Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is a revised version of the beloved strategy game Egizia. Players travel down the Nile, placing boats as they go, to obtain resources that will help them construct some of Egypt's most famous monuments. With new monuments to construct, new cards to collect, and a constantly shifting river, Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is a streamlined, modern update that both longtime fans and new players can easily pick up and enjoy.

In Egizia, players place their pawns following the course of the Nile, moving northwards. In this way, each placement not only prevents the opponents from choosing the same square (except monuments, where multiple players are always allowed), but also forces the player to place their remaining pawns only on the squares below the one they just occupied.

When the placement phase is completed, the workers of the players (which are separate from the pawns) must be fed with the grain produced in the fields. The production of each field is based on the floods of the Nile, so some fields may not give grain every turn. If a player doesn't have enough grain for their workers, they must trade for it using their victory points. After that, stones are received from owned quarries and used to build the monuments (if the right to do so was reserved earlier) along with the workers.

In this new edition, players get a chance to build across the Colonnade, a new monument. The more columns you build, the better powers you unlock to aid you on the river. Perhaps once a turn you can place boats on occupied river spaces or upstream, or gain an extra point each time you place bricks in monuments. With randomized rewards from game to game, the Colonnade is a dynamic new monument to stir up traditional gameplay.

Below the Colonnade, where graves once stood, lie the mysterious statues — a new monument unlike anything else in Egizia. These tiny build sites are cheaper than any other monument, but they hold the potential for high reward if you meet their requirements. Players have to plan early as they can place only one brick in a statue per round, and each level they build has more strenuous requirements for endgame bonuses.

Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition keeps all the painstaking risk/reward choices of the original Egizia and adds new depths of strategy, balance, and gameplay for a fresh twist on a timeless classic."