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!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

In The Hanging Gardens, players compete to build the most beautiful garden for King Nebuchadnezzar II. It is another game in the Akropolis and Looot series.

Help the Queen build a new bridge! Scour the kingdom, recruit the best artisans, gather construction resources, and create magnificent decorations. Note, however, that you can never use the same bridge more than once in the same day. The game is inspired by the problem of the "Seven Bridges of Königsberg", and gameplay combines engine-building and programming mechanisms, with a solo mode.

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.

Immerse yourself in the hustle and bustle of Tokyo's fish market with Tsukiji Market, a strategic duel in which two chefs compete for the freshest ingredients. This game combines bluff, speed and anticipation, inspired by the frenetic atmosphere of Tsukiji.

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...

Echoes of Time is a strategic game for 2-4 players in which you attempt to create the best-equipped fellowship of characters from different factions to conquer the sources of power. Try to control and modify the flow of time to outshine your opponents. The game includes more than one hundred cards with unique effects that you will use to build a new deck each game, and a "sliding tile" system...

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 ANTS, players control ant colonies locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the garden. Expand your anthill, explore the terrain, and mark your path with pheromones. Gather food and leaves, battle rival insects, and outmaneuver your opponents. Lay eggs and hatch larvae to grow your workforce with specialized ants. Evolve your colony to unlock unique abilities and secure supremacy...

Speakeasy will transport you to the roaring 1920s during the era of Prohibition. Manhattan was under the firm control of Lucky Luciano, a prominent mobster. To strengthen his grip on the territory, he implemented a well-structured system. He divided Manhattan into different districts, each assigned to a specific mobster responsible for handling their "business" operations. Kickstarter Edition...

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.

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....

Enemies & Lovers is a lightweight, fast-paced card game of strategy, deception, and betrayal, based on Holly Black’s bestselling Folk of the Air series. If you enjoy scheming great schemes, toasting to the incompetence of your enemies, gorgeous art, and a lot of shiny foil, this is the game for you!  

Two promo cards for Ozvěny času (the Czech edition of Echoes of Time).

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.

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...

Spletité stezky is the final addition to the world of Arnak. Its major highlight is a new double-sided map, bigger than the one in the base game, that features two new research tracks, each with unique mechanisms and components.