Road to SPIEL 2026

Gather your companions and shape your story in this unique worker placement game.

Restore natural habitats and compete for the most thriving animal ecosystem.

Sometimes the hardest part of a journey isn't deciding where you want to go, it's discovering that the route you carefully planned now contains a snowdrift and a bear...

A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork by Beth Sobel!

Rebuild the city of Prague with the help of mythical creatures.

Traverse the Appalachians on horseback during the Great Depression, delivering books and magazines to remote communities as a female librarian.

Is that Bigfoot wandering through the forest? Did you hear that somebody has stolen a gold digger’s treasure? Why does Harold have an arrow stuck in his hat? Cleary it’s been quite a weekend!

Master the brush in KANO, a strategic tile-placement and pattern-building game of traditional Japanese art.

Step into a world where art defies gravity and stone becomes dream in the new design of Dani Garcia.

Medico, the latest game from prolific German designer Stefan Feld, takes us back to medieval Europe when travelling barber-surgeons handled a surprisingly broad range of medical duties.

Catherine the Great is coming. Unfortunately, the countryside she’s about to inspect isn’t nearly prosperous enough, and there is only one sensible solution: dismantle the nice-looking villages, move them further down the river and rebuild them before the Empress arrives!

It is 1403, Bohemia is in political turmoil, nobles are fighting over who should rule, armies are moving across the country and ordinary people are caught in the middle. You are one of those ordinary people.

Alice has been through the looking-glass before. This time, however, Wonderland has a staffing problem.

Day two of our 30 Day countdown to the doors opening for SPIEL Essen 2026. Our second game under the spotlight is Alexander Pfister and Peter Prinz' -60° (Sixty Below), set in an alternate timeline where a meteorite crashed in Antarctice on 23rd September 1971.

Today marks exactly one month until the doors open on SPIEL Essen 2026, so we're starting a daily countdown with a game attempting something fairly ambitious: squeezing the entire sweep of human civilisation from the Stone Age to spaceflight, into around 90 minutes.