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Producing chocolate involves many different stakeholders. As one of them, you have to cooperate with the others to make the value chain profitable. Try to get the largest share of the profit for yourself, but do not be too greedy: If the farmer doesn't grow cocoa, the retailer doesn't have any chocolate to sell.

From Beans To Bars is an educational game exploring the cocoa value chain.

Four market participants play as single links of a chocolate value chain. In turns, they buy and sell a cocoa crop, which may rise or fall in value on its way to the Consumers:

• The Farmer plants cacao, harvests the beans, ferments and dries them.
  
• The Merchant buys the cocoa batch from the farmer and transports it.
  
• The Processor buys the cocoa batch and makes chocolate from it.
  
• The Retailer buys the chocolate and sells it to the Consumers, who pay a preset price for it.
  

Everyone tries to earn as much money as possible within 30 minutes. Although the four players of each value chain are in competition, they have to cooperate. If the chain doesn't generate enough money, they will all lose money in the long run.

Each team of four (value chain) tries to earn more money than the other teams. Each single player tries to earn more money than the other three members of the team.

The nuclear apocalypse has struck, leaving the world's culinary supply in shambles. Choose a Survivor to battle it out for new nuclear delicacies while wielding hilarious makeshift weapons fueled with ridiculous visual puns to combat your opponents.

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Hostile Hoarders is a game of war and self preservation for 2-5 players. Each survivor plays 4 weapon cards face down in front of them. Choose from one of your attacking weapon cards and pair it with an opponent's defending weapon card. Compare your attacking power to their defending power. The winner of the battle has prevailed and collects their reward. If the attacking player has conquered, they receive a meal that day, collecting one ration card. If the defender has bested the battle, they flip their defending weapon back face down and steal thee attacker’s weapon for their own, adding it to their hand.



Various instants can be added to aid in the skirmish. When you have depleted all of your fellow survivor’s defense, go in for the kill. Attack a player with no facedown cards in front of them, and collect their survivor card as a reward. No food, only glory. When all other survivors are eliminated or a player has collected 10 ration points, you are the glutton of the apocalypse.

The diversity of living organisms inhabiting our planet is astonishing. According to the theory of evolution, random mutations occur all the time, granting new traits to animals and plants. These traits are then tested through natural selection. Animals with traits that prove to be beneficial dominate the ecosystem, while poorly adapted animals become extinct.

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In Evolution: New World players create animals and give them traits that might help them survive in an ever-changing environment. At the end of the game, victory points are awarded for surviving animals and the traits they possess.



Evolution: New World is an updated and extended version of the classic 2010 Evolution: The Origin of Species game. It includes both well-known animal traits and new ones, complete with refined descriptions and colorful illustrations. Food is now generated using Area cards, and animals can use shelter to hide from predators.

As part of the Steam 2021 Winter Sale, ALL Tabletopia DLC is now available at 30% off! If you're a Steam user who wants access to one of our top Premium games, but doesn't want a recurring subscription, you can choose from 38 games to permanently add to your library.



Remember, if you own a game as Steam DLC, it's yours to keep forever. You can host that game and play even with guest accounts. That means if 5 of you want to play a game, only one of you needs to own it!

We're excited to announce that 2 new features have rolled out on Tabletopia for all players! With the addition of site-wide chat & player experience/leaderboards, we want to help encourage players to connect and learn something they maybe haven't tried before.



You can now see every game you've ever played on Tabletopia in the “Experience” row in your profile. Simply go to your Profile while browsing Tabletopia and scroll down to the "Experience" row. In the upper left corner, you can see your total playtime and rank in every game.

Rankings are assigned by:

• "Beginner" = Less than 2 plays
  
• "Expert" = Between 2-5 plays
  
• "Veteran" = More than 5 plays.
  

Note: A “play” is based on the average playtime for the particular game. For example, if the average game of Calico takes 38 minutes, you will need to have logged 76 minutes of playtime to have “2 plays” (regardless of how many game rooms/sessions you have joined). Tabletopia detects when you are inactive from a game, so leaving your screen open and walking away won’t help you boost your playtime!



On every game page you can see the Leaderboard in the left column: these are the most experienced players ranked by playtime. You can switch to the “Month” tab to see only those who played the game in the last thirty days. If any of your friends have played the game, you will see a “Friends” tab to view their playtime.



If you click “More” below the leaderboard, you will go to the full leaderboard page for that game.

If you do not wish to be seen in leaderboards, go to your Profile -> Manage Account -> untick “Display my profile on Leaderboards”.





You can now start a private chat with any other player on the site. This is designed to work in tandem with the Player Experience features and allow people to approach experienced players for a teaching game (or a duel!).

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You will see a chat icon on the bottom right of your screen while browsing the site, and you can use this to search for users via username and manage multiple chats. When you have a new message, you'll see a bubble notification to indicate unread messages.



You can quickly send your friends a message by going to the "Players" tab, howevering over their profile, and clicking the "send message" icon.

If you hover the mouse over any player in the Leaderboard, you will see an icon to send them a message (for example, to suggest playing the game) and a star icon to add them to your friends list. Also, you can see which languages the person speaks if they provided this information in their profile.



Happy gaming!