Enter the Shadow Forest, Put together for a Tai Chi Event, and Gather Mud Bunnies | BoardGameGeek Information


In late October 2024, I lined (most of) the licensed titles coming from KOSMOS within the first half of 2025. Now the German writer has revealed first particulars on the unique titles it plans to launch, and we’ll begin with Schattenwald, a co-operative recreation from Florian Nadler that performs in quarter-hour and works with gamers as younger as 7:

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Go to the magic faculty on the sting of the Shadow Forest! ✨

Over eighteen chapters in Schattenwald, you may be despatched on adventures that get trickier and trickier — teamwork is required right here! Discover uncommon components, grasp magical spells, and keep away from the forest spirits…

Shake That Metropolis designers Mads Fløe and Kåre Torndahl Kjær have a “match three” recreation for 1-4 gamers: Colour Craze:

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You select playing cards and ship colourful balls on a journey by way of the enjoying subject. Your aim: match the identical colours as a result of when three or extra balls are adjoining to one another, they pop — and the factors go to you.

Board Game: Color Craze

With a pinch of techniques and a little bit of luck, you may even pop a number of colours in the identical transfer!

• The smaller video games within the KOSMOS line-up embody Reiner Knizia‘s Abgestaubt (“Dusted”), a recreation for 2-6 gamers aged 7 and up:

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In Abgestaubt, you attempt to acquire as many mud fluffs as doable — however when you get too grasping, you may lose every little thing as a result of the opposite gamers are simply ready to “mud” you and steal your factors!

Board Game: Abgestaubt

Tobias Tesar is a first-time designer with two titles in KOSMOS’ early 2025 line-up, beginning with Proper on Time:

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This recreation is all about timing right here as a result of the goal is to return in second! In every spherical, it’s important to determine which card goes on the discard pile. Play a better card individually or two decrease playing cards on the identical time — timing is the important thing!

Board Game: Right on Time

• The opposite Tesar title is Get That Cat, a real-time recreation for 2-6 gamers:

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Right here comes the last word response check! You need to react at lightning velocity, goal sharply and…do not hit a cactus. Everybody turns over a card on the identical time, then tries to throw the right disc into the field — solely those that hit it appropriately rating.

Board Game: Get That Cat

Tai Chi Tiger is the fourth launch from the design group of Matteo Cimenti, Carlo Rigon, and Chiara Zanchetta:

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Within the first gentle of the brand new 12 months, the tigers collect within the historic forest to check their energy! Immerse your self in an epic match the place timing, reminiscence, and tactical talent decide the trail to victory.

Board Game: Tai Chi Tiger

In Tai Chi Tiger, all gamers collect a group of masterful tigers who attempt to outdo their opponents with swish actions and highly effective combos. Should you do not preserve the rhythm of the chi, you may lose your tiger — however your remaining tigers will give their group new energy for the following alternate of blows.

• Designers Andrew and Jack Lawson are finest recognized for the Make ‘n’ Break collection of dexterity video games, however they’ve a historical past in celebration recreation design as properly, with Oh My Phrase being a brand new design for 2-6 gamers:

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Oh My Phrase is a real-time celebration phrase recreation that includes a always altering enjoying subject, a random timer, and weird classes. To play, you establish a letter, seek for a class on the enjoying subject, identify an appropriate time period, and canopy the class earlier than the timer catches up with you.

Board Game: Oh My Word

• KOSMOS has revealed three further licensed titles coming in early 2025: Eric Olsen‘s Flip 7 (which I lined right here), Rodrigo Rego‘s Gans sicher? (a German model of How Dare You?), and Petr Mikša‘s Karak II:

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This standalone second installment within the Karak recreation line provides a extra complicated layer of gameplay whereas staying approachable for teenagers. Every participant turns into a hero, making an attempt to defeat monsters and their chief: the Darkish Basic. To attain that, they’ve to gather sources, construct and develop their cities, and prepare new items (represented by cube) so as to add to their military. Over the course of the sport, gamers will defeat monsters carrying highly effective soul stones – and the participant with essentially the most soul stones on the finish of the sport wins.

• Lastly, I feel Michael Løhde Andersen‘s Blütenreich is a brand new version of his 2021 recreation Biotopia from WeLoveGames, however I will depart it as a separate itemizing for now in case components of the gameplay have modified:

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Within the card recreation Blütenreich, your flower meadows develop step-by-step: draw playing cards and let lovely butterflies unfold their wings. Every card has its personal technique, so determine properly and plan forward: butterfly or flower meadow?

Board Game: Blütenreich

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