Nightmare House
boardgame
Ares Magazine #15 features Nightmare House, a 2-5 player game including solo rules. One player acts as the evil entity of Darkholm Manor, while the others play as ghost hunters trying to banish it across both astral and material planes.
- Players:
- 1–5
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
WorldKiller: The Game of Planetary Assault
boardgame
WorldKiller is a tactical simulation of planetary assault. One player commands defending human forces with ships and fortresses, while the other controls attacking alien ships. The game includes extra rules and ship types for custom scenarios.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 60 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Rescue from the Hive
boardgame
Ares Magazine issue 7 features Rescue from the Hive. A Space Marine task force attempts to rescue a human ambassador and family aboard a spaceship, using custom forces from a pool.
- Players:
- 1–2
- Time:
- 60 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
The High Crusade
boardgame
Ares Magazine #16 features a game based on Poul Anderson's novel. In 1345 AD, aliens land on Earth, are defeated by local knights, and lose their starship. Humanity then launches a crusade against the extraterrestrial forces.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 45 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Citadel of Blood
boardgame
In Ares Magazine #5, players form a hero party exploring the citadel of the mage X. By fighting monsters, they gain experience to ultimately defeat the evil archmage. The dungeon is created modularly using randomly drawn room tiles during the game.
- Players:
- 1–6
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Barbarian Kings
boardgame
Barbarian Kings is a strategic fantasy wargame for two to five players. On the continent of Castafon, provincial kings fight for supremacy using military force, political intrigue, diplomacy, and magic to conquer and consolidate territories.
- Players:
- 2–5
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Albion: Land of Faerie
boardgame
Ares Magazine issue 11 features Albion: Land of Faerie, a fantasy wargame depicting a conflict between Trolls, Faeries, and Humans across the Enchanted Isles of Britain and Ireland. It focuses on strategic combat and thematic area control.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Damocles Mission
boardgame
Damocles Mission is a solo paragraph-based game from Ares Magazine #13. Players explore a mysterious alien object orbiting above the Galapagos Islands using tiles to expand the known area and manage units through a variable handicap system.
- Players:
- 1
- Time:
- 60–120 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat
boardgame
Ares Magazine #10 features a solitaire paragraph game based on Harry Harrison's famous Stainless Steel Rat. The player must navigate and survive a deadly, computer-controlled maze as Slippery Jim.
- Players:
- 1–2
- Time:
- 60 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
DeltaVee
boardgame
Delta Vee from Ares Magazine #9 is a two-player tactical spaceship combat simulation set in the 24th century. It features Newtonian movement, modular ship components, and log sheets to resolve skirmishes and disputes within the Universe setting.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 60 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Arena of Death: Heroic Combat in the Fantasy World of DragonQuest
boardgame
Arena of Death is a board game of gladiatorial combat in the fantasy world of DragonQuest. Players pit fighters against each other and beasts in a variable series of combats until only allied or defeated characters remain in the arena.
- Players:
- 2–20
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Star Trader
boardgame
Ares Magazine #12 features Star Trader, a strategy game. Up to six players command starship fleets in the 24th century, engaging in interstellar economic competition and striving to maximize profits at the expense of their opponents.
- Players:
- 2–6
- Time:
- 180 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Ragnarok: The Twilight of the Gods
boardgame
Ragnarok depicts the conflict between the Norse Aesir and invaders led by Loki. Players maneuver forces on the Plain of Vigrid to achieve their respective victory conditions and decide Asgard's fate.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora
boardgame
Ares Magazine #2 features The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora. One to five players work cooperatively or solo to save a damaged spaceship from a fatal cold shutdown while gathering tools and fighting loose alien specimens roaming the corridors.
- Players:
- 1–5
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora
boardgame
Ares Magazine #6 features Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora, a solitaire game of interstellar exploration. Players command a biological survey ship, utilizing crew and robots to find alien life and gather specimens.
- Players:
- 1
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
The Omega War
boardgame
Ares Magazine #14 features the two-player strategic conflict game The Omega War. Set in post-apocalyptic North America in 2419, World Union forces battle rebels of the secret Omega Organization for control of the continent through alternate moves.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 45 min
- Min. Age:
- 12