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Unreal Estate - A Fantasy Cityscape Card Game

Created by Grand Gamers Guild

Prove your skills and fill the land with fantastical buildings through drafting, set collection, and timing in this 2-4 player game!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Citizens, lend us your thumb!
over 6 years ago – Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 12:02:08 AM

Today ends the voting for the BGG Most Anticipated Games of 2018 nominations. If you’ve not already given a thumb to our next project Endeavor, please do: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/231943/item/5764955#item5764955

If you want to find out more about the progress of the project, visit endeavorgame.com. Thanks!

One year ago
over 6 years ago – Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 01:15:44 AM

Kickstarter sent me an email letting me know that it was one year ago today that Unreal Estate funded.

So much has happened since funding, and coincidentally today is the day I leave to attend Essen, another noteworthy benchmark in Guild history.

It seemed a great time then to say “Thank you.” to all of you who jumped aboard this crazy dream.

So, I’ll see you soon: at Essen, at PAX Unplugged, or perhaps around a gaming table someplace else.

Safe travels,

The GuildMaster

Company News
over 6 years ago – Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 03:16:23 PM

Citizens of Guildmore! I hope you don't mind me sharing some company news, not specific to our beloved game. (If you are a subscriber to our e-mail newsletter you can hit delete.) We had some big things take place at Gen Con, so here goes:

The 'Sobel' prize

And the winner is...Grand Gamers Guild! We've been talking about Endangered (our upcoming cooperative dice placement game in which you'll be saving endangered species from extinction) for a while, and are THRILLED to let you know that we'll be working with Beth Sobel for the art!  

Stop and read that again, we'll wait...  

Yes, you read that right: Beth Sobel will be our artist for Endangered. Beth is known for her work on Herbaceous, World's Fair 1893, and Viticulture. We'd like to thank the Academy and our mom, and we can't wait to show you what she has in store!

♫ Come sail away... ♫

And now for the BIGGEST news out of Gen Con 2017 for Grand Gamer's Guild: We are super excited to announce our partnership with Burnt Island Games to republish Endeavor!!!

Endeavor was first published in 2009, but has been out of print and highly sought after for almost a decade. We made this announcement on the BGG livestream on Thursday afternoon at Gen Con, and now our ship is at full sail. Our box cover images have made it to the front page on BoardGameGeek, and yesterday we appeared on The Hotness!

Endeavor: Age of Sail
Endeavor: Age of Sail

Ready to get on board? Go to endeavorgame.com and give us your e-mail address to get Endeavor news and updates. Then spread the word! We'll be hitting Kickstarter in January 2018, and we need your help to make a BIG splash. (See what I did there?) Please post and tweet your excitement.

Fondly,

The GuildMaster

Odds & ends
over 6 years ago – Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:56:54 PM

Happy birthday Jason!

Tomorrow is Unreal Estate Designer Jason Slingerland's birthday, and we've decided to run a special offer in our online store to celebrate! If you purchase Unreal Estate from our online store through August 8 at midnight EST, we'll send you Gothic Estate AND 1 set of promo Orphanage cards for free.

Flagship Designer, flagship title!
Flagship Designer, flagship title!

It takes a village

It takes a village to raise a board game, and it takes a special group of villagers to nurture the electronic side of things. The Steam and Android versions of Unreal Estate have been live for a few weeks, but we are excited to announce that it is now available on iOS!  

I've been in the board game space for over a decade, but apps are definitely a new frontier for me. We've done very well with all of our physical games, but we realize that getting noticed in the digital space is key for the long term.

In order to promote the app, we've decided to make a special deal: if you download the app from the Apple Store, Google Play, or Steam and show it to us on your device at Gen Con, we'll give you $3 off the purchase of the physical game. That's pretty much getting the app for FREE!  

Even if you can't make Gen Con, it's still a great game at a great price. Please help us spread the word to the app-lovers in your life.

Fondly,

The GuildMaster

Feeling Fulfilled
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:17:22 PM

Citizens of Guildmore, I am delighted to announce that as of about 2 hours ago, ALL packages were delivered to the local USPS and are on their way!

See you later USPS!
See you later USPS!

We are so excited to get Unreal Estate into your hands and for you to play. The last 3 days have been a non-stop assembly line, but I enjoyed every minute of it. We know that there will be small hiccups and fulfillment fires to extinguish, but we are ready for those.

Plant a seed

Throughout our campaign, we have turned you on to projects--gaming and otherwise--that have resonated with us. Today we'd like to turn you on to Groves by Dan Letzring.

Worker placement and bag building
Worker placement and bag building

 

See that art? Yeah, it caught our eye too. Check out Groves and consider giving it some support.

Making an Impact

We made quite an impact at Origins this past week--in fact we sold out all of the stock we brought--and we need to get our little gem of a game on as many radars as possible to keep that going. If you are a BGG member, please visit the Unreal Estate page and provide a rating, comments, and of course pictures of you playing.

Now it's back to Pocket Ops, which only has 4 days left!

Fondly,

The GuildMaster