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19.10.2026 PRE-ORDERS SPOTLIGHT - FOUNDERS & ICE

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Welcome to another entry in our Pre-Ordes Spotlight!

Although technically two distinct games, Founders and ICE Unlimited share much more than the same universe and designers, they share the same aesthetic and philosphy.
This is why we decided to group them together.
The fact that one of the elements of Founders can be used for ICE, is an added bonus!

Without the actions taken by the players in Founders, the world of ICE would be extremely different, shaped not by human ingenuity, but merciless nature.
Ice as far as the eye can see.
The known world of ICE and Founders is a huge glacier: the Inlandsis. This sheet of ice covering the Earth is sometimes thousands of meters thick.
And in the midst of this windswept, snowy landscape, a group of explorers discover a gigantic cave with a massive structure that radiates out from it. Around this Hearth, the Master Founders lay the foundation for what will become The City, home to the powerful Guilds of ICE!
In this universe, the City survives under a large dome of ice.
A mysterious technology, a work bequeathed by the Ancients and nicknamed "Hearth of the City", provides the city with energy, heat and light. It is almost like a miniature sun. Residents manage to store and channel raw energy from this structure that simulates a day/night/season cycle using shutters.

Some claim that the world as we know it was very different and that the snow did not extend as far as the horizon.
Several thousand years ago, a civilization reigned supreme over this planet, with knowledge beyond our imagination. Our current understanding about them is practically non-existent. Yet this antediluvian civilization is at the origin of many myths — a largely sacred heritage and its deified people.
A titanic catastrophe devastated this world decimating this civilization and forever burying the Utopia it had built. The Ancients were probably responsible and victims of their own extinction. The causes (likely multiple) remain a mystery. The ensuing Ice Age was a direct result. Over the millennia, snow covered all traces of the Ancients and later civilizations.

In the glacial universe of ICE, you will discover precious artifacts, vestiges of an ancient civilization, which will increase your prestige!

Founders: Standard Edition

Founders is a strategic and innovative game of tile placement where each player is in a hidden alliance with 2 other players they don't know. Each player has two design objectives. You must arrange your tiles to achieve objectives, help you hidden allies, but avoiding giving too much information to your opponents. There is a cooperative scoring system, but only 1 player can win.

Founders Board Game: Collectors Edition

FOUNDERS is a strategic and innovative Legacy game of tile placement where each player is in a hidden alliance with 2 other players they don't know.
In the midst of a windswept, snowy landscape, a group of explorers discover a gigantic cave with a massive structure that radiates out from it. Around this Hearth, the Master Founders lay the foundation for what will become The City, home to the powerful Guilds of ICE!
Sitting in front of the first drawings of the city, you're getting ready to draw up the plan.
The Council has given you design objectives to best meet the needs of the inhabitants. However, you don't know if it's wisdom or carelessness - Council decisions are often inscrutable - but you've each been given two different halves of two plans.
So you'll need to work with two other Founders to get the most out of your task. But remember, even if some of us share the same objectives, only one seat on the Council has been offered...
FOUNDERS Collectors is a strategic and innovative game of tile placement where each player is in a hidden alliance with 2 other players they don't know. Each player has two design objectives. You must arrange your tiles to achieve objectives, help you hidden allies, but avoiding giving too much information to your opponents.
There is a cooperative scoring system, but only one player can win.

110 x Standard Card Sleeves (63.5mm x 88mm)

These are sized to fit Nemesis Retaliation cards (63.5x88 mm).
Thicker, Stronger; Most "Standard" Sleeves are 40 microns thick, these are 60-microns thick!
10% More Sleeves: 110 sleeves for the price of 100.

ICE Unlimited: Standard 2nd Edition

In this frozen world, swept by blizzards, a lone city clings to life. Every year during the summer season, the city's guilds organise expeditions. Their destination: the valley of the ancient ones, where vestiges of an antediluvian civilization might be buried. Looking for answers, prestige or riches, every guild has its own motivations.
ICE Unlimited Standard (2nd Edition)is an innovative board game containing multiple stacked layers of superimposed tiles, where players take on the role of guilds of explorers at an archaeological site. Lead a team of archaeologists digging through the ice in search of powerful artifacts.
In the glacial universe of I C E, you will discover precious artifacts, vestiges of an ancient civilization, which will increase your prestige!

ICE Unlimited: Collectors 2nd Edition

The Collectors Edition includes all the components for the Standard Second Edition, the Edifice And Guilds Expansion, the Relics Expansion, deluxe components, a magnetic board, metal tokens, and inserts!

ICE Unlimited: Standard Edifices And Guilds Expansion 1

This expansion brings the game-changing Edifice variants, Guild Favour powers for every player, the Alchemist & Enlightened guild boards and Leaders, Smilodon meeples, and the ICE Map!

ICE Unlimited: Standard Relics Expansion 2

The Relics expansion introduces a brand new tile-type: Smaller and diamond-shaped, they are a third of the size of a regular hexagon tile. Players can exchange discovered relic pieces, but once at least two of the three pieces of a relic are obtained, they are locked and can no longer be traded. When put together, they form the full hexagon of a completed relic. They also unlock a new way of scoring for the assembling player!