• A country in Crisis — can you use your workers to rebuild businesses and get the economy moving again? LudiCreations Kickstarted this design by Pantelis Bouboulis and Sotirios Tsantilas, and it ran out of copies before SPIEL 2016 ended.
• Phil and Matt Eklund invite you to take the role of an influential European banker who will finance kings, sponsor travel, and otherwise try to influence the future of Europe in Pax Renaissance from Sierra Madre Games.
• A second new title from SMG at SPIEL 2016 was Phil Eklund's Bios: Genesis, a game that attempts to recreate the dawn of organic life in its most basic forms, with players representing proteins and worrying about how to absorb and store energy.
• Helmut Ohley, co-designer of Russian Railroads, and Hans im Glück, publisher of same, have combined once again to release a new train-based game: First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express, a card game in which players use the base cards and two of the five modules included in order to build a rail network on a quest for fame points.
• Speaking of Russian Railroads, new player boards await in Russian Railroads: American Railroads to provide new strategies for a familiar game.