Rio Grande Games plans to continue to expand its efforts in the fast-growing deck-building games category in 2011. Rio Grande plans to release two expansions for Dominion and another promo card this year, in addition to launching its second deck-building game Arctic Scavengers in the second quarter.

 

Rio Grande has sold over 1 million copies of its Dominion game. Dominion ranked #2 on ICv2’s list of the “Top 10 Hobby Board, Card, Family Games” for the third quarter of 2010 (see “Top 10 Board, Family, Card Games, Q3”), trailing only board game juggernaut Settlers of Catan. 

 

Dominion: Cornucopia is the fifth expansion for the Dominion deck-building game. It adds 13 new Kingdom cards plus five unique cards. The central theme of the Cornucopia expansion is variety. There are cards that reward players for having a variety of cards in their hands, as well as cards that help players achieve that level of variety.

 

Arctic Scavengers is a deck-building game set in 2097 on an Earth that has been plunged into another ice age. Designed by Robert K. Gabhart, Arctic Scavengers was originally released in 2009 by Driftwood Games, but is being retooled and re-launched by Rio Grande Games as the company’s second deck-building game. The basic theme of Arctic Scavengers is survival as players each lead a small tribe of survivors who have to struggle for possession of dwindling resources and medical supplies. Players have to build up their tribes, and either bluff or fight their way to victory as the player with the largest tribe at the end wins.