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BAZARA

Trade the road.
Shape history.

The Silk Road awakens. Build your fortune across eight legendary cities — but remember: gold opens doors, prestige writes your name into history.

2–4Players
60–120Minutes
14+Ages

A marketplace that
moves with you.

BAZARA board game set up on a wooden table
01The full BAZARA experience

The greatest bazaars of the Silk Road are stirring again. From Istanbul to Delhi, merchants travel city to city in pursuit of tea, spices, silk, ceramics and jewels.

Buy at the right time and sell in the right place. Complete contracts, make investments, seize opportunities before your rivals and turn a changing market to your advantage.

History will remember not the merchant who gathered the most gold — but the one who earned the greatest prestige.
STRATEGYECONOMYROUTE BUILDING

Eight cities.
One legacy.

Every stop is a decision. Follow demand, read your rivals and move before the market turns.

  1. 01İstanbul
  2. 02Trabzon
  3. 03Semerkand
  4. 04Buhara
  5. 05Kahire
  6. 06Bağdat
  7. 07Mekke
  8. 08Delhi

More than a game. A
world on your table.

A modern strategy experience where every trade carries risk, every decision moves the market and every round can change everything.

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A Living Marketplace

Every buy pushes prices up. Every sale pulls them down. The market shifts with every action — no two games ever play the same way.

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Move. Trade. Dominate.

Race your caravan across 8 legendary cities — Istanbul to Delhi. Each city holds unique goods and opportunities waiting to be seized.

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Contracts & Investments

Fulfill lucrative contracts, build long-term investments and react to World Events that reshape the economy for everyone at the table.

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The Hidden Tactic

Each player holds one secret Tactic card. Play it at exactly the right moment — a single move that can flip the entire game.

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Gold & Prestige

Wealth alone won't crown you. Balance gold with Prestige — a dual-axis system rewarding both cunning merchants and bold empire-builders.

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Scales for Any Table

From an intimate 2-player duel to a tense 4-player contest — every player count creates a different rhythm of rivalry and opportunity.

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Stories become
games.

Forged Lantern Games is an independent board game studio. We create games with stories, strategy and soul — experiences that bring people together across cultures, languages and generations.

01Story first02Deep, approachable03Built to last

Your place at the table
is waiting.

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