Eight-Minute Empire, by Ryan Laukat, is a quick Civilization/Exploration game using card-driven area control.

In Eight-Minute Empire, 2-5 players take turns selecting a card from the six displayed. This card gives the player a resource and also has an action that the player takes immediately. Actions help players take over the map, but the resources are worth points at the end of the game, so players have to balance the two aspects. Players spread across the map in order to collect points at the end of the game by having majority control in regions and continents.



Eight-Minute Empire is a super-quick area control game requiring tough decisions. It’s easy to learn and perfect for when you only have a few minutes.

• ⚔️ Recruit troops to strengthen your army
  
• 🏞️ Command your forces to acquire new provinces
  
• 🌎 Challenge your friends all over the world
  
• ⛵ Sail across the seas & build castles to expand your empire
  
• 🤺 Eliminate enemy troops to weaken your adversaries
  
• 👑 Collect goods to increase your advantage

AWARDS & HONORS

Our digital adaptation:

🏆 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game App Nominee
🏆 2017 Golden Geek Best Mobile/Handheld Nominee

The board game:
🏆 2013 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
🏆 2013 Golden Geek Best Print & Play Board Game Nominee
🏆 2014 Gioco dell’Anno Nominee
🏆 2014 Gra Roku Nominee

Features

- official Eight-Minute Empire game
- great artwork
- in-game interactive tutorial
- languages: English, German, Dutch, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Traditional and Simplified, Russian
- optimized for PC, smartphones, and tablets
- play with AI, with friends, or with both
- pass and play mode
- online multiplayer with synchronous and asynchronous modes
- opponents' last moves replay
- 3 levels of difficulty AIs with individual strategies
- different maps
- climate sounds and music
- official rules plus extra additions
- unique, original board game feel on your electronic device
- colorblind mode
- over 70 achievements

How long can you survive? the ENDLESS HORDE

The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!

Endless Horde is a Tower Defense game where the enemies spawn in different areas every time you play, don’t get too comfortable with a strategy or they will overrun you in no time! Each wave is a different experience.

FEATURES

• Position your units and secure the perimeter. Think strategically!
  
• Level up! Unlock new units and upgrades.
  
• Enemy spawns are randomized every wave. You get a different experience every time you play!
  
• Place different types of traps. Explode, burn and freeze the undead!
  
• Steam achievements support
  
• Compete against other players via online leaderboards! Will you be the #1 survivor in the world?

STEAM TRADING CARDS NOW AVAILABLE

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever.

Choice of Magics is a 550,000-word interactive, post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Kevin Gold, author of our best-selling game, Choice of Robots. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Thousands of years ago, the ancients destroyed civilization with five schools of magic. Each spell comes at a terrible price. Glamor charms your adversaries, rotting your body from the inside. Divination reveals faraway secrets, exposing your own secrets to others. Automation gives objects the spark of life, destabilizing the climate. Vivomancy can heal or change living things, with bizarre side effects. Blast your enemies with Negation energy, forming permanent clouds of deadly fallout.

As a young scrounger of antiquities, you hope to build your ruined world anew with these rediscovered spells. Now you must decide which of these magics can transform your post-apocalyptic society, and what you'll risk to bring hope and light to your kinsmen.

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; straight, gay, bi, or ace.
  
• Design your own pet, hatch a baby dragon, and build your own golems.
  
• Win a war, win the crown, or win your best friend's heart.
  
• Transform an evil Inquisitor into a talking tortoise, out for revenge. (Eventually.)
  
• Collect magic items: rings of power, an alchemy set, a “light sword” (wink, wink)
  
• Romance your village's geeky mayor, a goofy swordfighter, or even the queen.
  
• Help a stuffed monkey to repaint all of the murals in the Cathedral dungeon.
  
• Test out the mayor's new board game.

Can you bring the world back from ruin and shape a new society? Use your magics well, and you could become as a god; use your magics poorly and destroy the world all over again.

Do you know how the insides of a Terminator’s Minigun work? Try World of Guns: the world’s most realistic 3D simulator of firearms (and other things from tanks to DeLorean time machines). Find out what makes legendary pistols, rifles, machine guns and artillery pieces tick… Then disassemble them down to the tiniest part!

WHAT IS WORLD OF GUNS?
A free-to-play game and an interactive encyclopedia, simulating real firearms in 3D. Here, you can literally climb inside a gun and understand its workings; cut it in half, fire it and bring time to a crawl; and finally, completely disassemble it and put it back again (against the clock if you wish).

WoG meticulously recreates historical and modern examples of firearm designer genius — from a tiny Liberator pistol to a 16000-pound FlaK 88 anti-aircraft gun. It has both legendary World War guns and rare models that even museums struggle to find. World of Guns puts 200 years of firearm history into a single, sleek and engaging video game.

257 MODELS AND 30 600 PARTS
Here you are guaranteed to find something that catches your fancy:

• sleek & modern Glocks, P90s, M4s and Tavors
• guns steeped in history like Colt SAAs, Garands and Lee-Enfields
• a vast arsenal of Soviet-bloc guns, from various AKs to the rarest VSS Vintorez
• a dainty pocket derringer or a fire-breathing M134 Minigun
• a .22 sporting Ruger or a mighty .55-caliber Boys Anti-Tank rifle

Not only WoG covers most important models in firearm history, but also the most popular screen divas like Desert Eagle and SPAS-12.

