Essen 2025 – novalties, Page 9

Moon Bunny is a whimsical strategy game where players guide bunny alchemists across the moon to collect rare herbs. By arranging ingredients to complete recipes, you brew the elixir of life and score points. The bunny with the highest score at the end wins.

Ofrenda is a competitive card‑placement game inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead. Players draft and arrange portraits, candles, and offerings to build vibrant altars while keeping relatives’ wishes in balance. The player with the most harmonious and rewarding altar wins.

Red Letter, Yellow Letter! Red Letter, Yellow Letter! Red Letter, Yellow Letter! It’s a party game of saying words! Words with letters in them!

Ruins is a groundbreaking card game where players craft powerful cards using transparent upgrades while competing to shed their hand first. 

In Emergency Exit Only, each player in turn will play a tile to advance to the exit. But you’ll be playing the tiles on top of each other, so you’ll be putting your spatial visualization skills to the test!

Fifty, which was also released as Count Up, is a number-based game in which players pick numbers that will ideally bring them points.  

Answer questions and match the most popular choice. Only the majority scores – get into the Green Team and stay there, because winners stick together.

Sand Art is a unique entry in the "___ & write" style of games.

Onstage is a "must follow" trick-taking game in which you play as a theater company competing for the best performers to join your troupe. By winning tricks, you claim performers onstage. The trump suit is determined by the most valuable performers currently onstage and will change throughout the game as you recruit and manipulate the line of performers.  

Step into Raas: A Dance of Love, a game on the dance style of Garba Raas where color, rhythm, and tradition come to life.  

The Deluxe Edition of Mutagen includes the expansion contents - Mutation hand attachements, and 2 expansions  

The three little pigs are no longer so little, and as for the big bad wolf—well—it’s not just one, but an army. A house, even one of brick, has proven unable to repel the legions of wolves on the prowl, and so the pigs have turned to raising castles!  

The troublelicious heist game with just one loser!  

Cause trouble – 'cause causing trouble is fun!    

In Paddy, you transform the landscape by creating terraces of rice paddies in the mountains of southeast Asia. On each turn, you decide what type of tile to add to the paddy and whether to place it in the day or night half. With each new tile, the paddy grows and adapts to the flow of water, preparing the ground for your species to thrive.  

In Everest Go! we will become mountaineers competing to conquer the highest peak in the world, Everest! Equip your mountaineer with clothes and special items and play action cards against your rivals. Whoever has more equipment points at the end wins the game.    

In La Cuenta ("The Bill") you go tapas bar hopping with your little group. At each bar someone will have to pay the bill - try not to be you! Inevitably, someone will run out of money. When that happens, whoever has the most money left wins.

Immerse yourself in the enchanting warmth of Southern Europe and discover the thriving city of Tolleno! Here, bold builders and visionary strategists vie for dominance over streets and canals, each move expanding their influence. In Tolleno, every structure is an opportunity, and each canal a pathway to power. Challenge your rivals and leave your mark by shaping this unique city in your image....

In the depths of the seas, octopuses compete for treasures left behind by surface dwellers; they collect and stack them in their secret lairs.  

The Limpopo River is not just any river – it is the realm of hungry crocodiles! In this fast-paced and funny family game, players become crocodiles with one goal: to catch as many tasty animals as possible. But be careful – instead of a fish or a crab, you might end up with a log in your mouth. And that could mean losing a tooth!

Sometimes, eternity can feel like it's dragging on, so to overcome the boredom, you and your friends decide to make a little wager...

Lords of Worlds is a tile‑collecting game where players build planets by chaining terrain types for points. Assistants and architects help secure deals and guide construction, while carts move to gather tiles. When the game ends, the player with the most Victory Points from their planetary chains wins.

Tropicalia is a worker‑placement game where players gather and sell fruit across a shifting island. Earnings are used to buy buildings and events that expand each player’s personal board with bonuses and points. The winner is the one who builds the most valuable island by the end of the game.

Penguin Kaboom is a fast‑paced cooperative dice game where players act as a penguin squad defusing bombs in Penguinvania. Each mission offers unique challenges as the team races against time to stop the villainous Orca Bomber. Quick rolls, smart teamwork, and escalating tension decide whether the city is saved or blown to icy rubble.