Essen 2024 – novalties

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

118 plastic miniatures for every faction to enhance your Cyclades Legendary Edition games.

PROVE YOUR WORTH AND EARN THE MOST POINTS POSSIBLE by traveling the mountain and assembling as many landscape tiles as possible, meeting the forest spirits and lighting fires on the peaks creating a path through the valley.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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

15 breathtaking miniatures of Creatures and Heroes to enhance your Cyclades Legendary Edition games.

Valheim is a 1-4 player co-operative board game in which survival depends on teamwork and strategy. Gather your fellow companions and venture forward to explore, build, collect resources, forge weapons, equip sturdy armor, battle enemies, and carve your path towards facing the ultimate evil. Take on a role in which you help tailor the adventure to your liking. The fate of everyone lies in...