Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres

Mombasa

Players compete to turn a profit during the colonial era in Africa. You’ll invest in four chartered companies and use your influence to help them expand across the continent. This will improve the value of your shares in these companies. In this demanding strategy game, players will also trade in bananas, coffee or cotton, work

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2016

Paladine des Westfrankenreichs (Paladins of the West Kingdom)

In “Architekten des Westfrankenreichs” (“Architects of the West Kingdom”, on the “Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019” recommended list), players constructed the capital city. Now they need to protect its surrounding settlements. Warlike powers threaten the kingdom and it is only with the help of the influential paladins that players can overcome the impending challenges. That’s why

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Res Arcana

As powerful alchemists, players enter into an arcane competition. With mysterious artefacts and fantastic creatures, they must try and win control of coveted places of power before their opponents. The elementary essences are rare, however, and have to be used with care: should you use the philosophers’ stone to produce gold? Or can a sea

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Underwater Cities

There is no more room on the Earth’s surface so mankind has decided to escape to the bottom of the sea. In “Underwater Cities” players build a network of tunnels and settlements on the ocean floor. They can find the resources they need in desalination plants and algae farms, while using laboratories to make advances

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Architekten des Westfrankenreichs

Who would have thought it? Teamwork really does make the dream work. In this case the dream of constructing landmarks and impressing the king. In the worker placement game Architects of the West Kingdom, players’ actions are stronger the more workers they have on that particular space. One figure produces one unit of wood, a

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Das tiefe Land

The farmlands on the North Sea coast are supposed to be protected by a dike. But will it be tall enough? It all depends on the unpredictability of nature and on the team spirit of the farmers there. In the strategy game Lowlands, players have to decide how to successfully split their efforts between dike-building

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Newton

In the footsteps of the great inventor, players in Newton take on the guise of ambitious scientists. They take research trips, complete courses of study and create their own libraries. A clever card mechanics means that each action is made stronger the more times it is used in a round. Over the course of a

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Paper Tales

In the tactical card game Paper Tales, players construct kingdoms whose subjects will age and, as a rule, only survive two of the four total rounds. Is that not a bit merciless? No, it results in a dynamic and changing game that will take several plays to discover fully. Players may play four cards, later

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Klong!

We all know the type: the one clumsy oaf in the action movie who just at the wrong moment runs into something with a huge noise and attracts the monster’s attention. In Clank!, the players are all such clumsy oafs. They venture down into the maze-like dungeon, where legendary treasure is waiting, guarded by a

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2018