the depths of space. However, only one leader will truly reign supreme in these new worlds. Will it be you? How it works: Players take turns to take an action available on the technology board, then produce resources. As more technologies are researched, more actions become available to the players. Actions allow players to improve their economy, move spaceships, colonize systems, and research new technologies. Those actions belong exclusively to the player who discovers them until the other players catch up! The game ends when a number of achievements are fulfilled, and the faction with the most points claims victory! Game Features: Innovative technology tree – Each developed technology feeds into the next available technology. Dozens of variable tech cards are included which makes the possible technological advancements different from game to game. Resource cycle of life – The game features a unique cyclical economic system that provides interesting challenges. Should you produce more money to grow your economic power or more food to increase the population needed for further expansion? Multiple paths to victory – Become a technological powerhouse, build an impressive fleet of warships, or colonize the most planets. All possibilities are open to you as you strive for the ultimate triumph! Number of Players: 2-4 Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes Recommended Ages: 14+
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