Essen 2026 – novelties, Page 2

In Drillers, players explore an abandoned mine using their mechs, trying to find and excavate anything useful or valuable left behind by a forgotten mining corporation.

You’ve always wanted to travel… And now here’s your chance to get paid for it! The publisher of the most famous travel guides is looking for editors. You’ve got four weeks to travel around Europe and prove that you’re the right person for the job! Visit enchanting places, get to know the locals, take advantage of their tips, and perhaps even pop along to a weekend festival or fulfil a lifelong...

Timespan is a streamlined, friendly and highly replayable civilization game from Alion Games, built around six asymmetric civilizations, six unique technology boards and more than 175 cards representing historic figures, buildings, technologies and wonders. Designed to be played in about 90 minutes, it lets players guide their culture from the stone age to the space age without warfare,...

Planet Bee is a strategic tile‑placement game from Cranio Creations, where players act as pioneers tasked with developing a thriving ecosystem inside a geodesic dome on a barren new planet. By placing Ecosystem tiles efficiently, you generate life, expand biodiversity, and manage two vital resources — oxygen and water — which determine how effectively your habitats can grow. Bees play a central...

In Super Auto Pets Card Battle, players build teams of cute pets with unique abilities, then match them against a friend's team in a short and sweet auto battle. Each game is played over six rounds, beginning with players receiving coins to spend on pet and food cards. After shopping, the players arrange their teams in secret and chooses their placement for battle. The round ends with players...

Help the animals find their way back to their enclosures in this family-friendly zoo game. Use each escapee’s unique movement abilities, plan your route, and get them all home safely.

A strategic game about uncovering a frozen valley, collecting artifacts, and competing with other expeditions for the most valuable discoveries. Ice as far as the eye can see ...In this frozen world, swept by blizzards, a lone city clings to life.Every year during the summer season, the city's guilds organise expeditions.Their destination: the valley of the ancient ones, where vestiges of an...

Nightmares and horrors await behind these doors. You will face many disturbing challenges: each step may be your last.

In Emerland, you send critter Workers to various locations on the board to gather resources. You use these resources to play cards face-up in front of you, forming your jungle city and helping you to score points. Each turn, you take one of 6 possible actions: Place a Worker (with or without Helpers), Place a Helper, Play a Card, Use an Artisan Card, Excavate with your Archaeologist or Prepare...

In Duplicity, nothing in the network is as it first appears. A new SMC alternates between two states, forcing you to constantly adapt. To help counter this threat, dual-colored Deckers can flip their profile card, revealing a different special ability when they flip.Dive straight into the action with the two new missions and freely combine the new content with the base game to challenge...

Cuba before the Revolution: In turbulent times, the island’s cities strive for independent wealth and influence. Who will trade their products and commodities profitably on the domestic market, or earn the most from merchant ships? Who will send influential delegates to parliament to influence legislation and build distilleries, hotels, and banks for the prosperity of the people? In Cubaneo,...

These are marvelous, heat-printed, acrylic upgrades for both Event and Conversation tokens.

Thunder Road: Ignition is a standalone game that uses the core game system from Thunder Road: Vendetta with tweaks to provide a familiar yet new, streamlined play experience.

In the eastern United States, the Great Smoky Mountains stretch across a beautiful landscape, home to one of the continents most biodiverse ecosystems. Crisscrossed by rivers and streams, this vibrant region provides a thriving habitat for animals of all sizes.

The year is 1971, but not the history we know. The wait is over! You and your research team have finally arrived in the eternal ice of Antarctica. But this is only the beginning of a series of thrilling expeditions in this alternate era. Your objectives are clear: establish a highly efficient network of stations, scout the unforgiving wilderness, and be the first to reach the mysterious...

In Kano, 2 to 4 players compete to create their own Emakimono—traditional Japanese painted handscrolls—by skillfully arranging vibrant paint pots. The game elegantly blends tactical resource management with spatial optimization as players navigate a shared central mat to collect the pigments needed for their masterpieces.

Flourishing times in the kingdom! With every card played, the kingdom’s display grows in power – but only your last two cards in hand will score at the end of the round. Will you build up a character’s strength, or go for their victory points? And are the conditions met for a particularly lucrative scoring?

A strategic game for two players with relatively simple rules yet highly complex gameplay, infused with the flavors of fine wine and aged cheese.

Jisogi is a worker-placement board game. The theme is Anime, more specifically the hard-working folks and the crushing business behind it.

For aeons, entropy was an inescapable force of nature. But then humanity evolved to understand it, harness it, and even bend it to their purpose. Your life has been devoted to learning how to shape the very workings of the universe to your will… or rather, to the will of your people. You are to become a scientist, a member of the most revered caste. Now the time has come for the final exam....

An expansion for World Order that adds to the game actual events that took place since 2010, allowing the players to not only see their effect on global relations, but also get the chance to prevent them and change the course of history.    

Expansion for the game World Order. World Order is a strategic board game set in the 2010s, where players embody one of four global powers — USA, China, Russia, or the EU. Using diplomacy, economics, and military might, they expand influence, forge alliances, and compete for dominance in a shifting world order. The game blends international relations theory with tense, thematic gameplay to...

A strategic game for experienced players, full of both competition and cooperation. Save humanity in this epic sci-fi game! Battle the Zplozent, upgrade your ship, and escape to safety.

In The Council, play as an adventurer who arrives in a doomed city, lost in the hands of a power-crazed regent, and his council who orchestrates dark manipulations in the shadows. Wander the dark, randomly-generated alleyways, card after card, encounter ever more terrifying encounters, manage your resources and upgrade your skills by gaining levels to meet the greatest challenge of all:...