Cartographers: Heroes - new content available!

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Cartographers: Heroes - new content available!

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New content for Cartographers, your favorite flip-and-write game, is now available! Cartographers: Heroes introduces two new maps, new explore cards, new scoring cards, heroes, and more!
 
To play the new content, choose Cartographers: Heroes in the "Custom" section of the game. The new content will be combined with the Base game content.
 
Cartographers is a flip-and-write game in which each player fills out a map. Each round, you'll add a new feature to your map. After a few rounds, you'll score based on the presence or arrangement of these features. The player with the most points at the end of four rounds wins!
 
If you are new to Cartographers, you can try the tutorial first and then launch into some real Heroes action here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=cartographers
 
Our gratitude goes to Jordy Adan, the game designer, as well as all the Thunderworks Games’ crew, for having Cartographers: Heroes on the platform. And thank you to jordijansen for porting the game to BGA.
 
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This was your Friday release.
Until next time, take care and play fair…
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A standalone version would have been better :?
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It states it is still in alpha. Only friendly mode is accesible.
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Massinho20 wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:06 A standalone version would have been better :?
Why? One of the bragging points of the game is that you can use whichever base game you want and mix and match with the expansions. As someone who owns nearly the whole collection, I'm glad for this design choice in both the game design and the BGA implementation.
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Naia_Sharizai wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:07 It states it is still in alpha. Only friendly mode is accesible.
This is what I came to say. Since when do alpha versions make it to the News page?
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SqueekyHT wrote: 13 February 2026, 15:04
Massinho20 wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:06 A standalone version would have been better :?
Why? One of the bragging points of the game is that you can use whichever base game you want and mix and match with the expansions. As someone who owns nearly the whole collection, I'm glad for this design choice in both the game design and the BGA implementation.
I will never play the heroes version as I don't want to lose my elo points.
The game is completely different with new tiles and new maps.
Furthermore it is no expansion as the hardcopy is a standalone game as well.
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SqueekyHT wrote: 13 February 2026, 15:08
Naia_Sharizai wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:07 It states it is still in alpha. Only friendly mode is accesible.
This is what I came to say. Since when do alpha versions make it to the News page?
Hi, Developer here, sorry. Life caught up, and I missed the calendar reminder to remove the ALPHA flag. Heroes has been in ALPHA for a few months now, and is now fully released. This was not BGA's fault, but mine. Enjoy Cartographers Heroes on BGA!
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Massinho20 wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:06 A standalone version would have been better :?
We have plans to support the game with more updates (More Maps perhaps?), so a separate listing would be difficult to support. You can also mix new content from both base games as you wish.
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Massinho20 wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:06 A standalone version would have been better :?
Odd way to say "thanks"
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jordijansen wrote: 13 February 2026, 18:23
SqueekyHT wrote: 13 February 2026, 15:08
Naia_Sharizai wrote: 13 February 2026, 14:07 It states it is still in alpha. Only friendly mode is accesible.
This is what I came to say. Since when do alpha versions make it to the News page?
Hi, Developer here, sorry. Life caught up, and I missed the calendar reminder to remove the ALPHA flag. Heroes has been in ALPHA for a few months now, and is now fully released. This was not BGA's fault, but mine. Enjoy Cartographers Heroes on BGA!
Hi!

Thanks for removing the alpha. No problem at all!
Thanks for the wonderfull job on the game! It's marvelous!
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