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Renowned Explorers: International Society
Let's try to give the spotlight to some smaller games, so that maybe they find some new players:
This game was developed by Abbey Games, who also created Reus and Reus 2, not to be confused with the abbreviation of this game: REIS. First I will explain a bit what makes it special and then why I like it so much.
What is REIS?
It's a Roguelike in which you select a team of 3 Adventurers and go on a grand adventure tour with them Indiana Jones style. The game consist of mainly three parts: world map, adventure map and the encounters. First the world map between adventures where you use your found treasures to e.g. buy tools, train your team or research technology.
Then you select from the available adventures one to go on. These adventures can be for example on a tropical island, in Egypt or in the Himalayas. When you enter the region you go on a map with a randomly generated network of points of interest. Each point of interest is embedded into a little story (similar to Heroes