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Designer: Yasuyuki Yamagishi | Publisher: Fentasy Games Two-player-only games have made a real comeback, thanks to factors such as Covid forcing players into smaller groups. Of all the two-player game

Designer: Antoine Bauza | Publisher: Stonemaier Games If you’ve never played Antoine Bauza’s Tokaido, lucky you. That’s like never having tried hot showers, or chocolate. You’re in for a treat. If you

Designer: Ondra Sekanina | Publisher: Tlama Games The sheer weight of unoriginal themes for board games would suggest everything has been done to death already, but Shrinkopolis begs to differ. Someon

Designer: Emily Vincent | Publisher: Flatout Games A follow-up to 2020s quilting and tile-laying game Calico, Knitting Circle offers the same cozy vibes and also challenges players in pattern-making,

Designer: Kasper Lapp | Publisher: Final Score Games Ink is a messy medium, not to mention, a notoriously difficult one to master. Now, ‘messy’ isn’t an adjective I would associate with a tile-based g

Despite having attended Essen Spiel annually since 2012, the con never fails to surprise, wow and generally entertain. This year was no different, with a record number of new games (more than 1,700),