Birds suddenly swarm a location for an unknown reason, turning a quiet town into a raging battlefield… Wait, wait!!! That’s a difference plot. In Perch, birds do not have a killer instinct. There still is a quiet, soaring tension in the air and one thing is for sure here, you do control the birds and where they go.

You are not just managing your own flock, though. You are a bird commander, and you manipulate everyone’s birds to claim the best location in the Homestead. And so does everyone else.

Every round, you recruit birds that might not be yours, bringing a nice mix of colors to your hand. From there, you place birds onto location tiles. Any bird in your hand will do. You can place your own in the best location and your opponents in a useless spot.

Once this is done, you can use “Special Ops” like activating a deadly creature you control, building a birdhouse or zapping a bird. That’s not “very nice” but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to win the game, right? Don’t worry though, zapped birds don’t die. They go to the Fountain or the Plaza to earn you points towards your coveted victory.

Perch is all about misdirection and sacrifice. How much are you willing to lose to make sure your opponents don't win?

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A special thanks to Douglas Hettrick, the game designer, and Inside Up Games, the publisher, for helping us bring this feathered feud to our digital homestead. A special shout-out to bennygui for expertly building the digital nest for our players.

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As they say: if in doubt, just put a bird on it. Take care and play fair.

Double Seven is a family game, literally! At first glance, it looks like a peaceful game about matching animals. But once you start playing, you realize that it’s more about emotional investment and betrayal, like any good dysfunctional family.

You spend your turns carefully nurturing these animal families, watching them grow. You feel protective of them. But in this game, no family is ever truly "yours." The moment one of your opponent builds a family of the same size, they can swap theirs for yours.

Every turn, you grow your hand by picking two tiles, face-up or face-down. You then start or expand a family; foxes, squirrels, stags, it doesn’t matter, you love them all the same. Until you don’t. At any moment, y can trade them for another one of the same size, you must have your reasons for tossing them aside like that!

Your goal is to create a family of 7 and be granted one of the “7-token”, or better yet, get two such families and claim the coveted “77-token”.

There’s more to discover, but we’ll let the tutorial show you how to nurture and expand your animal family to the fullest. Build with love and trade them in a heartbeat to reach that lucky Double Seven first!

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Our thanks to Michael Schacht, the game designer, as well as the Tiki Editions crew for bringing their game to the platform. We also want to salute the hard work of nalka on the BGA port.

This was your Monday release.

They say you don’t choose family but here, you can trade them whenever you want. Take care and play fair…

The follow up to Bunny Kingdom has hopped onto BGA. Bunny Kingdom Town, an exclusively 2-player game, takes some of the original’s DNA but it is a completely new game.

Bunny Kingdom Town is more than just a game of tiles and grids. You’ll need to transform a humble settlement into a bunnyopolis, leave your mark as the greatest bunny family leader and earn the King’s favor. Start small, dream big, and build a world where every bunny can prosper.

Over 4 rounds, you’ll be planning and constructing new Buildings to develop the Neighborhoods under your control. Choose your construction plans carefully to boost your strategy but watch out: the ones you pass on could be just what your opponent needs!

Each new Building you construct will bring you resources or increase your influence. And don’t forget to satisfy the requests of your new townsfolk, which will remain secret until the end of the game and could completely change the outcome.

Bunny Kingdom Town is a game of connection, competition, and secret legacies, where every tile placed is a step toward immortality in bunny history.

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Thank you to Richard Garfield, the game designer, and to everyone at IELLO for giving us a world where you can dream big, one tile at a time. And thank you to BaronFraser, the game developer, for bringing that dream to life on BGA.

This was your Wednesday release.

Never forget that one bunny's strategic expansion is another bunny's “hey, that’s my spot”. So, take care and play fair…

Do you remember the days when you were playing hide-and-seek? Have you ever wondered why you stopped? Was it simply because you grew up? Let us take you back to those simpler times… with a serious twist.

In Red Notice, you can either play as Angela Farbank, a master forger, or Jessah Hope, a determined FBI agent. It may share the DNA of a childhood game, but the stakes here are much higher.

Over successive rounds, you compete to reach your personal objective first. As Angela, you must travel the world and cash forged checks for a total value of $1,000,000 or more. And as Jessah, your job is to track down Angela, burn her false identities, and put her behind bars for good. As the Agent, your goal is to capture the Forger 3 times: the first two captures serve to burn her fake identities, and the final arrest secures your victory.

