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Altay: Dawn of Civilization

Altay: Dawn of Civilization is a board game combining deckbuilding with area control and direct conflict, designed by Ole Steiness and Paolo Mori. In Poland, the game was published by Galakta.

Players take on the roles of leaders of one of the four Elder Peoples, developing their civilizations in a secluded region of the world. The core of the experience lies in expanding your faction—building settlements, developing technologies and wonders, spreading across the map, and competing with rival factions. The game is aimed at players who enjoy when a card engine directly influences board presence and territorial control.

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Dice Realms

There’s a good chance that Dominion from Rio Grande Games has caught your eye, or that you’ve even played it. It’s a classic example of a game built around the deck-building mechanic and is widely considered one of the genre’s flagship titles. The same publisher has another game in its portfolio that strongly resembles Dominion—at least in many aspects, it repeats the mechanics that made it such a great game. The key difference is that this time, instead of building a deck, we build dice that we roll every turn. That game is Dice Realms. It sounds great. Let’s see whether it actually delivers.

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