Kauri

Charlec Couronnaud | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

200 years of New Zealand’s settlement history packed into a board game. With the arrival of European colonial powers, with possums in tow, a dynamic interplay between humans and nature unfolds. Whether bird, Māori, rodent, or English settler — each pursue their own goals and change the conditions for the others. Each turn presents the

Medical Mysteries: New York (NYC)

Nicholas Cravotta and Rebecca Bleau | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Crime games are popular. We love organizing facts, checking alibis, and making accusations. But why do we always have to solve crime? Can’t we use our detective skills in other ways? As members of an emergency room team, we must find out what the admitted patients are suffering from. We conduct examinations, seek advice from

The Gang

John Cooper and Kory Heath | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Poker without poker? Not quite — even though we don’t place bets or bluff in „The Gang“, there’s still plenty of tension, risk-taking, and hopefully cheering at the end. Together, we try to correctly assess our the cards we’ve been dealt, relative to the other players. Who has the highest combination? Does anyone have

Zenith

Grégory Grard and Mathieu Roussel | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Humans, robots, and animals live together in the galaxy peacefully. They have Zenithium, a clean and sustainable energy source — and everything could be perfect. If only there wasn’t this desire to be ruled by a strong leader. And before someone else fulfills that wish, we are now trying to become the head of it

Auf den Wegen von Darwin (In the Footsteps of Darwin)

Grégory Grard, Matthieu Verdier | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Following in the footsteps of the well-known naturalist, you are competing to be the ultimate DarWinner. Players sail around the table in Darwin’s ship the ‘Beagle’ to discover new species of animals. The little wooden ship travels around a display made up of nine tiles. They are either animals or helpful historical figures. You can

Dorfromantik: Das Brettspiel (Dorfromantik: The Board Game)

Michael Palm und Lukas Zach | Spiel des Jahres | 2023

When one game ends, the next one begins. “Dorfromantik” always starts from square one but grows every time you play. Using tiles showing forests, fields and villages, players work together to build a landscape. Why? Well, because it looks nice. But more importantly because it will help you score points. To do that, you will

Cascadia

Randy Flynn | Spiel des Jahres | 2022

Around the border between Canada and the Northwest USA you can find the region of ‘Cascadia’, famous for the extraordinary diversity of its plant and animal life. In the tile-laying game of the same name, up to four nature-lovers compete to create a habitat rich in victory points, connecting matching landscape tiles to form as

Captain Flip

Paolo Mori, Remo Conzadori | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Am I happy with what I’ve got or do I risk it for the possibility of something better? Captain Flip turns this fundamental question of human existence into a fantastically simple game mechanic, giving each turn its own narrative arc. On your turn, you draw a tile out of the bag but you can only

Next Station London

Matthew Dunstan | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2023

There’s just one thing you’ll need to reach your next stop in “Next Station London” and that’s the whole underground network! Players will use four coloured pencils to connect stops on their map sheets, rebuilding the London underground. Each round, a new card determines which type of station can be connected. Bonus cards allow branching