Essen 2024 – novalties

Sneferu is a family-weight abstract game by Adam Španěl (Project L). Players attempt to win the great pharaoh’s favor by building the highest pyramid possible from mined blocks (with each block being a combination of two of the five possible materials). The players get these blocks by spending the two resources in the game: food and time. Time, represented by your boat moving forward on the...

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.

The King is on vacation. He entrusted the city and its treasure to the prince. The brigands know it and intend to fill their pockets.. or at least try! Will you play prince or brigand? Brigands is an asymetrical game of deduction and trickery that pits a prince against rival bands of brigands. The prince must protect the coffers of the city against brigands. If no brigand succeeds in stealing...

Deep Regrets is a game for 1-5 players that runs about 30 minutes per player. An unfortunate fishing game about pulling progressively more horrifying things out of the ocean.

PROVE YOUR WORTH AND EARN THE MOST POINTS POSSIBLE by traveling the mountain and assembling as many landscape tiles as possible, meeting the forest spirits and lighting fires on the peaks creating a path through the valley.

Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.

Akropolis Athena is an expansion of the Akropolis base game, set in the Ancient Mediterranean where architects compete to build prestigious cities. The theme revolves around gaining the favor of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, war, and artisans, to earn riches and honor.

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 expansion also comes with cards to use the new wonders in the normal game mode.

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.

As leaders of Minoan clans players are in charge of the first European civilization. Build cities, monuments and other structures, open new trade routes, expand and fight off outsiders out of your land, plan your actions with your clan council, research and issue decrees so your actions will be more powerful than your opponents! You have only 4 rounds to prove you are worthy of the legendary...

Piña Kostkada is the Czech Edition of Piña Coladice which is a family party-game in which you roll the dice up to three times to claim one of the available combinations on coasters.Position yourself strategically with your cocktail tokens before your opponents.You will earn precious points that will bring you closer to victory... but the quickest way to win is to line up 4 of your cocktail...

Brave the raging seas of the Cyclades! Typhon, father of monsters, and the Nereids, deadly nymphs with enchanting voices, are rising from the depths to overthrow the metropolises. Against their wrath stand legendary heroes like the lightning-fast Achilles and the unstoppable Heracles. As you battle across islands and reefs, the waves will either carry you... or drag you under. Contains 14...

Dynamic game of tactics in a competition for space and resources to create your own mushroom kingdom. The game follows the life cycle of fungi.

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!

In Fishing, you try to catch as many tricks as possible over eight rounds, with each card you catch being worth 1 point. You then use your caught cards for the next round — and if you didn't catch enough tricks to fill your hand, you'll draw fresh cards from the ocean stack, which will introduce new cards for you fishers to fight over.

Inferno (Czech Edition) is a soul management game where each player must guide sinners to their respective circles in Hell. The central board consists of two parts: one displaying all 9 circles and the soul registry, while the other represents Florence in the early 14th century, where Dante lived, with its power games and palace intrigues.

Your architectural firm is selected to renovate downtown! Manage resources, plan constructions, and outsmart competitors in Tower Up. Pick cards or build to earn points.

Forage is the final instalment of the 9-card solitaire game trilogy (following Orchard and its sequel Grove).

118 plastic miniatures for every faction to enhance your Cyclades Legendary Edition games.

Unconscious Mind is a euro-style game featuring worker placement, engine building, multiple rondels, and cascading effects. On your turn, you may place one or two Ideas (workers) on a central Meeting Table to access a variety of actions, such as adding tiles to your player board, drafting and playing cards, and moving around the city of Vienna. Where you place your Ideas also determines how far...

Thousands of years ago, a new era was beginning for humankind. The nomadic hunter-gatherers who had laboriously earned their place on Earth organized into small groups, differentiating social roles, building the first settlements, and initiating a great revolution. Scientists call this period "Mesolithic", and this game talks about those people.

In Birdie you'll have to collect sets of birds and different seasons for points, but you'll have to remember which ones have already flown in your deck and which ones are missing!