Essen 2024 – novalties

Deep Regrets is a game for 1-5 players that runs about 30 minutes per player. An unfortunate fishing game about pulling progressively more horrifying things out of the ocean.

Improve your Japanese state! Replace the cards in your hand and in your tableau with cards from the central river while respecting their positioning.

Brave the raging seas of the Cyclades! Typhon, father of monsters, and the Nereids, deadly nymphs with enchanting voices, are rising from the depths to overthrow the metropolises. Against their wrath stand legendary heroes like the lightning-fast Achilles and the unstoppable Heracles. As you battle across islands and reefs, the waves will either carry you... or drag you under. Contains 14...

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...

Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deluxe Upgrade Pack contains enhancements to the components and gameplay. Also adds expansion for the 5th player.

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 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!

This Game Is KILLER is a hilariously deadly party game about being hunted by an alien life form aboard a cramped cargo vessel in deep space. The object is simple: Survive at any cost — and remove the alien threat before it kills you all.

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 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?

Forage is the final instalment of the 9-card solitaire game trilogy (following Orchard and its sequel Grove).

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.

Sneferu is a family-weight abstract game by Adam Španěl (Project L). Players attempt to win the great pharaoh’s favor by building the highest pyramid possible from mined blocks (with each block being a combination of two of the five possible materials). The players get these blocks by spending the two resources in the game: food and time. Time, represented by your boat moving forward on the...

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 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 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.

What you love most in life is bringing the joys of the sea to people around the world. You own a small tinning company on the coast of Spain where you make simply the best conservas for everyone to enjoy. You are responsible for the whole process, from managing the boats that go out in the morning, to catching the fish and finally selling your tinned goods. You have special goals each month,...