What is Area Movement?
Area Movement is a mechanic commonly used in board games that involves moving pieces through distinct zones or areas on a game board. Unlike grid-based systems, area movement allows for movement between large, defined regions.
How does Area Movement work?
Players move their pieces from one area to another, often with restrictions based on the game's rules. These rules may involve:
- Movement Costs: Different areas might require varying amounts of movement points to enter.
- Control: Some games may restrict movement into areas controlled by opponents.
- Capacity: Limits on the number of pieces that can occupy a single area.
Implications of Area Movement
This mechanic can impact gameplay by:
- Strategic Depth: Encourages players to think strategically about positioning and movement.
- Player Interaction: Often leads to direct confrontations as players enter the same area.
- Game Flow: Tends to create a more dynamic and fluid board state compared to grid movement.
Area Movement provides a flexible approach that can suit various game themes and styles, providing designers with a tool to craft engaging spatial strategies and player interactions.
Area Movement and Variable Player Powers games
Area Movement games published by Awaken Realms
Area Movement games designed by Thomas Klausner
White Hat
$20.00
White Hat is a trick-taking game with a neat twist: when winning a trick, you advance one of your pawns to a new space through the arrows on the game board, jumping over any spaces that are already occupied. Some spaces allow you to perform an action...
mixed, 56%
10 y/o +
1 to 6 players
30 minutes
Relaxed
Strategy Game
Science Fiction
Hackers
Area Movement
Modular Board
Trick-taking
Variable Set-up
Area Movement and Dice Rolling games
Area Movement and Movement Points games
Steampunk themed games with Area Movement
In Delta, players set out on an adventure through the Delta region of Kamargo, to try and gather more information about the crystals that power up the PSEs as players observe the mechanimals such as the tortoise, flamingo, horses, and bulls. Send your...
Delta
$65.50
$51.51
Mission: Red Planet is a steampunk-themed board game of planetary exploration designed by Bruno Cathala and Bruno Faidutti. As the leaders of ruthless Victorian-era mining corporations, two to six players compete to harvest the priceless mineral ores...
Mission - Red Planet (2nd Edition)
$60.00
$55.00
Fantasy themed games with Area Movement
Solo / Solitaire Game with Area Movement
Area Movement games developed by Lorenzo Maria Conti
Cangaceiros
-25%
$65.00
$48.99
In Brazil in the late 1800s and early 1900s, large landowners called "coronéis" starved the north-east of the country in an extensive area that included the Sertão desert. In this climate of corruption and abuse, the Cangaceiros - bandits who violently...
mixed, 61%
13 y/o +
2 to 5 players
60 minutes
Involved
Strategy Game
Adventure
Civil War
Action / Event
Area Movement
Hand Management
Move Through Deck
Area Movement games designed by Clayton Skancke
Exposed
$5.00
Exposed is a game of deduction and pickpocketry. You move secretly around the board, stealthily stealing as many wallets as you can from unsuspecting guests and exposing your opponents as the thieves they are.It plays 2-6 players in 25-45 minutes and...
mixed, 58%
12 y/o +
2 to 6 players
30 minutes
Relaxed
Family Game
Bluffing
Deduction
Area Movement
Grid Movement
Area Movement and Open Drafting games
Area Movement games published by GMT Games
Area Movement and Area Majority / Influence games
Area Movement and Dexterity games
Area Movement games illustrated by Camron Brown
Moon Shine Empire (Deluxe Edition)
$128.39
Make, Move, and Deliver moonshine through a Swamp, all while avoiding Gators, Police, and the Competition to claim Pappy’s Moonshine Empire!
mixed, 63%
14 y/o +
1 to 4 players
90 minutes
Relaxed
Card Game
Exploration
Miniatures
Area Movement
Auction/Bidding
Network and Route Building
Pick-up and Deliver
Area Movement and Card Play Conflict Resolution games
Area Movement games illustrated by Ismaël Pommaz
Barony
$70.00
On the outskirts of the Empire, the tension is palatable: in the race for power, your struggles take on more and more challenging proportions. As a baron, you rule one of the four most influential families of the region. With your army of knights, you...
mixed, 68%
14 y/o +
2 to 4 players
45 minutes
Relaxed
Abstract Game
Medieval
4X
Area Majority / Influence
Area Movement
Modular Board
Area Movement games published by Filosofia Éditions
Dead of Winter - The Long Night is a stand-alone board game as well as an expansion for Dead of Winter. Players will be delighted to obtain more of everything that made Dead of Winter an epic struggle for power and survival. Additionally players will...
Dead of Winter - The Long Night
$75.00
$49.99
In Mice and Mystics players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king—but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The...
Mice and Mystics
$72.95
$63.99
