Essen 2024 – novalties, Page 4

Widen your Unconscious Mind experience with five new mix-and-match modules.

You are travelers planning and experiencing your own dream vacations to Japan.While bouincing between Tokyo and Kyoto, you'll visit can't miss tourist attractions and local flavor. Using over 100 beautifully illustrated cards drawn by Japan-based artists, you will discover activities and strategically place them to create your week-long itinerary. Puzzle out the optimal activities to maximize...

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.

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...

As the 19th century draws to a close, the monarchies of Europe struggle to stay relevant in this rapidly changing age. Whether it’s the court of King Frederik in Saxony or the court of the aging Queen Victoria of the British Empire trying to maintain rule over the faraway riches of Australia, they must all contend with the rising political forces clamoring to secure their piece of the pie in...

Welcome to Superstore 3000, the retro-futuristic mall building game where you must build the tallest and most incredible mall to satisfy as many customers as possible.

It’s the late 19th century, and more than 9000 windmills dot the landscape of the Netherlands, some of them purpose-built to dry the lowlands, called polders. In the polders between these windmills are fields filled with colorful tulips—the flower that once was a part of the turbulent history of the first financial bubble but is now simply a quintessential part of the Dutch landscape,...

Ninjas bring rocks, scissors, and paper to a fight in Ninjan to help you recruit the strongest ninjas possible.

Secretly wager dice behind a player screen. Then, all players reveal their dice simultaneously. If you bid less dice, you get to go first! But, it's easier to catch fish with more dice.Will you play risky to go early, or be patient and catch the big one? Don't forget to use your special dice and lure tokens.Most points (from caught fish) wins!

In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock.  

In Kyoto no Neko, 2 to 4 players are kittens who explore the modern-day city of Kyoto, Japan through a series of independent, replayable scenarios. In each scenario, players must fulfill a variety of missions that represent typical cat activities, from befriending a school boy to fighting an aggressive stray cat, or stealing the food from other player's dinner bowl. During each game, every...

Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia. Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos!

Souvenir shopping is a battle against time.The end of your trip is rapidly approaching, but you still need to buy souvenirs! You're worried you won't be able to find enough of the souvenirs you want, but if you spend too much time looking, everything will sell out! Should you start looking for something that's easier to find? No, there still might be time...

One night, a panda snuggled in a bamboo grove and dreamily munched on his favourite shoots. Looking up at the starry night sky, she wondered why she wasn't one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. "I should think of something in which I can be spoken of in the same breath as these famous creatures." Then, as she turned to get another sprout, the idea for this play was born...

In Beasty Bar: Down Under, a flood of new faces floods into the Beasty Bar.

In the 6th century BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, wanted to honor his young wife, Amytis of Media, with magnificent gardens featuring a multitude of beautifully scented flowers, so he called on the most eminent architects in his kingdom to test their ingenuity and realize his vision of creating what would become one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. In Babylon, you take...

Welcome to the fantastical world of Iridescia. This abandoned world, lush with rare gems has been vacant for centuries due to a cataclysmic event forcing it’s inhabitants to take to the skies. The land is now safe to return to and it’s former residents are coming home. Take on the role of one of 4 clans to explore the lands, mine gems, restore ancient relics, and find the lost Iridia Stone to...

Welcome to River Valley! The beautiful pieces of glass that can be found along the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures to set up shop.

The game Resafa takes place during the 3rd century AD in the area of today's Middle East. Resafa now lies in ruins in modern-day Syria, but at this time it was a fortified desert outpost that flourished as a stop along important caravan routes.

This is a mini-expansion for Gardlings. Includes 7 mission tiles and 1 rules tile.