TONS OF GAME MODES AND FEATURES
Every model includes:

• modes for learning operation, handling, and field stripping the gun;
• the armorer mode where you can completely disassemble the firearm;
• timed game modes, including a hardcore mode and a high scores table.

See every detail with the fully controllable camera, layered X-Ray feature and a Cutaway mode, along with complete time control including a slow-motion feature down to 50x. You’ll even see the gasses flow inside a gas block!

The game also features:

• 10 shooting ranges with timed objectives (from Glocks to RPG-7s)
• paint mode that lets you create custom weapon skins
• minigames and quizzes with XP prizes


UNPARALLELED REALISM
World of Guns has been used as a learning aid by armorers, law enforcement and military personnel. To create each model, our team spends months poring over actual guns, photos, blueprints and documents. Each part out of hundreds functions in a physically correct way – exactly as it does in a real thing. There are few ways to understand the different firearm actions and systems as clearly.

CONSTANT UPDATES
Noble Empire releases several new models every month, and improves the older ones. Majority of our models can be unlocked for free by anyone; power players will be able to achieve 100% completion and unlock ALL the gun models without spending a dime.

Available models:
Pistols

• Glock 19
  
• CZ75
  
• Colt 1911
  
• SIG P228
  
• Beretta 92FS
  
• Desert Eagle .44
  
• S&W Sigma
  
• Springfield XDM
  
• Browning Hi-Power
  
• Makarov (PM)
  
• Jericho 941
  
• Welrod MKII
  
• Walther PP
  
• Smith & Wesson M&P .40
  
• Ruger SR9
  
• GSh-18
  
• HK USP
  
• FN Five-seveN
  
• Walther P99
  
• APS (Stechkin Automatic Pistol)
  
• Beretta PX4
  
• CZ 52
  
• SIG SP2022
  
• MP-443 Grach
  
• Remington R51
  
• SIG P210
  
• Steyr M1912
  
• Astra-400
  
• PB silent pistol
  
• FN Model 1903
  
• Stryk B

SMG/Assault Pistols

• MP5
  
• Tec-9
  
• Uzi
  
• HK UMP 45
  
• Kel-Tec PLR-16
  
• FN P90
  
• Mac-10
  
• Scorpion vz. 61
  
• B&T MP9
  
• Kriss Vector .45 ACP
  
• Sterling MK4
  
• M3 Grease Gun
  
• PP-19 'Bizon'
  
