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Bonsai Games (ボンサイ・ゲームズ) describes itself on its About page as a small one-person wargame publisher started to produce a 21st-century version of Sho Kikaku's 1987 SS series. Its design rule is 'easy to learn but deep' (かんたんだけど奥が深い), enforced through fixed limits: roughly 90 minutes of play, 50 counters, a rulebook of 16 pages or less and an A3 map. It publishes conventional box games, a 'mini box' line that keeps to those limits, folio reprints of older titles, and the quarterly free-paper BANZAIマガジン, each issue bundled with a bonus game. Distribution is through Japanese retailers such as Yell…
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- Country of Origin
- Japan
- Latest Game
- ランド＆フリーダム: スペイン内戦
- Latest Year
- 2026
- Games listed
- 110
Published Games(110)
| Game Name |
|---|
| 1942: Carrier Duel in the Pacific |
| 2192 Invasion: Earth |
| 278th Squadron "The Same 4 Cats": SM79 Damned Hunchback |
| 300: Earth & Water |
| 48th Panzer Korps: Battles on the River Chir |
| 57th Panzer Korps: Russia, December 1942 |
| 800 Heroes: Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
| Admirals' War: World War II at Sea |
| Afrika! |
| Ambon: Burning Sun & Little Seagulls |
| Arnhem! |
| A Step to Victory: The Bougainville Campaign, 1943-45 |
| August Storm: the Soviet-Japanese War, 1945 |
| Austerlitz 05 |
| Balkan Gamble |
| Bastogne |
| Battle for Kirovograd |
| Battle for Korsun |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| Battle of Mukden |
| Battle of Sandepu, 1905 |
| Battle of Shanghai |
| Berlin 1945 |
| Blitzkrieg to Moscow 2 |
| Born To Be Surrounded |
| Corfù 1716 |
| Corvette Command |
| Destination Antwerp |
| Equatorial Clash |
| Gazala 1942: Rommel's Greatest Victory |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: War in Asia and the Pacific |
| Guerre Eclair |
| IJA Infantry Regimental Commander |
| Invaders from Dimension X! |
| Iron Debris System: Space Battles in the 22nd-23rd Century |
| Kinmen 1949: The Battle that Saved Taiwan |
| Komet! |
| Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War |
| Last Battle of Sanada Yukimura |
| Last Stand in Hokkaido 199x |
| Midway |
| Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific |
| Modern Armored Warfare: Desert Storm 1991 and Croatia 1995 |
| Mrs Thatcher's War: The Falklands, 1982 |
| Napoléon 1815 |
| Night Attack on Slim |
| Night Raid on Gongchangling |
| No More Valentine: Operation Squarepeg |
| NORAD 3 |
| Norway! |
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