Essen 2026 – novelties, Page 3

7th Seal is a solo dice management boss battle-style game in which you will face the judgement of the end times. Your goal is to open the seals of a scroll and face the wrath of a supreme being who has unleashed an avalanche of furious beasts and demons that will attempt to wipe out humanity. Use your dice wisely and prove that you can convince the great maker to give humanity another chance.

An expansion for the game Endangered. The environment is at a tipping point. Australia’s wildlife habitats face devastation, but with your leadership, their future can be rewritten. It's time for you to take action and restore balance before it’s too late!

It’s a beautiful Summer day, the tide is low, and conditions are perfect for collecting shells! In Seashells, the new game from renowned designer Bruno Faidutti, you take turns moving the Beachcomber along a path and discovering conches, clams, and scallops to add to you collection. Score points for having the most shells in different shapes and colours and prove you're the most talented...

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.

Summon the Horsemen, but avoid the apocalypse. Apocalypse is a trick-taking game where the goal is to score the fewest points. Each round, you play cards and influence the Apocalypse tokens at the center of the table. Watch them carefully: if they are all flipped, the rules change and the round descends into chaos! Apocalypse is a redesign of Saika Banrai, adding a 5th suit, a 2 player...

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...

Buried Memories is a competitive push‑your‑luck and set‑collection game for 2–4 players, ages 10+, with a playtime of 20–30 minutes. Players reveal and manipulate tiles to gather valuable sets while deciding how far to press their luck before the round ends. With streamlined rules, fast turns, and a tactical focus on timing and risk evaluation, Buried Memories delivers a sharp, replayable...

New animals are returning to the zoo. With the expansion Latecomers, the base game Night at the Zoo gains a whole new dimension.

Battle across the Solar System through a branching narrative campaign in this deck-building game for 2 or 4 players. Asteroid belt – RareMetal Ventures mining facility, 2205 CE. For five years, conflict between the Lunar Frontier Authority and a resistance movement known as the Breakers has destroyed peace across the solar system. Their war has drawn in the Galilean Federation, and now...

A deluxe edition of a strategy game about exploring a frozen valley, collecting artifacts, and competing expeditions vying for the most valuable discoveries. The collector’s edition of L E D also includes two expansions—Monuments and Guilds and Relics. The edition also features metal coins and other deluxe components, such as a magnetic game board, high-quality tokens, and figures that enhance...

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.

Once upon a time, Red Riding Hood and Captain Hook wandered into Oz… Find out how the story continues in the Codenames Fairy Tales pack! Codenames: Fairy Tales Expansion Pack features a thematic set of 50 words, carefully chosen to spice up your game of Codenames or Codenames: Duet. Simply mix the new cards into the basic set of words, randomly or in whatever ratio you like, or even play two...

Each player will receive colored cards and choose and reveal their Picanté color.From then on, each card they collect of that color will cause them to lose as many points as the value printed on it. Any other cards collected in other colors will earn them 1 point per card.What makes this game unique? Any card played that does not match the requested color is considered a trump card! Players...

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 decide who will lead in this new era....

Navigate the Karak labyrinth with a marker and solve tricky mini-games. This fast-paced and adventurous drawing game for ages 6 and up can be played independently. Pre-orders come with a free promo set of three task cards, which will then be available for purchase while supplies last.

Compile: Aux 3 is an exciting expansion pack for the tactical sci-fi card game Compile, designed by Michael Yang. The base game is a competitive cyberpunk duel for 2 players aged 14 and up, featuring a fast-paced playtime of 20 to 30 minutes. In it, players act as competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world by playing cards into command lines to manipulate protocols and...

High quality neoprene playmat 11x29.5 inches, durable gaming mat with player zones, protocol areas, perfect for two player strategy gameplay sessions.

Compile: Main 3 brings 12 new Protocols, fully compatible with all other Compile material, including all Seven Deadly Sins. Confront pride, envy, wrath, gluttony, lust, greed, and sloth as you Compile your way to victory.

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.

Horrified: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Ravenloft is a standalone game with four new mechanically-unique monsters to challenge: Carrionette, Gulthias Tree, Baba Lysaga and the Dark Lord of Barovia Strahd von Zarovich. In their quest to defend Barovia, each player gets to take on the role of a hero with one of 5 iconic D&D classes.In Horrified, players work together, alternating between...

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

In Food Truck Fury, you take on the role of an eccentric food truck cook. Your zany array of equipment and powerful food weapons allow you ultimate control over the city streets, where you will battle and outmaneuver other food truckers to complete jobs, acquire ingredients, and deliver orders to customers. In this game for 1-4 players, clever deck-building and the opportunistic use of...