Every round, you place secret tokens to plan your move, such as flying to a new continent or setting up police radars and road barriers. Angela must bluff about her path to avoid traps, while Jessah uses logic and security tools to narrow down the search area. It is a game of hidden movement and deduction where you must outsmart your opponent by guessing their next move.

Red Notice is tense, funny, and puts a serious twist on a childhood favorite. Will you disappear with your “well-earned money” or will you be the one to close the case?

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We would like to thank Gautier de Cottreau and Baptiste Laurent, the game designers, as well as the crew at Catch Up Games for letting us add their game to the platform. A tip of the hat to Moof for the BGA port.

This is your Monday release.

If you’re thinking of writing a book about a master forger, it probably won’t be an original story. Take care and play fair…

You think you've got the best hand. But so does everyone else. And someone is wrong.

All In: Predictions is a love letter to poker stripped of the chips and the bluffing. It has been rebuilt into something sharper, faster, and genuinely devious. You're a Foreteller. You don't just play cards. You shape your hand, you read the room, and you bet on who's going to win before anyone flips a card.

Here's how it works: every turn, you play a card from your hand, trigger its effect, steal from the display, peek at an opponent's cards, draw something better and then, that card joins a shared display everyone can see and potentially use. You're constantly improving your hand while watching everyone else do the same. Three rounds. Best hand wins Runes. But the real money? It's in the prediction pot. Before hands are revealed, everyone publicly calls who they think is winning. Read the table right and you split the gold.

Placing your prediction token is where All In: Predictions lives. It's a few seconds of pure psychological electricity. Did you catch the tell when they took that Ace? Did they want you to see it?

And then there's the nuclear option: go All In. Lock your hand, send cards to the display, become untouchable. It's a gamble wrapped in a statement. Sometimes it's genius. Sometimes it hands the round to someone else. Always, always memorable.

All In: Predictions is the kind of game that makes you feel like you're getting away with something, until you're not.

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You knew our thanks were coming but we’ll do it anyway so thank you to Phil Walker-Harding, the game designer, as well as the Next Move Games crew for letting us add their game to the platform. And a big thank you to darhf and BoucleMed for the BGA port.

This was your Wednesday release.

May your predictions be true and your poker face unreadable. Take care and play fair.

You're the Tigers. You've got a perfect domino, the numbers line up, the spot is right there and the Snakes just covered it. On their last turn. While smiling at you, you can feel it from behind your screen.

Welcome to Kumata.

This is a game about clans, Monkeys, Snakes, Toucans and Tigers, battling for dominance across a vibrant jungle grid. Each turn, you pick one of your dominoes and place it on the board, covering matching values and slowly building a layered, chaotic, gorgeous landscape of tiles that climbs higher and higher as the game goes on.

It sounds simple but it's not. Or it is… and that's exactly the trap.

Every domino you play has to match the values it covers. Every domino your rivals play might bury the points you were counting on. You can stack pieces on top of each other, turning the board into a three-dimensional puzzle where height actually matters. Plant your totem on a high-stacked domino and it scores bonus points but use it too early and you've wasted your one big move.

Timing is at the heartbeat of Kumata: knowing when to strike, when to block, when to climb. The board shifts every single turn, and the plan you had two moves ago is already gone.

You're not just thinking, you're building something. The jungle rises off the table. And when the game ends and you count up what's still visible, there's a rush of either triumph or disbelief that hits differently than any scoreboard ever should.

Four clans. One jungle throne. There is only one way to find out if you have what it takes!

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Our thanks go to Claude Leroy, the game designer, as well as Cosmoludo, the publisher, for letting us add their game to our platform. And kudos to Moof for the BGA port!

This is your Monday release.

The last move is not always the one you planned so, take care and play fair.

We’re proud to launch Board Game Fest, a new initiative designed to put the spotlight on board and card games.

Board Game Fest is our way of celebrating International Tabletop Day (happening on June 6th this year), but rather than limiting the celebration to a single day, we wanted to create something that lasts longer and reflects how people play.

This initiative is about celebrating both the games and the people who play them, shining a light on games that so many of us value in our own way. Whether it’s board games, card games, TCGs, or miniatures, if it’s played around a table, digital or physical, it has a place here.

Join and finish a game on Board Game Arena between June 5th and June 7th 2026 and receive a special trophy for the first edition of Board Game Fest.

And most of all: keep playing, take care and play fair!

