Essen 2025 – novalties

The goal of the game is to make your pigeons happy by feeding them with the correct amount of food and preventing them from exploding!

In Fearless, you walk through a gloomy forest and try to stay on the safe path. If you still wander astray, you try to turn back again as close as possible. The closer you are to the safe path, the less fear you will suffer. Not walking at all is no alternative as you'll remain behind on your own in the scary ruin. If you are the most fearless after several rounds, you will win the game!

Shrinkopolis is a resource management tile-placement game for 1-4 players and 15 - 45 minutes. Each player will build their own district inside the great living room. Win the hearts of your fellow micro-citizens, and you’ll be crowned the very first mayor of Shrinkopolis.

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

A grand adventure awaits you in this open-world style story-driven book game. You’ll explore scenes full of details for you to interact with using the skills, items, and prompts you acquire. These interactions lead to entries in the massive storybook full of branching narratives, puzzles, and illustrated cut-scenes. As each day ends you’ll recover from your adventures but just as the moon...

Gather sets of moles, but there’s a problem: as soon as you catch one, the others hide! Form sets of three matching moles, trigger special effects, and explore the advanced mode where a friendly dog will help you in your search.

Adventure Chest is an expansion for the game Lost Ruins of Arnak, featuring a larger double-sided map, new research tracks, guardians, locations, assistants, and solo play content. It also includes an original storage solution designed for easy game setup, play, and cleanup. The base game or previous expansions need to be purchased separately. A perfect addition for fans of the world of Arnak!

On a dark night, your broomsticks drop you quietly to the top of an evil tower. Explore the tower to equip yourself and collect the items you need to defeat the terrible wizards lurking there! Using your magic wands, simultaneously point at one of the tokens in the tower room to collect it. If two players point at the same item, the one with the most powerful wand wins the item, but must...

"Hang on Mama, I'm on my way!" Toto the black cat said, skittering towards the lopsided tower looming before him. Having been told that his mother left the world of the living to become a star in the sky, Toto and the rest of his feline friends bound unwaveringly for the top of the tower in the hopes to meet her again.

In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you will lead your civilization and plan a path through the crossroads of history across three epochs. Be a pioneer to expand territories, be an innovator to foster study and research, or be a warmonger to raid using superior armaments. The choice is yours, and it is your strategic acumen that will shape the course of cultures and lead your people toward victory....

An expansion for the game On the Wings of Dragons, which adds a wide range of new dragon cards, caves, quest tiles, Dragon Brotherhood boards, and a new round counter that brings new income opportunities when you pass.

Experience The Witcher universe in an entirely new way with Gwent: The Legendary Card Game. Inspired by the iconic mini-game from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this official physical edition brings the strategic, faction-based card game to your tabletop.

In Epochs: Course of Cultures, you will lead your civilization and plan a path through the crossroads of history across three epochs. Be a pioneer to expand territories, be an innovator to foster study and research, or be a warmonger to raid using superior armaments. The choice is yours, and it is your strategic acumen that will shape the course of cultures and lead your people toward victory....

The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth – Allies features various characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's universe who will come to the aid of either the Fellowship or Sauron. Collect power tokens in each chapter and use them to call upon your allies and benefit from their effects.

The Kitsune are divided into 2 clans: Zenko (blue cards) and Yako (orange cards). You are assigned one clan at the beginning of the game but you will have to play with your clan's cards and the ones of the opposing clan to win.

SETI: Kosmické agentury is an expansion for SETI: Pátrání po mimozemské inteligenci that introduces powerful asymmetric organizations—each with unique abilities, strategic advantages, and starting conditions that redefine how you approach the search for alien life. Take charge of unique organizations in your quest for alien contact. Take control of new asymmetric organizations, each...

Two clans compete to exert their influence in the White Heron's court, managing resources and building engines. On each turn, you will use their lamp tokens to obtain resources and activate actions. Among the actions available, you can buy and upgrade influence cards, place clan seals on gardens and training grounds, move your courtier between circles of influence, or trade with the Portuguese....

Join your friends and family — and memorable Sims from years past — in The Sims Board Game as you chart your journey. Will you create chaos and try to outrun Grim, or aim for career success? What will you do next when you have to start all over again? The possibilities are endless as you explore familiar venues, connect with iconic Sims, and achieve your aspirations to claim victory!

World Wonders: Europa Wonders Pack adds ten new wondrous monuments from Europa to World Wonders, along with a new gameplay mode.

Stínadla is an old-school co-operative game set in the world of Rychlé šípy — that is, The Rapid Arrows, a Czech comic book and novel series by Jaroslav Foglar set in 1930s Czechoslovakia that was inspired by the mysterious atmosphere of Old Prague.

Create a team of unique Champions in order to defeat the opposing Leader! To win, either position two of your champions next to your opponent’s Leader to capture them, or skillfully maneuver so the opponent’s Leader is surrounded, leaving no adjacent empty spaces.

Daydream is a cozy roll-and-write. Fill your cloud grid simultaneously adding the values of the dice.

Posviť si is a co-operative hidden object game in which you and your friends search with your trusty flashlight for wacky characters and items hidden in dark places brimming with absurd things. Your goal is to find as many as possible to advance your pawns on the track and cross the finish line, without any player being reached by the Moon pawn that is chasing you.

Monsters are massing into huge armies that threaten to destroy the cities the heroes have so laboriously built. Elite units need to be summoned, new weapons forged, and the battle against evil must be waged once more.