22 days until @spielessen.bsky.social Checkout Tivoli from Plotmaker Games youtube.com/shorts/Bq4mn... #tivoli #copenhagen #spiel #spiel24

30 days until @spielessen.bsky.social Checkout the new Ark Nova - Zoo Map Pack 2 from Capstone_Games youtube.com/shorts/nBInQ... #spiel24 #spiel #essen #arknova #capstonegames

2 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout the demo of Factory 42: Specialists & Golems designed by Timo Multamäki published by Dragon Dawn Productions Adding Specialists, Cargadors, Patriot Box, Calendar Clerk and a sixth player to the game of Dwarven manufacturing. youtu.be/0wR4IOTsGSI #essen #spiel23

3 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Amygdala designed by Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer and published by Game Brewer Amygdala is an abstract area control / strategy game themed around the emotional centres of the human brain. youtu.be/CVwBBScar9c

4 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Barcelona designed by Dani Garcia and published by Board&Dice We took at look at this wonderful thinky euro as you play as builders developing 19th century Barcelona youtu.be/OXeQ4NhOD_w #spiel23 #spiel #essen #barcelona #boardanddice

5 days until SPIEL Checkout Arabella designed by Signe Aasoja published by 2d6.ee (Side Quest Games) As you can imagine an 18XX Roll N Write is a bit chunky. Played the prototype a while back, looking forward to seeing what this looks like now #SPIEL23

6 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Cradle to Grave designed by Yohan Goh, Hope S. Hwang, Gary Kim and published by Bloom Games. A party game but the bleak theme just grabbed me, try and make yourself age slower as your opponents attempt to age you until...erm....you die. Lovely?

7 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Rats of Wistar designed by Simone Luciani, Danilo Sabia published by Cranio Creations These immediately makes me thing of Secret of NIMH. Having escaped the Wistar Institute we are now setting out to prove ourselves worthy leader. #spiel23 #spiel #essen

8 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Orléans: The Plague designed by Reiner Stockhausen published by DLP_Games / Matagot Making Orleans a more gruelling experience with corpse tokens, rat cards, variable setup to make the game play just a little more challenging. #spiel23

9 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout Concordia: Roma and Sicilia designed by Mac Gerdts published by PD Verlag A new set of maps; Expand classical Rome with the Colosseum, Forum Romanum, Circus Maximus and work around eruptions of Etna on the island of Sicily

10 days until SPIEL Essen Checkout ZhanGho: The First Empire designed by Marco Canetta, Stefania Niccolini published by Sorry We Are French / Hachette Boardgames USA A welcome re-issue of 2014 What's Your Game? release. We own and have played ZhanGuo many times, with many routes to victory

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