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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 publiés par SD Games et utilisants Map Addition

Fjords

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...

principalement positif, 71 %

30 to 45 minutes

Area Majority / Influence

Cooperative Game utilisants Map Addition

Jeux utilisants Network and Route Building et 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...

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...

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 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...

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 utilisants Turn Order: Time Track et Map Addition

Jeux utilisants Open Drafting et Map Addition

Jeux publiés par Fantasy Flight Games et utilisants Map Addition

Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition is a board game in which one player takes on the role of the treacherous overlord, and up to four other players take on the roles of courageous heroes. Featuring double-sided modular board pieces, countless...

The Door Is OpenThe grimy alleys and looming mansions of Arkham harbor eldritch forces, terrifying secrets, and unspeakable monsters. Within these ancient buildings, gibbering madmen and cultists call upon the Ancient Ones, and beasts unknown by mortal...

Not All Who Wander Are LostJourneys in Middle-Earth is a fully cooperative board game of fantasy and adventure for 1-5 players. You and your friends take on the roles of the heroic characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, traveling through...

Jeux à thématique Adventure utilisants Map Addition

Stars of Akarios

7th Continent (Classic Edition)

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon - Core Box

Bardsung - Legend of the Ancient Forge

Maracaibo - The Uprising Expansion

Betrayal at House on the Hill: Core Set

Betrayal at House on the Hill: Core Set (3rd Edition)

The Dark Quarter

Clank! Catacombs

Betrayal at House on the Hill: Betrayal at Baldur's Gate (2021 Edition)

The 7th Continent

Through Ice & Snow (Captain's Kickstarter Pledge)

Destinies - Witchwood

Jeux illustrés par Noah Adelman et utilisants Map Addition

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 publiés par Korea Boardgames Co., Ltd. et utilisants Map Addition

Jeux utilisants Dice Rolling et Map Addition

The Aliens Bug Hunt: An Alien Battle Game is an Action-packed, Co-Op die rolling combat game for 1 to 4 players. Play as your favorite characters from the popular movie Aliens! Each character has its own unique ability, enhancing their fighting characteristic...

Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people - your civilization is unique!In Tapestry, you start from...

Adventure and fun await in this cooperative Minecraft game! Can you protect the Village from raiding Illagers? Explore the world, collect Blocks, fight Mobs, and build defensive buildings before marauding Illagers invade. Your helpful animal companions...

Jeux à thématique Exploration utilisants Map Addition

Jeux publiés par Asmodee et utilisants Map Addition

You’ve not only heard of secret temples hidden around the island of Thera, but you actually have maps that tell you their locations. In order to fund your excavation, you will have to ship resources found on surrounding islands back to the resource-...

The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back—this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful...

Thousands of years before the people of Carcassonne built mighty walls and castles, their ancestors roamed the land, hunting, fishing, and gathering what they needed to survive. Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers combines the classic tile-laying gameplay...

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 illustrés par Daniel Profiri et utilisants Map Addition

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...

Jeux utilisants Pick-up and Deliver et Map Addition

Sub Terra II: Inferno's Edge is a cooperative adventure board game. You and up to five friends must explore a tile-based volcano temple to steal a legendary artifact. To get it, you must find the path to the inner sanctum, unlock the secrets within, ...

For over 300 million years, trees have traded nutrients with fungi in a vast underground network. Scientists continue to make new discoveries about this hidden world.In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to ...

You know there is money in chocolate, but it doesn’t just grow on trees. You need to control the links in the production chain to get your cut of the cash, by making sure the cacao flows through your businesses instead of your competitors’.Sometimes...

Jeux utilisants Stat Check Resolution et Map Addition

With its history shrouded by wild-eyed ravings and the scrawling of madmen, it was thought that no one would ever know the unholy origin of the house on the hill.Until now.The history you tell is one you create. Journey back to the beginning of the ...

Betrayal at House on the Hill: Betrayal Legacy

In Escape from 100 Million B.C., players are stranded time travelers, hurrying to reassemble their ship because a nearby volcano is about to blow. There are dinosaurs to dodge, time rifts to close, and castaways from other eras who got pulled back due...

Escape from 100 Million B.C.

Jeux utilisants Action / Event et 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 IELLO et utilisants Map Addition

Savernake Forest

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...

principalement positif, 74 %

Trees and Forests

Pattern Building

Jeux utilisants Line of Sight et Map Addition

Jeux illustrés par Andrea Boekhoff et utilisants Map Addition

Jeux illustrés par Bertrand Benoit et utilisants Map Addition

Living Planet

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...

Area Majority / Influence

Commodity Speculation

Hand Management

Jeux publiés par Lucrum Games et utilisants Map Addition

Distant Suns

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...

Science Fiction

Paper-and-Pencil