Bright Eye Games is a UK-based board game publisher and localisation partner. We believe in bringing friends and family together to share in the joy that great gaming experiences have to offer. We publish fun and accessible board games covering a broad range of light-hearted and interesting themes that everyone can enjoy.
PONZI SCHEME
3-5 Players | 60-90 mins | Ages 12+
In Ponzi Scheme, players are scammers trying to trick investors into funding fraudulent investments with the promise of extremely high returns. You need elaborate trading skills to keep your operation afloat as long as possible, and as time goes on the dividends you need to pay every turn will only pile higher and higher! But when someone declares bankruptcy, the remaining fraudster who forged the biggest shell corporation wins the game!
The goal of the game is simple: Don't be the first player to go bankrupt!
This new edition has all new art and graphic design, and the rules have been tweaked slightly to make them clearer.
Release date: October 2024
SUMO
2 Players | 5 mins | Ages 10+
SUMO is a trick-taking card game for two players based on the national sport of Japan. Win a thrilling battle that can be decided in an instant.
In tournament mode, you can play ‘BANZUKE’ rules, recording your matches with the aim of becoming a YOKOZUNA!
Release date: October 2024
TOKKURI TAKING
1-4 Players | 15 mins | Ages 14+
Tokkuri Taking is a game in which you will use the cards in your hands as either tokkuris, a traditional sake drinking vessel, or to drain some of the sake from the tokkuris on the table.
On your turn, either play a card face down as a tokkuri, or face up. If you play it face up, you must lower the sake level in tokkuri on the table corresponding to the number(s) on the card you played. A round ends once all players have played all of the cards in their hands.
Players will earn positive points for tokkuri they emptied and lose points for those in front of themselves that have too much still in them. The player with the lowest score then takes points equal to the difference between their score and each other player's score - from the other players!
Release date: October 2024
BATTLE DENTALE
2 Players | 20 mins | Ages 8+
Battle Dentale is a CoraQuest game where players will play either Gumrot the Goblin or Toothache the Troll attempting to stave off the boredom of waiting for adventurers to visit the Hoodez Dungeon by competing to collect the best collection of teeth from a jawbone.
Toothache favours the cleaner teeth because they’re shiny, while Gumrot likes the decaying ones as the smell reminds them of their mum. Winning requires strategy, efficient decision-making, and sometimes evil moves to sabotage your opponent! To win, gather a more highly valued collection of teeth than the other player.
Release date: October 2024
CORAQUEST: Keep on questing
1-4 Players | 60 mins | Ages 6+
Keep on Questing expands the world of CoraQuest by adding a campaign mode - giving players the ability to level up heroes between quests and keep treasure from one adventure to another.
Guidance is included on how to turn the base game adventures into a campaign, as well as write your own campaigns.
There are new “Environments” to CoraQuest. And of course there are tons more heroes, enemies, treasure cards, and dungeon cards for you to play with too.
Release date: November 2023
THE PLOT THICKENS
Detective / Romance / Science FictioN / ADVENTURE
3-4 Players | 20-60 mins | Ages 8+/14+/17+
Genres can be mixed to increase player count
In The Plot Thickens players tell an improvised story from a hand of 5 word cards, each representing a person, place or thing. The object of the game is to collaborate and connect stories as much as possible, using “plot points” that are earned by playing each card. At the end of the game, the player who connected the most decides how the story ends, while the player with the most connections to their cards gets to choose a name for the story.
Release date
Sci-Fi, Romance & Detective: August 2023
Adventure: October 2024
CORAQUEST
1-4 Players | 60 mins | Ages 6+
CoraQuest is the highly anticipated lockdown Kickstarter hit designed by Dan Hughes and his 8-year-old daughter, Cora. A co-operative dungeon crawling game for 1-4 players where kids and grown-ups play together. Avoid traps, find treasure, fight monsters, and sometimes rescue a gnome called Kevin! Spark your imagination by creating your own heroes, monsters and adventures that will truly make your CoraQuest experience unique, time and time again.
Release date: August 2022
Waggle Dance
1-4 Players | 30-60 mins | Ages 10+
Waggle Dance by Mike Nudd, also known for Dice Hospital. Control worker bees to build a beehive, collect nectar, and make honey while also being efficient and strategic to outmanoeuvre your opponents. This 1-4 player Euro-style worker-placement dice game has stunning artwork and broad appeal. There are many paths to a sweet victory - it’s every beehive for themselves!
Release date: March 2022
TERMITE TOWERS
1-4 Players | 45-75 mins | Ages 10+
Termite Towers also by Mike Nudd, builds on Waggle Dance by adding a new layer of mechanisms that will allow gamers of all ages to enjoy strategic gameplay. It introduces 1-4 players to the world of efficient and dedicated builder termites, aiming to complete their section of the mound first. Players are gathering resources from the wood pile, hatching new termites and training soldiers – who will be the ter-mightiest?!
Release date: March 2022
SAVANNAH PARK
Welcome to wonderful Africa! You are a ranger, and your park contains some of the most fascinating wildlife of the savannas. You take good care of your animals, gathering them safely in herds, guiding them to water, and protecting them from bush fires. Not an easy job, especially as the other players determine which animals can move. Your path to success in this tricky puzzle is to lay animal tiles cleverly, pursue your objectives, and keep track of everything that goes on in this wide grassland. Savannah Park combines easy rules with exciting play for families and advanced gamers alike. Variants and a highly challenging solo mode offer further depth and endless replay value. Compete for the next high score!
Release date: August 2021