Citadels Duel

• Designers: Guillaume Montiage and Manuel Rozoy
• Publisher: Asmodee / Zman
• Players: 2
• Age: 10+
• Time: 30 minutes
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• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Welcome to Citadels Duel, a tense head-to-head contest of cunning and ambition. Two rival city planners compete to shape the future of the Citadel, striving to design the district plan that generates the greatest wealth and earns lasting renown.  Construct powerful buildings across diverse districts—from bustling Commercial hubs to formidable Military strongholds—while enlisting influential figures such as the cunning Queen, the deadly Assassin, and the ruthless Warlord to your aid. Every ally you recruit is an advantage your opponent may also claim, so anticipate their moves and act decisively. When the final building rises, the planner with the most gold claims victory.

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Wild World

• Designers: Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson, Viljar Opdal Svensson  
• Publisher: Chilifox
• Players: 1-4
• Age: 14+
• Time: 45-90 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Wild World is a dynamic 1–4 player strategy game that blends worker placement, multi-use cards, engine-building, and tactical monster combat into one seamless, combo-driven experience. Set across five elemental realms — Forest, Ocean, Fire, Frost, and Magic — players gather fantastical creatures, explore vivid regions, evolve their champions, and brew powerful potions as they race to score the most points over three rounds.

What makes Wild World stand out is the freedom and flexibility baked into every turn. You may perform a number of different free actions — placing cards to strengthen your engine, traveling through realms for rewards and prestige, or discarding for resources — allowing each turn to unfold as a meaningful puzzle. Every card has multiple uses, and clever sequencing often triggers reward chains that lead to explosive, satisfying combos.

At the heart of the game are the mighty monsters guarding the world. Defeating them will give you permanent abilities, immediate bonuses, scoring conditions, new workers, and prestige, but reaching them requires smart planning: evolving creatures, upgrading your potion-brewing, unlocking stronger foes, and assembling the perfect moment to strike.

With multiple strategic paths, escalating tension, and thrilling bursts of synergy, Wild World offers a richly re-playable adventure in which every decision matters — and every turn can become something special.

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Timespan

• Designers: Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby 
• Publisher: Alion
• Players: 1-5
• Age: 12+
• Time: 90 mins
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Timespan is a streamlined, friendly and highly varied civilization game from the designers of Automania and Bad Company. Combine one of six asymmetric civilizations with one of six unique technology boards, and customize your civilization further by recruiting among 175 historic persons, buildings, technologies and wonders.

Large parts of the game are played simultaneously, allowing you to lead your civilization from the stone age to the space age in about 90 minutes. There is no warfare: Timespan focuses on the peaceful sides of civilization building, the exploration and on building an economic engine.

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