BGA Assistant

A Chrome extension for Board Game Arena that keeps track of the game state so you don't have to

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Reads the full game log from Innovation 2-player tables and reconstructs the game state — hand contents and score piles according to revealed cards, and deck stack order with returned cards — displayed as a visual summary in a side panel. Supports the base game and the Echoes of the Past, Cities of Destiny, and Artifacts of History expansions (including the Relics variant).

Hands, forecast and score

Each of those sections shows known cards with their name, icons, and age, while unknown cards appear as placeholders with just the age number and set. An eye icon represents opponent’s knowledge:

Innovation hand and forecast view

Turn history

A compact sidebar shows recent actions — meld, draw, dogma, endorse, achieve, promote — with timestamps and player attribution. Each player’s row is rendered in their actual BGA-assigned color, and your own (“you”) row is highlighted with a subtle background tint of that color so it stays distinguishable regardless of which color BGA gave you. Compound actions (e.g. meld → promote → dogma) render as indented sub-action lines. Turns that begin with an Artifact on display show the pre-turn choice (pass, return, or dogma of that Artifact) as an italicized line above the regular actions:

Innovation turn history

Card list

The card list lays out all cards in the game across ages, showing which cards have been identified and which remain unknown. Toggle between Base, Echoes, Cities, and Artifacts sets, filter to show only unaccounted cards, and switch between wide and tall layouts:

Innovation card list

Deck

The deck section shows remaining cards per age, with known cards revealed by name and unknown cards as placeholders:

Innovation deck view

Game features

Standard features