Collective games, offers for adventure and puzzle fans, fantasy motifs and many new products for the youngsters: At the international consumer fair “Spiel'21”, which starts this Thursday in Essen, around 600 providers from 42 countries will be presenting a wide range of board games.
According to the organizing Friedhelm Merz Verlag, a total of more than 1000 new products including this year's winners will be shown by Sunday.
Essen - Visitors to the fair could also test out some world premieres.
The innovation prize “inno-Spiel 2021” this time goes to the family game “Adventure Ghost”: The players help a ghost mouse with a magical top to save the forest, as a spokeswoman explained on Wednesday during a preview. The strategy game “The Lost Ruins of Arnah” won the “German Game Prize”. This time, “Dodo” was awarded as the best children's game - the players have to protect a “wobbly egg” that keeps slipping out of the clumsy bird Dodo.
Some game publishers focus on sustainability: There are card sets made of recycled material, some manufacturers only use environmentally friendly colors, others advertise: "No plastic".
A new card game set is called "gender-sensitive and diverse" - for example with black kings or queens with headscarves.
There is also a look back into the past: When "shift change" - after the hard coal in the real world - miners operate their own collieries, mine, trade, sell and build colliery settlements.
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In 2020, the trade fair for board, card and role-playing games only took place online due to the pandemic.
After a boom year in 2020, the industry association for game publishers is pleased about the continued growth in popularity and significantly increasing sales.
In particular, collective games are in demand, and the classics are still in demand.
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