Handmade dice towers and indie games, shipped from our workshops
Hidden-role card games, pocket-sized duels, and walnut dice towers built by hand in our workshop.
Holiday gift guide
Family games for Christmas morning, two-player games for couples, Hanukkah and Christmas card games, and stocking stuffers, all from small studios and picked by our team.
Each studio keeps its own corner of the parlor, and every game on these tables was picked by our team.
From our curators
Alien Entity is Braine Games' own design: a hidden-role card game for 3 to 5 players by Austin Braine, first published in 2014. Everyone is a stranded researcher trying to build a satellite array and call mission control, except the one player the alien has already infected. Rounds are short, around five to ten minutes,...
From our curators
Braine Woodworking is our own shop. It was my grandfather's first and has been handed down since, and my father and I have built projects in it for years. Now retired, he spends most of his days there. Everything here is made and assembled by us in Brecknock, Pennsylvania. We do not compromise on quality,...
From our curators
One Day West Games is the work of designers Bob Craig and Ryan Craig, with art by Alisha Volkman. Their three games here could hardly be more different: a family race, a two-player duel, and a real-time dice scramble. Monster Highway (2018, 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up). Lay road tiles from ground...
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Charper Edge is the studio of designer Thomas Charpentier, and War of Beast is its take on a card game nearly everyone already knows. War of Beast (2 to 6 players, ages 7 and up, about 30 minutes). It starts from the classic game of War and adds choices: play a beast equal to or...
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Green Cloak Creative makes small games. Most are 18 cards, fit in a pocket, and are over in about fifteen minutes, and several are designed by Adam Danoff. They are the easiest games in the parlor to carry along or to give. Gnome Squad (1 to 3 players, ages 8 and up, 15 minutes). Draft...
Every dice tower starts as a plank of walnut in our shop. Every game on these shelves comes from an independent designer we have actually sat down and played with. Nothing here is mass produced, and all of it is meant to be handled.
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