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Map Addition

Map Addition in Board Games

Map Addition is a mechanic in board games where the play area or 'map' is expanded upon by adding pieces during the game. This mechanic is integral in creating a dynamic and evolving game environment that can lead to a fresh experience with each playthrough.

Key Characteristics

Dynamic Play Area: The map is not fixed at the beginning but grows as players add tiles or modules during the game.
Strategic Depth: Players must consider not only the present state of the board but also how it might evolve in the future.
Varied Player Interaction: Depending on the game, Map Addition can facilitate cooperative or competitive interactions among players.

Popular Games with Map Addition

Carcassonne: Players lay tiles to build cities, roads, fields, and cloisters, aiming to control these features to score points.
Terraforming Mars: Players place tiles to represent oceans, greenery, and city development on Mars, altering the planet as they strive to achieve dominance.

Gameplay Influence

Map Addition alters game strategies, as players must adapt not just to the rules but to the ever-changing landscape. It can also enhance thematic storytelling, allowing players to feel they are crafting the world or environment of the game.

Jeux à thématique Science Fiction utilisants Map Addition

Mechanical Beast is a game about a self-improving, sentient robot, built with the ability to create and evolve it's own body. That is, until it begins to go out of control, and no known blueprint even applies to the mechanical beast. Players will form...

In Living Planet, each player portrays one of the major Galactic Corporation exploiting the planet Myceliandre. Each one of them much eager to industrialize the planet and generate as much profit as possible.But the more the corporations extract resources...

Your Mission: Chart All of Space!Enter the navigation coordinates, warm up your faster-than-light engine. . .and head for the stars! Plan your route, find black holes, improve your equipment, and make contact with extraterrestrial races! Try to reach...

Humanity, through its irresponsible behavior, has exhausted the natural resources of Earth, making it almost uninhabitable. In a burst of lucidity, pressed by the irreversible degradation of your planet, the great nations are forced to put aside their...

Jeux utilisants Pieces as Map et Map Addition

Each player uses their royalty to rule land in an ever-growing kingdom. Rule just enough territory to earn points, as too much greed will cause a revolt and a loss of points. The player with the most points rules the kingdom!Mechanisms:• Area Majority...

Choose Your Own Story PathAssume the role of a character who has been kidnapped by Fae and taken to the Otherworld. You must explore this magical realm of dreams, evade recapture and discover a way home. 1 Rule Book 1 Story Book 128 Map Cards 5 Character...

The Evil Overlord is DeadPretenders from all over the land are vying for the evil throne, but they want that throne to be properly spruced up first. And that's where you come in.You are a dungeon decorator who specializes in setting up cozy underground...

Jeux publiés par Lucky Duck Games et utilisants Map Addition

Part Puzzle, Part Game!Play as Land or Sea. Take turns placing double-sided tiles into a medieval map to complete land and sea areas for points. Use Play Again and Seal tiles to finish areas and earn bonus points.Start simple, and add new scoring layers...

Seek vindication after a life of greed and treachery in this highly strategic, fantasy-based tabletop board game for 2-5 players. Manage your personal attributes wisely and call on your conviction as you leverage your influence to gain companions, control...

Welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1980: a vibrant city of music, food, and magic. Neon lights flicker in dirty puddles up and down Bourbon street; the innovations of the modern world clash with ancient and terrible traditions; and murder is never...

120 to 180 mins

Long ago, a pact was made with the Dwellers of the Wood. By the rules of this agreement, Men must keep strictly to their pathways and villages, scattered throughout the vast forest like embers of light in the darkness. What lies beyond belongs to other...

Jeux utilisants Hexagon Grid et Map Addition

Fjords is a tile-laying game for 2 players that takes part over two phases: a tile-laying phase followed by a claiming of the land phase.During the first half of the game, players will explore the land by adding tiles to the play area and placing their...

The Great Mill is a mini expansion for Dorfromantik: The Board Game and contains two cards and a mill standee. Unlocking the Mill achievement lets you score additional points for Grain Tasks and Yellow Flags by cleverly placing the mill piece.Mechanisms...

Please note: Does not contain base game or any expansion material!Archive of the Ancients edition introduces loads of new quality-of-life content, including a huge box that holds darn near everything and has room for future content as well. The Archive...

In 1860, the U.S. commenced construction of the Transcontinental Telegraph, which would revolutionize communication. As an investor, you know this is an opportunity to develop your hometown.In this ingenious tile placement game, use the landscape to ...

Jeux utilisants Square Grid et Map Addition

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...

Majestic animals need dedicated habitats to thrive, and they are depending on you, the enthusiastic new ranger, to figure out the puzzle.Habitats is a tile-laying game where you drive your truck around and choose the best animals for your wildlife preserve...

In Habitat, your goal is to attract the most complex and diverse animal life to your portion of the great North Woods. The most vibrant ecosystems are those that have organisms from all levels of life, from the producers up to the dominant predators...

Card Game utilisants Map Addition

Take center stage in a thematic card drafting game with a twist!Each round, during the Week Phase, players will be drafting cards to take actions such as recruiting Crew members to their band or managing their schedule. Players earn Star Power as their...

