Icebomb Arena is a strategy game of gladiatorial combat in a bomb-laden arena for 4 or more players. Each player is a gladiator in the arena. Icebomb Arena is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard. Each turn consists of a planning phase and an action phase. During the planning phase, players will determine the orientation of pyramids which will...
During the Wiener Spielefest, "Spieleberater" move around to explain games to the visitors. Simple cooperative game for kids: Move any pawn, but not the one moved by the previous player and not the one actually forbidden to the next hidden tile. Reveal it (it shows a part of a board game) and place it onto the appropriate picture. If you pass a clock...
Wage War in the Steampunk Apocalypse The world has changed. Over a hundred years have passed after the American War for Independence was interrupted by the opening of the first rift and the Legion of Damned poured though. Humanity was facing extinction at the hands of the demonic and undead. Finally the Angelics arrived and set a stop to the expansion of...
On the Ides of March (15 March) 44BC, ruler of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate house by a small group of disaffected senators. After a brief period of confusion, three factions began to emerge to fill the vacuum left by Caesar’s death. The Tyrannicides led by Marcus Junius Brutus and assisted by Gaius Cassius Longinus left Rome and...
In 千年丝路II:阿拉伯商人 (Silk Road II: Arab Merchant), players become merchants starting from humble beginnings along the legendary Silk Road. Traveling between distant cities, players trade goods, bargain with Arab merchants, and deal with dangers such as bandits. Through clever trading and careful planning, merchants attempt to build wealth while navigating the...
As a reckless pilot, you must escape from a city occupied by soldiers with nothing but an old, battered airplane and your companion by your side. You’ll be maneuvering above streets and squares, weaving between buildings, hoping for good fortune while trying to keep your damaged plane in one piece. Along the way, you’ll search for landing spots and fuel...
IKI: Akebono introduces a new location to discover in Edo: the bridge of Nihonbashi, which expands the main street and offers players new opportunities. Players can stop at the bridge to meet famous personalities from the Edo era (like Hokusai Katsushika, Sanyo Rai or Tokunai Mogami) and to trade with the ships (built by the players) in the river. The...
Il gioco del contrabbandiere, the Smuggler's Game. The protagonists of this game are the "financiers" (finanza) and smugglers (contrabbandiere) who, especially from the 50s to the 70s have marked the history, economy and culture of the Como and Ticino area in Lombardy, Italy and Switzerland. The Smugglers get 3 pawns, the financier brigadier 3 as well....
The game can be played by 2 to 6 players, aged 9 and up. Its peculiarity consists in putting together the playful component with the knowledge of the famous Italian territory. The game has precise rules that take into account the deterministic component - which rewards the skill of the individual player - and the fatalistic component which makes the game...