New Game Round-up: Everything Returns — Troyes, SteamRollers, Beer Empire, Diamant, and More

New Game Round-up: Everything Returns — Troyes, SteamRollers, Beer Empire, Diamant, and More
Board Game: Troyes
Board Game: Troyes: The Ladies of Troyes
Time to clean out more notes to myself from the inbox. You might know some of the news below already, but if not, consider yourself now informed:

• Sébastien Dujardin from Pearl Games has confirmed that Troyes and The Ladies of Troyes will be available again in 2016, most likely in June, with the original art and with the items published separately so that those who need only the expansion don't have to purchase the base game once again.

• Polish publisher Board&Dice is working on a Dice Brewing expansion — something big with several modules that change basic play and add diversity — as well as a Kickstarter campaign for the base game by the end of Q1 2016. An expansion for The Curse of the Black Dice is also in the works "with several new play modes, adventures and variations" as well as an accompanying KS campaign. Finally, a second edition of Piwne Imperium (a.k.a. Beer Empire) is in the works with a target release date of Spiel 2016 in October.

Board Game: SteamRollers
• Belgian publisher Flatlined Games released a hand-assembled version of Mark Gerrits' SteamRollers at Spiel 2015, and in late Dec. 2015 Gerrits tweeted that he had created three mini-expansions for the game as Flatlined has decided to run a Kickstarter in 2016 for "a real edition with a normal box, new artwork, matching colours, etc".

Welcome Back to the Dungeon, co-designed by Antoine Bauza and published by IELLO sometime in 2016, includes four new characters for Masato Uesugi's Welcome to the Dungeon. I presume that this game can be played on its own in addition to serving as an expansion for the original game, but that's all the detail I know for now.

• In addition to the title above, IELLO plans to add Yusuke Sato's terrorists vs. SWAT hidden-role game Time Bomb to its minigame line. For details on this title, check out the video overview that I recorded in 2015.

• Other titles coming from IELLO in 2016 include a new version of Alan R. Moon and Bruno Faidutti's Diamant (which I first noted in Dec. 2014 and which is now moving to print with art by Paul Mafayon) and a game titled Pyramids from designers Matthew Dunstan and Brett J. Gilbert.

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