Posts Tagged ‘Asmodee’

Res Arcana is a new card-based engine-builder from Tom Lehmann, famous for another game in the same genre (Race for the Galaxy).

Designer: Naotaka Shimamoto, Yoshiaki TomiokaArtist:  Yoshiaki Tomioka Publisher: AsmodeeCategory: Dexterity, Route BuildingPlayer Count: 2-4Price: $49.99 Tokyo Highway puts players in the shoes of traffic planners trying to [...]

Designer:Sébastien Pauchon, Ismaël Perrin Artist: Andrew Bosley Publisher: Days of Wonder (Asmodee North America) Category: Worker Placement Player Count: 2-4 Price: $39.99 MSRP Every year, Days of Wonder has some big release that gets the hype train [...]

Designer: Tim Armstrong Artist: Davide Tosello Publisher: Space Cowboys Category: Drafting, Tile-Laying Players: 2-4 Price: $39.99 Amazon.com Orbis feels sort of like a cousin to the blockbuster hit Splendor. Less focused on engine building and more [...]

Designers: Alice Carroll, Cyril Demaegd Artist: Arnaud Demaegd, Legruth, Mahulda Jelly Publisher: Space Cowboys / Asmodee Category: Deduction, Puzzle, Real-Time Price: $14.99 MSRP (each) Not long after Escape Rooms boomed in popularity, board game [...]

Designer: Alan R. Moon Artist: Julien Delval, Cyrille Daujean Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee Category: Family Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $20.00 MSRP (Target Exclusive) Since Love Letter in 2012, micro-games—board and card games with small [...]

Designer: Marc Andre Artist: Anne Heidsieck Publisher: Z-Man Games Category: Card Game, Medieval Players: 2-4 Price: $34.99 Amazon Majesty: For the Realm is a 2-4 player engine-building card game, from designer Marc Andre. Marc is recent designer to the [...]

Designer: Philippe Keyaerts, T. Alex Davis Artist: Philippe Keyaerts, T. Alex Davis Publisher: Days of Wonder (Asmodee) Category: Area control Players: 3-6 Price: $34.99 Amazon.com Small World: Sky Islands is an expansion for the popular game Small World. [...]

Designer: Alan R. Moon Artist: Julien Delval Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee Category: Family Game Player Count: 2-5 Price: $49.99 MSRP Since winning the Spiel des Jahres in 2004, Ticket to Ride has had many iterations, and one of the more unique [...]

Richard Garfield Talks About Cooperative King of Tokyo, Bunny Kingdom’s Release, and Reflections on Solforge and Netrunner Richard Garfield originally came to fame for designing Magic: the Gathering in the early 90s, which had a huge impact on my [...]

Designers: Peter Wichmann Publisher: Z-Man Games / Asmodee Category: Tile-Laying, Puzzle Game Player Count: 1-4 Price: $29.99 If you asked me my favorite board game genre a year ago, I would have rambled about my love for engine-building card games with [...]

Designer: Marc André Publisher: Space Cowboys / Asmodee North America Category: Expansion, Family Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $39.99 MSRP Splendor was one of the largest successes of 2014, establishing Space Cowboys as a studio capable of excellent [...]

Designers: Alice Carroll, Cyril Demaegd Artist: Arnaud Demaegd, Legruth Publisher: Space Cowboys / Asmodee Category: Deduction, Puzzle, Real-Time Price: $14.99 MSRP In the past few years, Escape Rooms have exploded in popularity. Board game publishers are [...]

Designers: Bruno Cathala, Marc Paquien Artist: Jérémie Fleury Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee Category: Eurogame Price: $60 MSRP Bruno Cathala has been a well-known name in game design for a long time, but 2014 was the year that really propelled him [...]

You may have heard of a guy named Bruno Cathala. He’s designed a lot of board games. And finally, he’s up for the topmost award: the Spiel des Jahres, for Kingdomino. He’s also releasing a spiritual successor to Five Tribes, another [...]