Join Meeple Mountain as we look at our most anticipated games of Spiel 2025, the world’s largest board game convention, taking place in Essen, Germany.
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The Most Anticipated Games of Essen SPIEL 2025
PocketParks
PocketParks is a set collecting card game featuring all 63 US national park. From Acadia to Zion explore all the parks with gameplay inspired by Chinese Mahjong
Raas: A Dance of Love
Raas: A Dance of Love is a gorgeous game of dice drafting and tableau building. Recruit dancers (dice) to join your troupe and help them find love matches as they twirl around the dance floor.
Cascadia: Alpine Lakes
Cascadia: Alpine Lakes is a standalone follow-up to the hit spatial puzzle game Cascadia! Featuring all new wildlife, new scoring conditions and more beautiful art by Beth Sobel!
Plakks Hockey
The new board game for all ages, inspired by the thrill of hockey. Use the stick to shoot the puck and score as many goals as possible. Compete with friends and family in exciting tabletop.
DJ Icon
DJ Icon: A game about tactics, timing and turntables Scratch, mix and spin the record as you battle it out against the best DJs in the world in this unique board game for 2 to 8 turntablists.
Super Auto Pets Card Battle
In Super Auto Pets Card Battle, players build their own teams of super-cute pets, organize them in the most clever ways they can, then send them off to auto battle.
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Recall
Explore the lands and discover ancient civilizations to learn from them.
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Kuldhara
Treasure hunters explore the Thar Desert searching for the lost riches of Kuldhara.
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