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A century from now all that remains of Earth is the detritus that humanity left behind. The races of a neighbouring solar system have a penchant for artifacts left behind by extinct races. In Excavation Earth, you lead one of these races of alien explorers on their quest to excavate rare human artifacts and curate the ultimate art collection to sell-off.

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Excavation Earth is divided into three rounds, each of which starts with players drafting a hand of multi-use cards that will be used to perform actions. Players then take quick turns playing actions that allow them to move their explorers around the world map, excavate for artifacts, and deploy traders to bazaars and influencers to affect prices and wheel and deal on the black market.

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The artifacts you dig up can be either sold to the bazaars housed on one of the aliens' ships that landed on Earth or added to a collection that will be sold off as a coherent art collection to museums back home. Excavation Earth ends after three rounds and the player who makes the most money during the game wins.



[h3]Excavation Earth's included solo mode by Nick Shaw and Dávid Turczi is now available on Tabletopia![/h3]

Bot Factory is the second thinky filler based on mechanisms in a heavy game made by Vital Lacerda, Kanban in this case.

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Your goal in Bot Factory is to gather projects and parts, then assemble bots, thereby fulfilling demand goals and improving the value of the bot you are making. Sandra, the factory manager from Kanban, is present here, moving to different departments and using the players' spaces. The game uses the same worker-placement mechanism from Kanban in which turn order is established by the workers' positions on the board.

Bot Factory is co-designed by Vital Lacerda & João Quintela Martins.

Survive Until Daylight is a combat-oriented survival game. Search the rubbles to gather useful resources. Trade and craft your items, and fight dumb yet powerful zombies for 6 challenging assaults.

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It’s the apocalypse! Zombies are everywhere. There are many sorts of them: from the weak dog walking granny to the terrible beast that no longer proves Darwin’s theory. There are also looting raiders. Basterds! And guess who was chosen to save the night? You!

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Play as one of the absurd heroes available and benefit from their unique perks. Every round, search the rubble and gather resources to prepare for the wave to come. When the horde hits the fan, be ready to trade and craft items. It’s your last stand before combat.



Draw and shuffle the corresponding amount of enemies to the table and start kicking some asses! Pick the right approach and brace yourself, you will have to survive 6 different waves to save the day… well the night.

Mantic Games is pleased to be working with Dark Horse Comics once again. After publishing the critically acclaimed Hellboy: The Board Game, this time they're bringing the world-famous Umbrella Academy series to the tabletop!

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Umbrella Academy: The Board Game is an easy-to-learn, fast-paced board game that sees you becoming a member of The Umbrella Academy. Save the world from devastating hazards and thwart the plots of villains, like Hazel and Cha Cha, The White Violin and more.



Loads of replay value, easy setup, solo rules, cooperative gameplay, and amazing miniatures mean this is the definitive Umbrella Academy tabletop experience.

We are happy to announce that this year Tabletopia engine will get the most fundamental update in its history that will radically improve its performance, graphics, and usability for both players and game designers. There's so much new stuff that we call this update Tabletopia 2.0.

Since its creation in 2015, Tabletopia has been a unique innovative tool that lets you play and experience virtual 3D board games from your web browser. However, technology progresses and now in 2022, we are able to make things even more beautiful and convenient for our users.

Kickstarter felt like a lifetime ago!

Here are some of the changes to come:

[h2]GRAPHICS AND PERFORMANCE[/h2]

First, graphic performance will be much better without increasing loading time and required memory space. At the moment, even though playing in a web browser gives you 100% of the Tabletopia experience, we recommend playing in the Steam app because graphics quality, resolution, and overall performance are clearly better. In Tabletopia 2.0 you will not see this difference anymore because the browser experience will be the same as in the application.

[h2]GAMEPLAY ENHANCEMENTS[/h2]

Second, many new features will be added to make gameplay smoother. We regularly receive requests from you for features like an “undo” button (letting you cancel the previous action), the ability to search through decks and bags, the ability to type and draw on the game components, tools to measure distances, customizable hotkeys etc. All this and much more will be implemented in the new engine - watch this space to keep informed about new features!

[h2]FLESHED OUT CREATION TOOLS[/h2]

Last but not least, the game creation process will go through the most drastic changes. It will take place completely in the game client, i.e. on the table. You will be able to upload any objects directly to your table, customize it, multiply, scale, or group. This will make game design and prototyping much easier and open new possibilities for your creativity. But what is most important, this new feature set will help not only game designers but also the players - you will be able to customize your game in action by changing or uploading any objects. Don’t want to play with standard meeples again? Upload your models or make simple standees from photos of yourself and your friends!

We plan to launch the new functionality for game design this fall and will keep you updated about new features and other improvements!