Winter Game Bash: Ice Age

WINTER GAME BASH

December 20–26 (Closed Dec 24–25)4pm–8pm Daily • Purple Dragon Games

Walk in, sit down, and play for free. Staff are ready to teach every game. All skill levels welcome. Free candy prizes throughout the event.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26

ICE AGE – Survival, Strategy & Prehistoric Power

Stone Age

Play Time: 60–90 minutes

Players: 2–4

Game Type: Worker placement, resource management

Complexity: Easy–Medium

Theme: Tribal survival and village growth in the prehistoric age

Overview:

Stone Age is a classic worker-placement game that immerses players in the challenges of early human survival. You gather food, collect raw materials, improve tools, and grow your tribe while competing for scarce resources. It’s approachable enough for new strategists but rich enough to engage experienced players.

What Makes It Unique:

Stone Age mixes dependable planning with a bit of luck through dice-based gathering. That touch of unpredictability generates memorable stories—outstanding harvests, terrible hunting rolls, or perfectly timed tool upgrades. Balancing population growth with the pressure to feed your tribe creates tension throughout the game.

How It Works:

Players place workers in regions to collect food, hunt, gather materials, build huts, or improve civilization cards. When gathering resources, players roll dice based on the number of workers assigned, modified by tools. Points come from building huts and card combos. As the village improves, the tribe’s needs grow, forcing players to plan turns efficiently to avoid starvation.

Endless Winter: Paleoamericans

Play Time: 60–120 minutes

Players: 1–4

Game Type: Deck building, worker placement, tile laying, multi-mechanic strategy

Complexity: Medium–High

Theme: Tribal expansion and survival in Ice Age North America

Overview:

Endless Winter blends multiple strategic systems into one cohesive prehistoric journey. Players guide their tribes through migration, cultural development, hunting megafauna, and exploring new lands. It’s a deep, forward-thinking game for players who love building engines while managing competing goals.

What Makes It Unique:

The integration of mechanics is its defining feature. Deck-building influences worker actions. Worker placement powers tribal growth. Territory tiles shape long-term scoring. Megafauna tracks add timing pressure. Every part interacts, allowing for layered strategies and clever combinations. The result is a rich Ice Age ecosystem of tactical decisions.

How It Works:

Players assign workers to gather resources, expand their tribe, carve idols, or explore new territory. Cards drafted into your deck enhance actions, create combos, and fuel future turns. Placing camps and villages earns area influence, while hunting and culture cards unlock scoring avenues. Victory comes from weaving all these systems into a well-timed tribal engine.

Dominant Species

Play Time: 2–4 hours

Players: 2–6

Game Type: Asymmetric area control, survival strategy, high-interaction

Complexity: High

Theme: Species competing for evolution, adaptation, and dominance during an encroaching Ice Age

Overview:

Dominant Species is a heavyweight strategy masterpiece where animals battle for survival as the Ice Age slowly transforms the world. Players control different classes—mammals, reptiles, birds, insects—each with distinct advantages. The tension lies in adapting to shifting climates, claiming territory, and outmaneuvering rivals in a volatile, evolving landscape.

What Makes It Unique:

It features a highly interactive action-selection system where every placement can disrupt long-term strategies. The board shifts as tiles freeze, species migrate, and new biomes appear. Competition is fierce: you’ll adapt, displace, dominate, or eradicate. Every decision can swing the ecological balance.

How It Works:

Players allocate action pawns to perform tasks like adapting traits, migrating species, competing in regions, or influencing scoring events. Terrain tiles shift and shrink as glaciation spreads. Dominance in regions grants powerful effects, while controlling key areas and evolving traits drives point scoring. The game ends when the Ice Age fully takes hold, and the most successful species rises above the rest.