Target is offering a great opportunity to stock up on essential board games for less. If you add two games participating in the sale to your cart, the retailer will knock 50% off one that’s of equal or lesser value. Some of our favorite tabletop titles are included in this promotion. For instance, if you wanted to pick up the fourth edition of Twilight Imperium and its expansion, Prophecy of Kings, you’d only pay $167.99 instead of the usual price of $204.99 for the star-spanning epic.
Many of the usual suspects we recommend are present, including Wingspan, Dominion, Azul, and Pandemic Legacy. You can also use this promotion as an excuse to buy Essentials Kits for some of our favorite tabletop games likeDungeons & Dragons and Battletech. Target claims there are a total of over 600 games to choose from in this sale. That’s a lot, so we’ve picked a few of our favorites for you to check out below.
Root is an asymmetric board game for up to four players that resembles Game of Thrones crossed with the adorably designed animals from Disney’s Robin Hood. Players can assume the role of alliances of cats, birds, or mice in an attempt to bring the forest under their singular rule, or defend it from oppression.
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• 2-4 players, age 10+
• Playtime: 60-90 minutes
• Similar games: Scythe
Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition and its expansion,Prophecy of Kings, form a space opera of epic proportions for up to eight players. A single game of Twilight Imperium can potentially take several afternoons to finish, but offers an unparalleled sense of scale. Each game allows you to write your own space opera with unique battles, politics, trade, research, superweapons, and more.
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• 3-6 players, age 14+
• Playtime: 240-480 minutes
• Similar games: Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, Empires ofthe Void II
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Expansion for Twilight Imperium.
The Battletech Essentials box includes two
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