Oct 20, 2019
Shelley and I spend a few minutes discussing and reviewing
Bloom Town by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen from Sidekick Games which is releasing at Essen and (I just found out) will be a WalMart exclusive title here in the US (here's the pre-order link if you're interested in getting it that way: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sidekick-Games-Bloomtown-Board-Game/929325378
Then we delve into the Essen Preview from L-Z (you'll find A-K in last week's episode). Here's a list of the games mentioned:
Category 1: Pre-Ordered
Post Scriptum:
Florenza The Dice Game
Ostia Spiele:
Vilnius
Te oder Cafe
Quined Games:
Terramara
Taiwan Board Games:
Electropolis
Formosa Tea
UBike Tours Taiwan
Category 2: Check out & Possibly Buy
Laurapelit.fl 3-J115
Amul: Another one by the Manitoba designer
Lookout Games 1-F135
Newdale: Pfister
Foothills: Boydell
Mandala: 2-player
Looping Games 5-J114
1942 USS Yorktown: 1-4 players
1987 Channel Tunnel: 2-player only
Ludonova 5-D112
Babylonia: Knizia
Yukon Airways: Interesting theme
Lumberjack’s Studio 4-D119
-The Isle of Pan: Only available in English at Spiel/looks beautiful
Matagot 3-E102
Paris New Eden: Could be interesting/Dice Drafting/Beautiful
MEBO Games 5-E120
Carrossel: Cool mechanism that was used in a different way in Arraial
Porto: City center building and tile laying
Next Move Games
Azul Summer Pavilion
NSV
The Mind Extreme
Pandasaurus Games 4-J114
Wayfinders: Cool tile movement and planes
PD-Verlag 2-F110
Concordia Expansion (2 different versions)
Quined Games 3-M117
La Stanza: Paulo & Nuno (Kickstarted)
City of Big Shoulders: Kickstarted
Schmidt Spiele 3-H102
Die Inseln in Nebel: Islands, landscapes, and hot air balloons
Sidekick Games 5-F106
Bloom Town: Tile Laying and City Building
Spielefaible 1-B126
Vejen: Looks like a classic German game
Spielworxx 2-B112
Throne of Allegoria: Spielworxx’s Essen releases tend to be exactly what we like.
Stronghold Games 3-O107
Aftershock San Francisco & Venice: Alan Moon & earthquakes
Fast Sloths: 2F
Terraforming Mars Turmoil Expansion
Sunrise Tornado Games Studio 5-C122C123
Promenade (suggestion to get)
Surprised Stare Games 4-F121
Alubari – Reworking & developing of many of the Snowdonia mechanisms
Lux Aeterna: 1-player game with amazing graphics
Tasty Minstrel Games 4-F106
Dawn of Mankind: Designer of Manitoba & Historia
Thunderworks Games 5-G108
Cartographers: A Role Player Game: Looks like another cool addition to the draw & write genre.
XVgames 5-F105
Chartae: Yet another Knizia game about cartographers
Zoch 3-J108
Menara expansion
Voll verasselt
Category 3: Curiosities to Peruse
La Boite de Jeu 3-O106
It’s A Wonderful World (Could be a big game from Blackrock
Neta Tanka
Lost Games Entertainment 5-H116
Medieval Realms: Big & beautiful
LudiCreations 1-D129
On The Underground + Expansion
Massif Games 5-D130
Mountaineers: 3-D Mountain to climb in the game
Medieval Lords 5-L126
Volleyball High: Sports game of a different sort/players are a high school team
PYTHAGORAS 4-108
6 Castles: Tile-laying by Rola (Jose)
Garum: Players make fish sauce with spices!
Queen
Rune Stones: Rudiger Dorn
Ravensburger
Big Money: Quick Dice Game
Renegade Game Studios
First Light: Looks like a cool Sci-Fi game
Paladins of the West Kingdom: Follow up of Architects…
RUDY3 Publishing 5-M116
Envyra: Looks beautiful
Sit Down! 3-O121
Space Bowl: Simultaneous Play
Strawberry Studio 2-C112
Bon Appetit!
Rescue Animals
ThunderGryph Games 2-F116
Hats
Rolling Ranch
TWOPLUS Games 5-C122
Kingdom of Middag: looks gorgeous
Wizkids 6-I110
Flotilla: Looks gorgeous & big
Wood Games 5-E112
Board Game Café Frenzy: love the theme!