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Chaining

Introduction

Chaining is a dynamic and strategic board game mechanic that allows players to combine a series of actions or card plays for greater effect.

Definition

Chaining refers to the ability to link multiple game elements together in a single turn or over multiple turns, activating additional actions, bonuses, or combinations that can enhance a player's position or disrupt opponents.

Examples

Popular games like Dominion or Terraforming Mars showcase chaining through card play. Players acquire cards that work well together, creating powerful action chains that are key to winning.

Impact on Gameplay

Chaining significantly affects strategic depth and player engagement. It encourages foresight and careful planning, as players must anticipate and construct potential combos that will optimize their performance within the game.

Animals themed games with Chaining

Food Chain Island - Lost Beasts

Food Chain Island - Friendly Waters

Food Chain Island - Tough Skies

Outrun the Bear

Wood or Wood Not?

Jewels for the Emperor Penguin (New Arrival)

Forest Shuffle: Alpine Expansion

Chaining and Hexagon Grid games

"Terra Mystica - Big Box" combines the challenge of strategic planning with territory expansion in a fantasy setting. Players choose unique factions, each with special abilities, and strive to transform the landscape into their ideal habitat. Strategy...

Terra Mystica: Big Box (2022)

David V. H. Peters' Paris Connection is a 3-6 player game lasting 30 minutes. This simple but compelling railroad game covers all of France. Through the use of company expansion and adding to your portfolio, the goal is to earn more than your fellow...

Paris Connection

Card Game with Chaining

Score Cards is a two-player abstract "play-one-draw-one" card game with one simple goal: score! Each turn you'll play a card from your hand, score it, then draw a new card to replace it. Every card has a unique scoring condition that will score differently...

Catharsis is a solo & cooperative dice rolling board game for 1-5 players. You are heroes trying to stop one of the many corruptions spreading through the lands. The game requires strategy, cooperation, and a touch of luck to succeed as the party fights...

Even behind the appearance of the most serene and romantic residential neighborhood lies fierce competition between construction companies to build it!Grab the most prestigious plots of land and build beautiful houses, but don't forget the requirements...

Chaining and Card Play Conflict Resolution games

Chaining and Pattern Building games

Chaining and Tile Placement games

Almadi - Sheherezade's Realm

Almadi - Sheherezade's Realm

Chaining and Set Collection games

Blue Lagoon is a set collection game with an area control mechanic. Each player manages a group of settlers that spread out on the islands of a newly-discovered archipelago, discovering its wealth and building villages as they explore. Points are awarded...

Dive into thriving French culture during Impressionism and the Industrial Revolution; street cafes, "Starry Night", Paris boulevards, and Notre-Dame. The French railroad system is a blank canvas just waiting for your masterful strokes. However, before...

Do Your Best to Get A-headEventually, you grew tired of it; tired of seeing these hordes of haughty heroes ransacking your dungeon, that you've decorated with taste and refinement. So you dressed up in your best outfit, and set out to complete your trophy...

Chaining and Deck, Bag, and Pool Building games

Chaining and Action Queue games

A Streamlined Successor to the best-selling game Tiny Epic Galaxies. BLAST OFF! Will have you learning and teaching the game faster than ever! Immediately shuffle the Planet Deck, featuring 100% icon based abilities, set them in orbit and you are on...

Tiny Epic Galaxies - Blast Off

Only a few years after the mysterious, advanced, and powerful Free Radicals appeared around the world, one is on the verge of revealing its secrets - the Sphere. Will your faction unlock its knowledge first?In Free Radicals, players take control of one...

Chaining games published by Maldito Games

Dinner in Paris

Nidavellir - Thingvellir

Imperial Miners

Folklore themed games with Chaining

Fairy Tale Inn

The Fantasy Fair Is Here!Fairy Tale characters from across the land are showing up to the town. Drop them into rooms of the Inn to trigger their special abilities and earn the most gold! Which innkeeper will be the richest of them all?1. Pick a token...

mostly positive, 71%

Victory Points as a Resource

Chaining games published by Winning Moves

Alexandros

Alexander and his army crisscrossed the Middle East and conquered large swathes of land. The administration of the new provinces was entrusted to his governors. You play as one of these governors reacting to Alexander expanding his borders.This is a...

Ancient Civilization

Wars of Alexander the Great

Territory Building

Hand Management

Chaining games published by Grand Gamers Guild

Endeavor: Deep Sea (Standard Edition)

Plunge into the modern era, where our planet's vast interconnected ocean scape is one of the last frontiers to discover and explore. Experience a deep new ever-changing adventure in this followup to the smash hit Endeavor: Age of Sail!In Endeavor: Deep...

very positive, 87%

60 to 120 minutes

Solo / Solitaire Game

Tech Trees / Tech Tracks

Chaining games published by Matagot

You’ve climbed all of the mightiest mountains: Kilimanjaro, Everest, K2. Yet there’s one towering titan that’s always eluded you. The mountain where anything can happen. In the whisper-thin air the paths twist and shift as you climb, stranding the unprepared...

It's Evenfall! The Clans of Magic are preparing for a new era.Evenfall is the time when the boundaries of reality collapse and the supernatural awakens. The World-Tree opens its glowing gateways to unknown distant regions. Send Witches from your clan...

Chaining games developed by Jeff Chin

Fromage

You are a French cheesemaker in the early 20th century making, aging, and selling your artisanal cheeses. Become the most prestigious cheesemaker in all of France by running a highly successful creamery and crafting exceptional cheese.Fromage is a simultaneou...

mostly positive, 79%

Area Majority / Influence