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Rondel

What is a Rondel?

A rondel is a game mechanic where a circular or wheel-like chart is used to offer players a limited selection of actions they can take on their turn. Typically, a marker moves along the spaces of the rondel, and on a player's turn, they move their marker a few spaces forward and perform the action where they land.

Purpose of the Rondel

The purpose of the rondel is to:

Introduce strategic planning: Players must anticipate future turns.
Limit choices: Players can only pick actions ahead of their current position.
Add constraints: The cost often increases for moving further on the rondel.

Games with Rondel Mechanics

Notable games that feature rondels include:

Imperial: Players govern major powers and a rondel dictates the actions they can finance.
Navigador: Players explore, colonize, and trade in the age of discovery, using a rondel to select actions.

Rondel and Dice Rolling games

Tiny Epic Pirates

Tiny Epic Pirates: Curse of Amdiak Expansion

Tiny Epic Pirates (Deluxe Edition)

Space themed games with Rondel

In Beta Colony, you play as one of four directors trying to create prosperous colonies and be elected as the first leader of Victus. Featuring a unique dice based "rolldell" system where all players will use a duplicate dice roll to take two actions...

Ride a rocket to extraordinary destinations across our galaxy. Gather exotic crystals that further our understanding of what's out there. Earn exploration badges and prove yourself as the galaxy's next great explorer in Space Park! Mechanisms:• Action...

You and your fellow players are architects at Luna Mare, the architectural firm planning the first base on the moon. You will compete with your coworkers for access to building blueprints, astronauts, and construction resources—all to develop the most...

Explore the Rich Worlds of Sovereign SkiesPlay one of the powerful Old-Earth houses now orbiting the six planets of the Abyssi cluster. Maneuver your mothership, amass Atlum energy, send in your dropships, recruit aliens for favors, and construct bases...

Rondel and Area Majority / Influence games

Squaring Circleville

Red Cathedral, The

In the Hall of the Mountain King: Fall of the Mountain King (Kickstarter Edition)

Red Cathedral, The - Contractors

Tawantinsuyu: Golden Age Expansion

Genpei (Kickstarter Deluxe Edition)

Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon

Great Designers Series, The: Porta Nigra

Rondel and Variable Player Powers games

Making sense of the quiet wonder around them. Based on the wonderful illustrated world of Matt Dixon, Transmissions brings his world of mechanical friends to life!In Transmissions, players share robots as workers moving around the board, collecting ...

Coloma is the town where an unexpected event happened that shaped history of the Western Frontier. In the Winter of 1848 a man building a sawmill on the South Fork of the American River spotted some bright nuggets in the tailrace waters below. Sure ...

Coloma is the town where an unexpected event happened that shaped history of the Western Frontier.In the winter of 1848 a man building a sawmill on the South Fork of the American River spotted some bright nuggets in the tailrace waters below. Sure enough...

Flowers themed games with Rondel

Rondel games designed by Ralf Linde

You are a noble builder settling the country in Milestones! Players work together to build roads, create marketplaces and erect houses. With each milestone set along the way, they move further into the country. However, while building the country together...

Mallorca. Island of the wind.A place of golden beaches and a light-blue sea. The almond harvest is at hand. In addition, juicy oranges, lemons, and figs are ready to be picked and taken to the market. Olive trees bewitch the country with their curled...

Finca w/El Razul

Medieval themed games with Rondel

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done - Divine Influence Expansion

Merchants of the Dark Road: Patron's Provisions Expansion

Viscounts of the West Kingdom

Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys Expansion

Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold Expansion

Merv - The Heart of the Silk Road

Merlin (Deluxe Big Box Edition)

Merchants of the Dark Road (Standard Edition)

Queen's Architect

Merlin - Arthur Expansion

Puzzle themed games with Rondel

In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal encounters, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The first player to cover all the construction spaces on their zoo board with Enclosure Tiles and Attractions wins the game...

The dark, unforgiving road through Perdition leads to the Abyssal Rift, where a secretive Cult of Change is summoning a long dormant Demon. Perdition’s Mouth is a deeply immersive dungeon crawl adventure style game set within a collection of scenarios...

Before winter makes its appearance, a particularly warm fall bathes the forest in a golden shimmer. During the Indian Summer, New England blossoms one last time. Treetops are ablaze with countless colors — a living rainbow, from green to orange to red...

Welcome to Mirror CityYou're a boots-on-the-ground mercenary in the corporate cold war. Earn the respect of the residents of your district and build your notoriety among the city's network of runners. • Ride the metro to gather intel • Booster your influence...

Rondel games illustrated by Harald Lieske

Watch

You have just started working at a Soviet watch factory that you’ve discovered used to be a World War II era munitions factory. You’ve been sent there to produce gears, which you can sell for money, but you also need those gears to disguise the munitions...

