In this game, players take on the roles of Nefertiti and Akhenaten, one of Egypt's most famous royal couples. Game pieces must be cleverly placed so that players can unload the most valuable tiles from the six boats. While this is happening, each player builds their own four monuments in order to gain as many fame points as possible.
• EXIT: Das Spiel – Die Katakomben des Grauens, due out in October 2018, will be the next release in the escape room series of games from Inka and Markus Brand and Ralph Querfurth, and this release is billed as having two separate challenges in the same box. A description of this invitation to a "catacombs of horrors":
• The U.S. branch of KOSMOS, Thames & Kosmos, has already announced Lost Cities: Rivals and Word Slam Family, and now KOSMOS has stated that it plans to release those games in Germany in August 2018. What's more, KOSMOS will pair that latter release with Word Slam Midnight, marketed to players aged 18+, in the same month. No card samples yet for a suggestion of how risqué those words you're slamming might be.
• Michael Menzel isn't designing more for Legends of Andor, but that doesn't mean the game system has come to a halt. KOSMOS is working with others to keep expanding the land, and October 2018 will see the release of Die verschollenen Legenden ("The Lost Legends"), an expansion from Dorothea Michels and Matthias Miller that gives players new things to do:
The Die Legenden von Andor: Die verschollenen Legenden expansion includes three new legends for use with the base game.
• The last item on the KOSMOS docket is Roll for Adventure from the familiar design team of Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan, with the name and description only hinting at how you might actually play the game:
The only chance the players have in Roll for Adventure is to band forces to collect the fabled power stones to complete the magical amulet. If they succeed, they'll save the empire and win the game. However, should even one area fall under the control of the Dark Lord, the players lose the game immediately.