{"id":21695,"date":"2026-10-06T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/mecanique\/non-classifiee\/the-return-of-a-classic-empires-age-of-discovery-is-back\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:45:30","slug":"the-return-of-a-classic-empires-age-of-discovery-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/crowdfunding\/the-return-of-a-classic-empires-age-of-discovery-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of a Classic: Empires: Age of Discovery is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p-rc_b6961a0523c352c3-32\" data-path-to-node=\"2\"><span data-path-to-node=\"2,0\">Strategy and worker-placement board game fans are in for a treat: publisher <b data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"76\">Eagle-Gryphon Games<\/b> has just announced the return of the famous game <i data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"145\">Empires: Age of Discovery<\/i> (originally reimagined from Glenn Drover&#8217;s <i data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"214\">Age of Empires III<\/i>)<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"2,2\">. This new edition promises a fresh and modernized look to rediscover this board gaming classic<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"2,4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_b6961a0523c352c3-33\" data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span data-path-to-node=\"3,0\">In this iconic game, players take on the roles of 16th-century European powers competing to explore the New World, establish colonies, train specialists, develop their economy, and construct strategic buildings across three great ages<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"3,2\">. This updated visual presentation features revamped components with vibrant colors and a refreshed design, as shown in the initial previews released by the publisher<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"3,4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_b6961a0523c352c3-34\" data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span data-path-to-node=\"4,0\">The official launch of the crowdfunding campaign is scheduled for <b data-path-to-node=\"4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"66\">October 15, 2026<\/b> on <b data-path-to-node=\"4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"86\">Kickstarter<\/b><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"4,2\">. Eager players and strategy enthusiasts can already follow the campaign page to stay updated as soon as it goes live and participate in the comeback of this staple title<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"4,4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgamepublisher\/597\/eagle-gryphon-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgamepublisher\/597\/eagle-gryphon-games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy and worker-placement board game fans are in for a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21696,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions\/21696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}