Pandoria
At first glance this looks like a fairly standard exploration and exploitation game. Place terrain tiles and then pawns to claim them. When an area of the same terrain is enclosed, it provides resources. Except that these go to the players with their pieces on the surrounding tiles. Thus there's a lot of careful positional play just to acquire resources.
Resources are used to construct buildings, which then provide useful bonuses, or to cast spells, for one-off advantages. Key amongst these is generating the 'Prestige' that's needed to win the game.
This is a clever game that requires some serious thinking as it's tricky to get your head round. Once you have, there are two expansions to mess with it again: Artifacts and Realms.
For 2-4 players, aged 10+, playing time 90-120 minutes: £30.00 (£25.00 without tax outside the UK)
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