8-Legged Peacock
Players: 2–6 • Ages: 10+ • Play time: 15+ min.
8-Legged Peacock is quick draft-and-match card game about the mating dance of Maratus spiders, a.k.a. peacock spiders. Match male dance move cards to the color and moves of your Maratus female card. Each round, players draft eight cards and then score points depending on symbols and colors. Mate tokens are awarded for getting specific dance combos. After a set number of rounds, points are added up and bonus points are awarded for collected colors and sets of mate tokens.
8-Legged Peacock
Publisher: Brexwerx Games
Item Code: BXW888
MSRP: $19.95
Releases August 1, 2024
Components—
- 64 Double-sided Male Dance Move cards
- 32 Mate tokens
- 24 Female cards
- 1 First-player token
- 1 Rulebook
- 1 Scorepad
Pass-A-Fist
Players: 4–12 • Ages: 12+ • Play time: 10–45 min.
Let’s face it: We’ve all had violent thoughts toward our friends and family during game nights… Pass-a-Fist is a nonviolent party game that allows you to finally live out some of those unhealthy urges (hypothetically). It’s fun, mildly addictive, and almost too easy to learn.
Pass-A-Fist
Publisher: CardLords
Item Code: CDR01701
MSRP: $19.99
Releases August 1, 2024
Do not, at any point, attempt to actually physically attack or injure anyone during this game! This is just a game…a nonviolent one. With that out of the way, let’s go over what you really came here for: how to hurt your friends!
Contents: 180 cards, 1 rulebook
The Lord of the Rings 5E & The One Ring: Moria
For long ages, the great city of the Dwarrowdelf was the seat of Dwarven kings. Deep they delved beneath the roots of the mountains in search of Mithril, the fabled Moria-silver. Wonders they wrought there, by the light of crystal lamps. But a thousand years ago, Durin’s Bane arose and drove the Dwarves from their halls. The city fell into darkness, becoming an abode of Orcs, Goblins—and worse.
The Lord of the Rings RPG: Moria- Shadow of Khazad-dûm (D&D 5e)
Publisher: Free League Publishing
Item Code: FLFLTR007
MSRP: $44.99
Releases August 1, 2024
The One Ring RPG: Moria- Through the Doors of Durin
Publisher: Free League Publishing
Item Code: FLFTOR013
MSRP: $44.99
Releases August 1, 2024
No harp is wrung; no hammer falls. The darkness dwells in Durin’s halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But now, there is hope! Countless Orcs perished at the Battle of Five Armies, and it may be the Halls of Durin lie empty once more, waiting to be reclaimed by those with the courage to face the long dark under the mountain. Maybe there are piles of treasure there, waiting to be claimed. Maybe Mithril still glimmers in the mines under Caradhras. Cross the dread threshold, adventurer, and delve deep!
Far Cry: Escape from Rook Islands
Players: 1–4 • Ages: 14+ • Play time: 60–90 min.
Far Cry: Escape from Rook Islands is a tactical cooperative game intended to be a reinterpretation of the premise of the classic video game. You play as its protagonists, who must join forces to face the various dangers of the Rook Islands, including the iconic Vaas and his ferocious acolytes! Your ultimate objective: to escape safely!
Far Cry: Escape from Rook Islands
Publisher: FunForge
Item Code: FNFFCRYUS01
MSRP: $64.99
Releases August 1, 2024
In addition to focusing on open-world exploration, each of the narrative missions will allow you to progress your characters and improve your equipment, thereby increasing your chances of survival. Using the specialties of each hero, you will optimize your team’s actions to face the many threats. Together, evolve during this thrilling story as you try to get back to your old life while being careful not to lose your mind—or to sink into madness. Whether you’re a fan of the Far Cry franchise or a curious gamer, Far Cry: Escape from Rook Islands will take you on a unique adventure in lands that are as hostile as they are magnificently exotic…
Components—
- 39 Character standees
- 157 Cards
- 6 Player boards with dual rotating wheels
- 9 Double-sided enemy boards
- 8 Double-sided life boards
- 7 Double-sided game boards
- 4 Double-sided round boards
- 4 Insanity trackers
- 18 Sack/Holster boards
- 290 Tokens
- 20 Double-sided tiles
- 24 Plastic standee bases
- 24 Wooden cubes
- 12 Plastic dice
- 1 Dice tower
- 1 Rulebook
Compile: Main 1
Players: 2 • Ages: 14+ • Play time: 20–30 min.
In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols’ command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you’ll end up playing right into your opponent’s hands.
Compile: Main 1
Publisher: Greater Than Games
Item Code: GTGCOMPMN01
MSRP: $19.99
Releases August 1, 2024
First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent’s Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. Contents: 12 decks of 6 cards each with 1 Protocol, 1 control card (a total of 85 cards), 1 rule sheet.
County Road Z
Gather your survivors, build your community, and battle the zeds! County Road Z is a solo game of miniature tabletop combat and resource management, set during the zombie apocalypse. Scavenge materials to build watchtowers, workshops, generators, and more—and then take it to the tabletop, where the zombies react to every grenade, shotgun, and scream! Combat zeds (and perhaps worse) across warehouses, graveyards, road wreckage, mansions and more.
County Road Z: Core Rulebook
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Item Code: MUH164V001
MSRP: $44
Releases August 1, 2024
Upgrade your base facilities and build new weapons and armor to keep your survivors safe for the next mission. Where will your next community base be? A distillery? A firehouse? A hydroelectric dam? Build your defenses bigger and better…but do it quietly or the zombie horde will be at your door.
Build your own Apocalypse. Enjoy the End Times your way with the Apocalypse Toolkit, containing a multitude of optional rules including a variety of specialized zombies, advanced rules for firearms and vehicles, seasonal weather conditions, and your choice of apocalypse. Plug-and-play whichever options fit your playstyle, whether you favor complexity, ease of play, or a combination of both.
County Road Z features a variety of apocalypse types, including Viral, Cosmic Horror, and Magic; 16 different types of zombies; Road Trip campaign option; character advancement rules; 29 missions types; 10 different base types; and 39 different facilities and upgrades.
Hissy Fit
Players: 1–4 • Ages: 8+ • Play time: 20 min.
A trip to the vet…or the emergency room?! In this cooperative card game of carefully coordinated cat coaxing, the humans are trying to get the cat into the carrier. But be careful, or this trip to the vet could turn into a trip to the emergency room! To win, you must guide the cat along the path and into the carrier by using treats, distractions, and strategies from the Human Cards.
Hissy Fit
Publisher: Stone Age Distractions
Item Code: SADHFG0001
MSRP: $24.99
Releases August 1, 2024
Plan your actions, dress your wounds, and build combos to thwart the cat’s defenses and steadily lead it into the carrier before time runs out. But each turn, Cat Cards are drawn to make the cat run, hide, scratch, or have a total conniption! If the cat has three full-blown “Hissy Fits” or you suffer too many scratches, the cat wins.
Contents—
- 27 Cat cards
- 23 Human cards
- 3 Hissy Fit cards
- 2 Cat tracker cards
- 1 Cat meeple
- 11 Cubes
- 3 Hiss tokens
- Rule sheet
- 3 Player Aid cards
- 4 Sticker sheets
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