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AGE OF INNOVATION

Designer: Helge Ostertag | Publisher: Feuerland

Time works funny in tabletop land. Terra Mystica is only twelve years old, which in boardgame years is about fifty. The game has the status of a grand old classic – ‘oh yes, I have fond memories of this’ – and has already budded off into several expansions, rethemes and remakes, including Gaia Project and the relatively recent Terra Nova.

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