In Search of the Gold!Suddenly the mine's light goes out - a Saboteur has struck again! They are trying ot sop you from finding precious treasures with their devious actions. Who can you trust? Can you make the right moves and claim the most gold?• Hand...

You’re digging for gold deep in the shadowy maze of a mining tunnel, when suddenly a pickaxe shatters your lamp and the cavern goes pitch black. The saboteur has struck again . . . but who is the saboteur? Can you and your fellow miners complete a path...

Immerse Yourself in Celtic LegendsAt the head of your ship, you eagerly search for any sign of land. As you peer through the dissipating mist, it finally gives way to the silhouette of cliffs - you have arrived at your new home.Now your clans can partake...

Jeux illustrés par Bryce Cook et utilisants Map Addition

Stars of Akarios is a narrative-driven, cooperative campaign game for 1-4 players set in the Akarios Galaxy. A typical session of play will start as players interact with the galaxy map and scout their next scenario as part of space exploration. This...

Do you dream of hearing bards sing your name in taverns across the land? Well, now’s your chance!Become a songworthy hero in Bardsung: Legend of the Ancient Forge, the cooperative, choice-driven dungeon explorer board game for 1-5 players. A horde of...

The easy part: Build a theme park as a team and make as much money as possible.The hard part: The theme park is a dangerous place full of mayhem, negligence, and fraud.In Danger Park, players take turns placing rides in a collectively-built amusement...

Jeux publiés par Gém Klub Kft. et utilisants Map Addition

Robinson Crusoe - Adventures on the Cursed Island (4th Edition)

Dorfromantik: The Board Game

Dorfromantik - The Board Game

Jeux à thématique Nautical utilisants Map Addition

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...

You stand at the rail and gaze at the horizon, where a tired sun sinks beneath the waves. Your navigator‘s course was true – the island you hope to reach by nightfall comes into view dead ahead.A little while later, after heaving the anchor overboard...

It’s the age of discovery! The British Empire needs to find new naval trade routes to Asia, and thus launches many expeditions to the Arctic in order to find The Northwest Passage. In Through Ice and Snow you and your friends journey through the Arctic...

Jeux illustrés par Harald Lieske et utilisants Map Addition

Fill your pheasantry with the most beautiful pheasants in this fast card game. Twelve animal types offer you a lot of exciting games!Fancy Feathers works with up to six players, but to play with more than two people you need additional copies of the ...

What's all the fuss in the barnyard? Ducklings, rabbits, dogs and roosters: all animals are ready to race. Teammates call out to each other and cheer: the relay race promise to be thrilling, with unexpected developments. Cock-a-doodle-doo! The race ...

Jeux publiés par Brain Games et utilisants Map Addition

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent ...

The base game got a new coat of paint on the box. The tiles have remained the same in design. Sold millions of times, simple and always new: Carcassonne is the timeless classic game that inspires worldwide. Build up the landscape, deploy your meeples...

The dwarves are still mining and the saboteurs are still lurking around. But now the dwarves are divided into two squabbling and competing groups. They are joined by enough new dwarves for up to 12 players. The BOSS tries to help both groups. The profiteer...

Jeux utilisants Pick-up and Deliver et Map Addition

Jeux à thématique Animals utilisants Map Addition

Carcassonne Amazonas

Carcassonne - Hunters & Gatherers (2nd Edition)

Gods Love Dinosaurs

Jeux utilisants Tile Placement et Map Addition

Winter is closing in on the forest, and all the animals scurry about, trying to put together a nice pantry so they can make it to the spring. Clear their paths and help your friends spend their cold days under the warm blanket of a full belly! 64 Forest...

Elves and gnomes are building paths in the Enchanted Forest. Help your side win - but don't get lost in the forest!1. Play cards to extend your network and cut off your opponent.2. Place houses on completed paths.3. Be the first to place all your houses...

The catacombs of the skeletal dragon Umbrok Vessna are mysterious and dangerous. Portals transport you all around the dungeon depths. Wayshrines offer vast riches to intrepid explorers. Prisoners are counting on you to free them. Ghosts, once disturbed...

For some weeks, all sorts of treasure hunters have been scurrying around Boonlake. Odd artifacts that were found in the lake have attracted your attention. They are of a special nature and require a strange form of energy source. It seems as if they ...

Jeux illustrés par Jovial Graphics et utilisants Map Addition

Floating Floors

Dear Ninja,Your Bansen Seals containing the chapters of your Bansenshūkai (The Way of the Ninja) have been stolen! They are now scattered throughout the land! Can you make your way through all obstacles to reclaim all your Seals before the other Ninjas...

Prisoner's Dilemma

Jeux publiés par Взрослые дети et utilisants Map Addition

Saboteur #1

You’re digging for gold deep in the shadowy maze of a mining tunnel, when suddenly a pickaxe shatters your lamp and the cavern goes pitch black. The saboteur has struck again . . . but who is the saboteur? Can you and your fellow miners complete a path...

3 à 10 joueurs

Hand Management