Essen 2024 – novalties
Can't make it to Essen this year? Don't despair!
We'll be bringing new record releases that are premiering right now.
at Spiel Essen 2024, to you!
We will stock most of the titles by the end of October.
These are usually highly anticipated titles and we will add more as we go along.
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Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.
Dynamic game of tactics in a competition for space and resources to create your own mushroom kingdom. The game follows the life cycle of fungi.
Piña Kostkada is the Czech Edition of Piña Coladice which is a family party-game in which you roll the dice up to three times to claim one of the available combinations on coasters.Position yourself strategically with your cocktail tokens before your opponents.You will earn precious points that will bring you closer to victory... but the quickest way to win is to line up 4 of your cocktail...
Improve your Japanese state! Replace the cards in your hand and in your tableau with cards from the central river while respecting their positioning.
Your architectural firm is selected to renovate downtown! Manage resources, plan constructions, and outsmart competitors in Tower Up. Pick cards or build to earn points.
Plunge into the modern era, where our planet's vast interconnected ocean scape is one of the last frontiers to discover and explore. Experience a deep new ever-changing adventure in this followup to the smash hit Endeavor: Age of Sail!
In Černý les - the Czech edition of Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock. You’ll travel from village to village, to enlist the aid of the best specialists. Exploiting the abilities of these specialists lets you collect resources, lay out new landscape tiles (e.g. ponds and fields), and build a variety of buildings, which come in four types.
Tactical area control meets fantasy adventure in this card-driven cooperative game of animals against machines from the designer of PARKS and the creator of Bloc by Bloc. Play as one of four unique factions and assemble your crew of defenders from a wide range of animal characters to resist the machines across a modular map that changes with each game.
In Fishing, you try to catch as many tricks as possible over eight rounds, with each card you catch being worth 1 point. You then use your caught cards for the next round — and if you didn't catch enough tricks to fill your hand, you'll draw fresh cards from the ocean stack, which will introduce new cards for you fishers to fight over.
The King is on vacation. He entrusted the city and its treasure to the prince. The brigands know it and intend to fill their pockets.. or at least try! Will you play prince or brigand? Brigands is an asymetrical game of deduction and trickery that pits a prince against rival bands of brigands. The prince must protect the coffers of the city against brigands. If no brigand succeeds in stealing...
The players' goal is to collect different types of food while trying to remember what they already put in their burrow because overfilling it could be a problem. The game contains two rulesets: a standard one, suitable for the whole family, and one for experts.
During the game, players take on the role of researchers and saviors of the oceans. You will sail the seas, hire crew, explore the coral reef, clean the ocean sectors of any pollution, and try to accomplish as many missions as possible.
The first expansion for Karak 2 is here! It brings a number of new features, most notably the inter-player duel system and the new Imperium mode. In the new mode, players compete for the Emperor's Crown, which brings great power, but also great responsibility, in addition to the usual goal. During duels, players can deprive each other of resources. The expansion also introduces 5 new heroes, 2...
In Loooď (Czech Edition of Looot), you need to gather resources and capture buildings to develop your fjord. Fill your longships and complete your construction sites in order to rack up your victory points. Store up the most riches, and you’ll be crowned Jarl of the Vikings!
In SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a eurogame for 1–4 players, you lead a scientific institution tasked with searching for traces of life beyond planet Earth. The game draws inspiration from current or emerging technologies and efforts in space exploration. Get a free Pluto promo card with your order of this game!
In Birdie you'll have to collect sets of birds and different seasons for points, but you'll have to remember which ones have already flown in your deck and which ones are missing!
Akropolis Athena is an expansion of the Akropolis base game, set in the Ancient Mediterranean where architects compete to build prestigious cities. The theme revolves around gaining the favor of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, war, and artisans, to earn riches and honor.
In the Czech edition of Cyclades: Legendary Edition, designers Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc have reworked the Cyclades base game and its many expansions to make gameplay more dynamic and fluid.
Cosca is a strategy party game of gaining influence through using secret bids and dice, which are never rolled. Over seven rounds (a week), you will secretly send your henchmen (dice) to locations, where they will gather resources in the form of money and guns. Then, you will use combinations of the symbols on your dice to gain the favor of the mafiosos on offer.
Deluxe Upgrade Pack contains enhancements to the components and gameplay. Also adds expansion for the 5th player.
In Clans and Glory, you take part in an ancient ritual: the free people of the Scottish Highlands have come from near and far to the meeting place to join a clan chief. Can you win over the best followers?
Beyond the Horizon is a civilization game in which players compete to become the most influential society in history through exploration and expansion, development and production, research, and technological advancement.
Unconscious Mind is a euro-style game featuring worker placement, engine building, multiple rondels, and cascading effects. On your turn, you may place one or two Ideas (workers) on a central Meeting Table to access a variety of actions, such as adding tiles to your player board, drafting and playing cards, and moving around the city of Vienna. Where you place your Ideas also determines how far...