It's 16th-century Goa, the trading capital of the known world. Silk and pepper flow like currency, fortunes are made in a single deal, and the wrong bid can sink everything you've built.

Goa, a classic by Rüdiger Dorn, puts you at the head of a trading house on India's western coast. Your goal is simple: outthink, outbid, and outlast everyone around that table. The road there, auctions, resource chains, five interlocking progress tracks, is anything but simple.

Every round, tiles hit the market grid and the bidding begins. But here's the twist that changes everything: you're not always the one chasing. Sometimes you're the auctioneer. You hold the power. You decide whether to take someone's money and let them have the tile, or pay one less than their top bid and steal it yourself. That moment of choice, sell it or take it, is where the game gets under your skin. It's personal. It's tense. And it feels real every single time.

When you win a tile, it feeds your engine: ships, goods, taxes, exploration, outposts. Watch each track climb and you'll feel it: the quiet pride of a plan coming together, of a trading empire built piece by piece with your own hands. And then someone outbids you for the depot you needed. Your whole strategy pivots in one turn. You find another way.

Goa doesn't just make you feel clever. It makes you feel invested. Like it actually matters. Because somehow, it does.

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A huge thanks to Rüdiger Dorn and Pedro André Oliveira Correia, the game designers, as well as the publisher, Quined Games, for allowing us to add this classic to our platform. And this would not have been possible without the work and dedication of Jonathan2004, so thank you!

This was your Wednesday release.

Goa-head and show them who really rules the auction floor! Until next time, take care and play fair...

You're sitting at the table, playing with your best friend, your row of cards is perfectly aligned (courtesy of BGA), one animal away from victory and then your best friend sends you a smile emoji... They play the Crab. Your carefully built row shuffles sideways, your Alliance crumbles, and just like that, you're starting over.

That's Collect! in a nutshell.

The setup couldn't be simpler: draw a card, place it in your row, use your animal's ability. You're racing to line up 4 identical animals, it is called an Alliance, and claim the Crown before anyone else does. Sounds easy but it’s not. And that's the whole point.

See, every animal in this deck has an agenda. The Crocodile quietly buries your best card. The Monkey swaps your prized piece for their junk. The Parrot gambles everything on a coin flip. And the Chameleon? That sneaky little wildcard is whatever it wants to be. Every turn feels like a tiny heist where you're never quite sure who's robbing whom.

Collect! balances the two things that make games memorable: the joy of a solid plan, and the chaos of watching it fall apart. You'll think three turns ahead. Someone will ruin it in one. You'll laugh, groan, and immediately deal again.

It has that rare quality where even losing feels fun, because you were this close, and next round, you're sure of it.

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We’d like to thank Jérémy Ducret and Johannes Goupy, the game designers, as well as the folks at CMON for letting us add their game to the platform. We’d also like to thank Moof, for the BGA port.

This was your Monday release.

In the immortal words of every ruined strategy ever: “That escalated quickly.” Take care and play fair…

Somewhere out there, lost in in the middle of the ocean, there is an island no one mapped. And it is full of strange creatures: glowing birds, giant insects, and weird animals with far too many legs. Wondrous Creatures invites you to go find them.

You're not here to fight. You're not here to survive. You're here because you love animals, and building your own reserve on a mysterious island is absolutely irresistible.

The heart of the game is your reserve: a personal collection of creature cards and eggs you'll carefully curate. Each creature has its own ability, and the magic is in making them all work together. That small creature you picked up early? It might just be the key to a combo you didn't see coming. There's a specific joy in watching your reserve click into place, not just because it is a    digital version of the game...

Every turn, you're making real choices. Do you send your crew out to gather resources, or play the cards already in your hand? Do you rush to complete that achievement before someone else does? And those eggs, oh, those eggs... Collecting them, hatching them, flipping them at just the right moment… it all feeds into something that feels alive.

What makes Wondrous Creatures memorable is that you keep discovering new things: new habitats emerge from the mist as the game progresses, the island keeps growing, and each game tells a different story depending on which creatures you meet.

New to the island? The tutorial will help you when you start exploring. But whether you end up with the highest score or a gloriously chaotic reserve full of dragons and glowing insects, you'll want to go again.

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Our thanks to C.W. Yeom, the game designer, and the team at Bad Comet for letting us add their game to our platform. And a big shoutout to jordijansen who brought the island to life on BGA.

This was your Wednesday release.

Set sail. The creatures are waiting. Take care and play fair.