• Carl Gustaf M/45
  
• Scorpion EVO3 A1
  
• Suomi KP-31
  
• PM63-RAK
  
• Beretta PM-12S

Launchers

• RPG 7
  
• MGL MK1-L
  
• M79
  
• Panzerschreck
  
• Type 89

Revolvers

• Colt Python
  
• S&W Model 53
  
• Colt SAA
  
• Ruger New Vaquero
  
• Chiappa Rhino 200DS
  
• Ruger Super Redhawk
  
• Ruger Old Army
  
• S&W Schofield
  
• Webley MKVI
  
• Colt Walker 1847
  
• Nagant M1895
  
• Webley Fosbery
  
• S&W M500
  
• Collier
  
• LeMat
  
• Remington 1858
  
• Ruger LCR

Historical

• Colt Hammer
  
• Mauser C96
  
• Borchard C93
  
• Maxim
  
• Harpers Ferry
  
• Lewis Gun
  
• Winchester 1873
  
• Mauser 1914
  
• Browning Automatic Rifle
  
• Dreyse M1907
  
• Mars Pistol
  
• Protector Palm Pistol

WWII

• Tokarev Pistol
  
• Luger P08
  
• MP40
  
• Sten MK II
  
• M1 Garand
  
• Thompson Gun
  
• Mauser 98K
  
• PPSH
  
• Boys Anti-Tank Rifle
  
• SKS Rifle
  
• Mosin-Nagant
  
• DP 27 machinegun
  
• Walther P38
  
• Lee Enfiled No.1 Mk III
  
• STG/MP44
  
• MG 34
  
• Liberator FP-45
  
• PTRD-41
  
• Nambu Type 14
  
• PTRS-41
  
• MAS-36
  
• Springfield M1903
  
• PPD-40
  
• PPS
  
• M1 Carbine

Assault rifles

• AK47
  
• SIG SG552 commando
  
• LR 300ML
  
• HK G36E
  
• FN FAL
  
• FAMAS-F1
  
• M-16
  
• TAR-21
  
• M4 Carbine
  
• AK-74N
  
• AKS-74U
  
• AS Val
  
• HK G3
  
• FN SCAR-L
  
• ArmaLite AR-18
  
• Sa vz.58
  
• Fedorov Avtomat
  
• AN-94
  
• FN FNC
  
• FN SCAR-H
  
• Beretta ARX 100
  
• FN CAL
  
• SIG SG 510
  
• Beretta AR 70/223
  
• HK 416
  
• CZ 805 BREN S1
  
• HK 417
  
• HK 33A3
  
• OTs-14 Groza
  
• E.M.2

Rifles

• SIG SG550S
  
• SVD
  
• HK SL9SD
  
• Barrett M107
  
• M14
  
• M200 CheyTac
  
• Steyr Scout
  
• VSS Vintorez
  
• Remington 700
  
• SVT-40
  
• Type 99 Arisaka
  
• OSV-96
  
• Karabiner M1931
  
• AR-7
  
• M1941 Johnson
  
• MAS 49/56
  
• Lebel 1886
  
• Model 1888 Commision
  
• Ruger Mini-14
  
• RSC M1917
  
• Barett MRAD
  
• Berdan
  
• Sharps 1874
  
• Mondragon rifle
  
• Rasheed Carbine

Machine gun

• M60
  
• M134D 'Minigun'
  
• Browning M1919
  
• Browning M2
  
• RPK
  
• MG3
  
• DShK 38
  
• M240B
  
• Hotchkiss LMG
  
• RPD
  
• MG34
  
• Madsen LMG
  
• M249 SAW
  
• Chauchat LMG
  
• Bren MKII
  
• B.A.R.
  
• DP-26
  
• Gatling Gun
  
• Lewis gun
  
• M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
  
• PKM
  
• RPK 74
  
• Ultimax 100

Compact Guns

• Ruger LCP
  
• Derringer
  
• COP 357
  
• AMT Backup
  
• Ruger LCR
  
• PSS Silent
  
• Protector Palm Pistol
  
• NRS-2 Scout Firing Knife
  
• Key Gun
  
• Liberator FP-45
  
• PSM
  
• Steyr-Pieper M1909

Shotguns

• Remington 870
  
• Mossberg 500
  
• Benelli M4
  
• Browning A-5
  
• SPAS-12
  
• Winchester Model 21
  
• Winchester 1897
  
• Daewoo USAS-12
  
• Pancor Jackhammer
  
• SAIGA-12k
  
• TOZ-34

Artillery

• ZiS divisional field gun
  
• 8,8 cm Flak 37

Sport

• Ruger Mark II
  
• Ruger 22 Charger
  
• Marlin 336 Rifle
  
• Ruger No.1
  
• Beretta CX4 Storm
  
• Browning Buck Mark
  
• Calico M100

Bonus models
Bike

• Captain America
  
• Ducati 916

Cars

• Custom Hot Rod
  
• Lotus Seven
  
• AC Cobra
  
• DeLorean

Military

• Infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3
  
• HMMWV A2
  
• F4U Corsair
  
• T-72 battle tank

Skeletons

• Human
  
• Lion
  
• Horilla
  
• Horse
  
• Allosaurus
  
• Wolf

Explore the unknown apocalyptic world

After the sudden yet mysterious collapse of the artificial ecosystem, natural disasters and wars ensued, the civilization was wiped out. And in the centuries that followed, a strange substance known as the Mud spread everywhere, and monsters emerged.
You will step into the last city of mankind - Havenswell, exploring cold and damp sewers, layers of slums, sky city above the lake, etc., seeking the truth about the destruction of civilization in monster-infested ruins. Travel through wonders, face mysterious and deadly enemies, and put an end to an eerie and desperate history.

A journey with a mysterious mission

Blader has the appearance of human, but it is actually a new life form created by mysterious technology. With their own missions, they embark on a lonely and dangerous journey, and with the power of the Branches, they respawn after fatal death.
Now that the Branches have been destroyed, you, as one of the Bladers, will have to search for and repair the Branches all over the city. You will meet humans and fellow Bladers who are also in dire straits, feel their joys and sorrows, as well as their faith in despair, and together uncover the truth behind the plagues and disasters.

Facing an overwhelming and mysterious enemy head-on

Warriors who lose themselves and degenerate into crazy beasts;
A killing machine who walks the skies covered in razor-sharp blades;
The colossal beasts trampling on the earth, ravaging cities with collisions and explosions
You will need to challenge the powerful beasts from multiple forces in death and rebirth over and over again, catching the breaks from the fierce attacks and going all out to win and continue the journey to the end of the world.

Experience diverse and exhilarating action battles

◆ Wide variety and number of weapons.
◆ Mix and match your weapons and weapon skills.
◆ Increase Sync Rate with brave attack and wise defense, become even mightier in battle.
◆ The transformation mechanism in your left hand can drive dozens of spells, attack or assist at will.
◆ Utilize multiple systems to achieve a rich combination of moves, and seize the opportunity in the ever-changing exchange of attack and defense.

Explore the city’s ruins for powerful weapons, clothing and relics of old civilizations

Delve deep into the eerie and magnificent ruins of the city and discover weapons and clothing of different styles and capabilities - either overrun by powerful monsters or hidden in the depths of the intricate alleyways. In addition to their combat attributes, the weapons and clothing offer unique cosmetic variations, so go into battle with a one-of-a-kind look!
In addition, you can find relics of old civilizations scattered throughout the area as you explore. Utilize your Blader's ability to read the memories left on them, and get a glimpse of the history of Havenswel!