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• Alberto Millán's Phraya was demoed at SPIEL '21 by Spanish publisher DMZ Games, and the 2-4 player game due out in 2022 bears this short description for now:
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Set in the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, the century-old floating market swarms with merchants moving from one stall to another in their own boats. Water markets were centers of economic activity, and now you can relive the experience of one of those ancient merchants.
Phraya is a commodity-speculation, pick-up-and-deliver game in which players trade from stall to stall while trying to get the best prices, make offerings in the temples to win Buddha's favor, buy their own stalls to do business, and even approach the king's barge.
• Family Frakass will be the first game from both designer Alexandre "Mamantin's" Thinnes and publisher BTT, about which I know nothing beyond what's been submitted to the game's BGG page. In short, this is a co-operative "beat 'em up" game for 1-3 players in which you're trying to clear stages so that you can reach the boss, then defeat that character to triumph. On a turn, you have three action points available to move, strike, or take other actions with your cards in hand, although you can't take the same action twice in a row and you might prefer to hold cards so that you can build combos specific for your hero.Phraya is a commodity-speculation, pick-up-and-deliver game in which players trade from stall to stall while trying to get the best prices, make offerings in the temples to win Buddha's favor, buy their own stalls to do business, and even approach the king's barge.
What caught my eye here is the teaser image, which is not unique in the world of "beat 'em up" designs, but my eye was caught anyway.
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• Italian publisher Scribabs and German publisher Pegasus Spiele worked together previously on the 2019 release of Armata Strigoi, a co-operative fantasy game based on the music of German power metal band POWERWOLF, and now they're partnering on A Battle Through History, which is described as the "official Sabaton board game", Sabaton being a Swedish heavy metal band.
Here's an overview of this 2-5 player game from designers Erik Burigo, Pär Sundström, and Marco Valtriani that's currently due out on December 13, 2021:
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In A Battle Through History, each player wears the clothes of a time-traveling storyteller whose journey through historical eras enables them to relive epic battles alongside legendary troops and heroes.
During a game, players play era tiles into the "Gear of History" to customize their deck of cards and move their character in space and time in order to fight and recruit troops from different historical battles or challenge opponents in player vs. player combat. As you build an army made of soldiers from different ages, you use it to collect relics from different places and times. Whoever collects the greatest units and the bravest heroes, leads them to victory, and gathers relics during their travels wins the game.
During a game, players play era tiles into the "Gear of History" to customize their deck of cards and move their character in space and time in order to fight and recruit troops from different historical battles or challenge opponents in player vs. player combat. As you build an army made of soldiers from different ages, you use it to collect relics from different places and times. Whoever collects the greatest units and the bravest heroes, leads them to victory, and gathers relics during their travels wins the game.
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