Spies / Secret Agents

Rondel games developed by Dávid Turczi

Teotihuacan Deluxe Master Set Kickstarter Edition includes:Stand-alone game with all existing expansions Promos Additional content like printed Books of Challenges that have ever been published All in the new amazing box with a tailor-made insert to...

The great Sapa Inca Pachacuti turned to his offspring and ordered them to worship Inti, the Sun God, and to expand the Inca Empire as far as the llamas roam. With Chinchaysuyu, Antisuyu, Qullasuyu, and Kuntisuyu - the four regions of the new empire -...

Travel back in time to the greatest city in Mesoamerica. Witness the glory and the twilight of the powerful pre-Columbian civilization. Strategize, accrue wealth, gain the favour of the gods, and become the builder of the magnificent Pyramid of the Sun...

Rondel games published by Gém Klub Kft.

As you know, Earth has exhausted its resources and we need to act now to preserve the future of humanity. Compete with 1-6 planeteers to build the best planet in 70 minutes.The revolving space station (S.U.S.A.N.) is capable of same-day delivering polyomino...

Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who else than young naturalists, eager for...

In the early 1900s, the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud established a revolutionary theory called psychoanalysis, related to the study of the unconscious mind. As his work took hold, supporters met at Freud's apartment every Wednesday to discuss psychology...

Industry / Manufacturing themed games with Rondel

Shipyard (2nd Edition)

First in Flight

Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering

Rondel games published by Capstone Games

Atlantis Exodus

The catastrophe is imminent! Save the citizens to prove yourself king.The ancient civilization of Atlantis is on the brink of imminent destruction. The Kings have five years warning. It seems like a world of time, until you realize that you are one of...

mostly positive, 76%

Ancient Civilization

End Game Bonuses

Once-Per-Game Abilities

City Building themed games with Rondel

This promo set contains 6 additional Clan Fields and 2 additional the chronicles of Ol' Jamey's Single Cask Reserve and The Penny Mobs that can be added to Glen More II

100 to 130 mins

Murano the game is set in Murano the place, with Murano being a small group of seven islands near Venice that's well-known by tourists for its glassmaking. As in Venice, the islands of Murano are separated by canals, so gondolas and transportation are...

You are a deputy mayor in charge of development of one borough of Small City, a city renowned for its progressive election system, which collects votes 8 times per election, truly embracing the slogan, “vote early and vote often.” Therefore, you have...

Construction of a new ampitheater in Rome has been ordered. An ampitheater so large that it dwarfs all the others—the Colosseum!As a prominent architect, you have been tasked with the planning and building of the Colosseum according to the specifications...

Rondel games designed by Mac Gerdts

This expansion includes the double-sided game board Balearica/Italia, featuring the Balearic islands of Ibiza, Mallorca, and Menorca on one side and Italia, the center of Roman power, on the other.This expansion contains in particular the Forvm Piscatorvm...

This expansion features the double-sided game board Balearic/Cyrpus, featuring the Balearic islands of Ibiza, Mallorca, and Menorca on one side and Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean on the other.This expansion contains in particular the Forvm Piscatorvm...

Towards the end of the 19th Century, ever larger and faster ocean liners revolutionized the growing maritime traffic. Daring shipping companies opened steamship lines to the most important parts worldwide. Modern steel juggernauts replaced traditional...

Rondel games illustrated by Odysseas Stamoglou

Teotihuacan is expanding into an empire! The city is growing beyond its old borders, military expeditions project its influence all the way to the Yucatan Peninsula. Fighting men become settlers, new resources are discovered, and the wealth brought by...

This expansion adds five new tiles to Teotihuacan. Contains:3 Decoration tiles 2 Royal tiles 2 Starting tiles 1 Technology tile 1 Pyramid tile

The devastating force of the eruption of Xitle completely buried and destroyed Cuicuilco and Copilco, both significant civic and religious cities. The survivors have scattered across Mesoamerica, many settling in and around Teotihuacan. The rapid infusion...

Rondel games published by Tabletop workshops

Patzcuaro

Every November 2nd in a magical land called Mexico, families build wonderful monoliths decorated with stories and tradition. With their memories, meals and favorite objects altars are decorated in honor of the memory of their loved ones who rest in peace...

mostly positive, 78%

Hand Management

Rondel games published by Funforge

Glasgow

Today Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland and third-biggest in the United Kingdom. Since the 18th century the city of Glasgow saw a great restructuring. Merchants of the area took the lead in developing what became modern Glasgow, one of the first...

mostly positive, 71%

Rondel and Open Drafting games

Rondel games developed by Juan Luque García

Amritsar: The Golden Temple

Amritsar, India is home to The Golden Temple or Sri Harmandir Sahib. This spectacular building is world-renowned as a sacred place for the Sikh community and one of the most famous pilgrimage destinations on Earth. After being demolished several times...

mostly positive, 70%

Different Worker Types

Territory Building