Essen 2024 – novalties, Page 8

After the big earthquake of 1755 that tore down Lisbon and most of Portugal's southern coast, it was necessary to rebuild an entire nation. The demand for window glass increased so much that William Stephens, a British businessman, saw the opportunity to expand his business in Portugal by investing in the glass industry.

Rooster Chase is a game set in Barcelos, a northern region of Portugal where King Dinis, Queen Isabel and Princess Constança reside in their castle. The royal family owns a rooster farm which becomes the centre of an exciting adventure. One day, due to the negligence of an employee, the gate of the farm is left open and the Roosters seized the opportunity to escape and invade the nearby village.

Tinco is a fast-paced party game from 3 to 6 players. Each player must change cards between each other to make a set of five cards of the same color. Also, each player must take a token from the center of the board. But there are not enough tokens for all the players. The last one gets without a token and loses one point. The player left with the white card at the end of the round also...

In The Lie, all the cards lie! The cards show numbers from 1 to 4, and they are in four different colors. However, when you turn each card over, you will find something has changed: either its color or number.

It's 1977. You're an up-and-coming musician, dreaming of making it big with your band. Over the next few months you'll rehearse, play gigs, write songs, and promote your band. With careful planning and a little luck, you'll earn the most fame and become the best new artist of the year.

The tea ceremony lies at the heart of Japanese culture, giving life the most essential and elemental concepts of hospitality, respect, and Zen philosophy. There, they believe that tea, which came from China in the 13th century, resolved the health problems of the Buddhist monks who drank it. Over the years, the tea ceremony evolved to offer the samurai a place of calm, far from the chaos of the...

We have finally perfected the power of steam, and we can now use it to our advantage! We live in an unprecedented era of progress, and new steam-powered inventions are developed faster than ever. Cities are growing, trade is flourishing, and we are developing our most ambitious machine ever: a giant contraption that will bring even more progress to the city. Yes, some trees are being cut down,...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

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!

The beautiful pieces of glass in the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures.

Enter a Growing Market! Welcome to the Community Hedge Fund where players take on the roles of gardeners dedicated to growing flowers and profits. When the market crashes, the Gardener with the most valuable Stalk portfolio wins. Garden shrewdly to grow your fortune.

For over 300 million years, trees have traded nutrients with fungi in a vast underground network. Scientists continue to make new discoveries about this hidden world. In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube...

6 suspects is a game of memory and logical deduction. A crime has been committed. Two hidden evidence cards are assigned to each one of the six suspects. Players look at evidence cards, one after the other, trying to be the first to find the culprit.

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!

Chu Han is a two-player card game of dynastic intrigue set in ancient China before and during the Chu-Han Contention, 206-202 BCE.

Atoll is a winning design of the 1st season of Czech board game design contest turned into reality show called "Den deskovek". It's engine building game in which your goal is to build the best possible ecosystem in which the population of fish and other creatures will thrive, and which will attract new species.A central concern for you in managing Atoll is a variable called fatigue -...

Tea Garden is a game of talented debuting designer Tomáš Holek, who is also working on his designs for the biggest Czech publishers. The key elements of the game are deck-building and worker-placement, Maybe the most intriguing is the resource management part though. In Tea Garden, you will pay with tea leaves. Those can be either green or black (fermented) – the value of green leaves...

Explore space like never before in Wandering Galaxy, the newest addition to Plaid Hat's "Crossroads Game" universe.

Jovian Moon Base - Callisto, 22nd Century AD: Tensions have arisen between the conglomerate of Earth's leading corporations that funded the base and the mining collective tasked with operating it. Protests have erupted, strikes been called, and contracts broken. Private security forces have been hired, industrial mining vehicles repurposed for combat, and long-disused military mechs reawoken....

As night falls on Tokyo, two massive silhouettes rise from the smoke snaking up from destroyed skyscrapers. There can be only one who will be crowned King of Tokyo, either by annihilating their rival or by inspiring terror and awe from the crowds.

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...